The devs still to this day refuse to even acknowledge that their game has problems which leaves very little hope for the people on Official Servers. As time went on, things got worse and worse, the customer support got worse, major problems with the game were outright ignored, and in fact intentionally made even worse, the developers began to lie to the community, and they even released DLC while still in EA. A number of times, a lead member of the development staff posted on reddit calling people liars, and being a complete jerk off. Communication stopped almost completely, community interactions stopped at best and at worst became negative. It was disappointing, but, issues only got worse.
ARK PRIMAL SURVIVAL GUIDE UPDATE
Updates drew to a month or more a part, often days or even weeks late, and nearly always with the "meat" of that update missing. So what happened after that? Well, it's hard to say why, but at the start of 2016, the Developers attitude changed for the worst. Very frequent updates, great communication from the developers, lots of community interaction. For the first 6 months or so, this was the game to play. The game was beautiful, with a amazing concept and an ambitious dev behind it. The game was beautiful, with a amazing concept and an ambitious dev behind What can i say about Ark? I was a day 1 EA purchaser of this game. What can i say about Ark? I was a day 1 EA purchaser of this game. Couldn't get any help with the first one because I couldn't remember the dino's name and it had been a few days (it was dead, jim), but the second one got resolved speedily. Yeah the game's support is genuinely terrible, but I only had to use it twice, once when I got a dinosaur stuck underneath the terrain (back in early access - and this only happened once) and second when I messed up with tranferring tribe ownership. A lot of the bugs people have mentioned have been fixed since well before EA, I'm not sure what they're going on about. Even if you have a good card, be prepared to turn those settings down to medium or low to get playable fps. That's ~41 days of nothing but playing this game.
While it has its problems, I can't justify giving this game anything less than a 10.