ARK: Survival Evolved has a major update with a needed UI refresh

I wonder how large the risk is for them to remove linux support entirely if something breaks too badly.

Quoting: GuestI think the more we request an ARk fix for linux maybe we will get one! Or am I just crazy hopeful because I love this game?!

I think it doesn't matter what we request... Any helpful or good bugreport usually gets drowned in acid and salt of disgruntled people that don't know the concept of beta, and can't do anything else but repeat what another has said but only louder and with bigger letters.
I spent 40 euro on ark, and it was a 40 euro well spend. I have glitches and bugs, but if you look at the size of the game of course it will have problems.
For now I think as linux users it's best to only submit engine bug reports in a polite manner, and only in the expected forums. They are already drowning in acid and salt, let's not add a portion of acid and label it "from a linux gamer".
Unfortunately linux is for the masses, so the linux thread on steam is already gaining toxic comments :-(.
Actually, I am fed up with that toxic community. On each patch note update in the steam forums, there are about 10 nice comments, and 200 toxic whiners (see http://steamcommunity.com/app/346110/discussions/0/594820656447032287/ ). As ark gets almost daily updates, that's too much to weed through.
Yes, I myself am being salty about the saltyness ;-). But that's the reason why I don't think that adding to that we will get heard. We might get noticed if we are nice and following procedures.

Quoting: ArdjeI spent 40 euro on ark, and it was a 40 euro well spend. I have glitches and bugs, but if you look at the size of the game of course it will have problems.

It's big and complicated so of course there'll be bugs and glitches? Developers just love customers like you. :)

About bug reporting, this won't help the small number of linux player either:

https://support.survivetheark.com/hc/en-us/articles/227266608-High-Ticket-Volume

Hello Survivors,



We are currently experiencing a high volume of tickets due to the AWS outage, which caused several players to lose their survivor. As such, we're getting to everyone's tickets a bit slower than we'd like, and due to the high amount of tickets received, this can take an extremely long time for in game issues to be resolved.

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: ArdjeI spent 40 euro on ark, and it was a 40 euro well spend. I have glitches and bugs, but if you look at the size of the game of course it will have problems.

It's big and complicated so of course there'll be bugs and glitches? Developers just love customers like you. :)

Maybe because I am a developer too. To be clear: I've seen some sad cases of development in my life, and I had to teach a few. And I occassionaly see things in my own code that have me like "How could I think that could work".
Being toxic doesn't help, being realistic helps. And in that light, ARK: is a pretty good project.
If it was a pacemaker, the stakes would be different, but even in pacemaker land the programmers are average, and the design is crap. But why? Because they never thought anyone would willingly hack a wireless controlled pacemaker for instance.
And let's not forget the second generation radiation equipment used against cancer. How many people died on the table because the software was buggy.
And the biggest question of all:
If everybody is dissing you, comparing you to the worst of the world, why would you even listen to them. There are about 100k players, 30k continuous players and about 200 of them continously release toxic on the forums.

Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: tuubiIt's big and complicated so of course there'll be bugs and glitches? Developers just love customers like you. :)

Maybe because I am a developer too.

Yeah, me too. That doesn't mean I'd have the gall to tell our customers to accept glaring, user experience spoiling bugs and glitches in our products. But to be fair, ARK is still an unfinished game. I guess someone who pays for Early Access should expect beta quality at best.

Quoting: tuubiThat doesn't mean I'd have the gall to tell our customers to accept glaring, user experience spoiling bugs and glitches in our products. But to be fair, ARK is still an unfinished game. I guess someone who pays for Early Access should expect beta quality at best.

Honestly, I'd rather accept an excuse "this game is huge and complicated, hence bugs" than "it's been two years now since first people bought the game, but we're still in development, so you cannot complain about bugs". :)