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@lodunost

Жыл бұрын

A year ago when I stopped playing. My clan was teamed with another to take on a clan. We had been having issues with them and they did the same crap. Only no one got banned but we could literally not make progress and man. Like we have all since moved on to other games. But when I saw the VOD'S it clicked in my head. Which we always suspected.

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

@@lodunost TEA has been around for a while.

@blazearmoru

Жыл бұрын

You thought you were playing ark, survival evolved But it was SNAIL GAEMS that was playing you \O/ Never underestimate the CHINAMEN

@timothywaters8324

Жыл бұрын

I played Ark for five years If something doesn't change with this company, I can't trust them to hold up there end.

@NordicTobz

Жыл бұрын

Lets all just stop playing Ark or any game by wildcard and snailgames including stop buying any of their product. #DeathToArk

as a PVE player I haven't really had to deal with these problems. But seeing other creators and players I know, in the community get railed by Snail Games like this sucks to see.

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

Agreed that it totally sucks.

@TheCruelbeans

Жыл бұрын

I've only ever played PvE and single player as well but seeing these clowns ruin their game like this is real sad.

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

👍

@Eddiea2024

Жыл бұрын

PVE player here, friends and I play on non-dedicated servers and we love the game. To be honest, don't give two shi** about any of them. 13 minute video for this?

@Eso_lags

Жыл бұрын

i feel like most pve players have no idea what pvp players have gone through over the years. Simply because its 2 different worlds, and this is stuff they dont have to deal with thankfully. Just imagine, time and time again, losing base after base, inventory after inventory, of your things, to meshers and cheaters. This banning shit is small part of it and really seems to only have been from dealing with tea. Its just crazy that one side of the community can be so happy and see the game as so great, while the other side is just left to be abused by hackers and exploiters with almost no repercussion, which in turn has caused so many players to turn into cheaters themselves just to compete. And players rarely get banned sadly. So many of us just quit.

Such a sad fate for such a fun game

@imslightlybaked4575

Жыл бұрын

What's even worse is no one that is actually competent has made anything even like it. There are other survival that are excellent, but ark has so much that no other game has. Sad really, that formula is a huge winning formula and no one is using it.(not that exact formula per se, but just what you can do and the world's etc etc)

@peteallyn412

Жыл бұрын

Lightning in a bottle. It was all over once the megatribes took over. You used to be able to play on pvp and not get raided within the first 24 hours. What they’re doing to the franchise now is just icing on the cake.

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯

@13radioactiv

Жыл бұрын

What saddens me as a pve player is the community ive formed on my map SE900 is my home and im the local news station keeping up to date on weather and rare tames spawning

@esimpson2751

Жыл бұрын

Lets be honest, it wasn't just a fun game, its the only game of its class. Its the only dinosaur game where you can breed and ride your own dinosaurs into battle, its the only creature focused survival game. Its loss is less a tragedy and more the death of an incredible idea, a million dollar idea at that

Fun story: I experienced something extremely similar but on an unofficial server (several servers but this story pertains to one specifically) The owner and her admins would fly around the map using in game cheats and “grief” players bases with smoke and toxic grenades, effectively pissing off lots of players. When my friend and I managed to grab one of them with our quetz, the owner threatened a dino and base wipe in game chat if they weren’t immediately released. Additionally, someone ran inside my friends base without him realizing, and after closing his gates, they claimed to be trapped and threatened to use the creative mode red gun to demo the entire base instead of just ghosting outside. To make matters even WORSE, they were manipulating children into paying real money for skins already in the game. I’ve seen numbers up to $100 for bionic skins in that servers discord. In short, give immature, toxic, and narcissistic people control over a world that can negatively affect other real people, all you need left to do is watch shit hit the fan. P.S. I hope you’re reading this Saya, no one ever gave a shit about your trucker life

@Ryan-op7yd

Жыл бұрын

People who usually do stuff like this are those who feel they lack control of their life in the real world

@-JamieJay

Жыл бұрын

@@Ryan-op7yd cool? What’s your point? That’s it’s okay?

@thefalconmctalon6011

Жыл бұрын

@@-JamieJaynah he was saying that people that are assholes in games, usually have pretty shit lives. Just adds onto the shit pile

@pride2184

Жыл бұрын

​@@-JamieJay youre not the brightest tool in the shed. He is insulting them for being pathetic people.

@haka-katyt7439

Жыл бұрын

​@@-JamieJay didn't ask? Nobody cares? Pointless comment that nobody cares about?

I can’t believe this actually happened again on a official PvP server… thank god you showed all of us to see this

This is insane. Another developer to add to the blacklist. Unfathomable that this is so known yet people will still be preordering their next game.

@sysbofh

Жыл бұрын

I don´t think is widely known. I think it's very well known in some circles - but not by the public at large. So, who knows it goes away - but the new players keep buying, without knowing all this. What would be great is to all these problems to get out on the mainstream. THAT would be something to behold. :D

@aidenmccafferty5651

Жыл бұрын

I know, but like, ark is fun....🥲

@Peppasauras-Rex

Жыл бұрын

It’s not the developer, it’s the game’s publisher snail games, The devs can’t do anything about it. Wildcard made this game; Snail Games corrupted it (edit: Also if you watch Hod’s videos you can literally see snail games blackmailing one of the devs)

@WTFHippo

Жыл бұрын

@@sysbofhnah we just know these people are blowing shit out of proportion

@daspidy

Жыл бұрын

feels like it should be emphasized this isn't the devs' doing, this is their publisher, who is very much taking hardcore advantage of the dev team right now

I thought "play by my rules or I'm taking the ball away" is already petty and childish, but it's got nothing on "If I don't win you never get to play again."

It’s so insulting that they are this blatant with their abuse. They don’t even try to hide it and still nothing is done

@xXKisskerXx

Жыл бұрын

they are immature children given power. They will always 'do what they want' - because, who stops them? Time to add them to the blacklist with Blizzard and Bethesda and a number of other companies that just - absolutely don't deserve your money.

I remember when the developers took over the torch from The Stomping Land and released the first early access of ARK, a time when the developers were talking in real time with the players to grab feedback, restarting the servers several times an hour to apply hot fixes and updates. Oh how they have fallen. Today's state of the gaming industry is utterly shameful.

It’s like they’re trying to get their game canceled.

@Mindfulness.Voyage

Жыл бұрын

I would not be surprised if they declare bankruptcy after milking the unwary with “concept art.”

@travis2893

Жыл бұрын

Here's to hoping

@ViCiOuS-V

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to cancel it on purpose so people are "forced" to buy the new Ark.

This happened to us when we fought them years ago. That was when i stopped playing. We were removing them from a fresh server and every time we got ahead the server would reset, but only when they lost something, caught on real fast to what was going on.

@jimmyjones2901

Жыл бұрын

These statements are point! This has been abused since the beginning. Among other ways players have been able to cheat. For me it was the meshing. Spend 1000’s of hours making an impenetrable base just for someone to climb under it and dodge every bullet loaded and ready. I will not be buying anymore ark content until I see reviews worthy of my money.

@ZedTerminator

Жыл бұрын

@Evil Squirell game had so much potential, the chinease fleet was on full retreat and coming through my server 272, our server decided to help crush the fleet and we had em surrounded, right as were about to engage from 3 sides the server coincidently crashes

I remember first playing ark, and I didnt realise what I was getting into, but to see this game fall so far from grace because of a greedy, selfish company is nothing short of a disappointment. I'm glad I won't have to worry about it anymore after August, and can use the space for something that's actually worth it.

this is the most ultimate abuse of admins i have ever seen. i hope that arkplayers will stand up against these guys cause it is wrecking what's left of ark.

Buzz, if you find this disturbing, you should look into the crazy amount of real life money transfer and trades that go on with Ark for in game dinos, items, duped equipment, targeting servers for pvp or to be hacked/dosed, the list goes on.

@WTFHippo

Жыл бұрын

Lmfao another unproven rumor. There are no duped items any more they have been wiped. Also this isn’t illegal. If people want to buy stuff from others they can. Doesnt this still happen on CS:GO

@fedekapo6

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo No, its against TOS... so its illegal...

@tictactic7909

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo not going to get into a protracted argument, but I’m not sure how you can say its “unproven” when new dupe methods have consistently come out throughout the entire lifetime of the game. To your second point, do you really want to advocate that laws are always up to speed on legitimate problems that exist currently?

@theorie_gg

Жыл бұрын

​@@WTFHippo Hi, official 1x player here! Duping is absolutely the dominant meta on official 1x servers and there are RMT shops abundant where people can buy slot caps of more or less anything up to and including duped dinos, and even entire dedis of resources and structures. Most tribes "farm" via purchase of structures (notably tek dino gates, elevator tracks, and war drums), and then they are demolished en masse for crafting resources. Wildcard has done minor things to combat this, and a lot of tek tier items in game have unique IDs (tek suits, tek bubble). Any time something with the same ID is on the same server, one of them will be deleted. Overall Wildcard's measures to combat duping are more of an inconvenience than an actual deterrent. Disclaimer: I do not partake in RMT nor does anyone in my tribe actually dupe, but I have benefitted from the purchase of duped items by fellow tribe members. This is not something I personally support but it is, quite literally, unavoidable due to the widespread prevalence of this issue.

@fenchellforelle

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo Ark Code of Conduct: "Failure to abide by our Code of Conduct can result in the removal of your structures, creatures, items or banning of your account from the Official Network and all BattlEye Protected Servers... ... Exploiting - examples are not limited to but can include: - Duplication of tames, items, or characters" Illegal? No (tax evasion aside for the loosers doing this on the bigger scale). Reason for a ban? Absoloutely. Saying "duping doesnt exist anymore" is extremely ignorant of how online games and their communities work. would you like to count how many duping exploits have been fixed over the lifespan of minecraft for example, yet there are still plenty of videos where people nuke servers on the current version using item duplication?

The sad thing is, there's no way Valve staff aren't aware of this situation by now. Particularly due to the mass amounts of Steam moderator actions on the CC threads over the past several weeks. At this point, I consider them complicit. No doubt trying to appease to Snail/WC so Ark 2 doesn't end up being an Epic exclusive.

@JessieGates

Жыл бұрын

Snail and Wc have been caught doing real world trades for money for dinos, gear and even base locations such as mesh zones and rat holes! Of course steam doesnt stop them this is a chinese company, they pull a few thousand people from steam and it hurts the bottom line. Writings on the walls we have to troll this company until they quit or sue them.

@user-zl1vf4me1p

Жыл бұрын

I mean valve is unrelated to wildcard

@violet-kittychick

Жыл бұрын

It is already an Xbox Exclusive.. the rest of us will get a lame and buggy console port!! Not worth a cent in my mind and it deserves to bomb and fail because the dirty devs have refused to listen to the community on what we want and continue to go their own way.. against what we want!!

@TenaciousLeeTV

Жыл бұрын

@@user-zl1vf4me1p You think? I never claimed they were one in the same but they have a shared interest.

@_Frieza

Жыл бұрын

​@@TenaciousLeeTV I doubt that valve and wildcard are in cahoots. Steam has many more money maker games that arent ark 2. Hell, they probably make millions in a week from games like csgo and tf2. Let alone any of the other games that are on the top games list. Besides, wildcard is getting a lot of flack right now, and ark 2 might end up being a flop, same with ASA.

This is truely the start of the end for Ark. I believe I can say this with confidence that the community of Ark Survival Evolved have had enough of this abuse that Wildcard and Snailgames have given us.

@Myne1001

Жыл бұрын

It won't kill ARK and ASA and ARK 2 probably will sell well, but I agree the events on these last few months are a permanent stain on ARK's reputation that's not going away

@jamesparsh1669

Жыл бұрын

@@Myne1001 i refuse to believe peaple are stupid enough to buy asa i mean think about it rebuy the same game and dlc with higher quality for some games it goes well but for ark idk about re buying something i own for the only real changes being something i could basicly achieve by upgrading my graphics card (ik its not the same thing as a different engine but still )

@bigorange2427

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesparsh1669 took off a week for august for ASA I’m one of the few super hyped for it could care less bout bitter botters getting banned

@johnathon007

Жыл бұрын

@@bigorange2427 Tell us you didn't watch the video without telling us. No one was botting. A tribe with admin access was using that access to cheat and then banned their opponents when they couldn't win even while cheating.

@bigorange2427

Жыл бұрын

@@johnathon007 I watched the whole video plus hod and shocks I’m not saying I saw them cheating I said if u could actually read I do not believe they had not one cheater in their tribe with the state pvp ark is in EVERYONE bots if u don’t play official just say that

Good stuff Buzz let's hope this coverage gets some accountability. It's been going on for too long and with Asa coming it will kill it if this keep going 🐌🧂

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

In absolute agreement. How a publisher is allowed to blatantly cheat in their own game is indefensible.

@PappyMcPoyle-vj4vt

Жыл бұрын

It wont..... Most ARK players are PvE'rs, dont care about the PvP drama, and will be the majority to buy up all the BS WildCard and Snail Games will have to sell them.

@WTFHippo

Жыл бұрын

@@PappyMcPoyle-vj4vtbecause pvp in ark is trash

@bigorange2427

Жыл бұрын

Asa will survive been playing ark since alpha when it was just island ark will never die anytime soon specially asa maybe don’t have botters in your 60man tribe I do not believe u had not one botter with the stage pvp ark is in lol it’s none sense Almost everyone bots

@PappyMcPoyle-vj4vt

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo yeah.... I know, because the meta is aimbot, mesh, and dupe.

Imagine being so bad at a game you have to reset a server roughly 10 times, just to be on the brink of getting your base wiped and having to ban the entire enemy tribe lmao

@sysbofh

Жыл бұрын

It's beyond shameful

@velvetdraws3452

Жыл бұрын

this isn't even a skill issue anymore this is way beyond that

If wildcard gives a shit about their game , and the future of whatever this all is, i think its time for them to find a new publisher

@CamwayGaming

Жыл бұрын

Snail owns Wildcard they are not a publisher they are the owners. They would all have to quit and wait out their non-compete clause to make a new game like Ark

@daspidy

Жыл бұрын

there's a whole video i had found explaining the kind of grasp that snail games has on wildcard and ark. it was specifically about the corruption entirely of snail games, and one of the earlier ones i saw

@gasad01374

Жыл бұрын

@@CamwayGaming why does Snail only have admin permissions on conquest servers if they own everything? theres a reason why these players were only banned from Snail affiliated servers

@ZedTerminator

Жыл бұрын

@@gasad01374 yea because they know theyd have a lawsuit on their hands if banned from the game entirely lmao

@gasad01374

Жыл бұрын

@@ZedTerminator good luck with that "Video game companies can ban you from using their online servers for any reason or none at all" you would be laughed out of court

Listening to the tactics you described, how Snail responds to criticism, the utter corruption, I thought "This sounds like how things are done in China". So I looked the company up, and yup, it's a Chinese company. Gamers need to jump ship (which I say as a former ARK player with thousands of hours under my belt a few years back), that culture of corruption is the norm in China, they wont change for western gamers. Coders should also go through the game and check if it's all it says it is - Chinese made programs are infamous for their data harvesting (including clipboard and keystrokes), spying, and accessing things they should not.

Can confirm companies or steam itself is paid to mass post positive reviews. There are also PR bots or people paid to always post positive responses in forums. I have noticed this trend ever since Metro Exodus and Epic games in 2019. Who knows how long it has been happening. But I have watched copy/paste replies in forums for any negative feedback in multiple games since 2019. And I have watched games like Star Base have massive negative review numbers come in. Only for there to be a counter flood of positive empty reviews. Or I have seen for example, where 10 negative reviews come in dropping the overall score. But 2 positive reviews come in massively boosting the overall game score itself. It is becoming easier for me to point them out as time goes on. These fake accounts have a handful of talking points they apply to every conversation. Or they will recycle their own previous statements as if the conversation never progressed. If you manage to get a real person paid to speak positively. Eventually they will get upset by losing their stance and attempt to either derail the thread or upset you. Which is then used as an excuse for moderation to silence you with a perm ban or locking the thread. Even if you broke no actual rules and the other account used demeaning language. You will be the one banned not them. Or they will use that person's posts as an excuse for the thread being off topic or heading no where to warrant a locked thread. These are all very common patterns I have witnessed to silence any negative discussion of a product. Oh and the biggest sign is that the paid account will "always" have a private account showing as little information as possible. Either way, these games have massive advantages assisting them to keep their product positive. Yet still fail somehow when they disregard their own community. So their product ratings get artificially altered to look more appealing and thus more sales for steam. Instead of losing money for making poor decisions that upset their community. Claiming the backlash is mere review bombing. If you want to counter act their paid positive review bots. Upvote every negative review in every language. Its the only way remaining to us that counters their actions in the score. Lastly after watching the video that was posted three days ago since my comment here. Ark is now back to a mostly positive review score. Hard to believe anyone was ever upset right? Maybe we should question how many other games have had such PR treatment...

There really needs to be an active oversight team to look over the forums. It's terrible we have to use outside resources to hold the forums accountable.

@hazed1009

Жыл бұрын

At this point it's absolutely clear fair oversight is impossible. If you own a game and run it and you cant behave like a decent human being there's no way you're going to agree to someone else doing this for you. Stop playing . Stop paying . Only way to hit these types where it hurts.

I remember playing ark on official servers years ago now. Even then it was hard to find a legit fight due to all the duplication glitches, and ddossing. Imagine going against the people that RUN THE GAME, thinking “hey this should be a fun and fair fight” and then all this happens. It takes actual weeks and months to become Megas on official servers 🤬

Just make them go broke too, boycott the hell out of them so they can see that players are not happy. I mean this, if you boycott a company, or a product, or anything for that matters to anything, one or two things will happen, either they will correct the problem in question or it will go away, and company's don't want that so, boycotts work, but everyone has to be in on it...peace

For a company that want you to rebuy their game and put in an ungodly amount of hours to get everything back they doing a lot to lose loyal fans

anyone else remember the level 5000* giga on official way back because wildcard screwed up ?

I was there....;o; thank you for making this. I had been fighting Tea while in GT7 for so long. I encouraged the island boys to fob, that if we followed their 'set of rules' that we would be fine. Foolish me for not considering the 255 ping 100 players can create by rendering a base in and out....

God, I remember the abuse by Snail on the official servers. Thanks for making this public.

I always liked Ark. it was a great way to just chill out and relax. Now I feel the whole thing is a bit tainted thanks to the developers and the publishers… the game has always been plagued by bugs, delays and broken promises.

@Myne1001

Жыл бұрын

Their community goodwill has been drying up for some time, but this year has been disastorous. Player outrage & backlash has happened before, but its now on a large enough scale that anyone who plays ARK or at least is adjacent to its community can't ignore it.

@WTFHippo

Жыл бұрын

Its not tainted, you only think it’s tainted because of this guy. Also he cant tell people how to run their servers. Also there is no large backlash

@Truth-Over-Ignorance

Жыл бұрын

​@HippoZoned What a troll, the yt creator is telling them to stop abusing their administration privileges and stop being very poor game publishers. You're the type of person who likes abusing admin commands and cheat aren't you? Cause the way you defend these people makes me assume so.

@brianfeddersen8124

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo rofl you simp so hard there bro. almost to the point of spamming as per YT TOS given how vile and abusive some of your "replies" have been. Go back to the TEA servers and simp for em but dont do it here.

@mochabearry

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo 🤡

Almost seems like a law suite. A game you paid for, following terms of use, get banned, especially massive ban on video, hm.m

@CamwayGaming

Жыл бұрын

they have shareholders their share holders could sue them for this behavior depending on if they are a public or private company.

@peppermintpig974

Жыл бұрын

@@CamwayGaming Yes. It's intentionally undermining the commercial success of the game.

Be the change. Unite and demand action from Valve. If Valve knows it'll affect their wallet in some way, they'll act and hold Snail responsible for abusing the gaming community. You have to make sure you all let Valve know you'll stop buying any games at all from there if they don't act. Flex with your wallet.

this is gonna hurt snails pockets.

First a meteor and now a snail, the dinosaurs just cant get a break.

@TheSpiritualRiffologist

Жыл бұрын

😂

@ImashrekU

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

after banning so many players without giving them any reason they decided to give the game bad reviews obviously the fake account started giving the game best reviews so know one see it

@tonysethsmith

Жыл бұрын

There not connected

@AceKurd

Жыл бұрын

@@tonysethsmith bam already made a post about giving bad reviews to the game fan boys will run back give new reviews how amazing that game is even though the servers are going to shut down in 3 month

@rediondragon

Жыл бұрын

Funny thing is, if I am looking into a game, I always look and read through the worst reviews first. The best reviews are never trust worthy.

The Island boys should file a class action lawsuit against SAIL GAMES and sue them for wrongful misuse of in game cheats and wrongful banning of long time players who have followed the rules and conduct actions of the official server games.

@eliepoirier7234

Жыл бұрын

I ran into some island boys a while back and they were using aimbot to instantly kill me every time I went into render so I’m kinda glad they all got banned… too bad the rest of the cheaters wouldn’t get banned too… I say keep it up snail… get em all

@lilox3690

Жыл бұрын

​@@eliepoirier7234 Difference being that there's evidence of Snail being abusive. You? None.

It's a real shame. Ark is a special game, there is no experience quite like it, I hate to see the companies responsible for it kicking their customers in the nuts over and over again.

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯

I walked away from the game after extinction, only coming back recently to try to make a D&D campaign set in its universe. The sheer shit show that has brewed in that time is astonishing. And every few weeks it somehow finds a way to get worse. What a fall from grace

Just keep these videos coming so we can say no to this effing BS!

@macmccloud8171

Жыл бұрын

You'll buy it

@DanielFrost79

Жыл бұрын

@@macmccloud8171 No, already set my foot down when it comes to games, so this is a no brainer.

This is surreal! I don’t quite know the history of ark, but I played it for a good number of years and I absolutely love it, so I was obviously looking forward to our two. But ever since arc two came into the picture so much shady shit has been happening. I don’t know that I ever want to buy their products again, I don’t want to sound like I’m hating on wild card, I don’t even know who to blame. Whoever is at fault is destroying wild cards reputation rather quickly

@zenithmaiden2109

Жыл бұрын

Don't feel bad to exercising your right to vote with your wallet. Honestly the best thing for WC is to jump ship and find better projects. It's my understanding that Snail Games owns WC, and even though WC gets a ton of flak they're not the ones at fault and are as much hostage as the playerbase, sadly.

2:48 Hey it's that Alucard dude i see in so many Steam forums, he's a good lad.

Hi readers, remember me? I'm That guy who has been calling for a Shorting of Snail Games stock... so we can set WC free, as well as he player base! This vide is Exactly Why I took said stance and will hold until Snail is Done, cooked and thrown into the dustbin of history! Hearing me now? I got Banned from the Steam ARK community for 30 days for saying we should not buy the new 1.5 version because it is Only a long overdue Patch and nothing more.... Lets Roll!

Me enjoying singleplayer: Glad you focused on snail, the one with the evidence against them.

Ive only played single player on this game, to be honest i didnt know the online community was so huge. I feel bad for the online community but this is why i only play single player.

@Ryan-op7yd

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure if I was a PVPer and didn’t get my copy of ASE for free I wouldn’t be buying ASA, but as a SP I wouldn’t mind the upgrade That being said I’m not buying Ark 2 considering it’s vapourware at this point

Folks need to mass report and talk about these situations, make your voices heard, and on top of all else HIT THEIR POCKET BOOKS! THE MONEY IS EVERYTHING also I'm sure if any good hackers mayhaps felt a need to do something...they would...wink wink nudge nudge if ya get my drift I hear spite also makes for the greatest things...sometimes including games...

@LtBuzzLitebeer it isn't just this game. Snail does it in Atlas and also did it in LO for the two seconds it was relevant. Happened to my team in Atlas. Tea = Black Butterfly in that game. Start in strong on them, gg ban 100% of the time. The game is just much smaller than Ark, so less heard of. In our case it was over 120 accounts and the reason blasted on the servers was blah blah blah "banned for suspected cheating". Suspsected. Haha. I quit their products and will never look back. Edit to add: I had posts on their forums and reddit about all this that got removed eventually.

@worstplayerusw5025

Жыл бұрын

Except, for one thing: Drew, your company did cheat. Your dudes literally showed everyone a number of exploits, like the one for placing farms. Anyone who brought it up, your company would attack as a group and say it was all TEA. Regardless, this is a problem with the design of these games; since it is impossible to be relevant without some sort of dishonest play (as if by design.)

This is why I refuse to pay for any other games the dirty devs make or the greedy publisher publishes!! They are all rotten to the core and they have ruined the best game I have ever seen for years through their own cheating, hacking or direct and intentional inaction / negligence to police and enforce their own servers resulting in those servers and this game being ruined for years!! This is just one small example of their constant misuse of their power over this game and those in its community and in all honesty is anyone surprised??

Good stuff. Thank you for sharing.

I have over 1000 hours in this game. I left years ago, I could see the writing on the wall when the server I was on "glitched" and I lost two years of dinos.

imagine sucking, knowing it and in any case continuing to do it knowing that sooner or later they will end up losing their source of income, and not even an examination of conscience is done.

not the first time this has happened, quite some time ago before meshing got fixed and banned, there was admin in some tribes and used admin commands to destroy bases that were well hidden, even meshed to hide tames. and they used their commands to find the bases to raid them and disable all defences.

@bdhale34

Жыл бұрын

If you are referring to getting out of bounds and building under the map, that's been against the official rules pretty much forever because it's abusing a glitch. It's been a ban worthy offense since before the game even left early access. Hard to feel bad for groups who knowingly exploit a bug to gain an advantage, there's a word for those types of people... what is it... oh yeah.. cheaters.

and we thought an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs... but it was actually a snail

Snail games needs to go down

@StAjoraGames

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. They aren't good for the long term health of the game.

@kobked-x

Жыл бұрын

Short Snail Games Stock.. We are Stronk!

@JessieGates

Жыл бұрын

Time to get the titanfall treatment, lock up the lobbies with bot accounts and keep the ping so high the dirty chines devs cant play.

@corsaro2645

Жыл бұрын

@@JessieGates heh, maibe

You should see the absolute state of the discord. The amount of corporate simping in there is crazy. Tried to highlight this issue and the responses were bat shit insane.

That banning is some Serious BS and deserves a lawsuit

This mess just gets worse and worse with each week...

The Fail is strong with this one.

I would guess H.O.D. could pursue a lawsuit on this matter.

WildCard and Snail Games are really starting to walk that fine line between legal and illegal. Their actions now could be seen as cruel and unusual. The people who got banned without a clear definitive reason that would otherwise break the game's and server's Terms of Service, have every right to file a lawsuit against them for cruel and unjustified actions. It looked very clear they were playing legtimate and all of a sudden they all get disconnected and mass-banned without a clear reason. Not only is this abuse, but also the harassment of players and a clear violation of rights. Well, one thing Snail Games wanted they'll get now, publicity, but not over their new titles. They will get all the publicity surrounding this scandal they just sparked into existence.... and sparks can easily burst into flames. I myself am a build developer with admin privleges for a Minecraft server and yes sometimes i might do some cheatsy doodling. However the difference between what i do versus what Snail Games did is that I make sure it doesn't negatively affect the game for other players or affect them at all. A good gaming experience will always be one that's fair, reasonable, and legitimate. Snail clearly crossed a line I know for certain they will come to regret. It's going to get ugly.

@MagusNotre

Жыл бұрын

if there is enough players to flag it for legal action, then things will start to fly off the shelf for Snail Games.

@Acedude227

Жыл бұрын

I think personally its mainly snail not wildcard but idk

@JoshTGW

Жыл бұрын

@@MagusNotre and the possibility of that is growing.

@moshunit96

Жыл бұрын

The terms of service for games like this are bullet proof. There's no way to file a lawsuit for any of that stuff when you've already agreed to terms of service that allow the company to do whatever they want with the game. They can ban people whenever they want and don't need a reason like breaking terms of service. They can shut the game down whenever they want and don't need a reason nor do they need to compensate anyone. I wish that wasn't the case but it is.

@Myne1001

Жыл бұрын

They were only globally banned from Official Conquest servers. They can still play on other Official Servers, unofficial community ran servers or host their own servers and play singleplayer games. They aren't completely barred from accessing the product they paid for, only part of its service. Still incredibly shitty but I doubt they have a legal case.

True, unbiased dirt on a genre that has seen absurd abuse so long, subbed.

Hot dang! I saw some crazy stuff back when I played CS:S with admin abuse, but this is some next level stuff. You've done a great job painting a picture that I desire to stay far away from. Thank you.

I didnt actually know about the TEA tribe specifically but that is very interesting. This is a different platform and mode but on nintendo switch pve there is a tribe called "Cup Of TEA" and they have gone to many official pve servers and pillar spammed legitimately half of the maps off leaving no where for players to build and causing wild dino spawns to be almost non existent. A bunch of us made tickets about it an absolutely no ones was answered. BUT when we decided to do the same thing, a whole lot of us were banned....like console banned, need to purchase a new switch if you want to keep playing ark.

I heard about this before the this video called out the high school lvl tantrum to not loose, the head of snail games has been called out before for his bullying of ark players. He’s basically one of those chinese kids who grew up with all cheat codes to a cracked game. With no oversight from anyone. Ideal griefer upbringing. Now it’s horrifying for us cause he’s got money.

@zedmiasma7304

Жыл бұрын

Ain’t got money anymore. He down bad.

Has anyone thought of creating a petition for valve to look into shady practices of snail games?

@brianfeddersen8124

Жыл бұрын

Sadly wont happen as that is up to the developer as Valve tends to hands off. People attacking valve for Forum Moderator behaviour in regards to the bans from the steam forums forget THOSE are rights given to devs to manage the forums related to their products. That screencap of a moderator saying "and you dont deserve to come back" is a bit vague sadly.

@mapu1

Жыл бұрын

Valve doesn't give a flying fuck. They just charge 30% commission.

While I agree with most of what you are saying, I would like to make perhaps a minor point about the devs playing a PvP game. I feel the devs not only can, they absolutely *must* play their own game to understand the cycle and see for themselves where it can be improved, a process called 'dogfooding'. However, if you do that, using admin privileges to basically cheat at your own game is the exact opposite of that. If you get hammered, you need to understand how and why you got hammered. Is there an exploit being used, or are they just better at the game than you are? Hell, if they were really thinking with both brain cells, they'd be offering rewards for having beaten the devs, or at least acknowledgements. It is safe to say that this is a clear case of... bringing shame to the game (both figuratively and literally).

I'm all done with this corrupt company... Time to boycott them !!!

I just want a server that has actual people on it and isn't 14000 days old

I had heard from a friend that sometimes Studios can leave their publishers. Given what has been presented so far... I feel like I owe Wildcard an apology given it seems snail games is the basis of most of Wildcard's problems. I can imagine animals important in PVP got nerfed because someone used them on Tea, delays because Snail wanted to throttle something for one excuse or another... Wildcard does charity events and funds content creators like modders... I don't think something like snail would take modded maps like Rag and give official versions of those to us for free... they'd slap a pricetag on it. On top of that, I believe if Wildcard switches to an American Publisher, we may see less shady stuff you see in other countries.

@Mindfulness.Voyage

Жыл бұрын

I’m not in favor of giving a hall pass to WC - they have knowingly ignored well-publicized bugs for *years*, many of us have lost everything more than once due to their incompetence, and if I remember correctly we still aren’t going to be able to bring even our tames to ASA. They don’t deserve our loyalty or our consideration.

@moshunit96

Жыл бұрын

You sound like you work for wildcard.

@CamwayGaming

Жыл бұрын

Snail is not Wildcards publisher Snail owns Ark/Wildcard They have since 2015. Wildcard is just the name the snail games ark team likes to work under.

@Avisrex1995

Жыл бұрын

@@Mindfulness.Voyage I am not saying wildcard is guilt free. I'm just saying a bunch of these issues would be lesser or not there if snail games wasn't being stupid. Wildcard has its own sins I'm frustrated with but snail's failures can't be ignored or lumped here.

@Avisrex1995

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@@moshunit96 if I did, I would probably have more money... I was looking forward to ASA when it was said to be free, now with overwolf, 50 dollar price tag, and so on.... not as happy.

What we must ask is why Valve are turning a blind eye to this! just how deep does this corruption go?

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

IHDK 🤷‍♂️

One of the first things that i learned in Ark was "Don't Play PvP". If you go official server you will be smashed by large tribes using unfair methods. If you go private server you will be smashed by the admin or his friends cheating. Ark 2 need to rethink how pvp is did entirely.

They did similar things in Atlas too... in the beginning when people were still playing that game.

I was thinking about getting back into Ark. Don't think I'm going to waste my time now.

in all my time playing ark I have not once joined an official or unofficial server I only ever play alone or with people I know. This video perfectly reinforces and encapsulates why I play games like this by myself or with only people I know

@beanoptodon

Жыл бұрын

This reinforces why I never like playing any games where pvp is a feature. I play on a modded unofficial pve server that rarely has many people on at any given time, but is still consistently active, every map in the cluster, and the server is owned personally by the people running it. It gives no reason for breeding toxic behavior from anyone in the game, it only breeds cooperation and relaxed exploration of the game. It's a very fun game and I play with my friend many times a week when we have time, and it's very pleasant. Sad the official side has gone this way but most official servers for games are full of garbage anyway, especially pvp.

Need to research back farther. Back when Ark was a brand new game years ago, I paid a decent price for early access on Steam. Months later, devs get sued by another studio, then suddenly an "expansion" shows up for this game that was still in early access, for a hefty price, that they dubbed "their truest vision of the game", which early access should have already paid for "the true vision of the game". Die hards defended their actions, and somehow they survived. They were forcing consumers to cover their legal fees, and any early accessor that didn't pony up the dough were left with a shell/husk of a game for the price they already paid. As I read about ASA, it sounds like the same exact bait/switch. 😕

tbh it would be a good time for valve to change their TOS about game tags. instead of multiplayer it should state 3rd party multiplayer/ non official only

I was playing on April first, normal gaming just doing my breeding as I logged in. Heard the news and alt tabbed to read the patch notes. After reading the notes I didn't even maximize the game, I killed the window and never logged back in

If I've learned anything from Ark and War Thunder lately, it's that corporations tied to snails are shady and scummy

Over the years, I've seen game companies (figuratively) shoot themselves in the foot, admit the problem and recover, but this is the first time I have seen a company shoot itself in the head- repeatedly. Sadly, at this point there is NO recovery for either snail nor wildcard.

Looks like most of the super successful studios are acting the same. Just look at WOTC and how they tried gouging their community. Goes to show ya that these people are only in it for the money and no longer care about what is fair or fun for their communities. Real sad to see this happen to so many great platforms 😔

@girls_game_as_well4397

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@Biologist19681

Жыл бұрын

This is true, and also not true. Developers are always about the money. But this type of behavior is short term thinking. Sure, you may benefit in the short term, but what happens when your short term profits you drive your players away? Long term success is built on building a thriving, engaged community, and you make more money overall if you have a happy, engaged community.

@lunasakara7306

Жыл бұрын

@@Biologist19681 The double edged sword of success in a neich market. Huge success making the product mainstream attracts all kinds of unsavory people on both sides; salarymen who only see the new possibility of exploiting the potential capital gain; and the faux fans who will defend and grovel at the foot of a faceless machine that only desires to harvest them for their wealth to keep exploring them, I mean ruining the product, because how dare you criticize anything it dose to you for it's own personal gain!

I hope there will be an ark klone, thats just taking a better path.

@sysbofh

Жыл бұрын

I hope someone buys ARK, and gives it proper attention. The brand is still strong - the taint is WC ans SG.

Disgusting behavior

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the update, Dont invest and buy Snail games stock i would love to see them get shorted, further more we should flood there contact page

snail games mut go down and sell ark to somone that actualy cares and knows what to do unlike snail trash

last time I played pvp servers our allies had a dev who spawned in level 1000 eggs and when they got caught they banned everyone for cheating then made the servers wipe and called them legacy servers

The one thing I will say, and I'm going to follow along with someone else's comment here, is link all of these videos, this one included, every single one that has been mentioned and shown, and report the game as fraud on Steam. Like the dude said, "That is the only way you were going to get Valve to step in." I personally have never played this game, and I personally don't want to, but I'm really glad that I never did, because when this is something that can happen, it really prevents people from wanting to play, and drops any and all interest in any further games that are made, especially when this specific publisher is tied to it. Also, one thing I just want to mention about Snail Games here, it is absolutely sad that they cannot handle a legitimate and total defeat to the point to where they just go the salty Battlefield admin route and just ban people because they either can, or because they're losing and they "Just want to have fun."

Snail has been caught doing some shady shit, its a shame wildcard got dragged down into this

I’ve been watching all your videos hoping to hear some good news from these clowns after they received pushback from us, but not expecting it considering their track record of ignoring player feedback- But these sleazy shenanigans combined with that unholy pvp story has my mind made up. I’m never buying anything from these psychos again.

@WTFHippo

Жыл бұрын

Why would he ever say anything good he makes more money and gets more views over the bad. All the crap he saying isn’t true, half of it is taken out if context or he doesn’t understand because he doesn’t play the game. If you wanna know how ark really is stop listening to this dude

@jontay4199

Жыл бұрын

@@WTFHippo if that’s true, please explain, I won’t entertain accusations without at least a persuasive argument. I’ve been watching his videos awhile and most of the things he talks about he presents evidence for. And as a member of the ark community myself (coop and single player only) I’m inclined to believe him.

@beanoptodon

Жыл бұрын

​@@WTFHippo official pvp servers are known for this kind of toxic crap, admin abuse or not. If you really want to defend those guys you're allowed to, but don't be surprised when people question your motives when you defend people who are known to abuse their privileges on other platforms beyond ark official servers. People might also ask if you're involved with them, since it's odd that you would defend that. Either you just hate the dude that made the video (then stop watching his videos for your mental health please) or you are in cahoots yourself with the company and you're trying to defend them. Or you're seen as a bootlicker, and in that case good luck with that.

@WTFHippo

Жыл бұрын

@@beanoptodon no sheet thats why no one plays official, its the worst way ti play the game thats why this guy trying to act like this is new and some big controversy is disingenuous. I dislike the dude in the video because he is making shit that is nothing into something. I also dislike him because he doesn’t even play the game but wants to have an opinion on it. Nah i dont work for WC and im not a boot licker i just hate entitled little crybabies like you and this fraud.

Awesome explanation from someone who wasn't as emotionally charged as the rest of us who were underfire from snail! Great Video

This is what happens in the movie “Free Guy” lol

You forget about the 307 ppl banned because attacking Tae beta or mentioning that Tea has been doing this since the beginning of the official servers

Third video I've watched today about this topic. Snail's rain has to end. I thought 10yo kids ran servers bad [those who have played with some servers with them know]. I saw HOD's video before coming here.

How pathetic for employees to get angry and ban players from the game for losing to them.

Can't say I've ever had to deal with this myself since all I've ever played is singleplayer or servers hosted by friends but gotta this sucks for people that do play on official servers.

Ive gone from concerned initially when ASA got a price but now im outright hoping the game fails and drowns the devs

Such a shame i have lost all faith in ark it used to be so good.

@LtBuzzLitebeer

Жыл бұрын

👍

My only experience with Arc is buying it for the PS4, realizing the game couldn't run on a base PS4 at more than 15fps then returning it under sony's "non functional program" clause

Dude I had a steam post randomly removed years ago, before they started shovelling out DLC. Was playing single player and some how ARK used 10GB of my data limit. Asked if that much data usage was normal and instead of an answer the question was nuked from orbit.

So snail game's team are playing the game and abusing their privelages (or using backdoor access) So basically Ark now is an Anarchy game (not server, an anarchy game) This situation seems far worse when the backdoor access happened on 2b2t back then (most well known anarchy server in minecraft), there is also an instance where Haus is active on the server and uses his privileges (but never really abuses is, and he is more passive in playing so it doesn't really affect the server.) There was also an instance where a dev on a battleroyale, accidentally left his dev mode one causing people not to see him. But that was accidental and he apologized to the players he was playing and left dev mode. And here we see Ark devs stoop so low. I'm glad I got the game for free yes, but I'm much more glad I never installed or played it.

@user-zl1vf4me1p

Жыл бұрын

ark devs literally have nothing to do with snail's corruption. Imagine you being the CEO of wildcard, "what you don't wanna give tea some bps? welp hope you like being fired" see what I mean? also I havent watched the video so I don't know if it mentions of the split servers owned by "wildcard" and "snail games". snail games owns all of conquest servers. if you get global banned in conquest you can still join wild card's servers.

@jamiehughes5573

Жыл бұрын

Welcome back to 2ark2t the oldest anarchy server in ark

I feel so bad for the developers who probably have to deal with this

@Eso_lags

Жыл бұрын

dont. they are part of the problem too. even if they were forced to let this type of shit happen with snail and tea, theres a million other cheaters and meshers they let run wild. The fact that you can still mesh in 2023 shows their commitment to pvp. Their problem with snail is karma imo.

I had a similar thing happen when voicing my displeasure at the broken promises and extensive crap managing skills of the star citizen universe. Long gone are the good old days of just going to the shop to buy a finished un corrupt gaming experience