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ARK: Survival Evolved dev forks out $100 to exploit-reporting player

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If you can find a problem with ARK: Survival Evolved before its developer does, you can earn yourself some cash.

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ARK: Survival Evolved developers Studio Wildcard, Instinct Games, Efecto Studios and Virtual Basement offered a $100 bounty on hacks and exploits for the popular Early Access title.

This week, it made good on that promise. Player ZeroDay(++) got in touch about a potential issue, providing a replication guide allowing the development team to confirm its existence. The team promptly sent $100 via PayPal, as promised.

As yet the exploit has not been fixed, according to a Steam Community post, but an update is promised soon.

It's great to see a developer leveraging the brains of its players for the power of good to fight cheaters, rather than just issuing after the fact bans. Nice one, ARK: Survival Evolved. I see you're a survival game about hunting and even riding dinosaurs. You have my attention.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.
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