Ark was a great idea, and one that was executed way too late: Start-From-Scratch survival with building and freakin' dinosaurs. It's a great premise. And the product execution was pretty good, in terms of giving you a good mix of small, huge, easy, and terrifying dinosaurs. And the map was interesting to explore, and visually pleasing.

Big problem with Ark? Poorly-thought-out multiplayer, where you basically need to be unemployed with a group of unemployed friends to actually build and work through the crafting/building aspects on a public server, and that's if you've got a server where they give you 10x the resources and experience. It's more of a job than a game.

I played around with it for 108 hours, including multiplayer with friends and my wife, but I decided it wasn't worth dedicating my life to.