Playing a player run server on ARK would be no different than playing a CS player run server. Player skill would be mediocre at best after all the good players were banned for "hacking" just like the hundreds I was banned from on CS. Pub servers end up being quite the bore.
Official servers are the only thing that matters in the end. That is where the real competition comes from with any game.
Playing level based FPS games at the very least is quite idiotic. Skill from an FPS game is developed over time. How does being level 1 make me shoot any different than at max level? It simply doesn't. Games have to implement artificial barriers/constraints to make something like that to be feasible. Don't see how anyone could actually play a game like that. Crafting skills is one thing, but combat skills in an FPS game being effected by a level is just plain stupid. I don't know if ARK is like that since I have never played it. However, just the thought of leveling in an FPS game is just a major turn off. Couple that with dinos and an incompetent team that can't even handle an amateur gaming engine... it just tops the cake if you ask me.
