ARK Survival Evolved Will Not Wipe Official Servers For Launch On August 8th

“Our current set of Official Servers will be rebranded as “Legacy” and indicated as such on all platforms. We will also be taking steps to remove some of our ‘ghost town’ servers, where the player population has remained near-zero for an extended duration of time. We’ll take a look at the statistics and will be repurposing 10% of the lowest count servers across all platforms. Once we know which servers these are; we’ll preserve the save files and upload them, so if you so wish to use them, you can. Players will also have time to move through Cross-ARK to a different secure Legacy server. Every three months we will be taking a review of the Legacy Officials to see what the numbers are like and may consider repurposing more ‘ghost towns’, however, the goal will be to preserve any place with human activity.”

While that sounds promising, I do share the worry of existing players. Many of whom, believe that there will be more abandoned buildings in these servers that needs to be cleaned up. We’ll just have to wait and see if the new codes does indeed clean things up every three months. Fore more on ARK, click here.