Ark is a unique and extremely fun game to play. I promise you wont have an experience like this one with any other game.

I have come back to this game 3 different times and have seen the game from many different view points (all pvp servers). I have come up from being a newbie with a few friends with nothing to taking down and becoming the alpha tribe on our server. I have joined the game another time with several veterans and made a vicious push to the top just to get smacked down and lose the fight for alpha dominance. And most recently I have joined the game and played mostly solo on a populated server in my own little base up in the northern mountains, fighting mostly with the absurd environmental conditions and massive amounts of strong end game aggro wild dinos attacking my base and raising/breeding little cubs. Being a lonely nomad only having communication with the outside world when someone wanted pearls for something i needed. There are so many ways to play the game.

Pros:
- There are an insane amount of dinos in the game and they ALL have unique playstyles and purposes.
- Lots of unique and fun items to build for your own character.
- The world seems alive and you feel a real connection with your dinos and sense of accomplishment.
- You WILL have an adventure and tense moments
- Lvling up is fast which lets you get safer buildings quicker
- Builders paradise/nightmare lol
- Many ways to hide and protect your stuff from raiders (purlovas are god)
- Many different populated unofficial servers to play the amount and way you want!
- Many different Biodomes in each map with different creatures and unique enviromental hazards to deal with

Cons:
- Your base will get wiped by higher lvl tribes with more players due to below
- Jumping from server to server with everything you want is easy and quick aka (People build on 0 population servers and safely build up resources to jump to another server and raid bases when everyone is asleep and take all their stuff back to there server with no way to find out what server they are from)
- Hard to protect your dinos from raiders for more than a week or two without being in an alpha tribe
- Alpha tribes span through many servers with many many people
- Breeding on official servers is only safe on 0 population servers or for alpha tribes members.
- Lots of meta game exploits
- Chinese and Russian raiders offline raiders


PvP Server Flyer Nerf Rant: (This rant isn't for PVE servers. They received no benefit from this nerf).) This game has been getting a lot of negative reviews lately due to the recent flyer nerf patch. The Devs did a hard (and needed) nerf to flyers which made it so you cant traverse the whole map on a flying bird...in one go...if it was low lvl... point is the devs have already re buffed some of the birds and repurposed others to general thumbs up. This game has been dominated ever since the introduction of increased lvl cap by flyers since they came out. This patch has made the other 90% of the dinos in the game (ground dinos) an actual viable pick to use for something other than gathering. Flying dinos are still the meta and will always be. People are just angry their lower lvl birds actually have to land every once in a great while now and their higher lvl birds they spent so much time on cant move at the speed of a bullet and be completely unpunished. Birds are already getting rebuffed so the arguement will be null and void soon enough.

Ark is a unique and extremely fun game to play. I promise you wont have an experience like this one with any other game. I have come back to this game 3 different times and have seen the game from many different view points (all pvp servers). I have come up from being a newbie with a few friends with nothing to taking down and becoming the alpha tribe on our server. I have joined the game another time with several veterans and made a vicious push to the top just to get smacked down and lose the fight for alpha dominance. And most recently I have joined the game and played mostly solo on a populated server in my own little base up in the northern mountains, fighting mostly with the absurd environmental conditions and massive amounts of strong end game aggro wild dinos attacking my base and raising/breeding little cubs. Being a lonely nomad only having communication with the outside world when someone wanted pearls for something i needed. There are so many ways to play the game. Pros: - There are an insane amount of dinos in the game and they ALL have unique playstyles and purposes. - Lots of unique and fun items to build for your own character. - The world seems alive and you feel a real connection with your dinos and sense of accomplishment. - You WILL have an adventure and tense moments - Lvling up is fast which lets you get safer buildings quicker - Builders paradise/nightmare lol - Many ways to hide and protect your stuff from raiders (purlovas are god) - Many different populated unofficial servers to play the amount and way you want! - Many different Biodomes in each map with different creatures and unique enviromental hazards to deal with Cons: - Your base will get wiped by higher lvl tribes with more players due to below - Jumping from server to server with everything you want is easy and quick aka (People build on 0 population servers and safely build up resources to jump to another server and raid bases when everyone is asleep and take all their stuff back to there server with no way to find out what server they are from) - Hard to protect your dinos from raiders for more than a week or two without being in an alpha tribe - Alpha tribes span through many servers with many many people - Breeding on official servers is only safe on 0 population servers or for alpha tribes members. - Lots of meta game exploits - Chinese and Russian raiders offline raiders PvP Server Flyer Nerf Rant: (This rant isn't for PVE servers. They received no benefit from this nerf).) This game has been getting a lot of negative reviews lately due to the recent flyer nerf patch. The Devs did a hard (and needed) nerf to flyers which made it so you cant traverse the whole map on a flying bird...in one go...if it was low lvl... point is the devs have already re buffed some of the birds and repurposed others to general thumbs up. This game has been dominated ever since the introduction of increased lvl cap by flyers since they came out. This patch has made the other 90% of the dinos in the game (ground dinos) an actual viable pick to use for something other than gathering. Flying dinos are still the meta and will always be. People are just angry their lower lvl birds actually have to land every once in a great while now and their higher lvl birds they spent so much time on cant move at the speed of a bullet and be completely unpunished. Birds are already getting rebuffed so the arguement will be null and void soon enough.