What users say about AASM

"Cryptek has been awesome has helped me with everything I have needed help with. Weather it be about his manager or not. He's has been a great help. If you find an issue and bring it to his attention he is right on top of getting it fixed. 100% recommend this manager."

"Great Server Manager and only getting better. I've hosted server for my friends and familys before with ASE. I've hosted them oldschool using steamCMD, as well as the ark server manager back in the day. With ASA I did the same but now with more maps I wanted something easier. This app is amazing. Has everything you need to keep your server running and updated. Lots of features and like I said, its only getting better. The Dev Cryptek is quick at getting back to you if you have any problems or questions. This alone is why I didn't even keep my trial and after 2 days I bought the program. The trial alone is a great reason to use this app. They don't require CC or any info up front, which means that they know this app is great. Give it a try, you'll see for yourself. Love this app and glad I came across it."

"Using ASM for Evolved for several years now. Then another ASA manager before finding this one. Cryptek has done a great job developing this and seeing to it that concerns and requests of the admins and players out here are taken care of. Continue the great work!"

"Have used the manager for a little while now, had a couple hiccups along the way, But Cryptek has been a great help figuring out the in's and out's of the program, and when any game breaking bugs pop up in the manager, He is on it and pushes out a fix ASAP! highly recommended for a server manager! Cant wait to see what other features get added with time!"

"Have to say so far having tried to use other managers that this is by far the smoothest. 8 days left on my trial license will be going lifetime license before that day expires by the looks of it. Its simple, uncomplicated, but hides away complexities that can be invoked in your servers. Yes there can be more things added and I have suggested a few. What i do like is the creating or importing profiles.. it simply works, on another competing manager, you have to fight with profiles!!"

"FELICITATION FOR YOUR NICE WORK."

"I recently purchased the manager and am very satisfied with it. I'm especially impressed by the quick support: if there are any issues, you get help right away, and bugs are promptly fixed."

"Awesome work on manager. Best tool for ark self hosting available and very easy to use. According to my friends who are coders etc it's TERRA-friendly and if I can't break it now then it's 100% good lol. Have recommend to a few others and will continue to do so. Seems perfect!!"

"Glad your program and the community that's grown around it exist! Just noticed the ability to drag & drop the server tabs—nice touch! Thanks for everything."

"I used a different program before and what can I say, I got gray hair. I love your manager! It is very understandable and offers so much. If you need help, you can get it here quickly. The DC Bot is also great. Maybe at some point you can add Players (now) 0/70 and Tribes (7d) to the server status? Otherwise just excellent work. Keep it up."

"Okay, heres my honest opinion about Ark Ascended Server Manager, first of all I never seen a software that much beautiful, very nice design, friendly-user & easy to setup. Yeah I agree sometime you can find bugs but if you're a developer you know that when you make something is not everytime perfect. But what I can say you is Cryptek is a solo developer for this program, he's super active and friendly. I'm the one who's gonna invest alot in this program because I know what it will be in the future. (You should do it tho, you don't have any idea how good and useful it will be) I recommend Ark Ascended Server Manager to everybody who like ARK for playing with friends or for hosting big clusters server. Theres alot of features included everything you could think of. This is a big life changer for me and if you try it or buy it you will see by yourself. Thanks you Cryptek for making this masterpiece, it deserve more visilibity, don't give up, and keep what you doing because we love it!"

"By far the best server manager I have used for Ascended, the developer is very helpful too when something is wrong and is quick on fixing bugs when reported! would recommend 💯"

"Halfway through the free trial and if I can get it running as advertised i will deff be a life member, having some issues but the discord community are very helpful where they can be, software itself: feature set is really well thought, out sliders for all coming setting broken into easy tabs, very decent backup, restart recovery section coupled with an easy to navigate GUI its the best ASM ive used and I used a lot. All the work the author has put in here will save any serious ASA a tonne of time with what should be an out of the box polished server manager. will update at the end of the trial. Lil bugger ran tooooo HOT, got ASM on a proper sevver and everything is butter smooth, I bought the lifetime sub, well worth the money!"

"The best ASA server manager available! 💯 And only getting better!"

"Gotta say rn (knocks really hard on wood) the manager is very stable in the last week after taking out the windows update variable I have not had issues with the manager at all. If maps crash it comes back online properly and doesn't require any attention. Great work and thank you for making our lives so much easier didn't even consider self hosting till I found your manager when I was looking into it thank you for all the work that goes into it we appreciate it."

"Really neat bit of software, would be nice to have say 3 seat limit rather than 1 as I plan to add more blades to the server as maps are released ... but I'm sold.. will upgrade from the trial and install it on the new server later .. thanks."

"I wanted to reiterate what I'm sure has been said by others, Thank You for dedicating your time to this manager and the community, and for putting up with all the headaches to keep it running smooth and improving it. Thanks for listening to our suggestions and making the manager better and more robust for everyone. I probably wouldn't be playing ark again if not for this manager. Merry Christmas!"

"Thank you Cryptek for this! it could have saved my cluster's playerbase."

"I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for the work you've put into Ark Ascended Server Manager this year. The tool has become really solid after the latest release, the improvements are very noticeable, and it feels more polished and reliable than ever. Managing servers is now significantly easier and more efficient, and it's clear that a lot of care has gone into the recent updates. I'm also a proud owner of 6 lifetime licenses, which says a lot about how much trust I have in the project and its future. I really appreciate how actively you listen to community feedback and continue to improve the product. Keep up the great work, it's always great to see a developer who is genuinely passionate about what they're building. Hope you had a good Chrismas, and Happy New Year!"

"Best UI of all managers."

"Some history, back in summer 2020, through a confluence of events, covid, ark free on epic, summer vacation etc, I ended up running upwards of 19 ARK ASE servers, during that summer we averaged around 300-750 concurrent users. with about 2400 weekly recurring players, out of a total 15k+ unique players. All managed with bletch's ASM. It wasn't perfect but it did the job quite well. They were all hosted on Windows Servers in my homelab. By spring 2022, population had dropped to only a handful of players, I shutdown all my ARK servers and moved on. After the ASA release I briefly ran a couple servers, 100% manually, but at release with no real functioning SM, along with all the other issues of ASA at that time, I backed away completely. I only mention the above to give some background and weight that having run ARK servers for 7+ years, I have a pretty good sense on what I consider a good server manager. ARK ASA SM, this server manager, is an amazing and very worthy successor to Bletch's original ASM. I dealt with AMP for about 5 days and was about to call it, AMP is great game server manager, for pretty much ANY game server BUT ARK. There are just way too many settings and the way it works makes it extremely difficult to manage or diagnose problems. ARK is just not a good fit for AMP. No shade on AMP, I use it for lots of other game servers. I almost hung my hat again, but was being asked by a couple close friends to please run a server. So I did some searching and found ASA SM, by Cryptek. I got the trial yesterday, and this morning picked up a 6month license. Truly, an amazing piece of software. It is very responsive and I really have no complaints. I'm sure my ADD brain will find something at some point, lol. I just wanted to say from a Server Admin's perspective, this is a really great management platform."

"I would like to express my sincere gratitude to dear Cryptek; the new version 0.8.0 has fixed the problems I was having with AASM, and now it's wonderful. Thank you very much for your effort and dedication."

"Love the manager. Love the ai support bot even more."

"10/10 purchasing lifetime license."

"I originally switch to your manager after paying heaps to nitrado but not only did I save money I also gained the ability to run more servers on less cost and there is always hard copy of my files no more waiting on tech support which is a huge plus I also gained more features as well awesome job and keep up the good work."

"I was using the other popular free product that runs ark servers. It was ok but dint have native crosschat, and the cluster system was clunky as all get out. Switched over to this program and within five mins I was pulling out my wallet. Amazing support, amazing UI and integration. Money well spent!"