do people actually play this game? why is it so goddamn popular?

>>380595582
This game is absolutely hilarious with friends on a private server
If you don't have any of the two above, then don't even bother
We had to tweak the shit out of the timers since otherwise, if you play on the "official" servers, you need to spend 24 hours hand feeding and babysitting any of the larger animals in the game before they're old enough to eat out of feeding troughs on their own
Vanilla rates is korean MMO grind tier tedious

>>380595582
It's actually really fun. Just don't play official servers, play private ones where all the stats are boosted. Otherwise Ark will consume your entire existence.
tfw 50 days played

>>380595582
It's not as popular as it was. I played it steady when the early access survival with crafting meme was new and fun, taming dinosaurs is fun and it's fun raiding someones base, killing their dinos and stealing their shit

>>380595987
>>380596023
>Used to play on official server
>me and like 4 friends on and off
>Get really autistic with it and the server thinks we're a megatribe
>Eventually get to the point of taking shifts getting food for dinos, gas in generators and ammo for turrets
>187 hours of my life I'll never get back