I've grown up on this game, it was the first game I bought on steam almost 7 years ago, first game I played on my first xbox 6 years ago and was first introduced to it on my mates playstation. I only have about 400 hours on steam, but I can easily sit down and play for longer than I should. From dusk to dawn without even realising it had been more than an hour. Never played offical, almost always playing on my own or just with a friend or two. When it was $60 it was well worth it. Except now they've released ASA. I won't touch it.

I've got my reasons, all ark players have the reasons to like or dislike ASA. My biggest issue is pretty simple, I can't run it. I know most ark players have a much beefer computer compared to me. I'm lucky to be able to run as ASE. But ASA is just ark with a graphics update and a bigger price tag. Its more expensive than ASE ever was and it isn't close to being worth nearly as much. And the devs going back on promises makes me and a lot of other members of the ark community sceptical.

Do what you like, buy ASE or buy ASA. They are both great games, cause we gotta remember when ASE was released it was a buggy mess, still is. But not as buggy as ASA, give it time and we will see what wildcard and those snails do.

And besides ASE gets more total players than ASA and that's without offical servers running anymore.