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

No way this is real, i scrap for all the spare time i have just for some happiness playing ark now I can't afford to buy this again, theres no way i can get the extra hours.

11 minutes ago, Dienstbier said:

I really hope that this is an April Fool's joke with Ark and UE5, if not I'll be terribly disappointed.

I have no problem paying something for it, but that there will now be different Ark games.
One in UE5 and one old.
No, this is an appalling approach for me.

I hope that on April 2 will be said that it was just a joke.

I hope too, becouze if not, i immediatelly delete ark and ARK 2 will be buy who be out of one's mind.  

Edited April 1, 2023 by kicsiendzsi

so what was going to be a free update to ark is now going to be full price in a supposed "ultimate-value bundle" with the new sequel (that got delayed) and cannot be bought separately, as well as already made maps having to be bought separately a second time, at full price. 

incredible

Guys, tomorrow is April Fools. No way this insanity is real

2 hours ago, Luizza said:

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?

 

 

yup seems that way and if they 'sunset' them servers too its minimum 1.5 years max imo 2-3 years depending on delays etc thats just crap in a game that takes years to breed top stuff lol 

Yeahhhhh.........
I love Ark, but I'm done with wildcard.
It's been an honor everyone. Cheers.

2 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

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 ? 

You need to learn to be more critical. They're delaying their game for a second year. Deleting Ark 1 servers, and making you buy it and all the DLC again AND buy Ark 2 a year and a half before it releases, just in order to get access to ASA. 

Its an April Fools prank. They're literally trying to outrage you and you still just eat it up and thank them for it

9 minutes ago, ThievingSpring said:

Guys, tomorrow is April Fools. No way this insanity is real

But today isn't April 1st

1 hour ago, SoilingSage said:

A sad day for official ASE players a great day for fans of the game ASA will be a welcome addition perhaps more so than ark 2 thanks wildcard UE5 looks amazing I look forward to new adventures

LOL so u have seen the footage of this new game and been on the servers? never EVER count your chickens before WC has shown us REAL stuff - and lol they are STILL charging us when it was supposed to be FREE

1 minute ago, Redneb1985 said:

But today isn't April 1st

The crunch was posted on middnight of CEST timezone. For a lot of ARK players it's already 1st of April. But it doesn't look like a prank.

how much of this is true since we have 1 April ?

5 minutes ago, ThievingSpring said:

Guys, tomorrow is April Fools. No way this insanity is real

If it is it's a ducking horrible joke, hell this crunch alone told me not to buy the second game as they are nothing more then greedy liars. Things like this is how you lose loyal players & keep new players from sticking around for the *it's a joke post* . And if it is actually *just a joke* this tells me they are so out of touch with their playerbase that they would even thing this is funny. All it tells me not to trust a single word they say as they've proven they can't be trusted, and that's not a good thing. When your players stop trusting you & they lose interest in your game, no interst in your game and you crash and burn because of it.

2 hours ago, FabianPEH said:

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

 

Exactly! In all fairness, I don't even have access to it from what WC's put out so far (Xbox One people sad), and everyone has to pay extra for it? Why not just upgrade ARK:SE to fit with the current gaming scene? Normally I'm in full support of everything WC does, but this is...different.

12 minutes ago, Duffmek said:

it was supposed to be FREE

I remember the announcement of ARK revamped, and I was so excited because, well, optimization! Foliage interaction! Water! And it's all free! Thanks WC, for ruining our expectations. You've made my day!

I'm not calling them @wildcard 

After August they'll be referred to as Thanos

4 minutes ago, badjuejue said:

I'm not calling them @wildcard 

After August they'll be referred to as Thanos

Should refer to them as Sony Online Entertainment. They certainly acting it. I wonder if their new game director is a man named "Smedly"

2 hours ago, Lustatifer said:

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

ye, end of 2025 when it`s on sale for 5 bucks...

1 hour ago, basilmemories said:

so hold on, you first go that this is an upgrade, which is great! because let's be real we all knew a delay on ark 2 was coming, and honestly, that's fine. I'm anti-crunch and take your time.

but then, THEN, oh now it's going to be 90$ to get the same thing, plus a product i might not want anyway, and if i don't want to upgrade... well tough for me, because you're shutting down the servers. and even if i had the money to upgrade, i STILL couldn't take the years of hard work that me and my tribe with me, again, let me know if I got any of this wrong.

on TOP OF THAT, now mods will be little paid dlc packs, because you can bet your bottom dollar that everyone is going to not make it a "suggested" payment or a "pay-what-you-want", it's going to be some cold hard cash... and you retain 50% of the profits. so you do nothing, load our system with more bloatware, and probably don't set a max price, and get paid for modders to fix your mistakes and pass the cost on to us.

again, TELL ME WHERE I AM WRONG.

I'm sorry, when did this become the EA forums, and when did this become The Sims 4?

BOOM this right here

 

No way in hell am i even touching this ASA game till i see / now what its going to look like and if it has the same 'code' as ark1 because dam its a bugfest at times + thos QOL structure stuff im sure is modded in already ..... ALSO if ark1 is getting sunset in AUG this year when will this new one get the same treatment? a year or two down the line when (lol) ark2 comes out? WASTE of time, you are charging US to TEST the UE5 ....LOL might just go demo my base now tbh get this crap off my comp .. nearly 8k hours and you drop this turd on us - the delay WE ALL knew was gonna happen with zero in-game shots thats not a problem the whole rest of it is.

1 hour ago, riceandvegetable said:

Can I just say WOW to that saber? As someone who's spent entirely too much time looking at saber fossils and reconstructions, this is super nice! Has even got the typical unapologetically long saber face! I'm happy!

yeah its a nice drawing isnt it ...... 

Unfortunately wildcard is only interested in profits and doesn't care about the community. Charging for a visual upgrade is ridiculous. Why not do what CD Project Red did with The Witcher 3, remaster it for free, plus include new content. All for free.

"Dynamic Water"
So what does this mean for Rafts?? I'm excited to see some new boat features!!

Based on this new bundle essentially being a free upgrade to Evo with the purchase of Ark2 and Jeremy Stieglitz alreadying stating this would be a FREE upgrade as a PS user the math isn't mathing. $39.99 ≠ FREE.

Needs fixed or increase the price to $49.99 and plan to provide PS users a code to download Ark2 via steam for free at launch, thank you 🥰

Well thanks for ark'ing us all, and killing a a huge online community. Some of us had no intent of going to ARK2 for several reasons, one of which starting from scratch, as well as not being able to have tek again, and living in a primitive world with very little upgrades, as well as some of the dinos that we will no longer be seeing in ARK 2. Now you are basically taking all that away from us with wiping the servers and just erasing 2,3,4,5,6, years of every day grinding, some of us with still a little bit of the grind to go, and finally getting to where we want to be in the community, just getting ark'd to nothing again, losing all of our dinos and god knows what else that is not going to be in the save to go to a server to play by ourselves... and not with the little family of people we have grown to love and hate in our community. DILO? and now you are going to make us pay for it all over again, to start off with what in a game that may not even still live up to what it should be. 

So many things don't add up to take this seriously.... you ain't fooling me, April Fools FTW

1.) This, just two months ago (CC#345)....

"Despite anticipating our next showing of ARK 2 to be a gameplay showcase, we see the hunger and eagerness for more ARK 2 information, and we get it. We’ve decided to give you a peek behind the curtain and begin showcasing more ARK 2 tidbits regularly as we lead up to the first gameplay trailer. We hope you enjoy these appetizers, and we can’t wait for you to get your hands on the main course ! "

2.) This... (two months ago) what others things to show?? All I see is Sabertooth concept art and a half-baked logo...

3.) Ark Ascended logo looks half baked, ark logos are pretty catchy and artistic, not this one.

4.) No way will Ark 1 remastered be ready to be released by August when they just teased this possibility just a little ways back...

5.) An official expansion only getting 4 new dinos...

6.) Tek Engrams coming to conquest.... isn't that counter-productive of what conquest is about.

7.) Content creators feel like they're 'acting' upset about this news... You can kinda feel excitement brewing in Syntac's video while he is trying to be upset. Maybe they were told ahead of time "play into the joke" since they don't mention the possibility of it being a joke, at any point....

8.) This was posted officially at the start of April 1st universal time. They're just getting the jump on you before you start seeing all the jokes elsewhere.

I feel like they planned an April Fool's joke months ago and have been teasing concept art to both "hold us over" and "lead us to believe" Ark 2 will be delayed. So maybe I'm wrong about all this... but the only way I see this playing out well for Wildcard is if in the coming days we get the "real" roadmap, Ark 2 trailer, and Ark 2 beta coming out this month. 

Edited April 1, 2023 by hoff3610

Ok, there is a lot to unpack here, I am going to process this information. My first responses are hardly the best ones.

Not sure if it is good or bad at this point. I honestly expected the official delay of Ark 2, it make sense and it is consistent with Wildcard's history, so I am totally cool with this as the expectation was set correctly. No worries here.

I guess it would be a positive if our player characters looked better and the animals are less plastic without all that bloom lotion they currently use.

Ark is fun and I did find it an amazing experience, but not sure I got the time to do it all over again, as I understood in between the lines there, the existing saves are likely not compatible... Thinking if ramping and fighting bosses will take less time than months of breeding and preparation in vanilla...Yikes. 

Just some random thoughts here, I am also wondering why bother with pushing anything in ARK:SE if ASA is around the corner... 

I have already seen some projects that are using UE5, it's incredible... Maybe it will do ASA justice. But having another go at TEK with an improved version is tempting for sure, maybe I could build better structures too with all that I have learned playing the original.

I am attached to my Rex line however, I really built a strong lineage which I am very proud of and took me a very long time to achieve. 

Yeah, lots of things to consider, I want to keep an open mind, but I am not totally sold on this yet, but I am observing.

Regardless, this is by far one of the best updates Wildcard has done in a while, there is substance here, it be nice if we could occasionally have more of these.

Take care Wildcard and fellow survivors... let us see how the next few months go as we learn more about it.