Building games that you can only multi-play on official servers is short sighted. I started playing early-access ARK with my 5 year old who was super into dinos

Building games that you can only multi-play on official servers is short sighted. I started playing early-access ARK with my 5 year old who was super into dinosaurs. He's now 13 and still loves playing ARK with his friends. He was really worried to hear they were shutting down the official servers, but I reassured him that he'd still be able to host the game himself as he had been doing. We have a lot of memories playing that game, and I suspect he'll be playing the sequels for years to come. When my current 3 year old wants to learn to play a game with his dad and brother, there are many choices - and I'm sure not going to get us into one that we can't play in a few years.