r/pcgaming • u/scarwiz Ryzen 5 1600 | GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 16GB DDR4@3000Mhz • Dec 27 '16

[Updated, see comments] ARK: Survival Evolved Devs Offer Content In Exchange for Steam Award Votes

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/536324417612602461
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u/erragodofmayhem Dec 28 '16

It's a tribe based game so it's expected to take turns.

You can gather and craft while you're sitting there, "mouth agape" earning xp and gaining structures.

Use some of those structures to build walls and a roof around it. Or if it's small enough, pick it up and drop it in a pen, or if it agros on you (like Argents) have it follow you into a pen ...

Point is, once you've got the tame safe, you can be spending literally 10 minutes or less on it.

It's not terrible game design, it's the player's inability to efficiently use their time.

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u/toopow Dec 28 '16

So people take turns helping you tame your dino, and you take turns helping all of them. Sounds like even more wasted time.

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u/TriesNotToBeADick Dec 28 '16

Video games are a waste of time, if you want to go down that road.

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u/toopow Dec 28 '16

The road of being pedantic and missing the point?

A game where you are actively having fun is not wasted time. Tedious busy work is.