-Spawned in the game for my very first time -Cried a bit since the game runs pretty bad (Though I know it will get better, but it is still playable) -Started learning controls and running around -Saw a big rock and thought "Nice, maybe I can use this as a weapon!" -Upon closer inspection, it was Dinosaur Poop -Thought I could maybe throw poop at other people or Dinosaurs -Couldn't figure out how to equip poop -Clicked on poop in inventory, clicked "Use Item" -By clicking on "Use Item", I thought it would allow me to put it in my hand, to wield the poop -Apparently that made me eat the poop -Died from poop Note to self: Do not click "Use Item" on Poop or other dangerous items. UPDATE: A fellow "Gamer" messaged me and complained this wasn't a review and "Reported" me because of it. So specifically to that person, and to anyone else who has no sense of humor, here is a review. REVIEW: The game is fun. It has Dinosaurs. It has Poop. You have big poops and small poops. I can poop and my dinosaur can poop next to me. Or i can ride him and make him poop. Game doesn't run the best of course. Highest amount of frames I get is 30 with a mix of settings, but mainly everything on Medium, with some Ultra. Will you like this game? Yes, if you like dinosaurs, base building and pooping. Stop talking about poop, will i like this game? Yes, if you like dinosaurs. Stop talking about dinosaurs, will I like this game? Yes, you can poop.

My day began as anyone else's I foraged for food, mere berries to sustain me. I punched brittle trees for whatever Materials I could break off to make a pickaxe. Once I had my bearings I killed ten people and ate them. Still something was missing from my life so I made a nice house but it was still missing something... I made individual small rooms and put a small sign outside saying "Inn" I offered free food and tools for any and all. But as I sunk deeper into mania I locked my prisoners uh... guests, in their rooms never to leave again. Offering them nothing to eat but black berries and severe beatings. Some of them did not like this. "Stop" they screamed "let me out" I did not fully understand them, why would they betray me like this... no, how dare they. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457300185 After five or so victims forever Imprisoned, I Decided it was time to move on, leaving them to their fate. After some time I came across a beach of many houses, 6 people in all, each one sleeping. One by one I dragged them into the ocean and fed them to the megaladons. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457286598 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457298263 I left one alive... with a message. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=457298134 11/10 - Would become a serial killer again. Perhaps now would be a good time to extend an invitation to you all to come to my Hotel which is not infact some sort of "Death Stadium" where you enter only to be trapped with spears lunged at you from above while T-rex's chase you, because that would be absurd and unethical as I am all about the ethics you see. ---------- In all seriousness Ark is a great game with a lot of potential! even my review shows thats its possible to be quite creative in ark and that especially on pvp servers its important to log out somewhere safe as you persist in the game! Remember when your parents told you not to trust strangers especially weirdos, well when someone dangles some meat in front of you as an incentive to enter their dark opressive inn leading you into a small room, thats what they meant, you killed yourself not me! Furthermore it has a rather expansive crafting and stat system already~ progressing you from that primative on the beach who just discovered fire to that high tech hunter and his crew with their immense stronghold, gatling guns and dinosaur dwellings, performing air raids on the backs of screechers parachuting into enemy territory!

-Made a tiny home out of thatch -Knocked out a few different Dinos -Learned how to tame -Random Raptor comes out of nowhere, Kills me -Spawn again, Start to swim back to my stuff -Raptor again, Die -Watch it run away, Grab my stuff -Find/ trick raptor to attack again, Stab it to death -Hack away at it while I defecate on it's corpse -Find a Dodo army, Knock one out, Kill the rest -Tame Dodo, Named it Dumbo -Walk back home with Dumbo -The adventure begins *EDIT* -The adventure continued -Walk along beach till I find friend -Chase supply drop -Friend get's killed by Dilos, Dilos kill Dumbo -Punch Dilos out of rage. kill one and die -Come back to gather our belongings, Loot Dumbo -Find Dilo -Decided Dilo can spend his life in hell, knock it out and tame her -Named it Dil Don't -Meet up with friend, fu*ck around for a bit -Find some Dodos, Kill 3 tame one -Named it Dumbo Jr. -One more Friend comes on, start making base. -Leave Dil Don't and Dumbo Jr at base, leave to get matirials -Notifacation the Dumbo Jr has died, Freak out -Arrive to find Dil Don't Killing another Dilo -Dil Don't gets revenge for Dumbo Jr -Loot Dumbo Jr's corpse and find her egg -The Adventure continues *EDIT 2* -The Adventure Continued -Still pis*sed about loss of Dombo Jr, Decide not to tame Dodos until it is safe -Tribe and I decide we need meat, For Dil Don't and us -Run around killing fish, Dilos and Dodos, Spot a Parasaur being dumb -Ask tribe if we have Narcoberries, We do -It's Time -Take out my slingshot and tribe proceeds to surround the beast -Take aim and fire, headshot -Chase the beast around flinging rocks at it, It runs into a rock and get's stuck -After a little longer he's down, Shove all my berries into his inventory -Have one friend stay and make sure he eats his Narcoberries, Me and Dil Don't go hunting -Take out some turtles and Dilos while other friend runs over -Spot some more Parasaurs, decide for some bigger game -Take out 1 but 3 other attempts failed -Friend has tamed the Parasaur, Named it Pee Tree -Time skip while gathering food and supplies, Basically we want to move from the beach -Tribe and I leave behind Pee Tree and Dil Don't to find a way up the mountain -On our way up we all get separated, I make it to the top -Fu*cking view right outta Jurassic Park, One large lake and a lot of big Dinos, I'm in love -Run down along the herbivores and watch a Raptor get killed by Tyrannosaurus X2 -Spot a slight line between herbivores and carnivores, stick with the plant eaters -Make it to the lake and spot some Mammoths, I want one -Look just past them and see a T-rex on the opposite side of the lake -Run back to friends, Once back see one of them has a Dilo named Moogle -Dil Don't is female and Moogle is male, Start to plan birthing an army of Dilos -Tribe and Dinos in tow start towards the location I found -Have some hiccups on the way because Pee Tree's path finding is garbage -Along the way we find Phiomia along the way -Get excited about riding it, One member keeps going while me and another hang back to tame -Tame it and we Named him Truffles, Realize I'm almost level 10 -Run around gathering and killing smaller Dinos for hide and finally I'm level 10 -Now I make a saddle for Truffles but also a saddle for Pee Tree -Me and friend ride our Dinos to the location, Him on Truffles and me on Pee Tree -We arrive in the dead of night and start building -The adventure continues...........

Day 1 : Girl drugged me, pooped on my body and called me a noob. Several days later, I come across a small pond with a Megalodon in it. I make a small offering here and there, the Megalodon and I bond. He says he will offer me great power for a human sacrifice. Day 16: I track down the girl who had once defecated on my face. I see her attempting to tame a Stego. I sneak up on her. Load her with 30 drug berries, kill the Stego she is taming, poop on it's body. Drag her lifeless corpse back to Lord Megalodon, he seems pleased. I drag her to the beach. Add 10 more drug berries, just to make sure she is helpless. I throw her body in with Lord Megalodon. He seems pleased, but he requires more. I begin my hunt again. 10/10

I only played it for a little bit. It's ok I guess

Best australia simulator ever, everything kills you, damn nice 8/8 m8

Day 1: Spawned on a PvP server. Instantly knocked out and force fed poop. Logged off. Day 1 Redux: Spawned on a PvE server, instantly killed by a Dilo. Respawned. Punched trees in anger until I could weave a shirt together with plant strings. Day 2: Learned how to make a slingshot. Tamed a Dilo. Named him Dorian. Day 3: Dorian is dead. Tamed a new Dilo named Spencer. Day 3, 4 hours later: Spencer is dead. FFFFFFFFFF Day 25: Please add gravestones to the game, my plot of signs for my dead dinos is getting a bit ridiculous. RIP Winston, Chauncy, Marabelle, Mulle, and Jebediah the Paras. RIP Dorian, Spencer, Greta, and Rusty the Dilos. RIP Susie, Frank, Frank JR, Carl, Lightning, and Forest the Raptors. RIP Lucy #1 and Lucy #2 the Sabers. RIP Bella the Trike. RIP Big Bad Bertha, Freddy the Fabulous Flamingo, Rychous, and Freddie Prinze JR the Pteras. RIP Annie the Vulture. RIP Amethyst the Icky. RIP Lord Sebastian Cuddlebum the Carno. 10/10 Would have heart broken by dead virtual dinosaurs again

Price is higher than FPS.

PEOPLE IN THIS GAME ARE TOO NICE! RAID ME OR SOMETHING!!! SERIOUSLY I LEFT MY DOOR OPEN OVER NIGHT FOR SOMEONE TO STEAL FROM ME, THEY LEFT ME SOME METAL AND LEFT ME A NOTE REMINDING ME TO CLOSE IT IN THE FUTURE.

> Wakes up on island > Poops > Picks up the poop > Eats the poop > Gets sick > Dies > Respawns > Pussislayer420 comes up on a bronto and smacks me > "ITS JUST A PRANK BRO!" >Dies > Respawns > Gets attacked by a big ostrich > Dies 10/10 would die again

My legs broke from being hungry

Day 1: Wake up on strange island. Poop. Pick up poop. See dino. Throw dino with poop. Dino doesn't like it. Dino kills me. Day 2: Punch trees. It hurts. Make tools. It was super effective. Runs into jungle with spear. Gets killed by a rex. Day 3: Met people. They gave me stuff. I like them. Knock me out. They drag me to a prison. I'm stuck. Day 4: Start punching walls. Nothing happens. I call for help. Captors come back and feed me. Day 5: Captors are offline. Run around in cell. Die of starvation. Escape. Day 6:Tamed a pack of dilos. They kill everything. I get food. Today was a good day. Day 7: Woke up in prison. Same captors. Someone drops a spear outside window. I take spear. Day 8: Wait for captors to return. One enters through the door. I stab him. He dies. I kill their dinos. Today was a good day. 10/10 would play again.

I played ARK. I met a man named Jigger Jaw. He was Level 13. I was level 2. We hit it off, and ended up becoming a tribe and hunting together. All was well. He made it to Level 14, I made it to Level 5. But then, I saw a supply drop, in which he said he thought it was Level 15 needed to unlock it. Sparking my curiosity, I told him I would check it out. He stayed at the campfire and told me to watch out for the snake and frog-like creatures. So I got to the supply drop, and I could open it! I got many useful crafting items. I turned back to go to our campfire, but red words of death appeared. Jigger Jaw had been killed by a Level 80 dino. Gasping, I ran back to camp to find him. His remains were nowhere to be found, along with his killer. I messaged him asking if he was around, but got no answer. He had left. Later I found his murderer around the beach, and knew I was not yet ready to face this foe. But I was ready to survive. For Jigger Jaw had taught me how to survive. How to live. 1000/10, friendships made

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Poop Enjoyers ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☑ You'll need a second (and possibly third) life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ☑ ARK: Survival Evolved

tl;dr — worth it, loved it, but I'm not very hardcore. 300 hours on record, 100+ of those with my kids. And now, STORYTIME: I love playing co-op games with my kids. When I looked at ARK: Survival Evolved (currently in Early Access on Steam) it looked like just such a thing. When I dug into it and learned that I could host a LAN server in my house, and edit The Island to be a bit less deadly and a bit more generous, went all in with my sons. Before long I had all four of my kids playing with me, and each other. Currently my girls are the heavy hitters, training mobs of small dinosaurs, and then marching them into harm's way. The game's A.I. spawns some tough beasts, but short of the epic boss battles (which we have not bothered with), and the Alpha T-Rex (which we haven't run into), nothing stands for long against Keliana's swarm of dilophosaurs and dimorphodons, or Gleek's hopping mob of giant frogs. Keliana and I did run into a bit of trouble with our expedition from the north-east river mouth, but that wasn't her fault. I shall now tell you about it. We attempted to bring 24 tamed dinos and one tricked-out crafting raft southwest through narrows and swamps. We discovered, after it was too late to turn around, that the size of our mob and the size of our raft made the trip extremely tedious. It didn't get dangerous until I got fed up and decided on a side trip. My plan was simple. Ride Terry, my pteranodon who kept fouling the raft's travel, from our mob's location at the western edge of the Eastern Plains, east and south to a platform we'd been building in the middle of the Eastern Forest. There he'd be high, dry, and safe. I would then parachute back, timing my glide to get me most of the way to safety. It's a high platform, and I'd seen my son make that kind of glide before. (Note: The logic that goes "I saw my son do a thing in a game so it is a thing I can now do" has never gotten me into trouble before, I swear.) A dimorphodon named Zed was following me and Terry. Unfortunately, Zed fell behind, and I forgot he was there. I landed Terry safely, lined up my jump, and leapt back the way we'd come. My chute popped perfectly, and my glide was going to be LONG. Then Zed caught up, flew straight at me, and fouled the lines of my chute. I dropped fast. Not killed-by-the-fall fast, but definitely short-of-my-goal-by-80% fast. I landed in a boulder-filled vale just to the west of the platform. The vale's only other major feature besides boulders was hungry carnivores. I emptied my shotgun into a 'raptor, then finished it off with a pike only to discover that a carnotaur had stopped quarreling with a pair of sabertooths, and was charging me. Carnos charge in straight lines, and turn poorly. I used the terrain to my advantage, and attempted to lead him back into his sabertoothed foes. It worked perfectly, except for the part where they decided to share a meal. I now had three carnivores chasing me. I almost ran headlong into another sabertooth, but it leaped and I ducked, and then I kept running. "Keliana, where are you?" "North of that purple light. There's a cliff between me and you. You'll need to go around it." I turned and checked to see how close pursuit was. I screamed. The game does a really good job of getting predators right. They don't roar or screech unless they're fighting. They come at you teeth-first, and quietly. I had a perfect view of three sabertooths, one carnotaur, and behind them, just starting to take interest, a pair of tyrannosaurs who I may have run a bit too close to without noticing them. "THERE IS NO AROUND!" The nice thing about video-game cliffs is that if they're not sheer, sometimes you can cheat them, running sideways and down, and landing without having broken your bones. I did this, knowing that my pursuit could do the same thing. I splashed through shallows at the base of the cliffs, and then saw that I was being charged from the front by a velociraptor. It was over. Then I saw that the velociraptor had a saddle on it, and there was a woman in the saddle. "I've got you, Dad!" She and the mob swept past me. I missed what happened next, because it happened behind me. I did get game alerts telling me that my tribe's pets were killing things, but they went by too fast for me to count. I saw exactly zero flashing red alerts, which meant that Keliana had killed everything chasing me without taking any casualties. That's my girl. Are we playing this game the way it was meant to be played? If the online PVP tournaments are any indication, we're doing it all wrong. I base-jumped into a pack of carnivores and got rescued by my daughter, who was riding a velociraptor. Wrong is fine.

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Human ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☑ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Story}--- ☐ Story? ☑ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☑ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Got killed by a brontosaurus while taming a pteranadon in the jungle at night because a T-rex attacked it. Came back to find someone looting my corpse. Killed her with my fists. Her boyfriend stabbed me in the back of the head. Died. Respawned, re-equipped, dodge shots from my OWN GUN THAT THEY STOLE, killed boyfriend with spear to the face. Punched out woman while she was screaming profanity's at me in in-game voice chat. Drowned her in a river, screaming the whole time. Got all my stuff back. Threw a grenade into the thieves thatch hut. Boom. Justice. 10/10 Would justice again. In all seriousness, the Official servers lack clear rules and administration. Do yourself a favor, find a good unofficial server, and the game will be loads better. No hacking, no cheaters, no lag, no rubberbanding, etc. You'll also find a better community on these servers, which is part of the fun in a game like this. As for leveling, it's quite easy, as everything you do that requires input from yourself except taming, gives you exp from 1 to 67, which is current max level. Hence, you don't have to move on to a new area, like some other games on the market. The game is harsh, however, and it does not go easy on you. If your T-rex dies, that you just spent 7 hours taming, it's dead. There's no way to bring it back, or rez it, or take backs. If you get overly attached to the things you tame, play PVE. You'll have a much more fun time, because if you play PVP, you may just log in naked on the beach with everything you own destroyed. Again, play on an unofficial with rules that you agree with. Some unofficials don't allow base leveling, or killing of passive dino's, etc. You'll want to find a tribe, because the more people you have working on a base, the stronger it will be, and the less time it will take building it. Once you get to metal tier, the sheer amount of stones you need to make a small metal building will be astonishing, so you need to work with others to accomplish goals that are out of a single players reach. If you play on a PVP server, know that at some point, you will wake up dead. It's only a matter of time before this happens. Expect it, and have a backup plan. IE: A small hidden home, preferrably metal, with supplies for retaming, rearming, retooling, etc., so that you don't have to start from a stone axe again. Overall, it's an excellent experience, as long as you are OK with an EA title. You'll find bugs that will screw you over and cause you to lose tons of your time, but that's par for the course at this stage of development. There is no other survival game on the market that comes close to Ark at the moment. My playtime attests to that fact. If you pick it up, good luck on the isle! If you have questions, stop by my stream and ask away. I'm live from Morning (10 AM MST) to afternoon (3PM MST), and from evening (6-7PM MST) until late at night (1-3AM MST). On day 16 of a 30 Day streaming challenge, so 7 days a week. twitch.tv/faceaaa

Day 1: Killing Dodo's all goes well. Believe they may be conspiring against me though following my subdjugation of their Race. Day 2: Have recruited 3 Dilo's to both carry my equipment and defend my honor. I have Dubbed them Melon, Cream and Kiwi. Day 3: Kiwi has passed away and both Melon and Cream are inconsolable. Day 4: I have been attacked by Dilos and both Melon and Cream died valiantly defending me. Day 5: I am starving and I believe I am being tracked by some unseen predators. Day 6: This will be my final entry. I am at the waters edge with nowhere to run and as far as the eye can see is a pack of Dodo's...they have come for blood and blood they shall have! 10/10 would attempt to exterminate Dodos again!

This reveiw is for the offline singleplayer. I had a lot of fun with this game. After a day or so of screwing around I had a nice little house established and decided I was ready to tame dinosaurs. The first thing I tamed was a dodo, a hot pink dodo that I named Ramirez. I decided to leave her at home while i went hunting so she would stay safe. I thought I could take on a trike which it turns out was a big fucking mistake. It was unimpressed with my offensive capabilities so I ran away and hid on a rock stack like a bitch. It refused to leave me alone and I had resigned myself to my new life on that rock when I saw Ramirez waddling down the beach to save me. She pecked it right in the anus, it turned around and punted her halfway across the island. I never saw her again. Don't name your pets, it'll just be sadder when they die. 10/10

Winter time in my location gets frigid, well below freezing sometimes, with the help of this game I was able to heat my whole house with my computer.

HEY KIDS DO YOU LIKE MINECRAFT "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE DINOSAURS "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE FUNNY LOOKING CHARACTERS "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE HARD ASS GAMEPLAY "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE MACHINE GUNS "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE TROLLS KILLING YOU EVERYTIME YOU JOIN A MULTIPLAYER GAME "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE 1 FPS GAMEPLAY (I have a good computer that runs the game fine so dont complain about this) "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE EARLY ACCESS GAMES THAT TAKE FOREVER TO MAKE IT TO FULL VERSION "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE FANTASTIC GRAPHICS "YEAH" DO YOU LIKE GAMES WHERE ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO START OUT "YEAH" WELL THIS IS THE GAME FOR YOU KIDS

Raised a dodo bird army of 15. killed a t-rex with dodo army lost 6 dodo birds in the fight tamed 18 more -total 27 -to this day they call me dodo man on that server- 10/10

Today i learned the tranq arrow blueprint. So i made some tranq arrows (They render your enemy uncousions). I went and found one unlucky fucker and shot him twice with the tranq arrows. Eventually he fell unconscious and i dragged him to my prison and locked him in. I told him that if he was a good boy i would give him some cooked meat and a water skin. But as soon as he came to he started punching the sleeping prisoners. So i tranqed him again and forcefed him my poo. 10/10 would turn into a psycopath again. :)

I really love the game but cannot recommend this to anyone in its current state. First—Watch the ad, read about the game put out by the company (not players) and you think—survival game with Dinos! Awesome! Second—Buy the game, find some friends and start a tribe, get ripped up by a Carno as a noob and LOL for 5 minutes, hunt some Dinos and build a house. Great! Third—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Fourth—Rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Awesome! We are back into it. Fifth—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Sixth—Move and rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Ok. We are good now but we lost a few friends because they no longer log in. They probably took advantage of the summer sale. Seventh—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Eighth—Move again and rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Seriously, I think we found the best hiding spot in the game. Nineth—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Tenth-- Move again and rebuild house, hunt some Dinos and gather materials. Do it mostly by yourself because none of your tribe is online anymore…you pause for a minute and notice you no longer have to wait to get on a server. Eleventh—Get murdered in your sleep, house destroyed, all your Dinos are dead. Twelfth—Stand there naked and with nothing to show for near 80 hours of gameplay. Log off and hope the summer sale is still going with something good. You have now completed Ark, no reason to purchase. The main problem with this game is that it is a griefer survival game, not a dino survival game. There is not even PVP, you just get killed while your offline, that is it. If you compare this to another survival game you dumber than a box of rocks because not every game has to be the same, the devs can chose to do something better and make the game better than the others. I never saw one ad or comment put out by the devs saying, “hey come play this dino game and get killed in your sleep because that is “survival”. PvPvE should be: Players in general engage in PvE however can choose to engage in mutual combat while online or engage in Tribal warfare, all gloves are off. PvE should be: 100% player versus dino with no or little ability to harm another player. Restrict building around mines and resources areas to include other player buildings to eliminate griefing. Provide moderators to kick griefers and delete their characters from the server. Hardcore PvP should be: What the game is now. If you are so dang interested in dying while you are at work, at school, eating with your family, or sleeping then this should be the option for you. The griefers and midnight murderers are too dang spineless and carebear to be a real PvPer and hit the hardcore because at the end of the day, they are just a little ----- who likes to kill new and casual players. -----Update as of 21 June 2015----- I have since moved on to an unofficial server and successfully avoided the toxic nature of the official server griefers, which I honestly believe is sad. Why? Because the official servers should be the most opening to the gaming community by default and not push people away. The “official” server is what most players will click on whether they are new to gaming or survival games or whatever. I have also found that the unofficial server I chose does not generate a large population of players who log on consistently. Simply move you say? I may, but for now I am holding out. The only other problem with a random unofficial server is the ever looming thought; “what if the admin turns the server off?!?” Then your character and all you have built is done for. Try to know your admin in my opinion. Telling the gamers who do not want griefing to simply go on a PvE server cupcake! is not effective. Have you looked at the data? Most players do not want griefing and most of the servers are in fact NOT built for PvE only. Furthermore, those who are suggesting this are assuming we never want to PvP. Wrong! I want to be online when the PvP happens and at least have some kind of story to associate the event with and tell friends about. What do I tell friends now? Go on an official server and you will log in dead--hands down. I hope you like to log in and see your characters cheeky rear because you will get familiar with it. I have also found that PvE servers lower MY FPS and I believe this is because of the hundreds of players logging in, building a hut and then never logging in again. Some of the servers are starting to look like shanty town island and not survival island. Also, there are only 70 spots available on those servers, so you better plan on never playing during prime time. There does seem to be some reading comprehension issues with some of the community who have left some fairly nasty comments. I am not sure if they even read the entire post or just TL;DR, “you mad bro!?!” Either way--ignorance is not a virtue. I have no problem with people disagreeing but at least be intelligent about it. Please keep that is mind. It is early access and the developers want to know what we think, so I gave my opinion based on my experiences.

Lets see... I probably died a few hundred times I lost everything, and everyone, several times I built 2 houses I tried to start a tribe I made a friend I was betrayed by another tribesmember I started another tribe with my friend We were both eaten by giant sharks, twice, while we tried to swim to an island We joined a larger tribe The tribe built a base My friend tamed a Parasaur, horse dino, Co co! It died. My friend tamed another Parasaur, Co co 2! My friend logged off The large tribe began to lose players We began building a spiked wall to keep the monsters out at night We were betrayed by another tribesmember of the large tribe, who was manipulated by a sociopath who spent the entire weekend killing AFK players near noobie beach, or breaking down doors with sticks and stones They killed Co co 2! I went off and tamed two Dilos, acid spitting guard dog dinos, named "Bjorn" and "Ironside" I found an amazing gorge walled off with cliffsides, that had a small lake filled with fish, plenty of wildlife, and three entryways. New base! I found two players looking at the looming asteroid, waiting for impact, our impending doom. Then I said hello, and joined them We decided to look at the asteroid from the nearby mountain There we where ambushed by raptors, dilos, insects, and giant ants - all at the same time! Bjorn and Ironside threw themselves into the fight! I survived. Bjorn and Ironside survived. My friends however... did not I waited, then looted, then left I found a wild parasaur on the way to the top. Dubbed it coco the Third. Tried to tame it. Near a griffin infested cliffside. Coco the Third died. Bjorn died. Ironside died. I died. The Griffin burped.