Thoughts About Longevity

I just wanted to get this thought out there. The reason why games like Ark are still around and kicking with new people buying it is because of the modding community. There are no if ands or buts about it. The number of custom maps and complete overhaul mods out there keep the game fresh.
That's only really possible because people can host their own servers and because, well, the game supports mods. There are still official servers that sometimes have special events, but otherwise keep to the base game with standard settings and people still play those as well. But it would not have survived as long as it has w/o the modding community.

This certainly isn't me saying to drop everything and make this happen, fyi. I just wanted to say that making this possible in the future might go a long way towards the game surviving in the long term. I so very much want to see this game survive in the real world while we survive in the fae wilds.