I like to tell people I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this game. I do, I really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate it, but I enjoy it at the same time. It still has bugs and glitches, but it's fun to play with friends even if stupid things happen. I hope they finally optimized the island. The game has its issues, but I feel like the devs might eventually fix all the bugs and issues over time.

Edit: I've sunk more hours into the game and I'm now at 2,486.4 Hours. I originally posted this at 1,652.9 Hours. This game is still not optimized, it takes up 330 gigabytes of space on my computer, without any mods. I think they've almost given up on this game, they're adding a new map, which will probably be another 40 gigabytes to the total. They're making ARK 2 for some reason even though the old game is poorly optimized. I highly doubt they're going to find a way to reduce the amount of space it takes up, since it's been seven years now since the game was released. It's still somewhat entertaining to play this game with friends, it's a glitchy/buggy mess and the following AI is still absolute trash.