Studio Wildcard won't wipe Ark servers after all

It was just yesterday that developer Studio Wildcard announced that they intended to completely wipe the PvP servers in the current version of Ark: Survival Evolved ahead of its full release next month, but the studio has overturned that decision, and has decided to preserve the servers as they are.

The decision is mainly due to backlash from the fanbase, but Wildcard started off defending their decision in a statement, saying that a duplication bug essentially broke the PvP servers.

In a new press release, however, the studio explained that they've reversed their position on the matter, and a reset will no longer occur. "Studio Wildcard reconfirmed its commitment to no server wipe - despite a recent rash of cheating and hacking within the game," the developer wrote. "In addition to continuing to operate the legacy servers, on launch date the studio will roll out a fresh cluster network of servers running new code and infrastructure explicitly designed to prevent such issues from occurring in the future."

Ark: Survival Evolved launches on August 8. Are you pleased to hear the servers aren't getting wiped?