Why Most Ark Players Have Left The Game.. 

Commend below what you think about all this? Also, what would you guys like to see in the future for content?

The only time I enjoyed Ark pvp is when I was unemployed lol

People just don’t want to spend thousands of hours anymore for it to be wiped in 20 mins by an unemployed no life if they go have a shower. Ark was at its best in the first year in my opinion

I am a veteran Ark player, and I totally understand why people get burnt out on it. I played ASE PvE, and PvP for 4000+ Hours. To avoid quitting ark forever I take long breaks from it. It's still a great game, and when more maps come out it will be fun to explore them! I don't play official, because I still want to have a life outside of games like Ark lol. Playing on a private server with slightly boosted rates is the right way to go If you don't wanna spend you're whole life away on ark. I totally get where people are coming from.

small tip, Ark is not only a multiplayer game, I have played Ark single player on and off for about 6 year now

My reason was meshing, s-l-o-w admin or pocket admins, and too much insiding.

I still think about coming back to ASE but thanks to current meta I never decide to go for it. Since when did we just accept grapple-glitching being a feature? Desmos completely break the balance by being so tanky, having insane player picking radius and being able to pick while diving? Kinda miss the golden pre-genesis days.

Cause the copy and pasted the game with a texture pack, and fixed nothing, actually made the game worst

The player base had gotten older, and no longer have the hours to dump into the game. The new “game” for teenagers that have the hours is put into games like Fortnite

I am an ARKaholic with over 35k hours between 3 accounts. I have never felt burned out or stopped playing mainly because ARK the game is awesome but I keep coming back for the community. My friends that keep me coming back. Recently I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer with an inoperable tumor so I am dyeing so I have not been able to play so I am having ARK withdrawals. I hope to be back playing and streaming this awesome game soon. I love your videos.

This can be summarised to every PVP Survival game, not only Ark. People should know by now before playing a survival game.

Its verry simple why every1 left: the game is shit one of the biggest mistakes wild card made is to delete old official from ASE .ASA ots simply just shit.

I play PVE, but pillards everywhere, can't build, can't do anything. So i leave.

Cuz grown people with jobs don’t got time no more only 16 olds play now it’s they turn,I had a lot of fun when it came out as an alpha on Xbox one 😔 I’m no longer a kid tho I don’t got time like that no more

this is why i only play on private servers with my friends only with set rules

I’m gonna be honest. Ark blossomed in Covid when people had time. This game requires dedication and time to have fun and succeed and people are either burnt out from playing so much or are too busy to play now. Every single player that I know that no longer plays, (and there’s a lot of them) left because of this, and not one of them doesn’t enjoy ASA or thinks the games bad/p2w.

I feel like if they added a way to be pinged on your phone if a structure takes a significant amount of damage or breaks it would help with people staying up to monitor their base (kind of like the email youd get for tripwire alarms back in the day)

The issue for me as a solo casual player were the official server alpha tribes, They will literally try to extort you for real money to let you play on the map (This is most servers). I dont understand how they dont have admins watching for this kind of behavior as i believe it should be a bannable offense. They need to lower the amount of completely empty servers and start moderating the servers they can.

The game is so buggy! That is why players who don't mind the huge learning curve give up on the game. An example; I just tamed a Manta and within less than 2 minutes the game bugged out and killed it for no reason I could see. What kind of crap is that? That is just one example. Dang, that is a lot of windows.

To this day the hardest part about this game is getting anything done between crashes and losing your saved data. But at least they have paid mods!

Real answer is we can’t be on 12-16 hours a day like the losers who live on government assistance and legit have 0 things going on in their life

A significant number of your issues are caused by playing PVP. You should really give PVE a try. During the video, you built a beautiful base in single player. You could build it on a PVE server without being raided. On the contrary, some survivors will appreciate your building.

I’ve seen soooo so many people, some true Arkers with over 3500 hours, others beach bobs simply give up on this game the new game just isn’t the same, besides the in game bugs, pvp you can lose everything, pve everything is pillar’d 😒 and people really just aren’t interested in searching forever for a good base spot, or risking it all in pvp. “Unrewarding job” hits the nail 👍🏼 to end it on a good note, I really enjoyed ark, the more x2 was nice, and I never ran into any hackers at least 🙏🏼

Ark 2015 to 2017 was the best ark shouldn’t have added all the tek that was added

The games balance is also shot. People have the metas down and late game objectives are now first session mandates... like heavies and tek turrets. Don't even know why they bothered keeping the level system if they were planning to keep note run experience points

Never seen an ark player quit

Have any multiplayer survival games found the secret sauce to the game/life balance while still allowing for offline raiding and competitiveness? Genuinely curious. It seems like an unsolvable problem.

and this is why i love offline raid protection servers with slightly boosted rates.

Just came back after years missed the old school pvp days

Another thing i forgot to mention is the server options. you either host your own which you might as well just play single player or fork over the 25$ for a service provider you dont like. so they also alienated thousands of people from playing with friends and others because they are forced to pay 25$ for a server they dont want. like why would i want to pay 25$ to play with one or two friends? to adjust settings to be a human game? i played ase on ps4 xbox series s and pc all combined over 3k hours.

I had over 14k hours on pvp when I hung it up. All of your reasons are valid. My number one gripe with ark is how easy it is to mesh. In one instance I had a gen 2 vent that had 400 giga breeders in it. I personaly handled the breeding and even physically arranging them in the vent perfectly in rows took ages. Just one of many events that should not have happened.

Was in my mid 20's when Ark first came out. Played the game all the way up until aberration. All those years of grinding has led me to now enjoy videos on Ark as opposed to playing 😊

Great video. I should go back and check my base but I’ve had rl stuff that’s more important than refilling turrets

I left because every update caused an error. With that error, I had to un install and reinstall. I would get to play a bit until the next update, and then it was rinse and repeat. I did not buy a game to have to go through that frustration.

I preferred original ARK compared to Ascended. I took about a 6 month break and when I came back the servers were gone, that’s when I left ARK

I did a burnout on evolved after 6 months tryharding. I've been playing on ascended for nearly 6 months and im starting to get fed up

Still don’t understand why they don’t have raid windows. It’s what made it possible for me to play Conan for a long time.

The new cryopods change makes most most pvp situations and raiding take way longer it just becomes a chore to go out and do anything

I started on the game bout 6 months after it came out an played it until right before the pandemic had to stopped cold turkey. I got absolutely addicted to it. I mean life was falling apart addicted. And even tried playing games after it and never could find anything that challenges me and was so immersive since. To me it was the absolute best game I have ever played. But I decided my wife was more important and now we have a kid. So glad I quit. My kid is better then any day on ark. But I absolutely do still get cravings to play it and it will irritate me that I had to give it up. I still think about how I could be building new styles of bases with the new updates. That was my favorite thing to do, build huge extravagant bases based on old castles and estates styles. Oh and breeding. Right before the flyer nerf I had a emerald green and blue filter argy pop with 30k plus stamina and I was able to get babies off of it and was honing in my line to start trading and they nerfed it. But still was at 7k plus! I had literally the best stamina in the world and a asshole kid I felt bad for and took into my tribe inside me and killed all of my tames, including the argy and ate the eggs. Never had a tribe mate other then my wife after that. Losing the argy hurt bad. I had something absolutely no one else in ark could of ever had after that nerf. And I was going to make a killing selling them fixed like people sold dragons. 7k was god status after the nerf when stuff pop out low. Miss that game. Island pve server 227 I left that server right after they put it into legacy for shut down status

A big problem with the game now is everyone plays just as much if not more than they did in lockdown. And now that you can make a living from streaming / making content casual players that play after work or school can’t compete.

There's some really thoughtful stuff here so I'd like to offer a thoughtful consideration I've had as a single player with only multiplayer experience when renting a server for me and my wife to play. I think the game needs a better diary system for your player so that you can create tasks and checklists for those tasks and not end up out there in the middle of danger looking for what it was you intended to do only to realize that for the umpteenth time you forgot a vital ingredient that you needed.

To be fair the it’s impressive that the game can get ppl this way. I’d say that’s good game design

I play single player. Been playing for years. I'll take breaks here and there. I breed everything. I tame everything. Love tearing things apart with my dimo army as an argy as the general.

Honestly Shane I think it’s less the state of the game, and more so the fact that this game is nearly a decade old at this point. ASA is new yes but ultimately it’s still ark. We’ve not only been playing but consuming Ark content online for a long time.

Ganna miss ya vids mate, love the PvP and conquest series

- ASA runs horrible, even on high end systems. wildcard never bothered upgrade ASE (which was running UE 4.5 which from 2015m never bothered upgrade UE 4.x ) - ASE was lazy ported to UE 5.1. Not 5.2, they lied. That why Asa sucks. - ASE runs better thus why many ark players went back to ASE. - Wildcard is very greedy. They said they never go pay to win/MTX. They lied - own by snail games. A very greasy/corrupt company. Who lost billions of $$$$ on EV cars. ( some say that was ARK money that they lost. ).

It’s not only players.. I host a dedicated PvP server and recently shut it down because players were losing their characters. So all I was doing was recovering characters. Wildcard needs to fix this.

I got a job and couldn't no life it anymore. If pickup rates were 30x as default I could probably have made the time to keep playing.

I have been playing single player. Game thru me out few days ago . Then it would not let me respawn. When I finally got back in on new character I was booted for no reason in less than 10 min running around on beach. So frustrated.

Balance in pvp is what I'm waivering on. How does a person with a new character compete with the people who transfer a character that has everything tek gear unlocked. Heat vision through terrain is B's if you are prim locked.

Even the server my daughter rents so we can play together, I had given up cause I can’t save single player it won’t save. It blue screens every time any of us leave the server the only reason it saves is cause it’s a server. it’s insane for it to not save

You forgot about those of us that can and did play ASE (3500 hrs) but cannot play ASA due to computers not being able to handle it. I am still purchasing and playing new releases but ASA doesn't allow me to even try to play it. I wouldn't even have a copy if a tribemate didn't purchase one for me.

I love this game just when bosses or caves piss me off i take a relaxing break

I think after buying the game again cause “the issues ase had could only be fixed by making asa” and finding our the issues remained and they added more would be the most important reason behind the player exodus. The p2w ofc had a massive impact as well, along with the devs doing absolutely everything except what the community expects. I love ark, i will never stop loving ark. I am tired of it tho, i had the expectation that they gave me, they said in asa we would not experience the same bugs as they would be fixed. They lied, same bugs and now there are even new ones xD . So i paid twice for something that is just entirely broken. Do i have hope it will get fixed? Honestly i wish, i really love ark and am honestly addicted to it. Ase is still there tho, while not on officials it does offer the great experience

For me the Points which makes the Game boring atm: 1. All Bases are in Caves 2. All about Server cap 3. Always using the same meta Tames 4. This new Cryopod mechanic 5. New joining System 6. Technical issues I miss the good old PvP when 2 Giga lines stand opposite and you wait till the fight starts. But atm All Bases are in Caves, its just about capping a Server, wiping everything outside in 5 min. Cant join for hours cause Server is cap. Cant drop a tame when enemies pushing your forcefield. Carchas can bit into the forcefield. What I want or wish: 1. Increasing Server capacity 2. old Cryopod mechanic 3. a better possibility to join a cap Server 4. And ofc no technical issues (impossible by Wildcard)

Even snail games stock price plummeted… the investors are abandoning ship.

i just moved back to the old ark because it is not playable on my PC I have the most time 50 frames but as soon I look at water it drops to 15 frames it is a no go, hope the unreal update will fix thinks, then I might look in it again.

Cant play the same Game for 12 years

Thats why we have single player. We can choose when to play and how long for. Yes I don't have the time for onlune anymore, so you miss out on the community aspect. But in single player I ca put it down and pick it up whenever I want and be in the exact same place where I left off.

I left ascended to go back to evolved. It does not make sense to me to play a retextured game when I can play the completed prior game

Honestly, I think it's just that Ark is known as the game where all the cheaters go with scummy devs. They have a very bad reputation in other spaces. Like there is no enforcement. They don't even have a functioning reporting system and the one they do have is completely outside of the game and requires an account on their forums.

The falloff off this game is quite sad used to enjoy it so much as a kid playing with my friends

Love u Shane, miss the og solo. Rip ark

Ark is my most played/favorite game but my biggest reason I stopped playing was that ark survival ascended looks like shit and feels like shit on console even when u change the visual settings

I am mostly not playing because Ragnarok is my home, and its not out yet... I really do not enjoy the other maps for anything to go on to tame and then go back to my home on Rag.

My reasons why I left ASA -They copy paste the game with better graphics but worse support -Game is extremely buggy and unfinished -You need a NASA PC to run it and still runs like crap -Messing with PvP caves favorite spots gone -PC cheating is very active -Very poor dev communication -I don’t mind the season pass they have to make money somehow but last minute p2w reskin broken dino was a slap to the face. -Solo spots/ratholes gone, no being able to spawn in bed -The Center feels was generated by AI, Beautiful looking map yes but looking closely you can tell it was rushed, no heart to it -False promises

Me and my friend played all the time then the server got deleted then a couple days later it came back but literally 2 days later it got deleted again im still waiting we played hours a day just to get deleted

I refuse to pay for a new version of a game I already own when the new version has more bugs, more exploits, more cheating, more pay-to-win, etc.

The reason I quit is because I keep getting offline raided 24 hours after I join a server it’s too toxic. They don’t let newbies build up So they’re killing the game preventing new people from joining

I gave up 7 months ago when my single player wound save for 2 months. Haven't touched it since

I just came back to it after about 18 months off. Having fun so far. My only complaint is the usual bad optimization. But i play either by myself in single player, or with a small group in a private server that i own. I don't play on official servers with whiney little kids who have all the time in the world and build gates around all of the spawn points. F all of that. And because i don't play multiplayer, i don't get 90% of the problems other people have with the game. Lastly, the game isn't that hard. Once you figure out how the game works, it's relatively easy. I often use mods to make the game more difficult.

i enjoy ark alot but fired up recently & it seemed like i got kicked from servers about every 20 mins. if i was flying to high i was dead when i logged back in or fell in an area with high level creatures & died cause i got booted from the server. last time i got kicked luring a griffin into a trap. dead again. maybe i'll try again in a few months

15 hours if u get off as a solo your wipe you go on a raid to wipe someone u come back wiped

wow its been 2 weeks since i left interest of the game entirely and i just checked it and its below 10k concurrent players. thats an all time low! it had more players in march when it was just the island as a map for 5 months and now it has 3 official maps and all these mods and it lost more players with this content than it did with no content. this game actually sucks.

I have nearly 7k hrs in Ark. I quit ASA after 2 months. Wildcard absokutely ruined the release. Imagine dropping Ark with 1 map and that map being the island and waiting many months to release other maps. Already L. Then adding cryos back in even tho they said they wouldnt. There is no point in playing, at least until all maps are done. Pvp is still 🗑. Its a shame. Wildcard one of the worst companies on gaming

They divided the fan base. Worse things anyone can do. They should of just kept working on ark2 and left the game it was

I also agree with the time it takes. it takes hours to tame. who tf has time for that? and its afk or passive taming that takes hours and it gets messed up. geezus ark gained so much popularity from ase and ascended killed 95% of that popularity! they went from millions of sales and players to less than 90k combined players on all platforms

I left because of the pillars everywhere on pve and the way wildcard allows chinese players to abuse the game but will punish you for doing the same thing.

I would add having dinos that destroy building make it pointless to have c4, rockets and anything really. The enemy have giga or wyverns, should made that you can't have overpowered dinos. Also it gets boring really fast. People are trying to play like it's rust or day z. There's really no reason for pvp in ark.

The fun always comes from unofficial servers . Thats where you can have access to some cool dinos , equipments and fast harvesting resources as long its all well balanced because at the end the problems come😅 when admins and server owners start doing dirty work adding players cheating all the time using the game mechanics . overall its an under-rated badass game with human issues

In my case, I'm Pveer, I played official in evolved, moved to non official after the anousment of the closing of servers, but keap refreshing until the end, now I'm back to official, only because of my tribe, but we all are burn out, holdind there, waiting to see what happens, I rather play in Host, and play when ever I feel, I spend 7k hours in 3 years by the way.

1. ASA is just doing the same things as before with better graphics. Doesnt feel new. 2. Had a real negative effect on my life, played like 6k hours in 2-3 years, neglected work, friends, relationships. 3. The community isnt allowing new players to join to increase the player count, all pvp servers are locked down by teaming alphas and pve servers are locked down by spam. I screw around on ASA now and then for a few hours but cant commit again, not good for my irl.

I’ve never played PvP. NEVER. For many of these exact reasons. Just host on dedicated servers with your people and play PvE. And then you can create your own settings and mods to make it “faster” I upped my harvest old 2x xp boost Upped the health, stamina, speed, and attack per level a bit. I work 40 or 50 hours a week and there are other games I play. Ark is just to fun And with mods and settings can be fine tuned to one’s play style and time restraints.

My mate quit because he keeps dying to anti mesh for no reason

people with lives like me would love to see an ORP for structures and turrets on official clusters, scaled perhaps even with the fewer people in a tribe the greater the ORP, being wiped so easily when you are not online takes away the fun of this game for me

I was sooo excited for ASA besides them charging again for the game then later after they took everyones money and put it on game pass i was pissed. The game ran/runs like shit, the rollbacks, the paid mods and nickle and diming, save issues and crashing make me quit playing haven't touched It in months and don't plan on it. Rip. I had 5k + hours on ASE

Ark is such a love hate for me. Last time i really played we all woke up in a slave ship chained together sitting down. This person collected About 15 people some how. Bedore that Nitrado had an error and wiped a year worth of effort.

Aside from me getting older and don't have a lot of time to play, I'm a little pissed that ASA is all about the Mods, I can't find a server that only has one mod, Aaron Longstaff made a mod for western decor, looks great and it's free, but there aren't any server's that only use it, I don't have time to download all the others lol I don't want a bunch of them taking up space either. But yeah for me it's because there's too many mods.

Issue was / is ASA is a giant scam and regressed significantly in terms of bugs from where ASE LEFT OFF… idiots will argue that ASA shouldn’t have been released in the same / better state than ASE LEFT OFF as

Not gonna lie i built a base on smalls i only really check it once a week

This is why I play on a pvt server cause the grind is too much for me I enjoy other games and going out too much

Is this high? So many ppl are coming back to Ark

Try servers that keep timing out and glitching in critical moments.

Really wish they doubled down on ark survival of the fittest. The latest changes they made were dumb. Would have loved the ark pvp experience... in shorter sessions I can get the boys all on for a few hours at night.... but not commit a chunk of their life like survival evolved/ascended demands

can’t play 24/7. can’t save game. trash

I spent money on this game, just for it to crash every 5 minutes.

We spent 10 years on ase waiting days for eggs to hatch and Dino's to tame! even the no lifers aren't willing to go through that all over again

I think a lot of it is people want to keep up with the Jones's. They see RU-vidrs play and expect the same results. People get caught up on what they have in game. When in reality it really doesn't matter what you have you are in the game regardless. That being said people give up now when they don't have alpha locked up. As of before early on ASE nobody gave up they just rebuilt. People don't like being in a losing situation so they quit.

I simply don't have the GPU for ASA.

I know that I will get roasted for this but I played on XBox S PVE. I went through all maps at all levels on ASE. Loved it. Played for years. Now ASA is a waste. There is an update it seems like every other week which of course cause the game to crash, not load or drop. I have had to start over 6 times. I said enough. There are other games out there and I am fed up. I hope no one else has these problems but I am through. Best of luck to all.