Community Crunch 355: ARK Roadmap, EVO Event, and More!

Well?

Ark should make tek named edmundium every april 1st

Someone check my math. 

I have to buy a game that doesn't exist yet, that I may not want, to get ASA?

Someone please tell me I read that wrong.

It's Ark 1 with UE5 and you have to buy it all over again including the DLCs. You also lose all your years of effort, just gone with the servers being wiped.

They said this was going to be a free UE5 update, but it's bundled together with Ark 2, forcing you to buy it for 40$

What a complete joke. I expected WC to raptor up, but not this bad

Edited March 31, 2023 by Yiu

Because this is so close to April Fools theres 2 things that I am gonna say under the assumption NOTHING in this is a joke.

1. ARK 2 delay is fine, make the game as good as you guys can

2. Survival Ascended: why make it paid? Many other games release next gen upgrades for free.

 

IF some of this is an april fools you got me fooled.

I understand why the delay is happening but damn the end of NEXT YEAR??

• Official Servers: With the launch of ASA at the end of August, we will sunset all Official Servers on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC for ARK: Survival Evolved – at that time, the final save-datas from the ARK: Survival Evolved Official Servers will be uploaded for players to re-host on their own servers or play in singleplayer/non-dedi, as well as slightly earlier snapshots. You will still be able to play on single-player, non-dedicated, player-dedicated, and unofficial servers. 

YIKES!

"After careful consideration, we have decided to delay the sequel's launch to the end of 2024" 

 

LOL We all called it Ark 2 will never be released. Just hope that "4 new creature" update gives us a map too. If it's a paid DLC, it better. 

Nooblets was right! But guys this is for the better in the end. ARK 2 will be awesome! ❤️

So if we're getting fresh servers in August does that mean Wildcard will address the pillaring issue that makes offical pve so unplayable?

Well, I'm a bit disappointed that I'll have to buy the Remaster and the DLC separate. But honestly, 50 dollars for the remaster and Ark 2? I ain't gonna complain.

 

Not disappointed by the delay though. Why? Because I've been expecting it sense day 1. 

Love how they said that ue5, was going to be a free update and now its paid and you have to buy it on a bundle for a game that we have no idea what its going to be or we are going to like it!

smooth wc, inconpetent programers and now money grabbers? Siiiiiiigh

they never fixed the live longs bugs on ark 1 and now they are selling us the remaster lmao

Enfin beaucoup mais alors beaucoup contenu de ark en 2023 et 2024 avenir à propos de ark 2 quelles dommage mais vraiment quelle dommage qu'il soit retardé mais pour le reste c'est en bonne voie à propos de l'énorme contenu ascendé la nouvelle carte communautaire accompagné de l'upgrade EU5 pour ark 1 et grosse mise à jour pour ark sotf ainsi que le crossplateforme mais par contre ils sont pas annoncés la plateforme pour la série animée de ark 1 j'ai hâte de voir tout ça surtout ce que va être sur nintendo switch merci StudioWildCard pour ces grosse nouvelle😍😥🤔

I've been with Ark since the very beginning and I knew this will eventually come but....damn, sunsetting official servers still hurt my lil heart :C

If UE5 is the reason Ark 2 is being delayed because its such "new technology". Which, btw does not have that many breaking changed from UE4. Then why is it you can release the Ark 1 remaster in UE5 in only a few months... The remaster which was meant to be free originally?

I think I can speak for almost everyone here when I say that we expected a delay (not that big, but the spirit of it at least). Personally I don't mind. You seem to have a clear vision of what you want ARK2 to be, and I applaud that. Also everything that attempts to save devs from crunch is good. What I do mind is telling us so little about the game for the *check notes* year and a half until its release. We all expected the roadmap to be the beginning of more communication, not a way of stalling and then getting more of the same.

As for the rest, it's an interesting choice to make the remaster a separate entity from ARK: Survival Evolved ; it solves a few issues the community was worried about, but brings up a few others. Bundling it with ARK2 is a good call, that said ! I appreciate it.
Hopefully in the next few months we'll be hearing a lot more about the long list of things ARK: Survival Ascended will deliver, including those you didn't have the time and space to detail here. Keep the conversation going, please ? 

They are going to sunset 7 years of my life back into the code......😐

9 minutes ago, Legitarkplayer23 said:

So if we're getting fresh servers in August does that mean Wildcard will address the pillaring issue that makes offical pve so unplayable?

So I know I'm quoting my own post but this is really bugging me since I've tried getting back into official pve off and on for years and I always quit because of how immersion breaking it is when the whole map gets pillared or worse, (foundationed) by 3 or 4 tribes... could someone at wildcard confirm that this issue will be resolved? It matters to  me and a lot of people who like the pve experience but hate when the few ruin it.

We are shutting official down... but wait there's more, you can buy the game and grind all over again IN UNREAL ENGINE 5

tf about my time on official just to be 6 years in the crapper for 50 bucks and a game that has not shown its worth it 😤

Who gaf about an evo for stuff we won't have In a few months smh cash grab

What happened to the mod.io "partnership"?

Overwolf?  Really?

How much they pay you to get your users to install their bloatware?

Lol well I’m done. 

So our current servers being shut down, new version out but not with all maps? Which maps do u include as non-canon, we have no idea.

So $50 for the island and some random maps you're not being specific on

+ $20 for extinction, aber and SE

+ $20 for gen1 and gen2

and they're not even all coming out at once?

$90 for a game that is supposed to be eclipsed by the new game pretty much as soon as all the content is out?

 

 

10 minutes ago, badjuejue said:

We are shutting official down... but wait there's more, you can buy the game and grind all over again IN UNREAL ENGINE 5

tf about my time on official just to be 6 years in the crapper for 50 bucks and a game that has not shown its worth it 😤

But here is the thing...we still gonna buy it

15 minutes ago, Legitarkplayer23 said:

So I know I'm quoting my own post but this is really bugging me since I've tried getting back into official pve off and on for years and I always quit because of how immersion breaking it is when the whole map gets pillared or worse, (foundationed) by 3 or 4 tribes... could someone at wildcard confirm that this issue will be resolved? It matters to  me and a lot of people who like the pve experience but hate when the few ruin it.

You are getting new fresh servers. But only if you buy the new version of Ark that is bundled with a game that doesn't exist yet.