The End Of ARK - What Happened?...
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- More delays and lack of communication for ARK...what a shame.
Here's the latest in Ark Evolved, Ark 2 and Ark Ascended News.
The latest Studio Wildcard update has once again offered up a last-minute delay. This is the latest in a long line of items that spell the end of ARK.
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0:56 - 5 reasons
1:12 - "Optics" Issue
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8:46 - Split Playerbase
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CHAPTERS
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0:56 - 5 reasons
1:12 - "Optics" Issue
4:13 - Lack Of Innovation vs Competition
6:15 - No/Bad Communication
8:46 - Split Playerbase
10:11 - Bad Money
13:45 - Consider Subscribing & Socials
Have you heard anything about the ARK: Animated Series?
Wildcard burned a lot of bridges. I was expecting Ark 2 in a few years and instead of them working on making that happen they released a remastered Ark as a cash grab. If it was $30 I would have given it a pass but full priced? No thank you. Ark 2 better be the most amazing survival game I've ever seen to make up for it. What really irks me is I bought all the Ark expansions and Genesis was released just a few years ago. There's no need for a cash grab. It should have been a free update for current Ark players.
If you'd like some irony, one of the devs I follow on twitter has been live streaming and lauding their play of nighting game for the last 2 days. So much irony to unpack from that and on so many levels.
Btw buzz for some reason your links above there for those channels arent working.
@@K-W1 Hmmm, working on it now. It will work in 30 secs.
It still surprises me the original release date for ark 2 was 2022, and we're not even close to getting the game in 2024
You're into 2024 with just 1 map for ASA. Ark 2 feels like it is 10 years away, if ever.
I still say the only Ark 2 we will see is that crappy trailer with Vin Deisel. ASA is a scam to siphon more money off a dwindling player base
If there really was an ARK 2, there never would have been an Ark Ascended. Early on they promised the engine upgrade would be free to those who bought the original game, but I think that was when they actually thought they'd have a sequel to make money off of. When they realized they didn't, they turned Ascended into their next money grab.
2021 was actually intended for Ark 2 at one point lmao
â@@LtBuzzLitebeer atleast they paid Vin Diesel for that ARK 2 trailer, because every ARK player surely cares about that shit....................................
The moment they backtracked on the "Free" UE5 update to those who had already bought the game... The MOMENT they did that, I said ARK as we know it is dead. That was before all the BS with the pricing debacle and ARK/2 and all the straight-up LIES the company has been spewing for months now... ARK is done. Wildcard is done. Snail is done. Sadly, this also means Myth of Empires is also done. I honestly see no way the company can survive their own stupidity at this point. I operate a small cluster (11 maps) for ASE... and honestly? I think I'm going to break that down to just one or two servers and start hosting for other games that are simply better at this point.
Game development is a full time job, it still costs money to live.
You can't expect them to keep making new content for years, for free.
@@EinsamPibroch278 You absolutely can when they promise something for free to get you hyped then change their minds.
The reason I dropped it.
really never had a clue it was a full time job but yet no mans sky has been putting out free updates for years along with so many other games that did a graphics update for free.@@EinsamPibroch278
@@EinsamPibroch278the thing is the pretty much lied about it since they informed that it was suppose to be a free update with ASE and then changed what they stated later saying oh itâs now a remastered game that you have to pay separately so in this instance i could care less if they need to make money but despite all the negativity I still want to enjoy the game and I still do it just doesnât hit the same you know ð
Aint no way a game that started out as an early access game for damn near a decade is BACK in early access.
But it is...ðĪĶ
I thought the same thing, at first. It just sucks and point 2 is the largest reason I left the game. I was done getting fucked by WC daily. So I transferred ownership to a tribe mate, transferred to a random server that I'll probably never find. I was done and I gotta say, life has been a little better since then.
Well, they originally blamed all their issues on a horrible engine instead of their horrible code and practices, then they stated they were "building from the ground up" when all they did was port the exact same thing over (hence why all of the exact same bugs are there), and their horrible devs still have no idea how to fix this code in the brand new engine vs the one they've had a decade to use.
So yeah, it's never left early access. It never will leave early access unless someone else with some sort of competent developers on staff decides to remake the game with a new IP.
Let us not forget ATLAS and Grapeshot, an off shot of Wildcard set up specifically by wildcard to develop Atlas which is pretty much dead in the water now. Want to see what is gonna happen with ASA and A2 look to atlas, because they are doing the exact same things.
yeah I fell for the Atlas trap myself and was very disappointed with how that ended up going. That was the last time I ever purchased something from the company. If it weren't for the Mod community doing most of the development for Ark SE then this game would have died long ago. I don't think Wildcard has seriously worked on this game for 5 years.
same happened to dark and light aswell.
Me and my bf bought Atlas, since we liked the idea of Ark but pirates. But we quit the game in half hour. The experience was so bad. And we never got a refund.
And PixArk
Wasnât there another similar case as well, the game was basically ASE but with magic and mythical creatures and similar stuff, and work on it was ended fairly quickly by WC or Snail, whichever? I think it was called Light & Dark, or something like that
A pretty remaster with: Content delays. Meshing. Invisible bosses. Broken saves. Broken transfers. Cheating. Poor communication. Horrible optimization. The list can go on...but the nail in the coffin was Dollie encouraging the community to play other games ðĪĢ
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I saw that shit! That was hysterical.
cant even place eggs without disconnecting atm which has stopped even a lot of the hardcore players who breed good dinos.
Don't forget stealing money from Ark that was meant for the game to keep other businesses afloat that have nothing to do with ark
It makes sense to play other games than to hyper focus on just one. Even the Palworld devs said to go play other stuff until content is ready, The Final Fantasy devs regularly tell people that.
For a casual it does. A beach bob had this mentality.
I find it fitting that you had a clip of an Ark player hitting tree's to get resources until they die, for that very much feels like what Snail Games and Studio Wildcard are doing to the Ark franchise right now, hitting it to get money until they themselves die.
Someone on my discord ark server data mined both versions of the game, ascended is made on evolved old code.
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Thats the same thing folks found out when Atlas released. they realized so much of it was like original ark and when they datamined it they found it was simply an ark expansion pack that they turned into a stand alone $60 game. The icing on the cake was when they revealed the 2 button keystroke it took to turn the Atlas main menu into the one from Ark.
Atlas is basically the 'Atlantis DLC' that they were working on for releasing after Scorched Earth. Probably couldn't figure out how to get it to fit in the Ark story so they handed it off to another group to develop and they went in the pirate direction and tried to expand it so the maps could go endlessly like Minecraft. (Probably the same group that worked on Procedural generation in Ark, that could have been a nice feature if they had done the same. Development on Proc gen stopped around the same time as the Atlas release so...) It looks like eventually Wildcard went back and used some of the assets to create the Genesis 1 ocean biome and 2's SUMP area. Aberration's cave system is likely what was under the Atlas ocean but got expanded.
A lot of admin commands from ark work on atlas. Just an FYI.
@@lewislansching5982 A lot of those are built in to the Unreal Engine itself. Most professional developers just disable the console or hide how to get into it. Most devs also change the name of their game executable from the defaults too. That's why ark is just 'shootergame.exe' :P
I think the biggest sign that ASA is failing is that videos on how it's failing are now more popular than those of people actually playing the game.
Fact.
Ark is the example of a publisher's greed killing a game.
Also, ARK was never meant to become so big so the scale of the project overwhelmed the creators, and have no experienced people to continue it.
â@@piotrfijoek1095stop making excuses for a dog shit company kid.
snail games as a publisher is a joke. they took all the money and blew it on garbage that didnt have anything to do with games.
Nah, more an example of how no matter what. Theres a large portion of people who never learn. Never see the patterns. Never move out of the way despite being hit in the same spot time and time and time again. Ark Dev has been exactly like this since 2014. Much like Bethesda games. They will always have a playerbase that will gladly lay cash on the counter and proclaim "This time its for real"
Oh, so just like Payday 3?
"Lowest its ever been" Oh... they'll do their best to lower that bar even farther very soon....
Just wait until they announce pay to win microtransactions, premium battle passes, and cash shops.
@@SSGoatanks p2win/pass= The Adventure packs of which one already released. And for cash shops, that's pretty much the premium mods since while 50% of profit goes to the mod maker, the other 50% is split between Snail Games and Overwolf.....but there's more coming.
And let us not forget about Ark the Animated Series, that is also who knows where.
or it got cancelled
@@ultronzero4156it literally got released
@@kalbkelab Really? If I remember right, It got teaser back in 2020 right?
March 21st apparently it was released
Baby when I tell you I opened up ark ascended on console & my face went from ð to ð
Lmbo!!!!
It's not just all the same old bugs, it's all the same old bugs that they already fixed previously. Like throwing the dino out of a cryopod and it takes a few steps forward. That started up again and then just stopped a few days ago. I think they took all their original Arc code and ported it to unreal 5. Not the code they had been working on for years. The original code with all the same bugs. Now they have to go back through and refix everything. I just see too many old bugs that were previously fixed to think that anything else happened
Well, that was expected.
They've only changed what was necessary to change.
Updated assets, redrew the game map (because UE5 treats it differently) and remade some systems which were supposed to change(like base building).
After all they were migrating to a new engine, not making a new game.
@@michael_janus Which is not what they said at any time. They stated, and I quote: "Remade from the ground up." That doesn't sound like low level port to me.
This was probably because they were forced to a dead line by nitrado in that legally binding contract (their hopes) I suspect were most likely that they could indeed fix the code starting from scratch using the original base code (which in theory) should be easier than untangling years worth of compounded code.
Which means yes re-hashing old bugs and code but should in theory allow a better optimized code long term, but that also means having to keep players happy and try to push out working content that they were CLEARLY not ready for which is where half if not the majority of their problems stem from.
Cyropods are useless now. Pve is unplayable
Being an ASA mod developer has never sucked more. UE5 is so much better than ue4, but i already see so many people jumping ship and going back to ASE (who can blame them). I wish Wildcard would get their shit together.
ASA running on 5.2 while 5.3 is out and way more stable
Only reason why I'm not going back is the crazy install size
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well yea only because the caves and boss arena keep crashing, asa island map is superior but I miss boss fights so I'm back on ase
Ark started digging it's own grave the moment it made a deal with the devil called Snailgames.
I feel truly sorry for the fans of this franchise and i wish them all the best.
By the way at this point the only way Ark could be saved is if Snail and Wildcard gives the community the keys to the car so to speak.
The only way itâs going to be saved is if another publisher and dev team take the reins
Like who?
I kind of feel they started to dig their own grave when they used code from a previous job and lost a lawsuit, forcing them to sell DLCs before the game was released.. so kind of right out of the gate.
@@Artimidorus you mean when Jeremy Stieglitz and Wildcard had to pay 40 million dollars over a lawsuit.
Meaning all the sales from ark where gone in an instant and they had to sell themselvs to SGUSA.
I mean... does anyone remember back when Survival Evolved was still in EA and they offered a paid dlc in the form of Scorched Earth? That sets the tone for how I expected everything to go in the future.
Series X player and still not able to save my SINGLE PLAYER game. Started playing No Manâs Sky 2 weeks ago. Taking my time and enjoying the exploration and building. Loving it. Havenât even looked at Ark since.
Just in time for the new expedition, welcome.
Weird Ps5 that bug is gone , whole friends group been celebrating that issue is gone
@@DarkepyonX weird indeed, but not every ps5 user has been that fortunate.
I have Xbox X game saves fine for me every time I've never had an issue
@@Dino2GunZ congrats you're also part of the minority of working save files.
I was a die hard fan of Ark Survival Evolved. I was among the dozens who were on the edge of their seats when a new dino update released on Unreal 4. Their old models were good, but to release a new Texture model and new features to the dino was impressive that only made us more excited that these quality of life overhauls would make the dream of dinosaur game worth while. The fact that they can give their textures a facelife like that in Unreal 4 proves that they had the team capable of making things work in Unreal 4. So to jump to 5, with the quality in design we were expecting would indeed blow us out of the water. There's no denying that. But it's a reskin. You're not going to pull a Bethsada Horse Armor DLC and tell us it's raining.
Haven't heard that in a while. 'Don't piss up my back and tell me it's raining'. Spot on too.
@@bowlock9901 it seemed like a good analogy...
It's slightly off topic, but ARK was never a dinosaur game, it was just a marketing trick to label is as such, since it sounds better than "prehistoric animals game" which would still be inaccurate. You know what percentage of the game's tameable creatures are dinosaurs? 26.7%. Dinosaur game my *ss. That was their fist lie.
@@Hellxdamage That isn't how it launched though. It launched Island with 100% prehistoric creatures, then they launched the bosses (which were fantasy). From there they kept making things up and straying further from the prehistoric creature aspect. But originally..... it was a dino game and was marketed as such.
â@@AC273 You did not fully understand what I said. That's the thing, prehistoric animal =/= dino! Dinosaurs are a specific group of reptiles and their descendants the birds, nothing else is a dinosaur. It's just WC's idiocity to use it as an umbrella term to every creature in the game regardless if something is a dinosaur or not.
Ark in early access had 23 creatures of which 11 was dinosaur, and yeah this ratio kept going worse in favor of non-dinosaurs.
considering what a shitty state the island came out in, im horrified to see how bad the center map is for them to have said no to releasing it
Right?
The center was a trash fire of a map when it released. If all they did was repurpose old code, i have no doubt it was probably in a worse state. Also Ragnarok was a beautiful map as well, but it also was extremely unstable. And it never really got that much better either.
â@@cheesesniper473se ÃĐ tÃĢo ruim os mapas por que ainda joga?
Also as I side note.. the new floating island creature on Scorched Earth. It mentions the regeneration pool, but the wording actually says "Dead Pets". I would not be surprised if that means just what it says.. dead/lost pets/Chibbies lol.
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Iâve been wondering since day 1, what will they do when they decide that they arenât going to finish the rest of the maps? Do we all get refunds or will there be a class action lawsuit ? You know they wonât make it all the way through genisis maps.
I think they are going for an overwatch 2 - a game built around providing PvE and talent trees to an existing game...that supplied neither....and is basically paying money for the thing everyone already had. They seem to have gotten away with that just fine, unfortunately.
Video game companies get away with alot of things unfortunately. That's why you never give them money
In moba's it's even worse, say you got a total of 800 character skins each being worth 20 USD (800 x 20 = 16,000) 16,000 USD is what you spent on this game. Now also imagine that somebody finds your in game name or something you said offensive and reports you or that you type something completely normal in chat, but the automated ban system finds "I like eggs" offensive. In both cases, you are now perma banned and you just lost 16,000 USD and the devs give the middle finger when you try to ask for some kind of justice or somewhat of a refund
I would unironcally say that video game companies are better at evading law & responsibility than criminals are, and they have the exact same attitude when you try to ask for your stuff back
I am so glad i didn't pay for ASA or even get the game. I was excited for it, don't get me wrong. But with everything that is going on with Snail and WC, im just going to stick to Evolved and Palworld.
palworld looks horrible its not gonna be around for long
@Flegod possibly but the game looks horrible
@@romansbottomPalworldâs graphics isnât meant to look lifelike, itâs more of a anime style but looks way better then any PokÃĐmon game where it lent its esthetics from. It runs smooth with no glitches from the start. I wish I could say that about ASE, but then I would have been lying and from what I hear ASA runs like crap and have all the old bugs thou it was promised to be new code!
But hey, I guess thereâs plenty of room on the ASA servers as no oneâs playing it anymore! The Island is still the Island even with new textures and we all have played that map until boredom before ASA was even mentioned.
@@romansbottom I can see how people may think that. But it is not meant to be realistic. It is meant to be a fun survival monster capture game. Much like ark. And IMO it is way better, and way more polished as an early access game than ASA is.
@Flegod Don't get me wrong, I've had some fun with Palworld... but the whole thing just feels soulless and procedurally generated. Exploration isn't nearly as fun as ASE.
Its like waiting for a train informing it is 3 mins late every 3 mins :D
The bit about lack of innovation is a great point. Had the update to UE5 graphics been free or $10-$20, it's unlikely anyone would have batted an eye that it was the same old _ARK;_ there would have been an understanding that limitations existed because of the game's age, and players would have gone about their business, eager to play with the new dinos and buy the new map. But $40+ and tales of brand-new, ground-up code set expectations for a game that would be vastly superior, with all sorts of TLC and bug fixes. None of it materialized, to the point of the new game being worse off than the old. I would have been delighted to have been wrong about how problematic _ASA_ would be, and had it been everything I'd hoped for _ASE_ to be, I would have bought it even without the ability to play it on my current rig. Maybe even bought the oasisaur just because I'm a bit of a collector. But with _ASA_ as it is, I can't justify any of it, even though I've begun the journey toward a new gaming rig.
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Both snail and wildcard remind me a lot about the story of Icarus and just like how he flew to close to the sun and went crashing so have they and this once great game
I think we need a deep dive into how this PTW creature announced recently is going to actually work. Given the current limitations of the game.
This creature is larger than a titanosaur and can supposedly hold a whole village on its back. Assumption, this means there will be a limited, possibly fixed ammount on the map at one time, that everyone who pays for this creature doesnt actually get one, you just get the use of one.
The dossier says the 'favoured tribe' get closest to the pool with miraculous abilities. Looks like even with paying money to obtain the use of the creature, you may not even get exclusive use of this one creature. Assumption : these creatures are just a large, animated pvp event and not exclusive content that you pay for.
Given the dossiers release, the limitations of the size and ammount of large creatures on the map this raises a lot of red flags as to what you will actually be paying for here.
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ARK needed ASA to be the ARK 2 that everyone wanted, and wildcard never promised. We are talkin about that same company that started releasing DLC maps before fixing major issues like eggs glitching through the floor and the generally terrible online experience it was at the time.
Instead we got the ASA release to be on par with the first clients that released with ARK. Dinos that lag so hard you could kill a rex with a pick, and servers that were as stable as an actively erupting volcano.
Been playing ark since 2018 and all I can say is that this stuff makes me really sad.
Try being there in 2015-2017 when game was HALF as stable as ASA . Newer players just don't understand ASE was far worse early on ð
Out of curiosity what's that artwork used in the thumbnail/starting image?
I even randomly came across Nooblets video you mentionned. As far as I remember he described the rampant corruption within Snail Games and that its unlikely that they can or want to save ARK, from its downfall.
man, I really think the only thing that can be done now is just hope a company like epic picks this game up, it's unlikely but I have 0 faith left in WC and snail at this point.
I lost my hope 3-4years agoâĶ but wildcard is still thereð
This one hits.. i came late to ark like started in 2019 and missed all the "good days".. had a ton of fun catching up and learning then running private servers, got excited for asa and that ran its course.. now im just here like -_- rip
2019 isnt bad man. That around when Rag dropped or not long after? Thats the golden times of Ark. Definitely on official
Yep just after, I played on island for a bit to see how the game was and got hooked immediately! The community was awesome too, met so many cool folks of all ages just grinding for hours. Good memories ð
Great content Man, Great Work
Subbed to assist to that 200k, push it!!!!
Well.. everyone is a MAGA supporter now.. Make Ark Great Again
Not Bad for A White Boy, is He !! !
â@@alvinglenn458 lol
Trump sucks
I've been saying pretty much the same as all of this to my friends. Its a hard pill to swallow, but they backed themselves into a corner and smashed what trust remained in the community.
100% acknowledgement!
Iâm guessing the point of ASA was partly an exercise to get used to Unreal 5, allowing them to develop updated textures and effects without having to make a whole new map, and partly to get money.
Mainly to get money with the excuse of getting used to U5. They rushed it, "reworked from the ground up" bullshit. Why is a remake in early access.
Time to finish Atlas.
Come on Grapeshot
the people that defend ASA are legit delusional. The only response to genuine facts presented is "your poor" "your a kid" They really cant handle critiscm. After the ATLAS scam you think these people will learn.
They're hopelessly addicted. They put a ton of time into their bases, their dinos, maybe RMT, and are too invested and hopelessly drawn in. Snail will probably drag this game through the dirt until it dies trying to suck every ounce of cash they can however they can out of it.
I e had three maps in a cluster since 2019. Itâs for friends and we stalled due to life in 2023. We picked up ascendant and the wife and I played with a small surge. And itâs back to just us. Iâll happily go backwards for friends. Thatâs what we play for.
I bought ascended when it released and I still can't get into online servers only single player. I get stuck on the joining server screen.
What Ark players really need is a competitor game that everyone can jump onto and let this ship sink on its own.
What a bummer. I love Ark and thought it just needed some adjustments. Decay for foundations on spawn points, insane explosive damage or weakness of steel base components, few other things, but the game was solid as hell. The ability to play solo was a big one but certainly workable. I think you are right and it makes me sad :(
Thank you for your content, I have played ark from the beginning of ASE. I fell into the myth like many other of buying ASA to the tune of great up grade great content. But now I'm sat on the Island having completed it all as single map we are bored at a loose end craving new maps. After paying out for the game again for me and the wife we are completely dissatisfied with how WC and Snail are running the game.
Again thank you for your great content.
Pax Dei is also coming out and Valhiem update as well...
Me and my sister love to find good survival games to play together online, and eventually we looked as Ascended after remembering how fun Evolved was years ago. We had no clue it wasn't "Ark 2", but we were excited to get in it none-the less. We bought the game and couldn't even find a way to get in to a game together, and on top of that couldn't get a stable single-player game going. Loading times were insane, and our decent PC's were running it like we didn't have graphics cards. Immediately refunded and went back to Evolved (for a day before moving over to project zomboid). Right after this, Palworld released, we picked it up and were in game together within minutes and having a blast scratching that itch. I'm not sure I will ever play ark again; more interested in to following Palworld and what they have down the development pipeline.
Wtf are you talking about ðð Joining games is easy and ASA has split screen(on console) with nearly ZERO performance dips from it . Me and my little brother do the same thing in looking for games ð it's easy af on console
â@@DarkepyonX I was on steam. Cool that console players had a more streamlined experience though. Troubleshooting a new game sucks.
@@Shade04rek You talk about Palworld, but that game has less content than ASE, no endgame, and pokemon-esque lame creatures.
I don't doubt that it's a good game and I'm sure it's fun ; but meh the graphical style alone, coupled with the lack of content and casualization of systems... idk
I remember playing this game years ago and was obsessed, didnât watch vids, just wanted to learn myself, it was amazing and the game hold a special place in my heart but right now itâs like watching someone you love slowly kill themselves with a heroine addiction
Everyone removing the CLOUDS to get little bit of better Frame Rates!
Developer Excuse - its EARLY ACCESS
The least the devs could have done is added an option in the menu to disable the volumetric clouds, just to aknowledge that it's an issue. Their lack of communication is truly baffling.
As someone who's never played Ark before(and can't help but give it a curious glance considering Palworld took a few ideas from it, which I'm totally ok with), is Survival Evolved still worth at least checking out? I'll most likely look into Palworld first after it's been updated a bit more, but with how long Ark has been around, SE sounds like it's still a fun alternative.
It is, of you're willing to suffer through its flaws and have good people to play with. Otherwise, meh.
To be fair though, given the current state of things, I'm not sure giving more money to these people is a good idea. If anything, wait until it's all on sale or sail the seas for it.
Noted. Thanks!@@nightc0red
Does anyone else have an issue where the map is so blurry you cant really use it? I play on and xbox series s. There was only 1 time the map wasnt blurry but it only lasted for a couple minutes.
It was blurry for me too (on PC), then I set the texture quality higher, and that solved it. I don't know what settings are available on consoles, but it seems like the problem might be caused by the game's resolution, texture settings AND the display's resolution not being "in harmony", so you might wanna tinker with those settings.
Use the command r.Streaming.FullyLoadUsedTextures 1 that seems to fix it
you hit this perfectly.
What the Great Flyer Nerf did to my 12th generation bred Quetzes was criminal. I have not forgotten.
I'm just soooo curious what management is like at that company. The lack of everything (patches, communication to the playerbase, delayed content, etc). It has the be hell on earth to work under the bosses at Snail / Wildcard.
ive had this bug where i cannot connect to modded servers despite spending about 100 hours jus trying different things so im yet still unable to play the nitrado server that me and my friends rented for 6 months thinking we would no life this like we did for ASE
I got this.
Palworld came out. Once that previews been rinsed people will come back. Right about the time the new maps are out.
But not every single oneâĶ and Wildcard/snail only earn more money with the dlc âĶ it will dieâĶ not now not fast but every delay which wildcard is the definition of is the next nail in the coffin.
Itâs sad, but without a solid big playerbase the mod Programm will not work like it should do etc.
Ark ascended need a solid average playerbase which they will never get because you need a 3060+ to even run this game and in 1440p you need a 4070 or higherâĶ 2160p still not playableâĶ maybe with the 5xxx or 6xxx flagships. Till the average steam user has a 3070+ the game is buried 5times.
I downloaded ASA on the PS5 and launch and like the QOL enhancements and graphic updgrades but I deleted ASA from my PS5 and games library last Monday in total disgust, the ongoing save issue was an annoyance but recoverable from my cloud back-up, I'd loose maybe 2 - 3 hours play each time it occurred (every 3rd or 4th start up. Whatever the last update was, it synced the 'new' map it created and overwrote the cloud backup 330+ hours of play and build wiped before I knew what was happening. Apparently this is a common and long term issue, glitched I can cope with but when, in combination with the PS5s sync it negates any chance of recovering from such a glitch it's time to walk away. It's been a real bonus to my use of free time last week, I finally got my photography back catalogue going back to 2022 all updated and as a consequence I recovered about 200 Gb of space on my laptop. I also got to check out the new features in Minecraft in the end. While ASA was a complete and utter waste of time going forward I have a lot of time that I can make better use of. And yes I'm that pissed with it that I don't think I'll be returning to any of my ASE maps either.
Where did that thumbnail come from?
In ASA I can't even save changes to my keybindes on Xbox series x, even though I got an update mid game a couple of days ago.
It be nice to see you playing some Hell Divers 2. Itâs a lot of fun.
I was with Ark for years, nearly from the start- have many frustrating and fun memories of my time in it with friends, helped mod a semi large server, was part of a super tribe in official pve too. I remember both myself and my friends being exited for a free upgrade, we wouldn't mind paying for a few random extras but we were wary... and the bells of bad news tolled when the backtracks happened, we all refused to buy this new thing unless it would go dirt cheap on sale and was more complete but at the rate things have been going yeah no- the time of my friends and myself in Ark seems to have finally come to a close, we have since moved onto other games and won't be going back even if ASA somehow gets its crap together. We now play Palworld and Valheim instead for our survival fix. Can't wait for Light no fire to drop as well, that alone looks like it has the potential to become THE survival game for the upcoming future.
Iâve been playing ARK: Survival Evolved since *2015* (or at least when Compy was a new dinosaur) and while the game actually released in 2017, I still consider it a 2015 game personally since thatâs the technology it had at the time and it hasnât changed a whole lot, but thatâs just me. I own every DLC, have several mods and have well over 1k hours in Evolved, and still today itâs my second most played game on Steam. However, Iâve had the game uninstalled for almost a year now and Iâve never been happier. Uninstalled for two reasons:
*1. The unholy size of it*
This game, with all of its DLC installed, is about 300+ GB, a third of an average PCâs (around peak ARK time) disk size. While I have 2 TB of storage on this PC, I want to have at least 900 GB of breathing room given how many games I have installed at one time, and this game was just taking up way too much space to justify keeping it installed, especially after I kept playing it less and less. Probably the reason is the game is full of uncompressed files bloating the game which only got worse as more DLC were added. Slightly off topic but, itâs incredible that the ARK fan base tolerated Scorched Earthâs release as much as we did, we complained about the fishy business of a DLC in Early Access but we still bought it because of our faith in Wildcard; oh how times of changed.
*2. Ascended*
The moment I heard the reveal for Ascended, I was irritated. I am someone who very rarely cares about how pretty a game is as my âoverall enjoyment scoreâ, so seeing this new version of ARK thatâs just âARK but in 4kâ already kinda annoyed me since the base game looked fine. And then they decided Ascended was no longer free. Many people have called some of us entitled for expecting Ascended to be free since âpoor Wildcard needs yer moneeâ, and while I agree to an extent, even Bethesda had the humility to give Skyrim: Special Edition to us for free if we owned the original Skyrim. Bethesda was more generous than Wildcard; let that sink in. And then they announced the ARK: Survival Evolved official servers would be shutting down when Ascended comes out. Ah, I see the tactic here, youâre insecure about Ascendedâs sales and so youâre *forcing us to buy Ascended* if we want to play on official (they also didnât change Evolvedâs store page to allude to the fact official multiplayer would go offline, extremely shady) Yeah no f*ck this boat, Iâm swimming to shore lmao.
I wouldnât say Iâm disappointed, I always knew ARK was a very flawed game and I played it despite my issues with it, I bought the DLC and enjoyed my time with the game, but Iâve officially moved on. Ascended was just the straw that broke the camelâs already arthritic back. I may regret a little just how much time I spent on it, as nowadays Iâm more modest about how much I play video games, but itâs in the past. Oh and for future reference, never believe Wildcardsâ release dates, they have never met a single one, ever. I knew 21/22 for ARK 2 was a load of t-rex sh*t and I was right, and like you said, Ascended was probably just a sales stunt to fund ARK 2.
See you all in 2035 when ARK 2 is released lol
I stopped playing ARK a while ago because it was too heavy on my PC and I didn't have time, and I felt bad that I spent money on this thing and barely touched it. Thanks to this video, I don't feel bad any more!
Concordo com vocÊ ,nÃĢo sei se ÃĐ por eu ser brasileiro mas tÃĄ difÃcil de crescer com o conteÚdo do ASA e olha que eu amo o game. E por sinal Ãģtimos vÃdeos e bom conteÚdo ,diria que parece um telejornal noturno âĪ
Im so glad i never bought ASA and just stuck with ASE, this company never seems to not disappoint. Its just sad how a game i love so much has just been dragged in the dirt. Im just glad they didn't ruin ASE with some hidden patches to get people to buy ASA, doesnt seem like thats something that they wouldnt do.
Great video lad!
Man, not gonna lie Ark was one of the experiences I've post 360 era. I was fortunate to have alot of irl friends and some met online where we would play Ark everyday for so many hours..we even played Atlas for awhile when it came out. I wish more wouldve been done with Atlas but wow both games imo added something i couldn't mind MORE of the game industry taking from..like palworld lol
I goe into Evolved quire early in the Early Access period, I played on the island before the snow and the swamp. I had some fun there with friends, relativly quickly most of us switched to modded maps: Valhalla, Center, Ragnarock. Almost none of my friends got into the story DLC maps. About ascended.. I was curious, maybe when the non story maps show up. Few months later and still no info about it, so yeah, more likely Ill download a different Evolved modded map then buy Ascended.
Dino sandbox experience with elemental wyverns, gigantic teleporting icedogs, may aswell make the mods with godly dinos official, that part of Ark died around the time they released gigas and broke the fragile balance forever.
Those mods are amazing, im just sad how they influenced the main game, i guess thats nice about ascended only having the island for now, not too many fictional magical creatures yet.
I stopped playing around the time the island with the new wyverns came out. Looks like i got out at the right timeð
10:10 wait, is this ASA..? Heavily modded or just full settings?
Palworld welcomes all âĪ
Unless your on PlayStation
@@thelastatreyu5508 ðŽ shit my bad
@@thelastatreyu5508 Why would anyone choose to be on Playstation when you can build a better PC system for the same price ?
Stupidity I guess.
@@kokorochin01 I like the ease of put in disc and play game. I donât have to fiddle with settings or upgrade parts. Had no issues with ark ascendant but you know each is their own
Like many I went through the dev of ARK: Survival Evolved to it's current state. I was thrilled at the idea of a free upgrade to UE5 - but now - so glad I haven't bought into ASA. If it gets a decent reduction in price I might pick it up. But it is certainly not worth over ÂĢ30 in it's current state. Thank you for the measured information you've provided, it reinforces my belief that Snail and WIldcard are incapable of providing ASA. And as for ARK2 - again I was excited, and now not so much as Wildcard proves, yet again (I don't know why I expected it to change), it still cannot meet a deadline.
I remember playing ark before they added bugs :( I loved those daysâĶ sometimes less is more and I think they hugely suffered from feature creep.
Smalland, do not forget this game on gamepass, PC and PlayStation5. That particular title has engrossed us for two weeks so much so that weâve already beat the final boss.
The Optix can be controlled by just adding a few things after starring the game.
r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod 0
r.Nanite.MaxPixelsPerEdge 4
r.VolumetricCloud 0
r.volumetricfog 0
I was a private server hoster for a long time. When they removed private non-nitrado servers from the serverlists I pulled the plug. There were plenty of other issues making it hard to run a stable private server, but it is clear that private servers were heavily discouraged by malpractice. I couldn't be arsed anymore.
lol, I said it from the start, it's going to take them years to trickle out the maps. As long as it took them to release Evo's maps.
We arenât leaving ark.. we are just leaving ark ascended.. itâs honestly the best move to get our point across
Been watching your content and subscribed for a while now. I really appreciate your content and all the work you put in! As someone who started a TH-cam channel and trying to grow it, albeit slowly, starting out with ASE content and have lots of hours invested into ASE, your amazing points in this video (and previous ones), make me sad but reassured as to why I am making the right decision to not purchase and support ASA, so thank you!ððĪ
Got to make sure that snail games can cheat so that makes sense with the call Island dinosaur thing
They should have never promised it for freeâĶ that was a huge mistake! BUT I also agree with the comments that you canât expect them to continue making new content for free. They have to live off this, and no one can survive on rainbows, cotton candy, and positive vibes - including TH-camrs by the way. Every popular game out there makes you pay for new content - new maps, etcâĶ Conan - I had to pay for the new map. DayZ I had to pay for the new map. Subnautica I had to pay for the new mapâĶ and all of those games have new skins coming out regularly that you have to pay forâĶ
ASA is giving us ALL the maps for one price (and changing the maps over to UE5 is a HUGE job)âĶ they are making it possible for you to create your own custom skins / maps / mods for freeâĶ
I donât agree with all their decisions! They shouldnât have said ASA would be free to begin withâĶ The new DLC Dino shouldnât be able to revive dead dinosaursâĶ I have to problem with âpay-to-playâ, but they need to make sure it never becomes âpay-to-winââĶ but I also think we need to be patient (itâs hard sometimes - I know!), and give them a break!
Looking at what happened to Dark and light, atlas, outlaws of old west, pixark , ASE survived alot and seems like ASA just came to kill it, nothing more.
I saw today that ASA is on sale for 40% off on Steam... still not sure if it's worth it at this time...
I played for a few years on ASE, starting about a year or so before the drop of Ragnarok and the end of legacy servers. We had some great times along with some frustrating ones. Most of my friends quit playing shortly before I did. I finally had enough when the base lag got so bad that I couldn't even do a berry run to fill troughs. Logged out after disconnecting three times back-to-back with no movement and never went back to an official server. I ran a Nitrado server for us for a year or so, but it eventually got boring with no PVP happening.
I recently bought ASA on a 33% sale on PS5 just to see the graphics lol. I've played a few hours now and have found that some things aren't too bad whilst others are really annoying. Unfortunately, I don't feel like it's really an improvement overall. I hate how they made the console inventory controls like those on PC. It's takes longer to do on a controller and is hard on the hands. The fog and clouds have to be removed with cheats because they look like crap and mess with gameplay too much. I didn't really expect things to be better anyway, so it's not a big deal to me. The only major changes that are good are the ability to use mods on console and getting crossplay like ASE should have had. I'm not at all surprised to see map delays and bugs everywhere. It's typical Wildcard behavior. They'll never change. I'll probably play around with ASA for a short amount of time before getting bored and quitting. I haven't bothered trying any mulitplayer servers because it's not worth the hassle. A transition to UE5 was a great idea, but it was sadly doomed to fail before it ever started because of the people in charge of everything. Laziness and greed don't make anything better.
Thank you for saying exactly what I've been saying since it dropped.
It is just a reskin with mods added in. It is, they haven't proven me wrong.
3:12 (Save or same??????)
It has a save game issue on consoles? Palworld on console has the same issue too
I wonder if its the consoles themselves or UE5 engine they were built on is the culprit
I bought Ark Evolved on the first day of early access. what was promised was almost a game like Ascended. This was then released on greedy years later. they don't get a cent more
Menny things about this game went wrong, my personal end of this game was when they opened server's to massive invasion from other server's.. This is long ago now, but where i was .. even if it was a pvp sever, we had a comunity. some of the buildings (mine included) stayed for 2 year's without beeing raided or grifed... We even had a community built soup kitchen for new player's arriving. One part to know em, on part to see if this was a threath.. But it was there!
Soupchef, we will always remember you.
Ark community deserves a great game after all the support given to snail games voltures.
As a big Payday fan and player for a very long time I feel your guys pain over at the ARK community. Hope your guys situation turns out better than ours.
This was the game I loved I had played it for years and could see through all the bugs and see the game for what it was but ASA is just on hole new Level I had just bought a pc and could barely even play it on low setting I am so sad to see such a good game go into such a waste ðĒðĒ
I just want my favorite game back on trackðĒ
The last ark update to ps4 was about a month ago
Iâm enjoying ascended. Mods on console is dope. I really want the center though lmao and scorched earth
Duuude console split screen ftw w 8 people on island is a blast and a half . I like ASE but can see company is likely going to just kill it eventually.
What mods you running? We gonna look into those after we Platinum the game .
@@DarkepyonX the Ark Additions Dinoâs are probably the coolest mods to use. Thereâs a lot of good QoL mods too though
Some of them migrated to palworld now.
I was excited to play ASA as i cant play with mods on evolved as a console player, but too many bugs keeps me from progressing through the game, ive lost count on how many corrupted save data i got,
I haven't had the save glitches on xbox but omg the graphics on xbox are worse than ase. Like the rocks just look like tan blobs. Having the mods and quality of life improvements are the only reason I continue to play and not go back to ase full time.
"So long, and thanks for all the fish!" ð
I remember this game came out on the PS4. I still never got to play it. Iâm now on series X. Oh well