Lost all respect for Ark Survival Evolved. It used to be my favorite game and now it’s turned into a total cash cow with Ark Survival Ascended. Wish I could get a refund on the Ascended version. I already had gripes about ASA making a deal with Nitrado so people can’t host with any other server company except them. I used to host with Host Havoc, they had really great affordable server rates, and due to the deal with Nitrado, now no other hosting providers can host ASA except Nitrado. In addition to that, all mods for the game used to be free. Now they’ve implemented premium mods, which, for modders I’m sure is fantastic. They can make money off of their mods now and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but what really blows is that a bunch of mods that USED to be free now aren’t. Make new mods and make them premium, sure, but tacking a price tag onto something that was free for the longest time is grimey. Sorry, not sorry. I’ve also read in several reviews that Ark is now making people pay in order to obtain certain dinos in the game, which is also grimey when this was never the case before. The whole point of the game is to go out and tame dinos, and it took a lot of work to earn the top tier ones. Paying for dinos was never a thing before. Anyways. This is my first rant of the New Year I guess. I really wanted to get back into Ark and was going to put the thing about Nitrado aside and just play on someone elses server, but after seeing their updates adding premium mods and micro transactions within the game, I’m definitely not going to have anything to do with ASA. I’ll go back to Ark Survival Evolved and see if anyone’s still playing that and if there’s any mod support for it still. Won’t be supporting their future games though.