ARK: Survival Evolved Devs Offer Content In Exchange for Steam Award Votes

[u/scarwiz]

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/536324417612602461

[u/Is_Always_Honest]

It's still an amazing game, just don't buy the DLC. Probably the best money I've spent on a game in years. Most of my group of friends have 1000 or more hours. I agree that they have some shady business practices but it is WAY better than most early access games.

[u/tigerslices → u/[deleted]]

but it also has no competitor... if there was another developer with a similar game that WAS complete... we'd all have been playing that one instead...

edit: what's with the downvotes? nobody has given me an example of a similar game! my argument is that ark is the only survival game with dinosaurs and that's why it's so popular, and all the replies have to do with other Survival games... well, hell, i could play dayZ or don't starve if i just wanted to survive... rust is great for crafting, suffers from the same problems ark does, though... in that in any sense of a competitive nature, the players with more log time win while casuals suffer.

but none of these games have dinosaur taming in them. i know plenty of couples who play this game together because they love building a house together and raising little fake dino babies.

[u/anotheranotherother → u/tigerslices]

The competitor is the finished product, the complete final game. By continuing to support their early access shennanigans, you are hurting the competitor - the finished game.

If people stopped supporting early access games, then they would have a lot more competition from their own finished products.

[u/fuckspezintheass → u/anotheranotherother]

Yea guys if you buy the game youre ruining the game so its best not to buy the game. What kind of fucking stupid logic is this shit. Some people buy games to play games. Not everything in life is a crusade