Should you buy ARK on Steam or Epic?

Buy ARK on Epic or Steam

One question viewers of mine ask me a lot when planning on buying ARK is if they should buy ARK on Epic or on Steam. The answer to this question is—Always buy ARK on Steam and I can tell you why buying it on Epic can be a bad idea.

Steam is the only platform that has mod support

Steam is the first platform ARK has been published on. But that is not the reason we want to have it on that platform. The reason is that Steam is the only platform that has Mod support and a majority of the private set-up servers are indeed modded. Epic has no access to mod support or to mods, and it is almost sure that Epic will never get Mod support either. If you got ARK on the free day on Epic, maybe consider buying it again on Steam before spending money on Epic for the DLCs to play the other maps.

Steam and Epic can play together on the same servers, but it’s an opt in

Even tho unmodded private Servers exists, the servers have to be set to cross play with epic. They are not naturally supporting Epic users joining. That makes it even harder for Epic users to find servers to play on. So If you want to get ARK and play it with the most content possible, then buy it on Steam and you should be set for thousands of hours entertainment.

TiiaAurora

Tiia is a bilingual Content Creator for the game ARK: Survival Evolved. She has over 12k hours experience in the game and her main interest is the complex breeding mechanic in ARK.

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