Ark Servers Getting Hit By DDoS

Dino sur­vival game Ark is cel­e­brat­ing its 2nd birth­day this week, What should be a great time for play­ers is turn­ing in to a nightmare.

Arks offi­cial servers have been get­ting hit by DDoS attacks, caus­ing the servers to lag, freeze up and restart. 

Unfor­tu­nate­ly a lot of ddos attacks have gone on this week­end, I guess more tar­get­ing due to the event :(.

— Jat (@Jatheish) June 5, 2017

DDoS is a far too com­mon prob­lem for gam­ing. Its used to lag out servers so no one can con­nect, and in the case of it hap­pen­ing in Ark, it is used to dupli­cate items and dinos.

The last time this hap­pened Wild­card rolled the servers back 24 hours, cause play­ers to lose every­thing they got in that 24 hour window. 

With the event going on it sucks miss­ing out on the 2x every­thing that comes rarely on Offi­cial servers.

No word on what Wild­card is going to do to fix this or if they will extend the event. Do you think the event should be extended?

Should @survivetheark Extend The Birth­day 2x Event? @Jatheish #Sur­viveT­heArk #ps4 #Xbox­One #pcgam­ing #gam­ing

— Fix The Meta (@fixthemeta) June 5, 2017