I Interviewed ARK PVE Official Players About Losing Their Servers

[@konavoice]

GO FOLLOW THE MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ON KZbin!!! @glitchyneighbor

[@theiran]

I bought Ark last year on sale, but I have yet to install it. I had to get a new computer and the SSD is not big enough to hold Ark. I've been planning to upgrade to a 1 TB SSD, but now that they're going to close down the servers, I don't think I'll bother trying out the game...

[@Primal_push]

I can’t find it

[@andrejpokorny2565]

Can you say what server they are on so we can visit them?

[@gomeshelder1]

@@theiran go for it have fun wile u can =)

[@michaelharold]

@@theiran you can still play unofficials

[@0micronthegreat]

Thank you for showing the official PVE perspective.

[@lotuscat3173]

I honestly think the sentiment is shared amongst both sides, hell i bet even cheaters are somewhat bummed out about all of this although i dont feel too bad about them

[@LegendaryJae213]

Uhm. I'd have preferred pvp perspective. Stop showing just pve, plus PvE is so much more toxic. I played for 2 years on pve and the rest since 2015 on pvp. Pvp is genuinely a much nicer community by far. This is just asking people who aren't toxic which is far and few between.

[@redv0id525]

@@lotuscat3173all pvp players want the wipe it’s literally perfect you get to start all over again

[@masteryooda9087]

@@redv0id525 starting out is very fun

[@axt_4254]

​@@LegendaryJae213"pve is a lot more toxic" ok buddy keep telling yourself that

[@nqvo]

1:46 Literally the exact reason why I feel bad for many official players. I myself barely EVER played official because of the rates, so for these people who've played literally thousands of hours. I give my respect to them all.

[@-jun621gamer-8]

Thanks, it's tough. My two buddies and I are pretty upset. We have over 10000 hours for each of us. And we losing it all. We decided to just take a break from Ark for the time being

[@seximexi5820]

​@-Jun621Gamer - that's 416 days. Forgive me but I'm a little skeptical you have 10,000 hours on official servers.

[@londonsarsenal]

It's not that crazy, I've been playing for 7 years on official. There was a time before cryos, maewings and incubators where my PS4 was running for weeks breeding gigas. Just refreshing all the beds on all the servers takes an hour.

[@joshyazg2120]

@@seximexi5820 sounds like you don't know anything about official players 😂😂

[@seximexi5820]

@JoshyAZG I must not 😂 that's so much time man like holy shit lol

[@Anna464]

I hope these wonderful people find private servers to play on together

[@xenosayain1506]

For how long though? The stung of knowing a private server may die quickly makes many hesitate to heavily commit

[@wardenofwisps442]

Lol I know I wouldn’t

[@abominablesnowman64]

for as long as they can at least.

[@mrautismo420]

I hope these "wonderful" people find a job and go outside

[@Anna464]

@@mrautismo420 My man, why are you even here?

[@akizaa]

That's the thing about ark. You really do form a bond with your tribe mates, so you really are almost like a family. Its such a special connection. I have never played on official, but I am so sad for everyone that does. I hope u all find a way to continue to play together. And if you do decide to join the unofficial side we will all accept u into our family with open arms.

[@animeboobaa]

Which server do you play if i may know? I'm a bit saddened about this issue as well. Me and my girl doesn't really know where to go.

[@alphagaming7494]

@@animeboobaa i’m always looking for new people to help me run bosses on my nondedicated.

[@marilynlucero9363]

@@alphagaming7494 Still need help running bosses?

[@Shadow58853]

Hearing the little girl sound so sad and lost was playing with my emotions :(

[@ilikecookies230]

And I’m mad that she’s gonna lose her leviathan too. THAT THING WAS HUGE AND SHE’S LOSING THAT?!?!

[@Darkshizumaru]

@@ilikecookies230 It's not easy to tame those.

[@Wintercloak]

That hurt.

[@sebastianortiz2359]

its just a game at the end guys

[@BretAtwood]

@@sebastianortiz2359 yep, as good a time as any to learn a life lesson about change being ok.

[@MartialGlobe]

All those families playing together is extremly wholesome and makes me happy to see that they add their children to the experience, I remember playing mario kart for the n64 with my mom and dad even though I wasn't even able to handle the computer, I just had fun driving with them. Even later on playing some old strategy games over LAN with my dad, gets me pretty emotional thinking about the last time I really enjoyed some quality time with him is over 10 years ago

[@castlecrasher6924]

If there is one thing this video taught me, it is that PvE and PvP player bases are very different.

[@tschaiga308]

yea obviously pvp has to be protected and pve u can do whatever

[@Herne0011]

@@tschaiga308 Probably because the PVP crowd is an endangered species eh ::D:D:D::D:XDXD

[@abaranihei2608]

Fuck pvp its crap ever since in ARK

[@reinerzufall978]

depends on where you ask. I've been playing on a big cluster that has a pvp and pve cluster, I was playing on pvp but i checked the chat of the pve cluster for fun. It was a bigger drama than anthing I've seen on pvp, simply for the fact that asholes don't have to fear anyone raiding them.

[@tschaiga308]

@@reinerzufall978 official pve is different i played lagacy pve official for 2yrs well maybe its more extrem there bc toxic kids dont play that i never experienced anywhere a community that nice not even close

[@mr.froggy2899]

Im not even gonna lie the guy who served in the navy mad my cry.... you could just hear that he was sad to see it all go

[@LiilYogurt]

@@MidNightClub2000 I've got a similar mentality to you, but instead of never playing any online games, I just don't get invested in online games. I'll play for a bit with friends, but I always know the day will come where the servers will be gone, or my group will get bored, so I simply enjoy my time with the game while I have it. I've never found an online game that I've been willing to spend hundreds of hours in, I think my most played online game is Among Us at this point and that's only got 99 hours lmfao, so maybe I've just never experienced the level of loss you have.

[@krakoosh1]

He was Marines not Navy

[@markx6776]

That little girl took me from angry to very sad,we don't deserve to be treated like this and I can only hope enough people will join me in saying hell no I will never give this scummy company another penny!

[@fernandovazquez5398]

The come August and you buy it again

[@Alliancecntrl]

the sad reality is 80% of the pvp community alr moved to unofficial servers that wipe every month so alot of the community is going to get ASA then theres those ppl who rlly dont care and think it could be a refreshing experience not fighting capped dinos and just being able to breed up creatures from scratch again

[@nathanescobar2369]

Why do you got to look at the negatives this stuff wouldn't happen if people simply made a private server be they did say any worlds made by you will be saved and be playable still on the remake

[@nuneetv]

@@nathanescobar2369 wym these people spent thousands of hours doing something they loved and doing it legitimately just for it to all be wiped AND to have to pay 60$ for something that should/was started to be free. It’s a double “f you” to everyone but it hurts a lot more from theirs pov

[@jackofalltrades9938]

@@nuneetv I think one of the biggest things to think about is that wildcard hosting the official servers for as long as they have, and as many as they have can’t be cheap, and so few people play on them at the same time compared to unofficial, plus ark is an 8 year old game and it was bound to lose support from wildcard eventually. They are just moving on to new things

[@beawhitt2533]

After being with my husband for 4 years, he's always hated Ark. I had such a huge obsession with it since I was 16, very few of my friends played it, but I turn 23 this year and it was always something I turned to after a long day of work. I finally got my husband to play it five months ago and he quickly fell in love, especially with mods. After server hopping for three months, we bought our own server. He builds like crazy and can fill a whole map if I let him. He builds pens for all my animals and tames me things he knows I love. This game somehow managed to bring my marriage even closer than before. When he saw the news, especially about mods, he was appalled that a company would do this to their playerbase-- but I guess I've been with this game for so long..that I kind of expected it.

[@KegstandOG]

You have to understand that all those public servers cost a lot of money to maintain. I don't blame them for ripping the band aid off, better then letting it slowly crumble. I don't think private servers are behind that paywall but I might be mistaken. I have like 4k played so I am not immune my only complaint is if they move this all to unreal 5 and make us pay for it yet never optimize it, then I will be angry.

[@nakomtsuu8433]

im 23 im playing ark since my first "boss while learning my future job gimme 50$steam card telling me to buy rust to play with him, i had extra for ark. i was 14. pvp player, i did 1001 fresh wipe, i dnt mind loosing everything if its because im getting raided, even because of cheater, its how ark is but loosing it like that is kinda sad

[@SHADOOWTHIEF]

@@KegstandOG private servers will still be as they are now if i understand correctly.

[@SHADOOWTHIEF]

the mods will take a little time but they will all be back... especially if it was someone that made it into he sponsored mod program at some point the one thats are popular on there will have people updating the mods for ASA with Unreal 5

[@walterscientist]

@@KegstandOG What do you mean slowly crumble? They are not ripping off any band aids. They are just ripping off their customers by having them to pay again for the same thing in the form of Survival Ascended. And then to rip them off again with ARK 2 shortly later - which I bet will again be buggy for years like everything Wildcard makes.

[@abominablesnowman64]

Damn dude these people all sound so nice its breaking my heart. Its unfortunate those of the community have no empathy and just say get over it stop crying. Heartless, soulless people like that can never feel what these people feel, ever.

[@Adrian-ej1hz]

I dont wanna be weak

[@christianzilla]

It's like 11% of people are borderline psychopaths.

[@drkobra22]

​@@Adrian-ej1hz it takes more strength to show emotion then it does to hide it

[@Handle-this-15]

​@@drkobra22 that is the current narrative. But it's completely untrue. It's way easier to have a Karen freak out cuz your burger only has 3 pickle slices or your coffee tastes like it has 2 sugar instead of 3. The world is becoming unhinged because people have become too lazy to actually learn to control their emotions. Having emotions is ok but not learning to control said emotion is weak and unacceptable

[@MoiriAKAFate]

Feel what? They are pve players who can't have a base destroyed on top of this all. Their base will be saved in a file for upload to a non dedicated server where they continue their journey of hitting rocks and role-playing with one another.

[@z7412]

Thanks so much for giving these players a voice. It's horrible to see how greed can blindly destroy what has clearly been a deeply meaningful experience for these people, and especially that little girl. No amount of money in the world can justify the negation of what they created together. Such a shame.

[@vexingcat9813]

Thank you for showing a glimps of official servers. I would like to say something though. I am sad to see that people seem to think that all private servers spawn their stuff in. This is no more true, then saying all people on official are trolling kids. There are good privately run servers, with good communities. We are out there.

[@konavoice]

This is a great note! Im excited to see private servers remastered

[@karremania]

Although we already talked about going a private server for our server, it just isnt the same. We can travel anywhere on any official, we can visit anyone who once left to play on another map, Official is a huge connected server-cluster, doubt there is a scale of that on private servers.

[@spawwse]

@@karremania You can run/rent your own cluster server. It takes a bit of learning if you wanna run one or more money if your renting but there very much are private clusters.

[@eliX0r]

How cool would it be if @Raasclark visited her server and did a video with her. What a memorable moment in her life that she can cherish forever. ❤

[@Hockey-gn2tj]

I’m an avid Ark player. I think people might enjoy these new beginnings. But the fact we’re losing all of the progress and you can’t go back to it is heartbreaking. I start new maps every once in a while for just a sense of wonder and stuff. I will be buying the new bundle when I get more money. Gonna miss the people I met and built with 😢

[@lxlo.7364]

if you want to start fresh but want it to be a bit easier you should go on a boosted unofficial

[@doctookmymats3421]

this

[@peabrain6872]

You can go back. They are making it available to use the saves

[@bred8847]

Wait is it the online servers or private? Or the whole thingm

[@jjm4611]

As hardcare rust player with 4k hrs i feel for you guys. As a father i feel for the guy with the wife and daughter alot. But brother, its never been a waste a time. You spent hours and hours playing games with your family. Thats fucken beautiful brother. And now you get to do it all over again. GL man. I wish all my gamer bros happiness 😊

[@TRutledge]

Hearing that little girl clearly emotional made me really sad. She seems really unable to process things. I hope Wildcard sets things straight, but who knows. Financially, they are not doing well, so we simply can't expect them to do what is right for fans.

[@anthonycamargo7730]

But we can expect that because they said they would and now they’re going back on their word

[@parkappanigga]

@@anthonycamargo7730 only thing they might do is reduce the price of the new games, delay the release of ARK ASA and therefore delay the take down of ark officials

[@Mephilis78]

My son who plays is 6. He just hasn't even attempted to process it. Either he doesn't believe me when I say it's being shut down, or he's just ignoring me to cope.

[@OxMr937xo]

Financially they’re fine, as a 2020 report they grossed $240 Million in sales

[@darthnhile]

It's sad but the Phoenix family will rise again.

[@Alex-vh9ow]

I have dug 7900 hours into this game in pve I’ve made friends all over the US it’s kept me busy and in good state of mind while in the hospital every other month dew to my cystic fibrosis, I will forever miss this game. I won’t be going on to ark ascended I love ark but I won’t let them money grab my wallet just so I restart everything I’ve worked for, specially when it was supposed to be “FREE” . TY for covering the PVE world ❤

[@trendygurl6852]

Thank you for making this video for those of us in the official community. I am in the same exact situation after close to 9000 hours in the game and I’m not planning to buy the new games because of the callous disregard of our community. I guess I have a couple of months to grieve the loss before it’s all over.

[@cosmiccastaway2]

This is heartbreaking I'm glad you got this footage. These memories. I'm excited to check out those channels. This footage, in a weird way, almost marks a historical tragedy (If that makes sense?) So what you have here is extremely important. Thank you for this video

[@258hunter]

ya it sucks that ark is going away, matter a fact this game helped me through the worst time in my life i would come home and leave my problems behind as i played. i have almost 3500 hours 3367 to be honest, so ya i hate it but its what it is. i hope that everyone has enjoyed the game and to my tribe mates thanks for so many wonderful years.

[@MajinStrach]

11k between platforms and I can say it was a driving force in me repairing my life. Routine and consequences for not doing what you're meant to made me wake up

[@Zepmeister13]

It does not have to be "what it is". We can't stay complacent. Get all your tribe mates and server friends to spam all their social media. Refuse to give in. SAVE OUR SERVERS.

[@zoe4622]

Its not going away, right? You can still play it?

[@BigHatStudios]

I hope Raasclark sees this, its really heartwarming

[@ILegendGaming]

Felt like a dagger when they said that officials would be shut down. Just imagine all of these pvp mega tribes who stayed up day and night to get tek, breed on 1x rates, farm bosses... all gone

[@inkzry]

Yep

[@raymondhoraceiii6795]

bro breeding on 1x rates is insane dedication

[@gyalsnextman4725]

@@raymondhoraceiii6795 takes like a week to grow a giga

[@Ehhhh.h]

Keep in mind the pvp officials are entirely full of duped tames that have been capped out. They were all bred back when you could glitch all the babies into not needing food. And official is even more full of hacks than every other server, you're better off playing unofficial and getting admin abused

[@Ehhhh.h]

@KA77 the falling glitch, the snow owl glitch, the water glitch. Only the water glitch was legacy

[@GrannyTXGamer]

Its a shame that ARK treats their players like this. I've played a lot but mostly on unofficial or my local server. I do not have great builds I've worked on for years as I seldom played on my own server. It breaks my heart for all the official player who are losing so much. That's a lot of work to make things on official.

[@asdeathmorgan2371]

I've lost all motivation to even play ark, and I play unofficial. I can't imagine being on official, with a definite end date, and we're all gonna lose everything. Even if we all ported everything to single player, those creatures would just sit on there. The part i hate about it is that we have seen nothing for ASA, like yes its supposed to be like ASE but just upgraded. That's still a lot of blank space. It makes me sad and disappointed.

[@joaobr3419]

There's something so comforting about the fact that people of all ages can take joy from playing Ark without being shamed by the community.

[@tioalra6746]

I feel like, they should at least allow Download of Dinos from official to unofficial and single player so that at least the memorable Dinos can be kept as a memorium

[@tschaiga308]

u can download the servers if u want to continue to play or as a memory and u can access that on single player i played official pve for 2yrs i quited bc i akways played solo and it got boring but i had a lot of stuff so yea if i would have forcefully lost it it would be shitty asf

[@vanmatthijs]

@@wardenofwisps442 they should just let people download it already, why make people wait 4 months forcing people to keep their stuff allive just to see it getting deleted anyway.

[@wardenofwisps442]

@@vanmatthijs oh I agree lol

[@linglingpho]

lmfao bobs

[@VendettaNC]

You can’t. It’s a completely different game mode. You couldn’t bring anything from official to unofficial no matter what.

[@NeddyTheNoodle]

Kona, your KZbin journey has been pretty odd I gotta say. But I find it fascinating that you've come back and done a pretty phenomenal job at picking up on some fundamentals for mass media. Interviews never cease to be something that draws big audiences in. Did you pick this up in studying anywhere, or did you just decide with no prior training / study to do this video? Nice job :)

[@konavoice]

Aww neddy thats so nice, ive changed my major a few times art school wise so ive picked up some stuff. Other than that im just a creative and i go where my inner compass leads

[@reaperstone2271]

It's actually really heartbreaking to hear all of these people losing their home. I myself have 14,000 hours on ark with about 10,000 of that being official. From the very start to just before extinction came out we were official before we went unofficial. This is by far not a plug so I really hope people don't take it that way but we have an unofficial ark community that has been through all of it. We have our own server box and thus far we're planning to join in with an xbox community once it goes cross platform. Feel free to reach out if you're looking for a home to go to afterwards. We're always welcoming more and despite also not liking where the game is going, we've always put our community first and would love to add anyone to it that wants/needs somewhere to go once official goes down.

[@Hockey-gn2tj]

I’d like to join 😂

[@dont_worry68]

Holy shit thats alot i have like 500 😂

[@reaperstone2271]

@@dont_worry68 Haha yeah at our peak in the extinction days we had over 200 people that played on our servers so it was a lot of admin time/dedication. I miss those days a lot.

[@VendettaNC]

It’s a game.

[@Ishid_Anfardedd]

@@VendettaNC Damn you’re the whole package. Hate against genders, feminists and people just connecting with each other throughout their love of gaming. Be proud of yourself buddy.

[@marty64thornton]

I'm going to miss my Little House on the Prairie house. I built it in remembrance of Charles ingalls.

[@konavoice]

an ai and i worked together to create some really mediocre subtitles, if you squint its funny LOOKING TO INTERVIEW OFFICIAL PVP PLAYERS, comment here to let me know

[@Myntaco]

whats the name of the AI?

[@gulagizbroshraje1596]

bro now try and interwiew the pvp players as well

[@Darkshizumaru]

WHY AM I CRYING! I've sunk nearly 8 years into this game, my tribe is from all over the world, it's a huge group and we all had so much fun together. Everyone was loving this game and forgave so many slights WC did to the PVE to appease PVP we sucked it up for years... My tribe is the best part of ark. It makes no sense to have this community built in, to have all of this passion squandered by a company who decided to make a sequel that is nothing like the original and then destroy everything built over the years..

[@Rodrigo-wd5oy]

As a pvp players i think will be nice to show pvp perspective I offer myself to be interview i have many histories and memorys i can share

[@ShadowRaptor1O1]

I played on Official PVE since June 2019. Started on Valguero556 and met some people that would go on to be my tribemates for the next couple of years. I eventually moved to Crystal Isles 854 and made that my permanent home. Some of my tribe mates passed away during covid, so I made a shrine for them in my base and would always log in to prevent it from decaying. Tomorrow, I finally lose it when the servers shut down. I'm really gonna miss Crystal Isles. I really hope they bring it back in ASA, and it needs to be exactly like how it is now, or even better, but that is the only thing that would convince me to get ASA, so I can rebuild my shrine to my friends exactly where it was before.

[@bdrbth688]

Dam ❤

[@tjcgaming2011]

This broke me in two. i have played for 9 years now and played official for many, many years, and I have been just waiting like my creatures my reaper since 2022 like and my rex called muncher my starters and its so sad to see them go

[@SHUOZY]

rest in peace Ark... you made me the happiest guy ever and i made hundreds of thousands of hours worth of memories ill never forget. all the exploring and addventuring, and the dinos and creatures ive tamed. it hurts to know itll all be gone but i know what youll become is something amazing. love you Ark survival evoloved

[@senyuri7496]

A fellow Official PVE player of 5-6 years here. I appreciate this. From my own experience on Official servers it really is a community of families, whether they are actually related or built over time on our respective servers. Overall however, these people are some of the most dedicated and fun people to be around and I love all of the experiences I've had on Official PVE. Definitely sad to see everyone's hard work turn to nothing, especially for those who built for the community in their servers like Krusaedr. Like seriously, his creations alone were built out of sheer love and dedication. Just absolutely phenomenal. Honestly, couldn't help but shed a tear for them. I truly hope the Official community stays together for ASA or Ark 2. Sad to see it all go, but to start fresh with friends and family from old Official could be a fun experience. We'll see. Hope everyone the best out there.

[@VendettaNC]

It’s a game bru

[@senyuri7496]

@@VendettaNC Yes it is a video game indeed.

[@dont_worry68]

No need to write a book about it .

[@senyuri7496]

@@dont_worry68 I simply like to express my appreciation for certain things and people. People need to know they're appreciated as well as the things they pour their hearts into.

[@thatguyfred___5659]

its sad to think that all the progress people have had over the years will be gone, i hope that ARK 1 will retain the ability for private servers and maybe that'll kind of solve some of the sadness (the losing progress is unfortunately unavoidable) but with the communities formed through ark maybe they'll find some unoffiical servers to call home

[@awsd3571]

Pve is so chill from what I see

[@HOD]

Good stuff wish wildcard and snail would see this. But they only see 💰💰

[@RealRavenManuel]

I will forever miss my Giganotosaurus. He was my most faithful and powerful dinosaur. 3,000 plus melee and 40k plus health. All black region colors, I named him Black Hole. R.I.P Black Hole.

[@bdrbth688]

Ik right i remember taming my first giga with a friend we lost all of our materiels on it ( it was only lvl 51) still we was very happy the next day it died cause we got raided 😅

[@CrittingOut]

I still don't understand how wildcard isn't bankrupt.

[@endeyfire]

cuase dumb people buy their shit for some odd reason.

[@thedonovan]

Because China is keeping them afloat.

[@berndbernd3464]

they tried so many times to get bankrubt :(

[@bradmettler4566]

Actually, snail games stock has been tanking, and snail doesnt habe another flagship. When ark fails they are all but done.

[@thedonovan]

@@bradmettler4566 snail games gets direct liquid injections from the CCP, half the time from TenCent. If you ever see lawsuits where Chinese companies sue one another, it's their way of funneling CCP money to seemingly disconnected companies. This is why snail games regularly sues TenCent, so that it can get it's next stimulus.

[@taylorgibson4343]

Everyone who says "at least they can get the save" alot of this stuff, the builds, the experiences, the tames, it all loses its value if its not on official servers. Its hard to explain to people that dont get it

[@imzesok]

man, it sucks knowing all that hard work is going down the drain. especially all those replicas and other bases that guy built. The bred dinos also sucks a lot, but man.. the amount of resources needed to put all that together is staggering. I have 1842.5 hours of game play under my belt on this game on single-player, and i've never built anything half as nice as what a lot of these people have. ugh, and that poor little girl going to be losing her favorite pets as well is heartbreaking. I hope they can all find a nice unofficial server to transfer to with their stuff so they can continue with their Ark 1 game, even if it does mean they have to rebuild their bases, but it's better than losing everything else. That still does suck though. hundreds if not thousands of hours just base building. I don't really have a dog in this fight, as I only play on single player, but I don't plan on upgrading until there's a compelling reason to do so. It's gonna take a lot more than an upgraded engine and graphical upgrade to sway me. Not that Ark AT ALL needs a graphics upgrade in the first place. My biggest gripes with the game is and always will be the installation size, and over all performance. Currently the install size with everything is something like 450 gigs. that's roughly 3-4 times the size of any other games installation. I think if they can trim that down to like 180 gigs with all the DLC and extras, and pitch in a good discount for current owners of Ark:Survival Evolved, I might be tempted. Right now, I kind of have to choose between either just Ark or being able to have multiple games installed at once...Ark... I hate to say it.. isn't good enough to be putting anyone in that position, IMHO. It's good, but it has the potential to be great, if not for the bugs.

[@Meggy03]

Sad to see this happening but we have to deal with it. To all my friends,enemies,allies and what not on Official stay strong and hopefully we'll meet again someday

[@clarkkent1521]

I know it sucks to lose everything you worked for. I'm going to miss my Therizino line that I've been breeding since my first playthrough, 2000 hours worth, that I'm still breeding today. But I always enjoyed starting new playthroughs during that time. I've been at end game for a long time in my main playthrough, but it's gets boring that I'm only logging on about once a week or less. Starting fresh and early-mid game has always been the best times I've had.

[@DarkDarcek]

I actually teared up... awesome to see others who have been touched by ARK like I have, it has many faults, but in the end best game I ever played and im an old old gamer so that's sayin something.

[@omegaodst2421]

I have been playing this game for 5 years and have logged 4,500 hours on this game at least. I have tamed every creature in this game hundreds of times….I’ve played in single player for years along with a private server for 2 years. To me it is heartbreaking to see this game die like this especially because this game got me through some really thought times. This game has meant more to me then most people and it makes me so angry that wildcard would do this. I don’t know if I’m going to get the new ark ascended or ark 2…anyways…..have a nice rest of your day.

[@gwoel5933]

Please don't blame Wildcard. It's Snail Games. Wildcard has not control over this situation... They're just being manipulated sadly.

[@patrickdevries5293]

@@gwoel5933 Not true... Wildcard has ALWAYS been sketchy with its practises at the very least. Granted... this is their biggest f... You they ever done. But they dont get to wash their hands in innocence either.

[@gwoel5933]

@@patrickdevries5293 I honestly believe they're trying their best to keep this franchise alive. They do what the community wants most of the time it's just that, like I said, Snail games has the upper hand.

[@thomasstavropulos7656]

7:29 its up in the sky... my tears oh my tears............................................................................................

[@darkskater107]

I'm ready to start over. I guess I'm one of the few that's not really upset about losing everything. Yea it sucks losing my character levels and dinos but part of the fun in the game was doing all of it. I always played by the motto to never get attached to anything cause you will always lose it somehow on Ark. Ark be Arking. Guess that might be why this isn't bothering me as much lol.

[@henrybadger785]

I used to play with a big tribe, but after a few years it started to fall apart, and this whole thing with the upper management making poor business choices that don’t benefit the player base was the final nail in the coffin. Love to see this sort of video though, bittersweet. 💖

[@chrissiler5053]

I feel for these people. I play with my 4 daughters but the buggy side of this game we lost everything we worked for hundreds of animals. So I can really feel their pain.

[@amberbennett2698]

I feel the pain of everyone in this video and community. I've put about 7000 hrs into ark. And been playing since it started and now going to lose it all. Made really good friends and hope they join me on the new update version. Bless the ark community and hope to come across more friends in the next adventure

[@itsnotlala]

love that these people are getting to show off their hard work before it’s gone😢

[@ivanjakanov]

i spent almost 2000 hours playing only on official, and didn't really see it coming when they shut it down. they don't even say anything in game about it. i got the snapshot but i still haven't used it for anything

[@stormanorman85]

Man this hit me in the feels, bro you should tag Asmongold into this and see if he will help with his platform to turn this around. I have played official for 8 years....the gut wrench of what wildcard has done over the 8 years and now in the final days is just so wrong.

[@pashazitto627]

Hey could you explain what's happening with ark and it's players like I'm stupid? Make it really simple because there's videos explaining what's happening but I still don't understand :/

[@stormanorman85]

@Pasha zitto forsure, essentially over all the years the player base had enured massive frustrating loss of hour sink through taming, roll backs, character deaths via server crashes, wipes, roll backs, and failed promises. For some reason everyone keeps coming back and wildcard knows this or they would be doing what they are doing now. Earlier we were told the remaster was going to be a thank you to the player base of fans that made ark what it is today by allowing players to basically just transfer their character straight into the remaster which was going to be free btw. The tweet from the head of wild card re-assured fans via a tweet not to worry. Fast forward to having to purchase every over again, no longer free and paired with a game no has scene anything on. Then they re tract yet again after backlash make us pay even more and no longer include ark 2 with the remaster...we can now only play si ngle player and our characters, tames, and all the work over all years gone in August. Chalk it up to completely abusing their fan base and forcing everyone to start over whether they like it or not. It's a huge take it or leave it right now.

[@dav9751]

I'd like to add that the Next Gen version has made no showcase or given information to players about the state of which it is regarding bugs , glitches and anti cheat tools. No dlc will be released with it either.... Those will come later apparently. In my eyes.... They are selling the exact same game just with an engine upgrade and a fancy new name.... Nothing more or less. That marketing is utterly scandalous. And I'm telling you... If this next gen releases and it has bugs and issues?? The company will be done for. There are a lot of law and regulatory firms that deal with digital marketing watching them closely and circling like sharks.

[@stormanorman85]

@Dav honestly someone needs to put them in check...they are getting away with being sooo sketchy its crazy this hasn't blown up even more. Thank you for adding in your comment as its 100% true and makes it even worse when digesting its context.

[@gunsmoke9030]

It hasn't blown up because many like myself instantly uninstalled in disgust at losing 6-8 years of work, the friendships will last to other games but as far as Ark goes it will be something we never play again

[@chrisslusher9527]

I've been playing ark since it's alpha on steam. I'm in the same boat as everyone else. The toil, time and dedication involved from everybody is really absolutely impressive. I remember my first home was a box. How much I've learned since then and I remember seeing bases others built and being like "wow" all these hard projects and time gone. I wouldn't expect anything less from wildcard and snail. They've probably never once in their life dedicated to this level to anything

[@KoobztheShawk]

This is practically a primary source document. This is really excellent.

[@WanchanPlay]

I've been playing ark for 6 years, I always played on official servers and I managed to defeat every boss from every map in its Alpha version. I told to myself that ARK ended once I defeated Rockwell prime Alpha on Genesis part 2 map. However, I keep my dinos, and most of dinos of some tribe members who had left the game, just as a remember of everything we faced to reach the "perfect player implant". It is sad to hear this notice, but there is something that wildcard will never be able to wipe... Everything we did and lived during all these years.

[@ThrealAc]

Because of this video years from now people will be able to look back and see the passion and dedication the pubs community had and we thank you for that.

[@dccvbbfb]

I've over 6k hours. Everything comes to an end unfortunately. Thonk I paid something like £12 early release, i cant complain because the hours I got out of that money is unreal. I'll definitely get the new one when it drops.

[@masontutor8138]

I know the hurt this is causing... My son started playing this with me when he was 5 and this year he turns nine and is heart broke that he will not have his dinos anymore...

[@Mixt3d]

Usually i don't even comment in this types of subjects but this is really sad to see, because even though it's just a game for the devs, this game brings together people from all over the world and communities to play together. Of course this in the eyes of greedy businessmen means nothing we already know that... It´s the world we live in today, virtually and in irl sadly...There's no words to describe the stupidity of some options that this company manages take... I have thousands of hours in this game on official servers, i was a member of one of the biggest clans in South America for a long time, even though the game had a lot of bugs since forever, now you're left with nothing, besides having to buy the same game but "improved" and then you don't even know if Ark 2 will be a "new" game or is just the same but "improved" again...sad times...a lot of strength for all those who have dedicated themselves seriously all these years to the game...

[@SypherSam]

After watching this I definitely have a new appreciation & understanding of PvE official players. It's a weird because this was always going to happen at some point but the way it has/is been handled is bad for sure but I'm not really sure what the solution is, extending the servers would only be delaying the enevitable. I just really hope ASA is all it's cracked up to be otherwise that is a HUGE L for all of the ARK community.

[@joshcryer]

PVE is the better game mode and most players are on PVE, I regret playing PVP because I got scared off of PVE because of all the bases in the early spawns, but once you leave those areas the servers are incredibly fun and friendly without any stress, free bosses, free dino lines, just all around a fun experience compared to PVP which is a day job

[@APunishedManNamed2]

@@joshcryer You make it sound like PvP is just an infinite L, it really isn't. PvP was fun as shit before cross regional transfers & SE were added. It still has quality moments though

[@SattvaNisha]

that builder is a man after my own heart the only place i ever built a ship was minecraft tho, but the seed has been planted! i played games with my kids as they grew up and now im playin games with my grandsons! i hope everyone finds a way to keep enjoying the community they found in Ark - nice video!

[@gamer4life9412]

Hearing all this I was reminded of an old story. A man and his wife played the game together on I think their own official server and his wife passed away everytime he logs on his wife's chr is there and when I think about this that man is losing everything there that him and his wife did together..... Man how can a company be allowed to be this scummy it's baffling... But as I said idk if I'm correct with this story it's an old story so my memory of it is iffy

[@d0h]

I'm keeping my bases updated until the shutdown so I can download the save files... I have 8 bases w/ friends that have died IRL and there's no way I could ever let them decay out. TBH it's the only reason I'm still playing ARK at this point.

[@gamer4life9412]

@@d0h damn man max respect to you for that! You are a true friend indeed!

[@ClassicQuarterGamePlays]

It so sad i know 😢 but we must be strong ark is always awesome and in our hearts

[@konavoice]

agreed

[@jobnob3740]

The words about a great community of ARK… The words of the true PvE player

[@riddimjesus]

@@00IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlI00the people aren’t its just fun comp

[@katemonroue520]

This really captured the love for the game the players have. I've played thousands of hours on Ark official pve, I'm really sad to see it go. Not because of the tames, or the levels, or even the bases really. But the community. Truely, if I had wanted to play a singleplayer Ark then I already would have been on singleplayer instead of multiplayer and a lot of people I've talked to feel the same way. Theres less of a point in singleplayer and I'll probably move to unofficial for a while but its not the same as the servers I've been on for years and doing things for other players to enjoy there for years and seen other players doing things for each other for years. Theres honestly even people that I've never met directly that I will miss. You would be surprised how many people dedicate half their base to helping out other players and its really quite sweet. People make safe areas for new players around the spawns, hotels, crafting spots, trading spots, free gear/armor/saddles, open breeding, open gardens, unlocked taming traps, warm huts in the cold areas, cold huts in the hot areas and open community meeting spots. Collectively, it has to have been thousands of hours people put in just building things for others that they themselves would never use. But all of those things will serve no purpose on a singleplayer map. Its kind of depressing tbh, will just be bones of a community that used to be there. When I first started playing and didn't have anything or know how to play, other players helped me out. And once I got more experienced in the game I started helping out other players too like people helped me. Eventually, i made my own hotel/crafting/open breeding spot last year and every holiday event I leave out the male rare color dinos I tamed for other players to breed with so they can get the cool colors they were looking for but might not have been able to find during the event. Players really do put their heart into the things they make too. Aside from making things for other players or really cool builds, people make tributes to their favorite pets and to other people. On one server I played on there was a graveyard. Not a "dead tames" graveyard, a real person/real pet graveyard. Someone made it for a girl who used to play on our server who died, idk from what. One of her tribemates was an irl friend of hers who told the other people on our server what happened. So someone made a tribute graveyard for her in game since they didn't know her irl and the names of other people/pets who passed away irl that any1 on our server asked to be added to the graveyard (not just players but their family members, friends, pets, and some musicians who passed away) were added to it over time. It was depressing as all hell but I don't think I'd see a player doing that in most other games. Especially since the person who made it has to be on frequently to go render it in so it doesn't despawn. They still are btw, even though the servers shut down in August the graveyard is still there. Sorry if that got really depressing but the point I'm trying to make is that the community is what made this game as great as it was, not the game itself. I would have gotten bored with the game a long time ago if it wasn't for the community. Unfortunately, it seems like the company overlords deemed the community to be the least important thing about Ark when to many of the players, its the MOST Important thing about it. I dont mind the starting over, I understand that nothing lasts forever and eventually would have needed an update or remake or just got discontinued, I get that a company has to pay its employees and to do that they have to charge for their product (not happy about paying for what seems to be the same game twice and would prefer if upgrading was optional) but I would have bought the upgrade and would have bought Ark2 when it released too. I still would play Ark1 just not as frequently. But the way its being handled; suddenly shutting down ASE servers to try to force people to buy a remake and a second game when neither are even ready for release (I do not see having only 2 remade maps at launch in comparison to the 9 maps ASE currently has as being ready for release) The way it sounds in their most recent announcement of the remake also makes it seem like ASA isn't even really meant to be a remake but more of just a beta test of new features they might add to Ark2. Because of this, I can only assume we will have ASA for a year before they shut down multiplayer for that too to force players to buy Ark2 instead. Its shady. And its the shady way they are going about it that makes me not want the new games, not any of the other stuff. Because by doing things the way they have been, they started chasing away the community and the community was the reason I was still playing the game at all.

[@DublinOdinson]

When the little girl talked about Losing her pets... it made me want to punch every one at Snail games right in the Face.

[@patrickdevries5293]

If you cant resist that urge any longer? Let me know... i have a craving to break some bones aswell.

[@rat_king-os2lp]

Honestly, a new beginning with better graphics and greater mechanics sounds amazing. Paying for it on the other hand…

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

as a modder I have been working on my mods for 8 years now. This upgrade will make 8 years of work useless and for nothing. The 4 years I spent on the update for dragon ark all for nothing because wildcard doesn't allow mod porting because in ASA they are changing up stuff that nobody asked to change which makes it a completely different game. There are so many red flags about this reboot too. The fact they say its coming out in august and haven't shown any screenshots of it all. The fact they say there changing alot about the game itself and the reason they are making a separate game is because people may not like the new changes. The fact all they can show for ark 2 is concept art. Like all these are red flags and wildcard/snail games track record hasn't been the best for releases and delays.

[@patrickdevries5293]

This move from their end must have hit you hard aswell. I am truelly sorry for the loss of your hard work. You have given many uses a real delight though. So thank you for your hard work.

[@Zepmeister13]

Thank you very much for caring about Official communities. It is truly heartbreaking what Snail Games Is doing to families and friends. He'll, I would be willing to pay a small annual fee to keep my server open. My wife, 2 sons and I all play on it and we have made some very special friends on it as well.

[@savooge6177]

as people who play on the pvp officials anyway you would think they would be used to loss since its a constant , wake up one morning and someone wrecked in an hour what took you years to build. now the pve players i understand since they would be just having a good time for years and years

[@glitchyneighbor]

We actually play on Offical PVE servers so they're usually communities that help each other out.

[@savooge6177]

@@glitchyneighbor that makes sence

[@nativedisciple2452]

PvE is cancerous lol

[@Jotakyy]

​@@glitchyneighbor im surprised seeing this, when I played PvE it was kinda dead xd

[@Alpha-gk6hd]

Pve is awful as well, if you arent established, good luck trying to find a place to build your base. Straight cancer

[@knappieboy]

4:30 this brought tears to my eyes and is 100% relatable. I feel the exact same way.

[@ShadowFox10587O]

I keep thinking about the scene from breaking bad where he's screaming "he can't keep getting away with it" they probably will though unfortunately

[@patrickdevries5293]

Hmm maybe not. Snails stocks are doing very poorly... they cant afford it IF people are true to their words and dont update. So it all stands or falls... with the player base.

[@hector1950]

Thank for the subtitles and great video, it is so sad to see all the effort the community has put in get vanished so easy

[@Varsarc]

I'm making a video about how Snail and wildcard but mainly Snail screwed over the player base with Ascended and I came to this video for some points and it genuinely broke my heart. I mainly played and still play on SP in Evolved with pretty boosted rates and even that takes me ages to grind, so to see how these people made these amazing massive builds, especially the marine corps guy and tame all these creatures I could never imagine with those rates, it's incredibly upsetting to see all these builds and what would be thousands of hours they can never get back be taken away. I'm furious by the actions of the people behind this game, thankyou for making this video.

[@realfishscience7842]

The woman with the salmon in the background said everything I would have and had 3x the time I put into ark. I kinda teared up hearing them talk about it Edit: when her husband and daughter came on I started bawling fuck man I didn’t think there were families having this much fun

[@Doodl3]

This video made me much more emotional than I thought I would get

[@GingieMC]

You should have interviewed some people from Official PVP like cross arks. Our tribe owners have a collective sum of over 100k hours combined. Our tribe as a whole has over a million hours combined. We are pissed. We will not stand for this. We will make sure Snail Games and Wildcard hear us and will make sure they do the right thing.

[@MerlinGang]

All good things eventually come to an end, So new beginnings may start.

[@NXS1FY]

I feel them having played Official 10k+ hours over 8 years with bases on all maps. I have done everything I possibly can do in this game from completing every boss fight to breeding mutations, selling dinos and loosing over 2k+ tames with the closure nothing more for me to do but move on. I wont wont be buying anymore Wild Card titles.

[@tekguru7]

Well done 🤙🏼

[@pashazitto627]

Can you explain to me what's happening as if I'm 5, I get the general gist but again don't really understand

[@bangenji4853]

As someone who played the game From early 2020 I was a lil kid the girl with the astroceutus was actually so sad to see Astroceutus are so hard to tame and she had a purple-pink one and last time I checked astroceutus aren’t breedable so she spent hours with her family finding that it’s just so sad to know that everything she worked for will be gone and same with everyone else it doesn’t even matter if it’s a private server offical or unofficial

[@waitwho3074]

Today I've empty all my vaults, fridges etc. I have uncryo my 1000+ dinos, I have set them all on wandering/aggressive. My bases will decay in couple weeks but there will be nothing for the vultures! Sad tho, I had more than your standard everything. I had sets of every pure colors of Gigas all top stats, wolves too. I had legit every single creature top stats and almost every pure colors you could imagine. But I'm ngl it felt good dumping everything on the ground and deleting Ark. I won't need to log in anymore so that my base don't disappear. WC finally give me a good reason to stop playing Ark.

[@jarekg3740]

imagine WC changes their mind and you did all that for nothing lmao

[@waitwho3074]

@@jarekg3740 They won't and no it wasnt for nothing. I knew at some point this would happens and I regret nothing no matter what. Life is not just about video games.

[@ZeroTheOneWing]

@@waitwho3074 you couldve just waited for the option to save everything to use in unofficial/singleplayer

[@waitwho3074]

@@ZeroTheOneWing If* they keep their words. The copuim amongs Ark players is strongly sad. Just face it WC wont back track on anything they said especially after all this time. In fact they double down in their latest Crunch, the dammage has been done. Go watch NOOBLETS latest video this will enlight you. As im reading your comments its sounds like both of you are projecting. Its like you dont want to admit its over but look im not gonna tell you what to do. If you want to wait 4 months to see if you can transfert your things good for you. If after 4 months WC change their mind then so be it!

[@myagu6723]

restarting is a beautiful process but being forced to restart is a depressing process

[@nameless3200]

I will say it’s sad that the only players truly affected by this are the pve players. As a pvp player, starting over isn’t new to me at all and I’m honestly very excited for the game but I can understand why the pve players are upset. I will say this though, as much as it sucks to lose everything, I think a lot of y’all will have a lot of fun and create a lot of memories starting over.

[@AaronJohnson-dd3op]

Right waking up naked on the beach with nothing definitely ain't new to us pvp player's lol

[@nameless3200]

@@AaronJohnson-dd3op At this point I can’t even play pve because I’m to used to speed running everything cause I’ve been naked so damn often xD

[@clutchitup8565]

I feel this game was a 2nd life for most people to escape the harsh realities of this world this game is a gem

[@roymustang5922]

Y'all can always join us on unofficial servers.

[@roymustang5922]

The Hive Gaming Community PVE is where I am.

[@schwiwi2502]

made me shed a tear I'm not gonna lie. damn

[@Valvad0ss]

holy shit these people deserve the world. This is beyond ****ed what this company is doing. I wish them all the best

[@Empress_of_Death]

I hope this video finds its way to RaasClark too. Let that 9 year old young girl get noticed. Maybe that will cheer her up a bit. I feel so bad all these lovely people who have worked tirelessly on so many amazing things, are just going to lose it all. I hope you all have a great Day/Night

[@DiemosT113]

It did. Go look at his channel 🥲

[@shantelankford3163]

Im actually seeing this after seeing RaasClarks video first

[@Supayone]

It's a video game ROFL! and servers don't pay themselves. Some of you folks are a bit over-dramatic about this and it shows.

[@MultiThesilentone]

Fantastic video. Thank you for sharing the perspective of the players on Ark. I was heartbroken to hear the girls sadness after all the hard work she and her family did to take care of the dinos.

[@kylehalliburton6259]

I think I have the deepest condolences for the guy you interviewed at the end who built the bridge and all that stuff and they're just going to delete 10,000 hours of his

[@freakbag420]

They're not deleting anyone's stuff. They're shutting down servers

[@kylehalliburton6259]

@@freakbag420 yes and in shutting down the official servers the people who've been playing on official who've got like the guy with 10,000 hours built the bridge unless he pays an extra bit of money to rent his server to transfer his stuff it will be deleted so yes there's stuff is getting deleted their hard work they put in is getting deleted.

[@freakbag420]

@@kylehalliburton6259 you don't need to rent servers to keep your stuff. You just download the file and load it in single player

[@xnighthawk6371]

14:11 My mind was blown!!! Thank you for making this video and letting people voice their opinions!

[@DaoraHD]

It sounds like you interviewed PVE only players, can you interview official PVP players?

[@Hockey-gn2tj]

He’d get locked in a cage.

[@konavoice]

They hurt me 😢

[@londonsarsenal]

Me and my tribemate are day 1 PS4 official legacy, the stuff ARK has put us through over the years is incredible. Drag backing that last for months, rollbacks, deleted dinos, of course the low rates, still loved and praised the game and defended WC through it all. We should have known that we'd all get ARK'd in the end. Haven't really played since the news broke, just pointlessly refreshing beds. Not sure I'll risk doing it all over again. Thank you for the video, I didn't know I needed this. Lol RIP: Val 943 - Rag 4 - Ext 931 - Gen2 1152

[@katrinayakizz]

I cant take this is so sad. Very heartbreaking I will miss mi Dinos 😢😭😭😭😭

[@OiStove]

This video outlines exactly what I've been thinking. I play on PVE Official 196. It was the first multiplayer server I joined and I stuck with it so it'll also be the last server I play I guess.. It's sad to see all of our hard work go to waste. Like people say in the video, I dont mind what the price is for the new arks. I'll probably still play them due to the fact that ark is probably the best if not one of the best survival game out there but it's not like they are replacing ark survival evolved with ark survival ascended. They're simply deleting official servers on ark survival evolved. Why not just keep official server on Ark survival evolved and have different official servers on ark survival ascended. We've spent thousands of hours literally for nothing. The main problem I find is that ark developers and some ark players who don't play official believe everything will be fine because there will be a save for all our stuff but then I ask "for it to be uploaded to what?!" Unofficial server and what not. We all love official servers because its Pure, True, and Legit. We didn't cheat like those unofficial servers, we put the hardworking hours of effort to earn whats ours just for it to be taken away by the ark developers. As much as I disagree with the decisions of the ark developers I'll be here until the Ark Survival Evolved Official Servers end. Like this post so show the support!

[@Mr._Meseeks]

I just finished the whole video, very cool iv was my first time seeing the pve perspective on this whole thing. Would love to see the pvp side on a video soon!

[@PatK1989]

That really hits me hard. All the memories that i have from ark. i met my best friend on ark. we shared so many tears and happy moments in this game. we met a lot of good people and the bad were never lasting long. I am so thankful about that gaming experience. however due to the fact that i have no money and this announcement really killed the mood i am not able to buy a ps5, ark 2 or ark ascendant. But i will be forever grateful for this experience and the community :)