@@vespasianflavius2766 true. And also remember, they once released a road map and tried to tell us, when what map will be added to asa. According to that road map we allready should have extinction, ragnarok and even valguero + some surprise. I dont understand why they still bother with Set dates. They should just aim for a month and Stick with that
It’s a business strategy like this we all buy anticipating something they can prolong becouse we already got tricked to buy the beta version of the game it’s not finished we still just betta testing an experiment
Because if they didn’t ppl would still bitch remember when they used to give month release dates instead of days when they say coming in March or April always prepare 4-5 later with any of there releases
Where is UE 5.4 upgrade with FSR 3x? Where is Vulkan.api support Jesse said was coming back when ASE was running horrible in 2018? Wildcard should be sued. They are selling gamers a scam. Not a game. ASE was lazy ported into UE 5.1. That why runs so bad. On all hardware. They trying to cover that up by saying there going upgrade to UE 5.4. They care more about pushing DLC/MTX bs then they do about the upgrading and bug fixing and game optimization. I’m starting wonder if will even get ue 5.4 by next year of dec of 2025. I’ve seen smaller indie dev team do better job, wildcard must have 100+ UNSKILLED/incompetent fools working for them.
Exactly this what I been saying. Like a lot of fans/TH-camrs give them excuses like oh there’s this technical reason or the dev pipeline this and that that’s why there’s these delays… but I have never played another game who’s company has had more than maybe a SINGLE delay in a game’s lifecycle, this is absolutely absurd and they want us to think it’s normal.
I get why Dolly would say that.......but as a Wildcard employee that should never be the actual response after 10 years of the same stuff. It should be something you strive to improve
@CrunchyMew no......that's not how that works and Ark knows this. I'm not actually sure there is a company that's as laize faire over their release times as Wildcard is..... No other company do I EXPECT a delay....which is why I find it offensive that Wildcard just OWNS that reputation.....At least TRY to do better. You can only mess up the same thing so many times until it's just plain intentional Do I acknowledge Wildcard ALWAYS does this and am I surprised? Yea I'm not dumb.
@@TheJacob232 I've had a ton of games give estimates on a day and end up delaying it because they found issues in the codes. Not just for updates either actual games too, people always rush for a game to drop. Would you have preferred if the update did drop on the 16th and been a buggy mess and potentially loose data or other things?
@@CrunchyMew wed prefer it if they made the release date in like january most good dev studios make there release dates way past the estimate most of the time the update will be finished a week or two b4 the release and then theres the problem that when they release they arent even complete and they have mesh issues n shit its just unprofessional and tbh i dont blame the devs i bet snail games is putting deadlines
@@thetypicalduo9353 wouldn't that entail the would need to move the January Collab up too since we are suppose to be getting a power rangers part 2 collab
Not to mention, they continue to destablize the game and make it even more unoptimized with each and every patch. At the start of summer we could play fairly decently. Now? Crashes constantly, stutters like Porky Pig, and is overall downgrade in quality. If my 4070 can barely run it on Medium settings something is wrong with the game for sure.
STOP , justifying Wildcards incompetence. STOP supporting this kinda BS . Someone comes out and basically says that the community is tired of getting screwed by wildcard , and the response from Wildcard is , Yeah , I know . THIS is Wildcard trying to make their BS a new normal
Im going to make a prediction: Ragnarok should have been released around the time when Abberation was released and postproned to december. Then Wildcard decided to bring Extinction instead of Ragnarok. They told its because they need more time for Ragnarok. BS absolutley BS. Extinction is the last part of the Bobs Tall Tales DLC, thats why they prefered Extinction and postproned Ragnarok to March 25. And here is my prediction: Ragnarok wont be released in March 25, in March or June they will release Genessis I and a new DLC but for sure not Ragnarok.
If you actually like the game you wouldn’t get so pissed about their delays and bugs, it’s still an awesome game and if you can’t handle the fact that WC is broke and doesn’t have a strong foundation to stand on, then just keep it to yourself instead of shitting on the company like that’s gonna help
Taking day one to play ark when it usually doesnt drop till later in the day in the us is silly. Day 2 is where it is at. Hop on after work and 3 cases of your favorite energy plus plenty of your favorite microwaveable meals. Piss bucket optional.
Hey there! To extend on my conversation with Dollie I went on to mention that maybe they should consider using other means of communicating with the Ark community other than just a weekly Community Crunch for big announcements especially for something like delays and maybe elaborate on their decisions to do so. I get frustrated a lot with their decisions but I'm hoping they soon learn from these mistakes.
I think, that when they would Start to say why a delay happens, it could backfire at one point very hard when Wildcard starts to delay announcments because of the same or similar Problem over and over, which i could really understand. I think the best thing would be if they stop anouncing stuff and just Release stuff when its done and ready.
because they want to give people a general idea about when they want to try to release. If you are literally treating as a set in stone date you'd have to be really dense.
@@ReadR00ster1 they try that for years now and they fail/failed everytime with that. I dont know if there is a demon in their Management, that enjoys it when Wildcard makes announcments and sets Release dates, so many player get really excited about that, just to delay the announced thing again and to shatter the players excitements and makes them just feel angry and/or sad. Right close after the begining of asa they released a roadmap with every map and when they planned to Release those. Every ase Player allready knew, that that was BS and other players were probably very skeptical allready, too. They could announce, when they are working on something and just dont Set a time which in the end will be delayed anyway. Like now with ragnarok. They announced they Plan to release it in march 2025. And thats all they should say. Only very few will get MAD, when something like a map gets released without a big announcment and a Set date, but very many will get MAD when a map gets a huge announcent and a Set date and then gets delayed...again.
Well, for me, the game is still just as broken as the original. Constant crashes, save reverts, and item doubles in my inventory after i load back in. I haven't been able to make a proper stream for ark ever because it crashes so much. I don't know what's doing it or why, but i don't have this issue with any other game than ark. I love the game still, even though it gives me such trouble. If it didn't crash so much, it would be my number two game of all time, but because of the previously stated reasons, it's not even on my list. Also, this still happened after i upgraded to ps5 and pc. If anyone knows more about what the possible reasons I'm having a hard time with the game, please let me know. Maybe it isn't the game itself, and it is something on my end, but again, i don't have this issue with any other game, so I'm not sure it is on my end.
They seriously should've kept ase online till they had all the maps on lockdown, like a true remaster. Not that this is claimed as such, but thats what it is.
Its kinda a slap in the face to people that put money in this game, that's not appreciating the people that keep them afloat, another reason why I took a nice long break off of ark before. Its principle, to say don't trust we will come out when we say is saying don't trust us. ok..i wont.
I bet they know that they will be behind on release dates MONTHS in advance. So just set a realistic release date, even push it back by 2 weeks further, then they have to. Then if they have everything ready, before the release date? They can say: We are excited to announce that (this new thing), will be released 1 week earlier... Or just do some final tweaks and such, so the finished project isn´t like Abberation for example (all the visual bs with light, shadows, surface entrances being bright red and constantly getting anti-meshed from using grapples). Surface entrances has been a very valuable out-post/base location for PvP, for all the keratin you´ll ever need and that it´s easy to build/defend.. So why in the world, would you make people want to scratch their eyes out, from looking at it for 1 min.?. Long rant, i know but it´s just the tip of it.
You should stop supporting Wild Card they are never on time they mess up launch days and like me being a xbox player can't even play now. You would think every time they messed up they will try to get it right at least once
For anyone who has to book free days for an ARK launch, my advice is to book them AFTER the map has been released. Yes, you may be like two or three days late to the novelty, but better than having no new map on the free day and if you play on unofficial, you may also be better off not going first-day because of character loss and stuff like that
As someone who has game online for 20plus years. You NEVER call in sick, take time off for a release date. It could be pushed back, could be delayed, could be released late in the day. Plus, so many people are trying to get rid into servers you Mike not get in or get back on a server you were on because it's full. It's on the player to handle there time.
He's monetizing anything he can, which leads to weaker content Sometimes. It's probably his job at this point. Which isn't easy to be fair so I can respect him for being able to do it for something he genuinely likes
i've never understood people who book time off RIGHT at release anyways. cuz there are ALWAYS going to be unexpected bugs, or stability issues, etc. in this case, the bugs were big enough they felt the need to delay the release, which means even if they DIDN'T delay it, the game probably would have been unplayable until at least friday anyways (possibly longer, because its harder to fix and patch something after its gone live than before) I get being excited, but the first few days of a new release are probably gonna be a buggy mess. if you DO want to take time off to play, take that time a couple days after release, that way when you can sit down and play, those initial wrinkles will have hopefully been ironed out, (or at least the worst of them) and you will have a much better experience with it.
Eta does stand for Estimated time of arrival so if they just saying its going to release around a date but they got to keep people updated i feel like they been really silent with extinction, dunno whats going on
Absolutely Dom! We would love to hear some of the information on why there is a delay and not just yup, you guys can wait... Wildcard just needs to be straight up with the community and give us a short summary of what is creating the delay. I know I would have felt alot better in the past, knowing the reason I was being hit with a delay.
Didn't they say because they want to wait because of the holiday coming up and not gonna be able to solve bugs as quick during this time.. so they wanted to delay to sort almost everything they can and make sure it's ready... They honestly should just wait until after Xmas to release it anyways..
@@Menace2Society9I believe they intended to release it earlier this week so the community could try it out and reveal any critical bugs that could be fixed prior to the holiday season. It's possible though they encountered some critical bugs that would have made the launch unplayable for several people which happened with aberration and they didn't want to repeat that. It's also possible they didn't get approval from Sony and/Microsoft for a simultaneously release. But of course that's all speculative
Let's face it, each and every map drop for this game has been 4-5+ months LATE from the original drop date. Don't forget folks, we were supposed to have Extinction back in October 2024. We still don't even have Ragnarok which was supposed to drop back in September 2024!
In the current state of the gaming market. Would you prefer a game to release on time with a very large amount of bugs and unplayability for certain platforms/users or would you prefer a delay with ideally a smoother launch? Personally I like the second option more. I would much rather have a delay versus an unplayable launch as it's effectively the same thing except some people get to play while others can't.
This game concept is one of the best out their, if they ever step it up their player base would overtake most games imo. No other game would even get this far with the types of issues are has but because the concept is so amazing it keeps people their imo. Much love cheers..!!!
I'm one of those who took time off of work for Extinction release. I could only take 3 days, thats all I had PTO for. And we have to schedule our days off at minimum 2 weeks in advance. I scheduled mine a month in advance because this is December, and if I wanted any time off at all this month, I had to grab my days before someone else did. So yeah, I'm pissed off. I know it releases on Thursday, and yes, I'm off on thursday. But if its not releasing until 'later in the day pst', that will be late evening or at night, and I have to work on Friday. And I have to say, so long as people make excuses for WC's inability to meet their own deadlines, they'll never bother to improve. js
I wanted to play on your PVE servers but there are to many ridiculously large bases. They are blocking off entire areas. It a lil stupid to have huge Dino gate’s everywhere with offline raid protection on PVE servers.
Man i just remember when everyone was happy with the game and excited for the new things to launch but then delayed but still gave us excitement until it just became excessive
Ok I understand that people are upset with the delay but why would they take time off for the first day knowing this is wildcard and they ALWAYS delay their releases
To snag land on official.. 12 hours after drop land is hard to snag. Especially on a map like extinction where building in the wasteland is tough because of the meteors
We live in a world of instant gratification. Personally, I'd rather them release something when it actually works, than rushing something out because a few people have no patience.
If players pirated the game and DLCs with the excuse that paying for the game just isn't their strong suit , do you think wildcard would be understanding of that?
Most MMO gamers know better than to expect things to go smooth on launch week. Even if a game does release on the scheduled day, there are server issues, log in issues, server reboots, connections issues. Emergency patches... ect
Going by YOUR theory then , pushing it CLOSER to a holiday and limiting the time for updates to happen is better ? lmao . Do you really think that Wildcard is fixing bugs that happen after EVERY launch right now? that's impossible .
@@sneakyb8731it's entirely possible that they've been testing the servers leading up to the launch and discovered game breaking bugs that required a few extra days to fix to get the map into a playable state. Pretty sure that's why they wanted to release it earlier in order to have a larger group of people testing it with a variety of set ups. Helps expose bugs that you just can't always find through a play test. But more transparency would be nice
I'm only curious about how they're going to convince us to buy the NEXT season pass Dlc for gen 1 and 2... Given that they haven't even released any of the free maps that were promised after center... No val, rag lost isles fjordur etc
They should have their release dates a lot farther in time then excepted because it is better do be early to a date then late. Some people would not like that because it means longer times in between release dates however this would eliminate this problem. Imo, great video much love always cheers..!!
Gives off the vibe of an abusive partner, basically telling you to lower your standards to fit them instead of replacing them for someone who meets your standard
I haven’t respected Wild Card for a long time. They don’t respect us and it’s a two way street. Still gonna play but I know where we stand with them. They don’t care about our feelings and the feeling is mutual.
There isn't anything wrong with what he said wild card if you haven't seen already they have a track record of delaying everything so yea don't take time off for a upcoming drop or whatever. Take time off if you want to play what's already out.
Thing is, after they delayed scorched, they killed ark for me a the hardcore dedicated player. With the new maps out, I only spend maybe 12hrs total in each of the revamped maps. Its Do to constant crashes and bugs and played the maps to death on ASE. So tempted on going back to ASE
Dudes, if you do not know by now not to schedual your vacation time around Wild Card's time table, idk what to say to you. We know it's likely to be delayed. We don't even know what the delay is, things happen. Should they give themselves more time? yes. I wish they would for their sakes, not ours. I am really getting concerned for the devs health both mental and physical. You want an answer? Manage your exspectations as an adult. ANd that's hard for me to say considering I don't like adulting.
Ark has been out for 9 & half years, I’ve been following the game that entire time & I’m not exaggerating when I say they’ve never met a release time or date. So if you’re booking time off for an ark update you’re crazy because it will be delayed. The closest they’ve gotten was for one of the dlc but it was only released on pc (with problems) & console had a pretty big delay. They also released scorched earth out of nowhere but I’m not counting that since there was no announcement or time it was just released. Even when they had small updates adding one or two new creatures to the island they’d get delayed.
I can back this been playing ark since its released 16,000 hours later and they haven’t released one update on time the Ark devs just need to do us all a favor n stop breathing let some new people with brains run the game
dear dolly, respectfully, I would not advise anyone to spend money on what was meant to be a free evolution of my favourite game, especially as, even after paying for this 'free' upgrade, I am asked to pay for hitherto free mods and random 'premium content'
Wildcard have never been on time so dolly is right, I genuinely feel like the people who took time off for a WC ARK eta... are setting themselves up for disappointment.
My opinion after years of playing these games is that one to like a week is nothing to be mad over but still pretty unprofessional but if it gets passed that then its a problem cause they made a promise with their customers and just never full fills it and they talk to their customers like we mean nothing to them and its biting them in the ass the last few years and they are aware of it from what dollie said like at this point either just say a rough date say u might not be able to hit the date and just be more open about it like they are not like the freaking government they should be more of an open book at this point and like at this point ark is a dead franchise that people are still mourning over because that dead franchise still sending promises that will be not likely fulfilled
Gonna get super flamed for this but honnestly the key word is E T A "estimated", has this word changed meanings or something? If its buggy players complain, if its late players complain, to be honest wildcard knows they can't win against a player base like ours.
To me this is a moot subject after all these years. I just stay put and wait for it to drop whenever it does. I rather have a delay if that means I can enjoy a better game rsther than have a rushed broken one, but on time. of course that these delays don't bring us a flawless game but I ask myself how would the game perform if rushed. Probably they should stop giving launch dates and this would never be a problem. Just say "Launching in December around Holidays"
cop out and a shit response lets be real. do you show up tyo work 10 minutes early? i do. i expect a release to have been finished and polished before a release date no matter the producer. oh; but its wildcard, what do you expect? i expect aditude like that to be met with more players quitting.
They need to stop giving dates. People will complain, but they complain anyway. They want the game to succeed and they want us to enjoying playiing it. They are frustrated too.
Couple things 1. Im so confused everytime Brits talking about holidays normally I understand that we have different words for things but there is already a whole other meaning for holiday so I’m sitting here like is he talking about holiday like the Christmas holidays or holiday as in a vacation from work lmao… but anyway 2. I hate most of the WC employees, when ASA came out I bought it day one and I couldn’t even run it, I prefer laptops so I needed to buy one with a 4060 to run it but I still saw the good things and defended them to no end but every single dlc has been delayed, every one, and each one my anger grew worse and worse until now I have turned from a WC apologist to now I have a severe dislike for them more than any other company who’s game I play. I think the tipping point is when dollie tried to justify a delay by saying something about their dev pipeline being jam packed and I’m like WE SHOULDNT HAVE TO CARE ABOUT THAT… no other game I play has a company who asks me to care about how swamped they are they just make the date by whatever means necessary and without to bugs. I am truly sick of it and I wish I could protest them without not playing ark and buying the dlc stuff lmao that’s not happening I bought a whole laptop for this game.
E.t.a.? That was at least over a month ago, for the past month or two we have been told the words "release date" not "e.t.a." I took 3 days off work for this which I can't get back and loads of people take off work for map drops because everyone knows that in a game like ark every second counts on being able to secure and maintain base locations, resources and even servers for the bigger tribes. This was absolutely the last straw for me, been playing ark for 8 and a half years religiously but now I'm done. Studio wildcard is an absolute joke who can't manage to do anything right, they promised us a full remaster of the game after shutting down the survival evolved servers and what we have gotten instead ladies and gentlemen is a joke, not a funny one either. This game is rushed, barely works and is a smack in the face. It is FAR from a remaster, they have done away with ratholes so the only way to actually play is to get into a bigger tribe. The new cryopod system is HORRIBLE and something that none of us asked for and are mad at studio wildcard for implementing. Just give us exactly what you promised us, a working remastered version of survival evolved not this dumpster fire, lmk when studio wildcard pulls their head out of their bottoms and actually give us the game they promised and until then I will leave the game un-installed
wouldnt be surprised if it gets delayed again by a day, every single ark map on the release day gets pushed to the next day seems like thats tradition now, but i skipped aberration because im not a fan of that map, Extinction is my favorite map so i hope it launches with a more servers than the center that was hell!, but dolly saying dont trust their ETA is honest but damn really shows how disorganized the studio is.
I hate to burst your bubble but wildcard doesn't own ark any more it's snail games when wildcard owned the title of ark it was wildcard studios not studio wildcard and when wildcard still owned the game there was never a delay on stuff coming out snail games always ALWAYS has delays
I don't think Wild Card needs to answer to this kind of stuff anymore. I think this is something Snail Games needs to answer to. Why does your studio always over promise and under deliver? Does Wild Card need more resources or is Wild Card the sacrificial lamb for poor management from the top? This game has the recipe to be a game of the year contender but as I recall, never got even a nomination. This kind of poor delivery needs answered from the top
Don't give people any sympathy for taking time off work to play a wildcard game... They have never hit a single date, people taking time off for that are legit mentally challenged.
Well its game design. IDK why people are upset with delays. "like OMG they are delaying the game or DLC to make it better." like do we want another Cyberpunk 77 on our hands. where it was delayed by YEARS and it still came out trash. If its not out then why take the time off to play it before it comes out. I bough KH3 pre order. I waited until the game came out, and then i put my time off to play the game. They don't have to tell you why they are delaying the game. could be a game breaking bug they don't want to talk about. they could say anything and we would have to take their word for it.
Игра развивается так, как-будто у Wildcard сотрудников как у инди-студии, запуск ASA был самым худшим, и также с картами, я не стал бы брать отпуск, чтоб на запуске играть в этот ужас! Аберрация ужасно оптимизирована, невидимые текстуры, и также бывают провал под текстурки, с освещением вообще ужас!
I don't even know why they even bother announcing release dates
@@vespasianflavius2766 true. And also remember, they once released a road map and tried to tell us, when what map will be added to asa. According to that road map we allready should have extinction, ragnarok and even valguero + some surprise. I dont understand why they still bother with Set dates. They should just aim for a month and Stick with that
It’s a business strategy like this we all buy anticipating something they can prolong becouse we already got tricked to buy the beta version of the game it’s not finished we still just betta testing an experiment
Because if they didn’t ppl would still bitch remember when they used to give month release dates instead of days when they say coming in March or April always prepare 4-5 later with any of there releases
Aim for a month? Its more like aim for a year @@Voltaros
@@mrmrmrX yeah. They just should aim for a month, but intern, and dont leak any information to the outside until its really done
Where is UE 5.4 upgrade with FSR 3x? Where is Vulkan.api support Jesse said was coming back when ASE was running horrible in 2018?
Wildcard should be sued. They are selling gamers a scam. Not a game.
ASE was lazy ported into UE 5.1. That why runs so bad. On all hardware. They trying to cover that up by saying there going upgrade to UE 5.4. They care more about pushing DLC/MTX bs then they do about the upgrading and bug fixing and game optimization.
I’m starting wonder if will even get ue 5.4 by next year of dec of 2025. I’ve seen smaller indie dev team do better job, wildcard must have 100+ UNSKILLED/incompetent fools working for them.
Except for the occasional crash the game runs amazingly for me.
@ReadR00ster1
Unlikely, per this, it still runs bad on high end AMD cpu and 4090
Source : th-cam.com/video/yvDoHSm3DSI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pa6w-54DXcIBOYar
@@ReadR00ster1
Unfortunately, anecdotal evidence doesn't prove a point
@@SireDragonChester they said 2025 january there your answer
@Alecup06
Thanks for info. Doubt they meet this date either.
Wildcard is not a serious company... Ive been playing many games through the years and no one came even close how unprofessional wildcard is
Exactly this what I been saying. Like a lot of fans/TH-camrs give them excuses like oh there’s this technical reason or the dev pipeline this and that that’s why there’s these delays… but I have never played another game who’s company has had more than maybe a SINGLE delay in a game’s lifecycle, this is absolutely absurd and they want us to think it’s normal.
At least the game is perfectly optimized
Was this a serious comment 😂
blizzard ?
@@Cainb23 🤣 you mad
I get why Dolly would say that.......but as a Wildcard employee that should never be the actual response after 10 years of the same stuff.
It should be something you strive to improve
Things happen you give an Estimate its bound to atleast have some issue or no issues.
@CrunchyMew no......that's not how that works and Ark knows this. I'm not actually sure there is a company that's as laize faire over their release times as Wildcard is..... No other company do I EXPECT a delay....which is why I find it offensive that Wildcard just OWNS that reputation.....At least TRY to do better. You can only mess up the same thing so many times until it's just plain intentional
Do I acknowledge Wildcard ALWAYS does this and am I surprised? Yea I'm not dumb.
@@TheJacob232 I've had a ton of games give estimates on a day and end up delaying it because they found issues in the codes. Not just for updates either actual games too, people always rush for a game to drop. Would you have preferred if the update did drop on the 16th and been a buggy mess and potentially loose data or other things?
@@CrunchyMew wed prefer it if they made the release date in like january most good dev studios make there release dates way past the estimate most of the time the update will be finished a week or two b4 the release and then theres the problem that when they release they arent even complete and they have mesh issues n shit its just unprofessional and tbh i dont blame the devs i bet snail games is putting deadlines
@@thetypicalduo9353 wouldn't that entail the would need to move the January Collab up too since we are suppose to be getting a power rangers part 2 collab
Not to mention, they continue to destablize the game and make it even more unoptimized with each and every patch. At the start of summer we could play fairly decently. Now? Crashes constantly, stutters like Porky Pig, and is overall downgrade in quality. If my 4070 can barely run it on Medium settings something is wrong with the game for sure.
@Crazy_Sue Dog its actually insane I got the same specs and crash on medium, thought I wouldn't have to get an upgrade for the next 5-8 years its sad.
@@alecthomas1054 i can run it on ultra on 7900 xtx but on a 4080 only get 40fps on high
STOP , justifying Wildcards incompetence. STOP supporting this kinda BS . Someone comes out and basically says that the community is tired of getting screwed by wildcard , and the response from Wildcard is , Yeah , I know . THIS is Wildcard trying to make their BS a new normal
Im going to make a prediction:
Ragnarok should have been released around the time when Abberation was released and postproned to december.
Then Wildcard decided to bring Extinction instead of Ragnarok. They told its because they need more time for Ragnarok.
BS absolutley BS. Extinction is the last part of the Bobs Tall Tales DLC, thats why they prefered Extinction and postproned Ragnarok to March 25.
And here is my prediction:
Ragnarok wont be released in March 25, in March or June they will release Genessis I and a new DLC but for sure not Ragnarok.
Can you Be nice for once. Is be happy that you have ark 🙂😁
Why you crying? You know u still gonna be waiting for extinction even if it gets delayed a whole month lol
If you actually like the game you wouldn’t get so pissed about their delays and bugs, it’s still an awesome game and if you can’t handle the fact that WC is broke and doesn’t have a strong foundation to stand on, then just keep it to yourself instead of shitting on the company like that’s gonna help
@@TheTotallyNormalPotatoGuy wow I bet you wonder why there's so much mediocrity in your life too huh as you accept it
It blows my mind that anyone still trusts the date of an ark release.
Extinction needs to come out now!!!!! My favorite map
Mine too!
I know right it's in my top 3 favorites
Taking day one to play ark when it usually doesnt drop till later in the day in the us is silly. Day 2 is where it is at. Hop on after work and 3 cases of your favorite energy plus plenty of your favorite microwaveable meals. Piss bucket optional.
Now that's dedication, lol
@catherines7553 i thought about a bathroom set up, but my wife told me know
Hey there! To extend on my conversation with Dollie I went on to mention that maybe they should consider using other means of communicating with the Ark community other than just a weekly Community Crunch for big announcements especially for something like delays and maybe elaborate on their decisions to do so. I get frustrated a lot with their decisions but I'm hoping they soon learn from these mistakes.
Yeah completely agree here
I think, that when they would Start to say why a delay happens, it could backfire at one point very hard when Wildcard starts to delay announcments because of the same or similar Problem over and over, which i could really understand.
I think the best thing would be if they stop anouncing stuff and just Release stuff when its done and ready.
It would make so much more sense
because they want to give people a general idea about when they want to try to release. If you are literally treating as a set in stone date you'd have to be really dense.
@@ReadR00ster1 they try that for years now and they fail/failed everytime with that. I dont know if there is a demon in their Management, that enjoys it when Wildcard makes announcments and sets Release dates, so many player get really excited about that, just to delay the announced thing again and to shatter the players excitements and makes them just feel angry and/or sad. Right close after the begining of asa they released a roadmap with every map and when they planned to Release those. Every ase Player allready knew, that that was BS and other players were probably very skeptical allready, too.
They could announce, when they are working on something and just dont Set a time which in the end will be delayed anyway. Like now with ragnarok. They announced they Plan to release it in march 2025. And thats all they should say. Only very few will get MAD, when something like a map gets released without a big announcment and a Set date, but very many will get MAD when a map gets a huge announcent and a Set date and then gets delayed...again.
Well, for me, the game is still just as broken as the original. Constant crashes, save reverts, and item doubles in my inventory after i load back in. I haven't been able to make a proper stream for ark ever because it crashes so much. I don't know what's doing it or why, but i don't have this issue with any other game than ark. I love the game still, even though it gives me such trouble. If it didn't crash so much, it would be my number two game of all time, but because of the previously stated reasons, it's not even on my list. Also, this still happened after i upgraded to ps5 and pc. If anyone knows more about what the possible reasons I'm having a hard time with the game, please let me know. Maybe it isn't the game itself, and it is something on my end, but again, i don't have this issue with any other game, so I'm not sure it is on my end.
They seriously should've kept ase online till they had all the maps on lockdown, like a true remaster. Not that this is claimed as such, but thats what it is.
That would not have been acceptable to corporate, sorry. It was this way or nothing. They were close to pulling the plug on the entire franchise.
Come on everyone we all knew this was coming and if you can’t handle the delay then maybe this game is not for you lol
Accepting mediocrity from game development is exactly how you end up with companies like EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda, etc
That mindset allows them to get away with it. Don't lower your standard to their bs
@@therottingtree9093 They have been doing this for 9 years. Your crying have obviously not done anything. You're clearly mentally challenged.
Its kinda a slap in the face to people that put money in this game, that's not appreciating the people that keep them afloat, another reason why I took a nice long break off of ark before. Its principle, to say don't trust we will come out when we say is saying don't trust us. ok..i wont.
I bet they know that they will be behind on release dates MONTHS in advance. So just set a realistic release date, even push it back by 2 weeks further, then they have to. Then if they have everything ready, before the release date? They can say: We are excited to announce that (this new thing), will be released 1 week earlier... Or just do some final tweaks and such, so the finished project isn´t like Abberation for example (all the visual bs with light, shadows, surface entrances being bright red and constantly getting anti-meshed from using grapples). Surface entrances has been a very valuable out-post/base location for PvP, for all the keratin you´ll ever need and that it´s easy to build/defend.. So why in the world, would you make people want to scratch their eyes out, from looking at it for 1 min.?. Long rant, i know but it´s just the tip of it.
You should stop supporting Wild Card they are never on time they mess up launch days and like me being a xbox player can't even play now. You would think every time they messed up they will try to get it right at least once
For anyone who has to book free days for an ARK launch, my advice is to book them AFTER the map has been released. Yes, you may be like two or three days late to the novelty, but better than having no new map on the free day and if you play on unofficial, you may also be better off not going first-day because of character loss and stuff like that
As someone who has game online for 20plus years. You NEVER call in sick, take time off for a release date. It could be pushed back, could be delayed, could be released late in the day. Plus, so many people are trying to get rid into servers you Mike not get in or get back on a server you were on because it's full. It's on the player to handle there time.
This is going to be a issue with steam. They will likely hold wc’s noise to the grind stone or they will pull them from the platform.
How you manage to make a 10 min vid outa a reply in discord from dolly
😂😂
You know how! lol
yup! i literally clicked the video, scrolled down to the comments, and now i'm bouncing. These videos are WWWWAAAAAYYYYYY too long.
He's monetizing anything he can, which leads to weaker content Sometimes. It's probably his job at this point. Which isn't easy to be fair so I can respect him for being able to do it for something he genuinely likes
Just already stop defending Wildcard for their BS.
It comes out when it comes out. Couldn't care less about their release schedule and I certainly never make plans around their dates.
Bro felt this. It’s not that big of a deal. I mean is it shitty yes but who cares.
i've never understood people who book time off RIGHT at release anyways. cuz there are ALWAYS going to be unexpected bugs, or stability issues, etc.
in this case, the bugs were big enough they felt the need to delay the release, which means even if they DIDN'T delay it, the game probably would have been unplayable until at least friday anyways (possibly longer, because its harder to fix and patch something after its gone live than before)
I get being excited, but the first few days of a new release are probably gonna be a buggy mess. if you DO want to take time off to play, take that time a couple days after release, that way when you can sit down and play, those initial wrinkles will have hopefully been ironed out, (or at least the worst of them) and you will have a much better experience with it.
That's why the E in ETA is the word ESTIMATED not guaranteed
Eta does stand for Estimated time of arrival so if they just saying its going to release around a date but they got to keep people updated i feel like they been really silent with extinction, dunno whats going on
Absolutely Dom! We would love to hear some of the information on why there is a delay and not just yup, you guys can wait... Wildcard just needs to be straight up with the community and give us a short summary of what is creating the delay. I know I would have felt alot better in the past, knowing the reason I was being hit with a delay.
Honesty goes a long way
Didn't they say because they want to wait because of the holiday coming up and not gonna be able to solve bugs as quick during this time.. so they wanted to delay to sort almost everything they can and make sure it's ready...
They honestly should just wait until after Xmas to release it anyways..
@@Menace2Society9I believe they intended to release it earlier this week so the community could try it out and reveal any critical bugs that could be fixed prior to the holiday season. It's possible though they encountered some critical bugs that would have made the launch unplayable for several people which happened with aberration and they didn't want to repeat that. It's also possible they didn't get approval from Sony and/Microsoft for a simultaneously release. But of course that's all speculative
Wildcard would not have lasted in the 80's my generation would have fried them
Delays happen all over 5he place. Or, release happens prematurely and there are tons of bugs. It's not exclusive to Studio Wildcard.
It’s every time they release a map it’s delayed😂 they’re just bad devs with even worse bosses that try to push this out too quickly
Yes, it happens, but 2 wrongs doesn't make it right. Just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's justified
Let's face it, each and every map drop for this game has been 4-5+ months LATE from the original drop date. Don't forget folks, we were supposed to have Extinction back in October 2024. We still don't even have Ragnarok which was supposed to drop back in September 2024!
The fact that they act like it’s no big deal to constantly delay everything they come out with is very unprofessional if you ask me lol
In the current state of the gaming market. Would you prefer a game to release on time with a very large amount of bugs and unplayability for certain platforms/users or would you prefer a delay with ideally a smoother launch?
Personally I like the second option more. I would much rather have a delay versus an unplayable launch as it's effectively the same thing except some people get to play while others can't.
I just wanna know where is the Winter Wonderland announcement?
I understand things can be delayed, but studio wildcard has a track record with stuff being delayed. Very rarely they release stuff on time.
This game concept is one of the best out their, if they ever step it up their player base would overtake most games imo. No other game would even get this far with the types of issues are has but because the concept is so amazing it keeps people their imo. Much love cheers..!!!
@@directxhitsgaming8158 true
I'm one of those who took time off of work for Extinction release. I could only take 3 days, thats all I had PTO for. And we have to schedule our days off at minimum 2 weeks in advance. I scheduled mine a month in advance because this is December, and if I wanted any time off at all this month, I had to grab my days before someone else did. So yeah, I'm pissed off. I know it releases on Thursday, and yes, I'm off on thursday. But if its not releasing until 'later in the day pst', that will be late evening or at night, and I have to work on Friday. And I have to say, so long as people make excuses for WC's inability to meet their own deadlines, they'll never bother to improve. js
I mean people should expect wildcard to have delay at this point and plan for it
That's sad when even a dev doesn't believe in their team... but she is not wrong. We all know they rarely release on time.
If by rarely you mean never then yes
@vespasianflavius2766 yeah, I mean they did 1 release back on ase on time so have to say rarely 🤣
@@selenalily4995 oh lol which one?
@vespasianflavius2766 can't remember exactly which one but I think it was a Christmas one 🤔 near the end of ase
@@selenalily4995 2 all free maps already made on PC mod from steam so they didn't even make it
I wanted to play on your PVE servers but there are to many ridiculously large bases. They are blocking off entire areas.
It a lil stupid to have huge Dino gate’s everywhere with offline raid protection on PVE servers.
THE ERROR IS THAT US AS COMMUNITY THINK THAT THOS ARE NOT TENTATIVE LAUNCH DATES
This worked out perfect for me I’m off work Friday till the end of the year.
Ayo me to bro hahaha lol u got similar name as me but it's my game profile I spell it with a z though
Same, I'll make the server blitz
Man i just remember when everyone was happy with the game and excited for the new things to launch but then delayed but still gave us excitement until it just became excessive
Ok I understand that people are upset with the delay but why would they take time off for the first day knowing this is wildcard and they ALWAYS delay their releases
To snag land on official.. 12 hours after drop land is hard to snag. Especially on a map like extinction where building in the wasteland is tough because of the meteors
We live in a world of instant gratification. Personally, I'd rather them release something when it actually works, than rushing something out because a few people have no patience.
If players pirated the game and DLCs with the excuse that paying for the game just isn't their strong suit , do you think wildcard would be understanding of that?
I think they’re are more vocal, because they’re at the end of the road. Arks run is ending sooner rather than later sadly.
Most MMO gamers know better than to expect things to go smooth on launch week. Even if a game does release on the scheduled day, there are server issues, log in issues, server reboots, connections issues. Emergency patches... ect
Going by YOUR theory then , pushing it CLOSER to a holiday and limiting the time for updates to happen is better ? lmao . Do you really think that Wildcard is fixing bugs that happen after EVERY launch right now? that's impossible .
@@sneakyb8731it's entirely possible that they've been testing the servers leading up to the launch and discovered game breaking bugs that required a few extra days to fix to get the map into a playable state. Pretty sure that's why they wanted to release it earlier in order to have a larger group of people testing it with a variety of set ups. Helps expose bugs that you just can't always find through a play test.
But more transparency would be nice
I'm only curious about how they're going to convince us to buy the NEXT season pass Dlc for gen 1 and 2... Given that they haven't even released any of the free maps that were promised after center...
No val, rag lost isles fjordur etc
They should have their release dates a lot farther in time then excepted because it is better do be early to a date then late. Some people would not like that because it means longer times in between release dates however this would eliminate this problem. Imo, great video much love always cheers..!!
I don’t know why people get this upset over a missed eta..the e literally stands for estimated. It’s not a hard delivery date
Gives off the vibe of an abusive partner, basically telling you to lower your standards to fit them instead of replacing them for someone who meets your standard
I haven’t respected Wild Card for a long time. They don’t respect us and it’s a two way street. Still gonna play but I know where we stand with them. They don’t care about our feelings and the feeling is mutual.
I kinda believe there's going to be another delay just because they never hit a deadline in there life so far
There isn't anything wrong with what he said wild card if you haven't seen already they have a track record of delaying everything so yea don't take time off for a upcoming drop or whatever. Take time off if you want to play what's already out.
Thing is, after they delayed scorched, they killed ark for me a the hardcore dedicated player. With the new maps out, I only spend maybe 12hrs total in each of the revamped maps. Its Do to constant crashes and bugs and played the maps to death on ASE. So tempted on going back to ASE
if only have 12 hours to play for each map of Ark, you are not someone the game was designed for, sorry
@@ReadR00ster1
False...
Dudes, if you do not know by now not to schedual your vacation time around Wild Card's time table, idk what to say to you. We know it's likely to be delayed. We don't even know what the delay is, things happen. Should they give themselves more time? yes. I wish they would for their sakes, not ours. I am really getting concerned for the devs health both mental and physical.
You want an answer? Manage your exspectations as an adult. ANd that's hard for me to say considering I don't like adulting.
Ark has been out for 9 & half years, I’ve been following the game that entire time & I’m not exaggerating when I say they’ve never met a release time or date. So if you’re booking time off for an ark update you’re crazy because it will be delayed. The closest they’ve gotten was for one of the dlc but it was only released on pc (with problems) & console had a pretty big delay. They also released scorched earth out of nowhere but I’m not counting that since there was no announcement or time it was just released. Even when they had small updates adding one or two new creatures to the island they’d get delayed.
I can back this been playing ark since its released 16,000 hours later and they haven’t released one update on time the Ark devs just need to do us all a favor n stop breathing let some new people with brains run the game
If you're still taking time off for an Ark release, I don't feel bad for you anymore.
dear dolly, respectfully, I would not advise anyone to spend money on what was meant to be a free evolution of my favourite game, especially as, even after paying for this 'free' upgrade, I am asked to pay for hitherto free mods and random 'premium content'
Wild that a successful business in 2024 can’t make deadlines after trying for like 8 years
here i am taking 1 month off last year when asa dropped, half a month when abb came out and 2 weeks in january for extinction XD
Wildcard have never been on time so dolly is right, I genuinely feel like the people who took time off for a WC ARK eta... are setting themselves up for disappointment.
I hope ark was game from activision The optimization and game will be on another level
My opinion after years of playing these games is that one to like a week is nothing to be mad over but still pretty unprofessional but if it gets passed that then its a problem cause they made a promise with their customers and just never full fills it and they talk to their customers like we mean nothing to them and its biting them in the ass the last few years and they are aware of it from what dollie said like at this point either just say a rough date say u might not be able to hit the date and just be more open about it like they are not like the freaking government they should be more of an open book at this point and like at this point ark is a dead franchise that people are still mourning over because that dead franchise still sending promises that will be not likely fulfilled
Gonna get super flamed for this but honnestly the key word is E T A "estimated", has this word changed meanings or something? If its buggy players complain, if its late players complain, to be honest wildcard knows they can't win against a player base like ours.
They're parent company is a publicly traded stock. They need to get there etas figured out before they get sued for lieing to there shareholders.
how good are those server rates?
To me this is a moot subject after all these years. I just stay put and wait for it to drop whenever it does. I rather have a delay if that means I can enjoy a better game rsther than have a rushed broken one, but on time. of course that these delays don't bring us a flawless game but I ask myself how would the game perform if rushed. Probably they should stop giving launch dates and this would never be a problem. Just say "Launching in December around Holidays"
Its just going to be a remastered. No optimizations no issue fixes
I am on my 7 days off from work. I was looking forward to playing.😢 now only going have 1 day to play.
cop out and a shit response lets be real. do you show up tyo work 10 minutes early? i do. i expect a release to have been finished and polished before a release date no matter the producer. oh; but its wildcard, what do you expect? i expect aditude like that to be met with more players quitting.
They need to stop giving dates. People will complain, but they complain anyway. They want the game to succeed and they want us to enjoying playiing it. They are frustrated too.
What time is release in the US this thurs?
If someone is upset over a few days delay, then they need to touch grass. It's just a remaster of a map you have played.
Maybe wildcard is not profesional, but at least think that this studio do the biggest survival game in history, is funny
So what day is it coming out
Anyone knows if i will able to transfer to Extinction with my existing character on Officials? Or is there like time where we are unable too?
If worse thing, you can moan about is a delay for a game/dlc life has a surprise coming for you 🤫
And when will it be released ?
Anybody showing long freezes and lengthy rubberbanding after logging in? Me constant frozen frames then rubberbanding.
Oh great another freaking delay. And where the hell is ragnarok? Did they just decide to toss it out?
Sunken forest, Here I come
Couple things 1. Im so confused everytime Brits talking about holidays normally I understand that we have different words for things but there is already a whole other meaning for holiday so I’m sitting here like is he talking about holiday like the Christmas holidays or holiday as in a vacation from work lmao… but anyway 2. I hate most of the WC employees, when ASA came out I bought it day one and I couldn’t even run it, I prefer laptops so I needed to buy one with a 4060 to run it but I still saw the good things and defended them to no end but every single dlc has been delayed, every one, and each one my anger grew worse and worse until now I have turned from a WC apologist to now I have a severe dislike for them more than any other company who’s game I play. I think the tipping point is when dollie tried to justify a delay by saying something about their dev pipeline being jam packed and I’m like WE SHOULDNT HAVE TO CARE ABOUT THAT… no other game I play has a company who asks me to care about how swamped they are they just make the date by whatever means necessary and without to bugs. I am truly sick of it and I wish I could protest them without not playing ark and buying the dlc stuff lmao that’s not happening I bought a whole laptop for this game.
E.t.a.? That was at least over a month ago, for the past month or two we have been told the words "release date" not "e.t.a." I took 3 days off work for this which I can't get back and loads of people take off work for map drops because everyone knows that in a game like ark every second counts on being able to secure and maintain base locations, resources and even servers for the bigger tribes. This was absolutely the last straw for me, been playing ark for 8 and a half years religiously but now I'm done. Studio wildcard is an absolute joke who can't manage to do anything right, they promised us a full remaster of the game after shutting down the survival evolved servers and what we have gotten instead ladies and gentlemen is a joke, not a funny one either. This game is rushed, barely works and is a smack in the face. It is FAR from a remaster, they have done away with ratholes so the only way to actually play is to get into a bigger tribe. The new cryopod system is HORRIBLE and something that none of us asked for and are mad at studio wildcard for implementing. Just give us exactly what you promised us, a working remastered version of survival evolved not this dumpster fire, lmk when studio wildcard pulls their head out of their bottoms and actually give us the game they promised and until then I will leave the game un-installed
Who’s really surprised though?
wouldnt be surprised if it gets delayed again by a day, every single ark map on the release day gets pushed to the next day seems like thats tradition now, but i skipped aberration because im not a fan of that map, Extinction is my favorite map so i hope it launches with a more servers than the center that was hell!, but dolly saying dont trust their ETA is honest but damn really shows how disorganized the studio is.
I'd recommend giving an a try. It was actually a lot of fun compared to the ase version
@ I hate that map lol!
I hate to burst your bubble but wildcard doesn't own ark any more it's snail games when wildcard owned the title of ark it was wildcard studios not studio wildcard and when wildcard still owned the game there was never a delay on stuff coming out snail games always ALWAYS has delays
I don't think Wild Card needs to answer to this kind of stuff anymore. I think this is something Snail Games needs to answer to. Why does your studio always over promise and under deliver? Does Wild Card need more resources or is Wild Card the sacrificial lamb for poor management from the top? This game has the recipe to be a game of the year contender but as I recall, never got even a nomination. This kind of poor delivery needs answered from the top
They deleted my worlds 😢 and i had a lot of things there..why are they doing this? I am the only one who lost all?
4:00 do they even have a strong point?
failing, banning people on discord, and throwing wicked party once a year for the kids. thas about it
Don't give people any sympathy for taking time off work to play a wildcard game... They have never hit a single date, people taking time off for that are legit mentally challenged.
Whats wild is that theres people in the comments who support wild card lmao
The day wildcard release something on the date they say i will buy and win the lottery
are they going to make it a free map
you should wait for the release ( actual download) and than you should take a day off :)
Lol better not have physics defining cars
is it gonna be a free map
I’m still waiting on performance updates they said would come out in October the game runs like ass on a 8gb card
i cant believe this is still rumbling on - why on earth - i loved ark one but all this shit just put me off.
Well its game design. IDK why people are upset with delays. "like OMG they are delaying the game or DLC to make it better." like do we want another Cyberpunk 77 on our hands. where it was delayed by YEARS and it still came out trash. If its not out then why take the time off to play it before it comes out. I bough KH3 pre order. I waited until the game came out, and then i put my time off to play the game. They don't have to tell you why they are delaying the game. could be a game breaking bug they don't want to talk about. they could say anything and we would have to take their word for it.
Игра развивается так, как-будто у Wildcard сотрудников как у инди-студии, запуск ASA был самым худшим, и также с картами, я не стал бы брать отпуск, чтоб на запуске играть в этот ужас! Аберрация ужасно оптимизирована, невидимые текстуры, и также бывают провал под текстурки, с освещением вообще ужас!