Extrememdp

My game time experience was this: I chose a server for noobs just so I could learn the controls, but the controls didn't work for me. I tried some work-arounds, but that didn't help. Some things I figured out on my own from interaction with AI creatures, but my tracker didn't always work, I couldn't find my friends I'd invited to play with me and they bought the game too (I feel so guilty that I wasted their money too because they're just as disappointed as me), and dying on a noob server only because you walked for HOURS (like 5+) looking for food and only found 1 type that runs faster than you, even when you try heading it off by taking shortcuts, and it still right- or left-turns away from you then gets away because you don't run as fast. Or let's say, the perfect storm: It starts raining, nighttime comes, you're using night vision to see, and go down some rocky side of a mountain, but slide because it's wet, fall, break your leg, so you can't hunt, and you can't chase prey with a broken leg, in the rain, at night, so you die of starvation. Rinse and repeat. How is that fun? And you spend a few minutes choosing what you think would make you look cool to create your dino, but each time you die, the presets didn't stick, so you have to go through all of it again. So lame!!!! So sad! This game was a waste of my money. For my friends who spent their money on it, I tried to stay in the game and figure things out that I thought I just hadn't discovered yet, but that just didn't come true. Moreso, the noob server's AI prey weren't plentiful to learn on. Not even scarce. So I tried a server with lots of people on it, 125 players! Thought "ok, well with that many players, I'll be able to hunt them, and I'll even choose a T-Rex, but even full grown, things out-ran me and I was attacked and killed. Mind you, I'm an experienced game player, but this was horrible. Then I found out you can get kicked from a server because they feel like it. I read the chat conversations while on that server with 125 people, and there was organized crime that would call out your location in chat, then they would all run to those coordinates and kill you, completely outnumbered. That doesn't even happen in the wild!!!!, not to that extreme. Even a pack of lions attacking a zebra or antelope would be justifiable compared to what goes on in these servers with lots of players. It's not doable unless you know those people. So that leaves players like me, in a deficit of money that I spent on this game and nothing to show for it other than 9 hrs of game play, repeated character creations, controls that didn't work, and a denied refund because I spent longer than 2 hrs playtime. Worthless! And Thanks Steam, now I'm an angry customer, and don't really feel like using your program to find games to play.