Ark: Survival Evolved has had a bit of a rough launch, but the developers have assured that they are working on the issues that have plagued the game. On the Ark forums, Jat has detailed the updates that are upcoming for the game, as well as the reason for the delay in getting new servers set up. Additionally, he offers a stopgap solution to a problem many PlayStation 4 users have been having with Ark crashing while they work on an official fix.
Here’s the information from the Arc forums:
As of now, we should have a number of new servers available for people to play on across all platforms, later tonight we’ll be working on bringing on some more, as well as looking into whether we need to increase our numbers based on player activity, unfortunately the process is still going to be a long one, as it will have to be a manual setup as opposed to what we normally do. I don’t suspect we will have any new servers coming online for the next 12 hours, but I will keep you posted as I learn new information. There are some issues which have currently been identified with the latest update, primarily related to the server sessions filter. We will be iterating on it heavily across the course of the day, applying fixes live. Abstraction is currently working on some crash fixes for PlayStation, as well as fixing the Primitive+ Server Filter, as currently, those servers are not on display.
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