Surviving The Addiction: What ARK's Devs Don't Want You To Know

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I think a lot of it is about what the game does to you when you're not playing it. Knowing that its all still there, existing whether you are in it or not. You think about what is going on there while you are at work, with freinds, trying to go to sleep. Its like a parallel dimension you visit rather than a game you play.

All I know is that as a pve player, the game is simply the most fun survival expirience of any other game I have played and the most replayable. I dont see any time soon in my future where I will want to stop playing it for longer than 3 months. Im happy for that, and I don't mind enjoying (and sometimes hating) a game that much.

I’m quitting this game it sucks ass. (I’ll be on tomorrow)

You can ride a freaking t-rex! Nobody else has that.

That was a long ass Raid ad, pretty funny talking about gaming addiction while being sponsored by the cesspool called RAID.

Honestly, I think a great idea for a follow-up video would be to talk about how pve players feel about the game, personally, I find ASA to be way better with all of the quality of life improvements and well as the improvements to the game itself

The market research firm Quantico actually did a 500,000 game player survey in 2016 (the year before ASE came out) regarding competitive behaviors & age. What their analysis brought up was that competitive behaviors for guys peaked at ~15 years old and bottomed out at ~35 years of age with it sloughing off until hitting a gully at 35. For gals, it starts at the same age range but gulleys out at ~25 for "a complete loss of interest in competitive gameplay." When it came to PVP servers in ASE you could see a distinct trend in those servers well before things shut down. Mega-tribe controlled PVP (Effectively turning the server into a members only PVE server,) dead servers (self-explanatory,) or Conflict servers (Two megatribes trying to wipe each other out until one gave up turning it into one of the other two.) - None of these server types outside of the transformation to PVE had any longevity.

The biggest deal for immersion for me is playing first person... I tried Pal World but it never stuck for me... I love being "in the game", not watching my character.

Loved seeing Butch, think everyone who watched that series can agree it really captured everything that made Ark so nostalgic

Actually really happy you made this video, a lot of people in the Ark community like to joke about this, myself included and admittedly seeing those steam screenshots with 10,000 hours will always be funny to me. But the level of addiction some if not most people reach with this game can be and is a big issue, so seeing someone acknowledge that for what it is and actually try to reach out to the community and give a clear answer as to why this happens was very nice! There is one thing I wanna mention though, and it's about myself. I don't know if anyone reading this will even semi-relate to what i'm about to say but here I go. I'm autistic and have been playing Ark since maybe just before Genesis 1, I've only played single player and I've never actually beat a map, gotten close on some occasions but that's it. Through my many attempts at beating this game it's become almost harmful to me, whenever I play for a little bit, something goes wrong, whether it's my water feeling like it's draining too fast or i messed up the settings but i'm too far in to change them or make a new save, or most recently, event colours showing up when there was no event activated and that really getting to me because it felt like it ruined the authenticity. Recently I became so worried over the game in general, that just thinking about it was almost cognitohazardous, like it made me physically ill. I know it's not necessarily the game's fault, for the most part it's a side effect of my experience with the game mixed with my autism. I've considered quitting multiple times and this time could very well be it, as it's been some of the worst I've ever felt, just wanted to leave this comment here because it's sort of related to the addiction problem and I remembered your post about mental health with the game from who knows how long ago, thanks for reading because I haven't heard of anything experiencing something similar and I wanted to get it out there.

Wildcard and Snail games helped me kick my Ark addiction, Well also the community helped me quit. Wildcard said the UE5 upgrade was going to be free but turned back on that, i played ASE on day one so i knew ASA was going to be a shit show and didn't want to deal with that again. After awhile they started to add "pay packs" and that made me more glad i didn't buy ASA. The cheating was getting so bad by the time i quit ASE, my tribe got meshed 3 times and just the overall official server community/mega tribes are super toxic and nasty.

There's no way I can speak for the multitude of people interacting with ark right now, but if there's one thing I can guarantee, it's that ark has a special place on my desktop. Even as a PVE local player, there's a draw indescribable this game gives me, and I don't see that diminishing anytime soon, especially now

Been addicted since the demo, half my life playing this game (currently 16) and I have no idea why, been so excited for this vid since I saw the announcement on Twitter, thanks ned:D

Hey you featured my Wizard Tower in the video!! haha awesome!! :) Thank you!! Yeah us PvE people do need something more for our adventures in Ark. The train sets in the new DLC content kicks ass, but still we need something to DO with all of this. Right now it's just taming for boss fights to unlock all the engrams, then building with no limits (just grinding). We could of course all organize ourselves better to make our own in-game community adventures and events. But its hard getting everyone to stay in one place.

Quite the sticky situation, Jeremy…

9:29 look into the rat whisperer. He says that a big rat to play with a smaller rat must allow the small rat to win 30% of the time. Therefore the small rat will stay engaged with the big rat in play.

I feel like the game of Life is addicting since it's a sandbox like an ark, and a lot of people are hardcore about life and stuff :)

As someone who 100% ark completley Except for the free map dlcs Yea the game is pretty addicting.

Single player person here. Ever since I was a kid, I was practically obsessed with dinosaurs. Survival games have always sparked my interest as well, I can’t exactly explain why they do, they just do. So to see a game that looked amazing as well as being a survival game with dinosaurs I got hooked. I’ve never touched PvP or ever played multiplayer for various reasons, (such as not liking the idea of knocking someone’s sandcastle down and the fact I just like playing alone in general) ASA doesn’t interest me because first, I don’t want to pay money for a game I already technically have, and second; I doubt my PC can remotely handle it, it looks cool, that’s about it. But I already have Evolved, and Evolved is enough for me.