Quote from: Dpa1991 on Jul 06, 2016, 05:39 AMQuote from: Fractalion on Jul 06, 2016, 05:34 AM-snip-https://youtu.be/3Dc8JrTyC2I here's the video of you're interested. So why doesn't ark interest you?
I certainly hope their add-on thing offers more than just tweaking the AI, models, and textures of mobs.
As for ARK, I've looked at it several times but I feel like the creative aspect of the game just doesn't appeal to me. I know you can paint basically everything however you want, but the options for building seem far too restrictive to me. I've never really been a fan of any games of its type.
The only types of multiplayer games that really interest me all that much anymore are the ones where I can produce some sort of creative work, or ones that offer a bunch of unique experiences with each play session. Since the creative side of ARK doesn't impress me all that much, it basically just becomes a game of "collect the dinos until you're out of dinos to collect, and then get bored and don't bother with it anymore". I could go through the process of collecting them all, but at the end of that process I'd probably just end up feeling like I've wasted a lot of time.
What I like about games like Minecraft is that even though I am very aware that it's essentially a waste of time, while I am building stuff I'm expressing my creative side, which'll help me with future creative works. It doesn't even need to be an artsy creative work. Things like redstone are great because I'm basically teaching myself how to solve a logic based problem more efficiently in the process.
On the other hand, games that offer unique experiences with every play session interest me because of the social aspect of it. Minecraft doesn't fit this one as well, but some of our events offer that sort of thing. You know, those experiences where you and a small handful of other people will look back and say "Hey, you remember that time when ..."
I'm sure ARK is fun for you and the others who play it for a variety of reasons, but it just doesn't interest me all that much.
Also: PVP just generally doesn't interest me at all unless there is some form of roleplay involved, and I find it even less appealing when the PVP has a period of building up resources involved. I can get behind some PVP, like in GTA Online for example, where the PVP is fast and has little consequence for failure, but in games like ARK where you it may have taken you an hour to prepare for an encounter and you have the risk of losing everything you've worked for, I think failure is just soul crushing and not at all appealing.
I know you're going to be opening a PVE ARK server, but I just wanted to throw it out there that that's another reason it doesn't interest me. There's a reason I ended up on a non-PVP Minecraft server, after all. xd