The gist of the game is you wake up on a beach with nothing and begin to build a house and maybe join a tribe or add others to your tribe, tame dinosaurs, and eventually become Alpha tribe(the top tribe in the server). You'll get every kind of feels along the way. After 2100 hours put in over 2 accounts I'll finally put in my 2 cents. First of all, a lot of these recent negative reviews come from other veteran players and I must call shenanigans because if you put over 500 hours into a game you must be having fun or enjoying it quite a bit. They're crybabies and opprotunists, Ignore them. That said, you will have great times in Ark, and you will have devestating or frustrating times(at least in PVP servers) but it is the nature of the game. When you put so much time into building a virtual home and taming virtual pets(then raising their offspring from babies) then get raided(losing everything including your pets) of course it's going to suck, especially the first couple times. Use these instances though to learn where what you were doing wrong so each time you will succesively grow and be able to prevent this from happening. The positive: The devs update this game all the time, always adding a TON of new content, adjusting old content to be more balanced, optimizations to the game, etc. The game itself is great with many servers to choose from, all with unique rates for resource gathering, taming, and experience gain so you can choose the speed of play that fits you best. The game and its mechanics have so much variety and depth that you'll always find something new to learn or try. Whether you like the idea of building an epic, HUGE structure/base, taming a zoo's worth of dinosaurs, or working with a group in a trribe to overcome obstacles and become the top tribe it's all a good time and each of them is set up to function in very intuitive and custimizable ways. If you like raiding other bases and taking them for all they have, it's a blast. If you don't like raiding and like building a fortress to prevent raiding, it's a blast. If you dont like pvp at all, then you have pve servers where everyone functions as a community, and its a blast. It's not constantly exciting as you do have to gather resources much of the time, but when it all comes together intoyour base it's worth it. Eventually and after some learning, after losing everything a few times you will have that Epic fortress of a base, that zoo of dino's, you're alpha tribe and nobody wants to even try to raid you. For me, this is the only time that I was bored with Ark as there was no longer a danger or threat, I was the danger. I was the one who knocks. Seeing as how I don't raid smaller tribes than myself I didnt have much to do. Then the server wiped and everyone was back at zero. The Negative: Most of the negative moments dont come from the bugs to be honest but from the community. You'll meet some cool people in Ark for sure, but you will encounter far more a**holes and cowards(just like the real world). It's not uncommon to get on a server and have a tiny stone hut and then some big tribe comes and wipes you out for youre tiny amount of resources. Or if they see you coming up in the world they will sometimes wait until you get offline then raid you out of fear that you will take their place. In some servers they have rules against things like this though so it is avoidable. As far as the bugs and glitches go, they are certainly there but it's A)to be expected in a game of this scope on early access and b)Not that big of a deal. It only takes dismounting onto a metal irrigation pipe and glitchdying a couple times before you learn not to dismount near them. The team at Wildcard goes above and beyond all expectations and work around the clock it seems to fix big bugs. They add so much contect too that it is also expected that new bugs will be introduced. If you can not handle these like a mature human being then do not buy it until it's retail release date. Summary: I'd buy this game again, I'd reccomend everyone buy this game. You may either claim to hate it or claim to love it, but you will play the hell out of it. Never tame a stegosaurusP.S. If you meet a female in Ark, its a guy 90% of the time. Dont be fooled.

The gist of the game is you wake up on a beach with nothing and begin to build a house and maybe join a tribe or add others to your tribe, tame dinosaurs, and eventually become Alpha tribe(the top tribe in the server). You'll get every kind of feels along the way. After 2100 hours put in over 2 accounts I'll finally put in my 2 cents. First of all, a lot of these recent negative reviews come from other veteran players and I must call shenanigans because if you put over 500 hours into a game you must be having fun or enjoying it quite a bit. They're crybabies and opprotunists, Ignore them. That said, you will have great times in Ark, and you will have devestating or frustrating times(at least in PVP servers) but it is the nature of the game. When you put so much time into building a virtual home and taming virtual pets(then raising their offspring from babies) then get raided(losing everything including your pets) of course it's going to suck, especially the first couple times. Use these instances though to learn where what you were doing wrong so each time you will succesively grow and be able to prevent this from happening. The positive: The devs update this game all the time, always adding a TON of new content, adjusting old content to be more balanced, optimizations to the game, etc. The game itself is great with many servers to choose from, all with unique rates for resource gathering, taming, and experience gain so you can choose the speed of play that fits you best. The game and its mechanics have so much variety and depth that you'll always find something new to learn or try. Whether you like the idea of building an epic, HUGE structure/base, taming a zoo's worth of dinosaurs, or working with a group in a trribe to overcome obstacles and become the top tribe it's all a good time and each of them is set up to function in very intuitive and custimizable ways. If you like raiding other bases and taking them for all they have, it's a blast. If you don't like raiding and like building a fortress to prevent raiding, it's a blast. If you dont like pvp at all, then you have pve servers where everyone functions as a community, and its a blast. It's not constantly exciting as you do have to gather resources much of the time, but when it all comes together intoyour base it's worth it. Eventually and after some learning, after losing everything a few times you will have that Epic fortress of a base, that zoo of dino's, you're alpha tribe and nobody wants to even try to raid you. For me, this is the only time that I was bored with Ark as there was no longer a danger or threat, I was the danger. I was the one who knocks. Seeing as how I don't raid smaller tribes than myself I didnt have much to do. Then the server wiped and everyone was back at zero. The Negative: Most of the negative moments dont come from the bugs to be honest but from the community. You'll meet some cool people in Ark for sure, but you will encounter far more a**holes and cowards(just like the real world). It's not uncommon to get on a server and have a tiny stone hut and then some big tribe comes and wipes you out for youre tiny amount of resources. Or if they see you coming up in the world they will sometimes wait until you get offline then raid you out of fear that you will take their place. In some servers they have rules against things like this though so it is avoidable. As far as the bugs and glitches go, they are certainly there but it's A)to be expected in a game of this scope on early access and b)Not that big of a deal. It only takes dismounting onto a metal irrigation pipe and glitchdying a couple times before you learn not to dismount near them. The team at Wildcard goes above and beyond all expectations and work around the clock it seems to fix big bugs. They add so much contect too that it is also expected that new bugs will be introduced. If you can not handle these like a mature human being then do not buy it until it's retail release date. Summary: I'd buy this game again, I'd reccomend everyone buy this game. You may either claim to hate it or claim to love it, but you will play the hell out of it. Never tame a stegosaurusP.S. If you meet a female in Ark, its a guy 90% of the time. Dont be fooled.