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    Ahoy Survivors,

    Jeremy and Jesse here! You might have noticed the announcement today of a new MMO game called ATLAS developed by a sister team of Studio Wildcard, named Grapeshot Games. Jesse and Jeremy together are now leading the development of ATLAS at Grapeshot, while continuing to creatively supervise the direction of ARK. Grapeshot itself is comprised of some original ARK team members as well as many new hires and operates as a separate dedicated dev team. 

    The Wildcard team meanwhile has grown developing ARK and Extinction over the past year, led by Lead Programmer Chris Willoughby and Senior Producer Colin Tennery, and have been doing an excellent job bringing fresh ideas and QoL improvements to the game. As we work together with Chris, Colin, and the rest of the team, Wildcard will continue to support and expand ARK over the years to come bringing new features, fixes, and expansions into the game. Grapeshot meanwhile will grow in a direction oriented towards the operation of the persistent MMO service that ATLAS is, while both games will share technology and infrastructure improvements to complement each other.

    We’d like to thank everybody for their long-standing support, love of ARK, and enthusiasm for survival games, and we look forward to the adventures ahead!

    Keep on surviving,
    Jeremy and Jesse
    Co-Creative Directors of ARK and Co-Founders of Studio Wildcard
     

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    Rahthos

    I'm definitely going to check out ATLAS and I'm very happy to hear ARK will get more DLCs down the road, though I would much prefer if ARK was rebooted using a more stable foundation.

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    Daimon03

    Honestly would’ve just preferred more ARK, maybe even a sequel but I suppose this is the next best thing. Happy sailing survivors!

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    CyanicEmber

    Interesting! This is not the direction I was expecting things to go, but this is exciting! Can't wait to see what's coming and I wish both teams all the luck in the world. 

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    FallenDecay39
    46 minutes ago, SurvivalServers said:

    Congrats on the announcement of the new game and cheers to the future Jeremy and Jesse!

    is this end of ark this not dlc no more story of ark I kinda liked the story of ark well that's sad 

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    setu3021

    oh that means if we play the MMO game , we will face many bugs right??

    at least, i dont want to play such unstable games. even now, ARK has problems and what? sister team will develop MMO with many issues？

    dont kidding 

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    MrBabyFaceBjorn

    YES!!!

    cant wait for ATLAS to release!

     

    nvm this post, 

    console gets it “next yeah” lol

    as usual console players had to wait

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    crystalfox
    45 minutes ago, Daimon03 said:

    Honestly would’ve just preferred more ARK, maybe even a sequel but I suppose this is the next best thing. Happy sailing survivors!

    They literally just said they’re adding more expansions lol

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    NeddyTheNoodle

    Yeah, I think t hey're just adding more to ark rather than making an ARK 2

    This is the map size, atleast as far as they claimed it to be in the game awards.

     

    ATLAS MAP SIZE.jpg

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    Tach

    Lol renameing yourselves grapeshot hopeing new customers wont see the way your company has handle things in the past instead of just doing the right thing and trying to polish ark before you dip out on it is sadly very on brand for wildcard. If anyone had any doubts about exactly why extinction released such a buggy unfinished mess well there's your proof they took everyone with any real talent to work on atlas and left a skeleton crew to handle ark from now on. If you thought tickets/bug fixs were slow before get ready for ALL servers to be treated like legacy.

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    NeddyTheNoodle
    3 hours ago, Tach said:

    Lol renameing yourselves grapeshot hopeing new customers wont see the way your company has handle things in the past instead of just doing the right thing and trying to polish ark before you dip out on it is sadly very on brand for wildcard. If anyone had any doubts about exactly why extinction released such a buggy unfinished mess well there's your proof they took everyone with any real talent to work on atlas and left a skeleton crew to handle ark from now on. If you thought tickets/bug fixs were slow before get ready for ALL servers to be treated like legacy.

    Yeah, you may or may not be right. Time will tell.

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    TiiaAurora

    Very hyped about the announcement. Spent 4000+ hours in ARK and wouldn't be mad to spend the same in another game made by you. :Jerblove:

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    Myosapien

    "Finish your journey through the worlds of ARK in ‘Extinction’, where the story began and ends: on Earth itself! "

    ^  Just reflecting back on what was said in Jen's post on Extinction's release. There will be no future expansions for Ark. Extinction is it. This is a soft goodbye if you will. For those saying "but they said there will be more expansions", oh how truthful Wildcard has been with everything else. Future expansions will be added to the stopped developments list. This marks the official dying out of Ark as we all know it. Imagine if all that focus they pour into Atlas was channeled into fixing the broken pieces of Ark how much better it could be. They're just chasing dollars by enticing Ark lovers to buy a game that has the same coding integrated into it. Pockets over players always. 

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    Spartos

    Are you planning for this game to come to console or just pc for now

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    Umber0010
    22 minutes ago, NeddyTheNoodle said:

    Yeah, I think t hey're just adding more to ark rather than making an ARK 2

    This is the map size, atleast as far as they claimed it to be in the game awards.

     

    ATLAS MAP SIZE.jpg

    This... is both going to be awesome and an absolute pain in the ass to travel. Not sure about the 40k people thing with that scale though

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    NeddyTheNoodle
    3 hours ago, Myosapien said:

    "Finish your journey through the worlds of ARK in ‘Extinction’, where the story began and ends: on Earth itself! "

    ^  Just reflecting back on what was said in Jen's post on Extinction's release. There will be no future expansions for Ark. Extinction is it. This is a soft goodbye if you will. For those saying "but they said there will be more expansions", oh how truthful Wildcard has been with everything else. Future expansions will be added to the stopped developments list. This marks the official dying out of Ark as we all know it. Imagine if all that focus they pour into Atlas was channeled into fixing the broken pieces of Ark how much better it could be. They're just chasing dollars by enticing Ark lovers to buy a game that has the same coding integrated into it. Pockets over players always. 

     

    Well yeah I mean that is a bit sketchy. I'm pretty worried about the future of ARK since they've expanded the game onto every single current gen console right now and I just don't see how they're going to develop ATLAS whilst fixing the THOUSANDS of problems across every platform of ARK.

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    SaltyMonkey

    As long as Jeremy and Jesse have learnt from past mistakes and don’t become overzealous again, I’ll be willing to follow the game’s developement. (Follow, not buy).

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    Astolfo

    I cant wait for atlas! I hope it comes to the consoles, we need more mmorpgs c:

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