{"id":87650,"date":"2026-08-17T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87650"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:45:24","slug":"this-switch-game-that-reached-1-million-players-is-closing-official-servers-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87650","title":{"rendered":"This Switch Game That Reached 1 Million Players Is Closing Official Servers Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Switch version of the dinosaur-survival game Ark: Survival Evolved is ramping down its online support. Developer Studio Wildcard <a href=\"https:\/\/survivetheark.com\/index.php?\/articles.html\/community-crunch-517-sharper-than-ever-r2551\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/survivetheark.com\/index.php?\/articles.html\/community-crunch-517-sharper-than-ever-r2551\/\">announced<\/a> &#8220;with wistful hearts&#8221; that official servers for the Ark: Survival Evolved and its Ultimate Survivor Edition will shut down on August 31. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game reached &#8220;over a million players&#8221; on Switch since the game launched in 2018. The Ultimate Survivor Edition is a remaster made by Grove Street Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We want to thank everyone who has been a part of this journey,&#8221; the developers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ark&#8217;s single-player modes and unofficial servers will remain &#8220;fully playable&#8221; after the official servers go dark on August 31. That&#8217;s a nice silvering lining, though playing online with other people is one of the game&#8217;s main appeals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unofficial servers will help people keep playing online, but it might not be as easy or the experience as consistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahead of the shutdown for official servers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/ark-survival-evolved-switch\/?srsltid=AfmBOopz_DKavsDAzeMLL9HYsKcda6YTrigz1fboqdYnlspfP5wQOuKQ\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/ark-survival-evolved-switch\/?srsltid=AfmBOopz_DKavsDAzeMLL9HYsKcda6YTrigz1fboqdYnlspfP5wQOuKQ\">Survival Evolved is available for $5 on the eShop<\/a>, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/ark-ultimate-survivor-edition-switch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/us\/store\/products\/ark-ultimate-survivor-edition-switch\/\">Ultimate Survivor Edition is marked down to $12.50<\/a>. Both games are playable on Nintendo Switch 2 via backward compatibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest Ark game, Survival Ascended, is not available on Switch, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/ark-survival-ascended\/unreal-engine-5-7-upgrade-asa\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/ark-survival-ascended\/unreal-engine-5-7-upgrade-asa\">Studio Wildcard is working on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Switch version of the dinosaur-survival game Ark: Survival Evolved is ramping down its online support. Developer Studio Wildcard announced &#8220;with wistful hearts&#8221; that official servers for the Ark: Survival Evolved and its Ultimate Survivor Edition will shut down on August 31. The game reached &#8220;over a million players&#8221; on Switch since the game launched&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87653,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87650\/revisions\/87653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}