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If it says one of the games are already claimed, screenshot the pop-up that says its claimed with game name shown! You can pick from the following list of games: Beyond The Frame: The Finest Scenery Bendy and the Dark Revival Builder Simulator The Invisible Hand Operation Tango Spiritfarer Farewell Edition Warhammer 40k: Chaos Gate Windjammers 2 Aliens: Fireteam Elite Death Stranding Directors Cut Founders Fortune The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante Life is Strange 2 Complete Monster Prom 2 Monster Camp Revita Rollerdrome Edge of Eternity Heros Hour Rogue Lords Golden Light Monster Crown Doom Eternal SE Tribes of Midgard Encased: Scifi RPG OlliOlli World Rad Edition Grow Song of the Evertree Conan Chop Chop Hokko Life Serpent Rogue Hell Let Loose Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reconing Fate Shadow Tactics Roboquest Eldest Soul UnMetal Raji An Ancient Epic Morbid The Seven Acolytes Deathloop Dark Pictures Anthology Little Hope Disciples Liberation Standard Maid of Sker Epic Chef Railroad Corporation Golf Gang Crusader Kings 3 Just Cause 4 Complete The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk: Amulet of Chaos Forgive Me Father Crown Trick Descenders Industria The Ascent Hot Wheels Unleashed A Plague Tail Innocence Gas Station Simulator In Sound Mind Mind Scanners Emily is Away Omno Due Process House Flipper Project Wingman Wingspan BPM: Bullets Per Minute Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion Simple Rockets 2 Timelie WRATH: Aeon of Ruin Mobius Front '83 Katana Zero Amnesia: Rebirth John Wick Hex 112 Operator Guts and Glory Ring of Pain GARAGE: Bad Trip Textorcist Tools Up! Hiveswap Friendsim Black Future '88 Syberia 3 PGA Tour 2K21 Nowhere Prophet Blue Fire Deep Rock Galactic Necromunda Hired Gun Legion TD 2 - MP Tower Defense Legend of Keepers Lawn Mowing Simulator Banners of Ruin Yes, Your Grace ATOM RPG Trudograd Phoenix Point YR 1 Edition Call of the Sea Gamedec Pumpkin Jack Siege Survival: Gloria Victis I am Fish SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE Planet Zoo Spongebob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated Surviving The Aftermath If Found . . . Genesis Noir Embr Ghostrunner Destroy All Humans Monster Sanctuary Killsquad Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos Suzerain Chicken Police Naruto to Baruto: Shinobi Striker Desperados 3 Nickelodeon All Star Brawl Man of Medan Red Solstice 2 Nebuchadnezzar Police Stories Evan's Remains Borderlands 3 Borderlands 3: Directors Cut Black Book Per Aspera Just Die Already Before We Leave Paradise Lost Everhood Calico Mafia: Definitive Edition Iron Harvest Project Winter Rebel Cops Rustler The Henry Stickmin Collection Farmer's Dynasty Between The Stars Retrowave Midnight Protocol Endzone - A World Apart Beyond the Wire Partisans 1941 The Survivalists Lacuna - A Scifi Noir Adventure 8doors: Arums Afterlife Adventure Greak: Memories of Azure Fling to the Finish TOHU Voidigo Neon Abyss Not for Broadcast Roki Narita Boy West of Dead Atomicrops Heaven's Vault Fort Triumph Orwell: Ignorance is Strength FRAMED Collection Bloodstained Superliminal Last Oasis Out of Space We Need to Go Deeper Carto As far as the Eye Cepheus Protocol Drake Hollow (currently Page 2 on humble monthly lists)

So, you want to know some ways to optimize your PC ARK Experience? ARK can be pretty demanding, even on higher-end systems. That is for sure. There are some tricks to getting the game to run more smoothly, but it will sacrifice the quality of the gameplay a bit. That is until we see how the UE5 changes how the game runs. Let us explain a couple of things about why ARK is this way, before helping you optimize your gameplay. If you have any questions, feel free to join our Guilded or Contact Us, and ask us for some more tips! We would be more than glad to help answer your questions to help your game run just that little bit more smoothly! ARK Optimization Methods There are multiple ways to improve your PC ARK experience and thereby get it to run smoother for you. These include Steam Launch Options (which are not available with the Epic Games version of ARK, unfortunately), updating GPU drivers, and tweaking in-game settings. Hopefully, the UE5 Upgrade Fixes Some Major Issues Hopefully, the UE5 upgrade will make significant performance improvements to the game at large, but we will have to wait and see. The game seems to have fine FPS when facing certain directions with fewer creatures roaming around, and places with little to no base structures. Thankfully, there are multiple tricks to adjusting your ARK experience, but we will start with the most popular method. Why Is ARK So Badly Optimized? The main issue for ARK Survival Evolved's bad performance is based on its "spaghetti code." When they originally built the game, they used a custom version of Unreal Engine 4. They've since fixed a bunch of issues, but they still have some performance issues that they have still not fixed. Thankfully, they seem to be doing a full recode of the game in UE5. That should fix a lot of the remaining issues. Unfortunately, there is not much you can do to fully fix all the problems. To get a good, happy experience, there are multiple tweaks you can do to give your system a little bit of a break while rendering. And sometimes, even mods are needed to fix certain things, which is only possible on the Steam edition, not Epic Games. Method 1: Setting Steam Launch Options The first, and "easiest" way to squeeze some more performance out of your game is to go to the game's properties and add some Launch Options. To to this, you will need to right-click on the game on your Steam Library list, and hit "Properties." We recommend starting with the first two. If that doesn't give enough boost, then second. Once you are on the General page, which should load by default, you will want to find the "Launch Options" field at the bottom of the screen. There are multiple launch options, but the most helpful ones are: -sm4 | Forces a simpler shader model, and seems to give a 20-25% performance boost. But it makes the game look significantly worse, and makes torches less useful. -d3d10 | Forces game to use DirectX 10 instead of the newer 11 (12 is latest). It boosts performance at the cost of visuals. -high | Forces higher CPU priority on the game, but doesn't do much if you donât have other CPU-heavy processes running, due to ARK being mostly GPU bound. -lowmemory | Lowers some settings to make ark run on PCs with 'only 4GB RAM' -nomansky | Removes sky details, but does not give much of a boost, just a couple extra FPS. But if you are on a lower-end system, every FPS you can gain helps. We recommend trying the first set of launch options, then booting up the game to see if it is playable for you with just those two. If you need to squeeze out more performance, then close the game and add the other 3 options to squeeze as much performance as you can out of the available Launch Options. [FRIGHT] -lowmemory -d3d10 [h4]Minimal Recommended Launch Options[/h4] -lowmemory -d3d10 -sm4 -high -nomansky [h4]Extended Recommended Launch Options[/h4] [/FRIGHT] Method 2: Checking GPU Performance & Drivers To be honest, this should be the first thing you check for getting better performance from any game, but in ARK's case, the method above might be the quickest way to boost performance. If that is not enough for you, you will want to check to make sure your graphics drivers are fully up-to-date. Or if you are on Nvidiaâs Studio drivers, you may want to change to the Game-Ready drivers to see if that's any better for you. Checking drivers is different between Nvidia and AMD, and even Intel's new ARC GPUs. With Nvidia, there are two ways you can get your drivers updated. These are Geforce Experience and manual GPU driver downloads. For AMD, we are not too familiar with any tools to automatically get updates, but there are manual GPU Driver downloads you can do. Mostly Automated: GeForce Experience/AMD auto-detect The easiest is by using GeForce Experience. That will automatically find the appropriate drivers for your GPU, and keep them updated with notifications in the bottom right corner of the screen when new drivers are available. We recommend this option, as it is less hands-on, and you get notified of updates being ready for you. If you are on an AMD GPU system, you can use this link to get your automated GPU update software. We are not experienced with how to use it, but it should not be too hard to figure out. Once installed, it should be more or less partially automated, at least. Manual Updates: From Nvidia's Website Download the Nvidia Drivers from here. For the manual method to optimize your PC ark experience, you will need to select the right GPU model in the form provided on this page. In our case, we would choose the following: We use the Studio drivers here to optimize OUR PC ark experience since we also run creative apps like photo and video editing and do it more heavily than most people. You can select 'Game Ready' drivers in the Download Type for your case, unless you are a creative person, like us. Game-ready drivers are the best option for 90% of people. Most people will not need Studio drivers. Nvidia's Studio drivers do not get updated as often, every 3 months or so on average unless a critical bug is found. This is because these drivers are optimized for stability with creative apps like Adobe Suite, Davinci Resolve, and other similar creative tools. Manual Updates: From AMD's Website If you are on Team Red, you will want to download from AMD's website if you do not want another process running in the background. Simply head to their website and select the right graphics hardware that you are running. There is not much to that. Hit 'Next' and 'finish' to install the drivers, then a restart of your PC is recommended. Method 3: In-Game Settings Changes While you are performing tweaks to optimize your PC ARK experience, these are some changes you can make after doing Launch Options tweaks and graphics drivers updates. If your game STILL does not perform better, it may be time to take more drastic measures like lowering your graphics settings. We recommend changing a couple at a time until you find the stability that you are ok with. Personally, we have not noticed much of a difference in visuals between 1080p and 1440p resolutions unless you are looking at something up close. So that's the first thing we would recommend. If your game is running at 4K or 1440p, try dropping it one setting level (from 4K to 1440p; or 1440p to 1080p). Another setting that can be fairly demanding is Resolution Scale, try sliding that down little by little and see if dropping it slightly will help. If you can keep it higher or max it out, the game will look better. If you drop it too much, you will notice a significant drop in quality, but also better performance. Anti-Aliasing and Post Processing can also be heavy hitters, try dropping those down if needed. Shadows can sometimes be fairly demanding, especially if there are a lot of dinosaurs roaming around, or in a forested area. We keep those at medium, and it is good enough for us. We do our best to keep Textures on High, at least, since that can make the dinosaurs look 'plasticky.' One setting that is not on by default is certain settings in the middle column like 'Simple Distance Character Movement,' which can sometimes help, but not always. If you have 'extra level streaming distance' checked, try unchecking it, along with 'Distance Field Ambient Occlusion (expensive!).' How To Make ARK Look Better (On PC) To be honest, even at max settings, ark looks decent but does not look super good. There isn't much we can do about that. This is where ARK Survival Ascended will come in. This guide is meant to show you ways to improve your performance, which does the opposite of making ARK look better. There isn't much that can be done to improve ARKs visuals without taking a pretty heavy hit to your game's performance. ARK Survival Evolved is coded with "spaghetti code," which means it runs, barely. ARK Survival Ascended is being re-coded from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5. This will improve the visuals, as well as performance. From what comparisons we've seen, and from what various major map makers for Evolved have rendered, it is looking like it will most likely look much better than Evolved ever will be. What Engine Was ARK Made On? ARK: Survival Evolved was developed on a heavily customized build of Unreal Engine 4. That is one reason the game runs so poorly even on fairly high-end PCs, and on Consoles it has the limitations it has. This will most likely be remedied by ARK: Survival Ascended's release this October (2023). Conclusion Hopefully, these tips can help your PC ark experience to run a fair bit smoother. The game is not fully optimized, and hopefully, ARK Survival Ascended will significantly improve performance, and it sort of has, but also has some other, different performance issues now.

Here's a list of useful Path of Titans commands for both players, server administrators & moderators! If you find this page useful, please let us know! We'll add to the chart below as new commands are added to the official builds (we do not include Public Test Builds as those could change or be removed). Some people may call these "cheat codes," which some are; but these are also useful administrative commands for servers! Commands For Everyone These Path of Titans Commands is available to all players, no matter what! These are not permission-lockable or deniable. CMD Name CMD Perms Commands Description /rules Everyone Lists the rules of the server. /motd Everyone Displays the server's Message of the Day (MOTD). /help Everyone Lists all commands the player has access to, with a short description of each. /clear Everyone Clears the current chat channel (for you). /mapbug Everyone Copies current player position to clipboard. /bugsnap Everyone Loads dialogue for submitting a bug snapshot. Will not work with mods. /respawn Everyone Kills your creature and respawns them at a standard spawn point. Useful if you get stuck. /mute (user) Everyone Mutes specified player for yourself, not others. /unmute (user) Everyone Unmutes specified player for yourself, not others. /listplayers Everyone Lists all players on the server. /whisper (user) (msg) Everyone Whispers message to the specified player. If no player is specified, it will whisper to the last player you messaged. /w (user) (msg) Everyone Shortcut/alias for Whisper. Administrator Commands The following sections are for Administrators, or for servers that have custom roles that grant some commands to other users, like Content Creators or Streamers on the server. Common Admin Path of Titans Commands This is a list of the most commonly used Adminstrator Path of Titans commands. Bookmark this page for quick access! CMD Name CMD Perms Commands Perm. & Description /save Administrator +Permission=save Forces a server to save. /promote (user) (role) Administrator +Permission=promote Promotes player to specified (admin) role. /demote (user) Administrator +Permission=promote Removes all (admin) roles from the player. /kick (user) (reason) Administrator +Permission=kick Kicks the user with a message. Can optionally leave messages blank. /ban (user) (reason) Administrator +Permission=ban Bans the user with a message. Can optionally leave messages blank. /restart (sec) Administrator +Permission=restart Restarts server after X seconds. /cancelrestart Administrator +Permission=restart Cancels upcoming restart. /announce (message) Administrator +Permission=announce Makes visible announcements to all players on top of the screen. /listpoi Administrator +Permission=listpoi Lists all Points of Interest on the map. /listquests Administrator +Permission=listquests Lists all quests on the map. /listroles Administrator +Permission=listroles Lists all roles on the server. /listwaters Administrator +Permission=listwaters Lists all bodies of water on the map. /listwaystones Administrator +Permission=listwaystones Lists all waystones on the map. /weather (type) Administrator +Permission=weather Sets weather to the specified type. Available: ClearSky, Overcast, Fog, Cloudy, Rain, Storm /timeofday (time) Administrator +Permission=time of day Sets the time of day. Available: morning, night day. Can optionally set specified numbers for specific times. Eg: /timeofday 2000. Midday is 1200, night is 2400 or 0. /day Administrator +Permission=time of day Shorthand for timeofday. Available: /day, /night, /morning. Teleportation & Travel These path of titans commands pertain to quickly going from location to location. Very useful while running events on your server! CMD Name CMD Perms Commands Perm. & Description /teleport (coords) Administrator +Permission=teleport Teleports yourself to the specified coordinates. unsafe Optional, use to change from a safe teleport to unsafe teleport /teleport (user) (coords) Administrator +Permission=teleport Teleports the user to the specified coordinates. unsafe Optional, use to change from a safe teleport to unsafe teleport /teleport (userA) (userB) Administrator +Permission=teleport Teleports the first user to the second user. unsafe Optional, use to change from a safe teleport to unsafe teleport /teleport (POIname) Administrator +Permission=teleport Teleports yourself to a point within the specified POI. unsafe Optional, use to change from a safe teleport to unsafe teleport /bring (user) Administrator +Permission=teleport Brings the user to your location. unsafe Optional, use to change from a safe teleport to unsafe teleport /goto (location) Administrator +Permission=teleport Teleports you to the target location. Location can be a name, POI, or coords. unsafe Optional, use to change from a safe teleport to unsafe teleport /teleportall (POIname) Administrator +Permission=teleportall Teleports all users on the server to a point within the specified POI. /teleportall (coords) Administrator +Permission=teleportall Teleports all users on the server to the specified coordinates. /bringall Administrator +Permission=teleportall Teleports all players to your location. Statistics Changing (Player Stats) If you need to change a player's stats, like healing them after a server 1-vs-1 battle event, this is the place to get these commands! You can change things like rewarding your players some Path of Titans marks (in-game currency) for winning events, though it's best to award all participants some marks just for participating to keep things fairer to all. Some things, like Growth Commands, exist in this section. CMD Name CMD Perms Commands Perm. & Description /addmarks (user) # Administrator +Permission=setmarks Sets your marks to the specified number. /setmarks # Administrator +Permission=setmarks Sets a players marks to the specified number. /setmarks (user) # Administrator +Permission=setmarks Add a number of marks to the player. /removemarks (user) # Administrator +Permission=setmarks Removes a number of marks from the player. /heal Administrator +Permission=heal Heals yourself. /heal (user) Administrator +Permission=heal Heals the specified player. /healall Administrator +Permission=healall Heals everyone. /godmode Administrator +Permission=godmode Apply godmode to yourself. Use this command again to toggle it on/off. /godmode (user) Administrator +Permission=godmode Apply godmode to a user. Use this command again to toggle it on/off. /(attribute) # Administrator +Permission=modify attribute Sets your hunger to 100. Use /hunger <user> 100 to set a user's stats. Other examples: /thirst 300 /stamina Jiggy 50 /oxygen 20 /modattr (user) (attr) 0.0-1 Administrator +Permission=modify attribute Modifies the user's attribute by the value specified. This is additive, rather than /setattr, which overrides the value. Some common attributes: Health MaxHealth Stamina Hunger MaxHunger /setattr (user) (attr) 0.0-1 Administrator +Permission=set attribute Sets the user's attribute to the value specified. Available Values: Growth, Health, Thirst, Hunger /givequest (user) (quest) Administrator +Permission=givequest Assigns the specified quest to that player. Misc Admin Commands These Path of Titans commands are just extra things that can sometimes be of use, but are not regularly/commonly used. CMD Name CMD Perms Commands Perm. & Description /clearbodies Administrator +Permission=clearbodies Clears all dead bodies from map. Helps clear lag. /waterquality (source) (0-100) Administrator +Permission=waterquality Sets specified water body to quality #. /waystonecooldown (source) (0-100) Administrator +Permission=waystonecooldown Sets specified waystone to % cooled down remaining. /playerinfo (user/ag-id) Administrator +Permission=playerinfo Shows specified player info. /servermute (name/ag-id) (time) (admin reason) (user reason) Administrator +Permission=servermute Mutes a player serverwide. If 0 is given for time, lasts forever. Can specify, example: 20m, 4h, 1d. /serverunmute (user/ag-id) Administrator +Permission=serverunmute Unmutes a serverwide mute for specified player. /whitelist (user/ag-id) Administrator +Permission=whitelist Adds player to whitelist/allowlist. /delwhitelist (user/ag-id) Administrator +Permission=delwhitelist Removes player from whitelist/allowlist. /reloadbans Administrator +Permission=reloadbans Reloads server ban file. /reloadmutes Administrator +Permission=reloadmutes Reloads server mute file. /reloadwhitelist Administrator +Permission=reloadwhitelist Reloads server whitelist/allowlist. Misc Commands These commands can be helpful for certain roles, like giving Spectator to your YouTube and/or Streamers on your server so they can use it to cast events up close without risking the death of their creatures (say, in 1v1 events or such). CMD Name Common Roles Commands Perm. & Description Spectator Mode Admin, Mod, Creators AllowSpectatorAccess=True Put this near the bottom, after OverrideAdminChatColor, and before ReservedSlot for best performance. N/A N/A N/A Sample Commands.INI Perm Config This sample config adds Owner, Admin, Moderator, and Creator permissions. Gold for Owner, Bright Red Admin, Bright Green Moderator, and Purple Creator. Gives Owners all permissions, Admins most (except a few like restart and such), Moderators useful permissions, and Creators access to Spectator, Teleport, and Announce. [Role:Owner] +Permission=save +Permission=promote +Permission=kick +Permission=ban +Permission=restart +Permission=announce +Permission=listpoi +Permission=listquests +Permission=listroles +Permission=listwaters +Permission=listwaystones +Permission=weather +Permission=time of day +Permission=teleport +Permission=teleportall +Permission=setmarks +Permission=heal +Permission=healall +Permission=godmode +Permission=modify attribute +Permission=set attribute +Permission=givequest +Permission=clearbodies +Permission=waterquality +Permission=waystonecooldown +Permission=playerinfo +Permission=servermute +Permission=serverunmute +Permission=whitelist +Permission=delwhitelist +Permission=reloadbans +Permission=reloadmutes +Permission=reloadwhitelist ChatColor=(R=255,G=215,B=0,A=255) OverrideAdminChatColor=True AllowSpectatorAccess=True ReservedSlot=True [Role:Admin] +Permission=save +Permission=promote +Permission=kick +Permission=ban +Permission=announce +Permission=listpoi +Permission=listquests +Permission=listroles +Permission=listwaters +Permission=listwaystones +Permission=weather +Permission=time of day +Permission=teleport +Permission=teleportall +Permission=setmarks +Permission=heal +Permission=healall +Permission=godmode +Permission=modify attribute +Permission=set attribute +Permission=givequest +Permission=clearbodies +Permission=waterquality +Permission=waystonecooldown +Permission=playerinfo +Permission=servermute +Permission=serverunmute +Permission=whitelist +Permission=delwhitelist ChatColor=(R=255,G=22,B=12,A=255) OverrideAdminChatColor=True AllowSpectatorAccess=True ReservedSlot=True [Role:Moderator] +Permission=save +Permission=kick +Permission=ban +Permission=announce +Permission=listpoi +Permission=listquests +Permission=listroles +Permission=listwaters +Permission=listwaystones +Permission=weather +Permission=time of day +Permission=teleport +Permission=teleportall +Permission=setmarks +Permission=heal +Permission=healall +Permission=godmode +Permission=givequest +Permission=clearbodies +Permission=playerinfo +Permission=servermute +Permission=serverunmute +Permission=whitelist +Permission=delwhitelist ChatColor=(R=102,G=255,B=0,A=255) OverrideAdminChatColor=True AllowSpectatorAccess=True ReservedSlot=True [Role:Creator] +Permission=announce +Permission=listpoi +Permission=listwaters +Permission=listwaystones +Permission=teleport +Permission=teleportall ChatColor=(R=200,G=0,B=200,A=255) OverrideAdminChatColor=True AllowSpectatorAccess=True ReservedSlot=False [PlayerRoles] 733-765-037=Owner Make sure to change the PlayerRoles for Owner to your own ID! This is Kenson's ID, and config used on Meso (WIP, not up)! We also recommend keeping the "Reserved Slot" for Creators off, unless you don't plan to give it to many people. If you plan to have a lot of Creator-ranked people, keep it set to False so other players can still join! [Reserved slots lock a slot to each player, so if you have 10 players with reservations, and 20 slots, only 10 can join at a time] Are we missing some important Path of Titans commands? Please, respond below and let us know! You may also join the Mesozoic Haven Discord and chat with us about this fun game!

Here is a list of all of the official dinosaurs in Path of Titans! We will sort these by diet type and in alphabetical order! Released Dinosaurs & Creatures Carnivores Omnivores & Piscivores Herbivores Achillobator Alioramus Allosaurus Ceratosaurus Concavenator Deinonychus Daspletosaurus Hatzegopteryx [Flyer] Latenivenatrix Megalania Metriacanthosaurus Pycnonemosaurus Tyrannosaurus Rex Kaiwhekea (Meat & Fish) [Aquatic] Spinosaurus (Meat & Fish) [Semi-Aquatic] Suchomimus (Meat & Fish) [Semi-Aquatic] Sarcosuchus (Meat & Fish) [Semi-Aquatic] Thalassodromeus (Meat & Fish) [Flyer] Deinocheirus (Plants & Fish) Albertaceratops Amargasaurus Anodontosaurus Barsboldia Camptosaurus Eotriceratops Iguanodon Kentrosaurus Lambeosaurus Pachycephalosaurus Stegosaurus Struthiomimus Styracosaurus In Development Dinosaurs & Creatures Carnivores Omnivores & Piscivores Herbivores Eurhinosaurus Microraptor Rhamporhynchus Tylosaurus Leedsichthys [Aquatic] Miragaia If our guide is not up-to-date, or is missing a new official creature, let us know in the comments below! Otherwise, please leave comments on this thread dedicated to adding new upcoming official creatures!

Here is the ultimate list on what you can redeem with PlayCoins on-stream on SharePlay! General Use 100 | 5 Pushups 100 | 10 Jumping Jacks 100 | (per) StreamLoots Chest [EXCEPT Epic+ can't be redeemed, only purchased] 100 | (per) Dino Mask - 5 Minutes 200 | (per) Beanboozled Bean 300 | (per) Warhead Extreme Squirt 500 | Two Warheads [at same time] Flavors: Gr. Apple, Watermelon, Blue Raspberry 500 | 3 Beanboozled Beans (5 mins between) Game-Specific Uses These are game-specific uses for the primary games that we play on-stream! Monster Hunter Series 100 | No Eating for 1 Hunt 200 | No Buffs for 1 Hunt 200 | Pick a Monster 300 | No Armor for 1 Hunt 500 | No Armor, No Buffs, No Eating for 1 Hunt [Discount of 100 Coin!] *PlayCoin emote used with permission of SharePlay staff

The live-streaming industry is getting a new contender, SharePlay! This is not to be confused with Apple or PlayStation's "SharePlay" - they are unrelated. SharePlay is hoping to carve out a niche for itself as a viable alternative to the streaming titan, Twitch. Let's explore what SharePlay brings to the table, and how they aim to shake things up. A Focus on Discoverability One of the biggest challenges for new streamers is getting their content seen by the public. SharePlay is promising to be a platform designed to help Creators stand out. Their algorithms will show random streamers on the front page, up top for live channels, and scrolling down a bit for offline channels, as well: Online Random Channel Recommendations Offline Channel Recommendations SharePlay Is Born Putting Creators First, But Not Forgetting Viewers! SharePlay aims to be a platform that lets creators of all sizes get discovered! Traditional streaming sites focus on a "top-down" view of streams, showing the most to the least viewers. This makes it extremely difficult for newer communities to get discovered in the first place! SharePlay hopes to help resolve this by showing streams of all sizes on the home page and category pages, without showing viewer numbers, so people aren't as likely to go "Oh, they're popular, let's check them out instead." While some details are still under wraps, SharePlay is committed to providing a rewarding experience for viewers and streamers. One exciting feature is a global "level" system that appears next to your name in all messages. We don't know what all will be added to that system, but that's one thing we're looking forward too! We don't have a lot of details about other systems, but we do know they are going to work on features for viewers, as well as streamers! Is SharePlay a Twitch Killer? While it is too early to say if it will be a "Twitch killer," or dethrone it, it does offer new options for both streamers and viewers. Its focus on discoverability, creator benefits, and its plans for viewers (which Kenson cannot talk about right now due to NDA) give it the potential to be an amazing competitor to Twitch! Things To Look Out For Content moderation: Building a safe and inclusive community is crucial for any streaming platform. It will be interesting to see how SharePlay handles moderation. Will they have clear and enforceable community guidelines? For example, Twitch has had issues with harassment and hate speech and has struggled to keep those from going overboard. Striking a balance between creating a welcoming environment, and allowing free speech, will be essential for the platform's success. Building a Community: A successful platform thrives on having a strong community. How SharePlay fosters interaction and engagement will be key to attracting and retaining viewers. Can streamers easily connect with their community? That is important. Community building, and encouraging it, will be essential for SharePlay to create a platform that feels engaging and interactive for viewers, AND streamers. SharePlay's development is signaling a potential shift in the streaming landscape. Whether it does become an actual Twitch competitor, or only offers a fresh experience for creators & viewers, we all know one thing: we will have more options to choose from. We can only hope that SharePlay will become a worthy platform to stream and watch streams on. (This article will be updated as needed)