So I've had a few people ask me as well as a few say "I already use Nitrado, this is great and doesn't affect me" Sorry to say but it does and more than you realise. It matters because now there is no competition, you as a consumer whether as server hoster or even just a player. Will no longer have the free choice to go "I'll just move servers then". Because you are being forced to only have a single choice in provider. There is now nothing preventing Nitrado to just slowly start increasing sales price, decrease how much ram you get for your server, decrease how many slots you have. Having a free market is Pro consumer. Whether you are paying for it or not. "Oh but I am on console so we only ever had one host anyways" Yes and that sucks, but those prices were still linked to the pc server costs as well. As Nitrado wants the pc server business too, so they keep both server costs at market value in hopes you as consumer just go "Eh, i dont want to bother with multiple providers, I'll just use them for both" For creators who are partnered with nitrado, you're fucked too. Why should they bother to offer you better rates for advertisements, better perks, better deals. You're already forced to use them now so why pay you to advertise for them, what you gonna do? partner with someone else who can't host the servers you need? It's overall just really bad. Whether you like Nitrado or not, as end of the day, they're a business and are here to make money. So once you're locked in, thats when you can just get fucked. It is also EXACTLY the reason that there are anti-monopoly laws in place.
@NaturalCauzes It don't bother me one bit...still buying ASA still gonna play on official's
@NaturalCauzes Nitrado has a monopoly on servers for ARK Mobile and you are 100% correct. After running a server with them for a couple years and dealing with absurdly awful service and options, I was shocked to hear anyone happily used them for PC ARK. Options make all the difference.