Community Crunch 398: An Update on The Center, Oasisaur Dossier, and More!

"We’ve made the decision to postpone the Center as it wasn’t on track to launch with the level of quality we require."

This statement scares me. Considering how The Island came out, I don't even want to imagine what state The Center's development must be in for them to have decided not to release it because it doesn't reach the level of quality that, considering previous releases, is already very low. Probably a flat surface with two trees or something 🙂

 

 

6 hours ago, MissAscended said:

Stop yelling at a small team of people with limited resources and funds. Jeez. You knew what you were signing up for a second time round 🙄

 

I highly doubt a single screecher knows a thing about designing a game and/or map.

 

With that said:

 

[Quote]Most unbelievably, the wellspring of an Oasisaur can reincarnate your lost animal friends! Whether by transcendental magic or access to the mysterious technologies of these ARKs, I’ve seen a fallen pet returned to newborn life by committing their essence to that rejuvenating pool.[/quote]

 

Ahhh. Please, pleaaaaase don't give it a daft taming method. I beg of u 🙏

The amount of crying over an INCOMPLETE EARLY ACCESS game is insane.

Like what the crap are they supposed to do to make money to work on ASA? Not even that. What are they supposed to do to continue making money to pay the staf? To pay staff insurance? To pay for staff supplies?

ASE was only going to be able to make so much money for so long before it couldn't turn a buck anymore. 

And I'm sorry, you can't run a company purely on loans. Eventually you'll have to pay that back with interest. 

WC should drop out of snail and find a better business partner.

15 hours ago, AlucardCrimson said:

Oh look at that, postponing the center but still giving us a dino that we don't care about instead of the map that we actually give a crap about. Or hey, maybe you know. Actually fixing all the issues currently in the game instead! Not adding more mods that will continue to break the game, or premium mods that we don't care about so you can just make more money off your players instead of actually caring about us and what we actually want and FIX THIS BROKEN GAME ALREADY!!!

 

The incompetence continues. Maybe it's time to just close shop. The level of disorganization is astronomical. No one is surprised. Just shut it down. Studio Wild Card is an embarrassment to gaming. Nail, coffin, you know. 

Imo: Gigantoraptor makes more sense on The Island, it's all about finding those babies and caring for them.

3 hours ago, arkark said:

"We’ve made the decision to postpone the Center as it wasn’t on track to launch with the level of quality we require."

This statement scares me. Considering how The Island came out, I don't even want to imagine what state The Center's development must be in for them to have decided not to release it because it doesn't reach the level of quality that, considering previous releases, is already very low. Probably a flat surface with two trees or something 🙂

 

 

This is exactly what I thought as well. As if the Island came out polished and in great shape after it's 20 delays.

I've reported the pillaring. They do nothing. The game is full of bugs. They do NOTHING. While they do absolutely nothing about the problems they have, they work on the center, and that's not coming out. So we get absolutely nothing for buying a game. AGAIN. Wild card  Is there anything yall are doing?
Maybe FIX THE GAME. more maps and love bugs shouldn't not even be on your radar when the game has so many problems. I can't even pick a fish up to give it to an otter and the entire map is pillared off on officials but you're trying to put a new map out with all the same problems this map has. Come on we need to use a bit of common sense. Just stop all the extras and make the island work. Then move on to the next thing. 

It's just of bunch stuff out of nowhere that nobody asked for. Can't we just stick to the plan ? Can't we just fix broken things ?

Edited February 24 by claytongold

12 hours ago, Legion85 said:

How blind are you? So you buy a Game, ASA, which was clear to be just a Remake and now you complain?

Omg cant believe how dumn people Are nowadays 

Bro you're the dumbass,  

A Remake you do to make a much beter game, not a 100 times more horrible product.

They promised all kinds of cool poop, a full recoded game.

Remade island, unpolish as it can be floating foiliage, Stones, some intern trainee went ape nuts on the peble brush, go look in the snow how rediculous it looks. Mesh holes everywhere.

(Center is not up to their quality standards, it seems they smoking pebbles aswell ) look at your island map.

The game grapical wise runs like ass it has 300+ seriously player affecting bugs.

Duping, meshing, exploiting since day one.

They need their partners to make center the had months time to make it and now need months more, so wild card can work on scorched?? 

Scorched is 90 precent desert, and a bunch of stones. I can indie Remake scorched in a week. They are with a full blown studio.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 25 by MorgensterTM

So, let me get this straight. You gave us all a clearly defined roadmap for future content releases to keep us contented with the current state of your "game". Then, you reneged on the previous roadmap and swapped the maps that were releasing and the creatures that were releasing with the first map in order to appease players that wanted something akin to the Maewing while delaying the first map once you realized that you would not be able to actually adhere to said roadmap.

Now, you're telling us just days before the Center was supposed to release according to your new roadmap that it is not, in fact, releasing on schedule, and in an attempt to soften the blow from the news that the Center was being indefinitely postponed, you're releasing the creature that was swapped in (Gigantoraptor) on a map that most of us are already tired of. You guys should have realized that players would not be happy with this. There is no way to properly sugarcoat this; you guys messed up. Horribly so, in fact.

Furthermore, you also revealed that a creature that we have to pay for that was already fairly overpowered to begin with is going to be even more overpowered. The optics are not looking too good for you, Wildcard. Sure, some people are going to buy into this scam, but they are only going to do so because they are now being forced to in order to even the odds against the mega tribes that will have already bought into the scam and will now have an even more distinct advantage over them...

My expectations were already abysmal. How did you manage to lower those expectations even further?
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBDMMVctu8

 

Edited February 25 by N7_Sinner

i will never understand why its not possible to pet most of the dinos. especially the wolves. such a missed opportunity!

Great. Major patch on Monday, hope it’ll fix the crashing issues

2 hours ago, TheBloodPrinc3 said:

Great. Major patch on Monday, hope it’ll fix the crashing issues

Translation: Major patch on Monday, hope it'll not break the game even more

On 2/23/2024 at 8:39 PM, HoganRyan01 said:

yes it did. ask literally any non official player

Non official pvp player here your very wrong the majority of us didn't have mods cause console exist and a good amount of pc players played servers with no mods

seeing this game slowly die like a terminally ill patient only makes me hope it dies soon without suffering too much. Am I the only one who has this feeling?  

So ive got to get this out there please please please listen to your fan base , ive been playing since ase and i love this game but lately this just feels like a huge cash grab. You have an amazing game that honestly if handled properly would make you rich but time after time we are let down. We have a tribe on official of 5 members and we have hit a point where no one gets on anymore.  We played for DAYS straight when this came out and now im luckily if they get on at all. Please fix this game and give us what YOU have promised. 

On 2/23/2024 at 7:28 PM, Voxin said:

It's like a comedy skit at this point 

Has been since they announced A.S.A. last year on April 1st. 😉

Notice how they're continuing the trend by saying they'll release S.E. A.S.A. on April 1st of this year. Now, I know that the Chinese don't exactly celebrate April Fools Day like Westerners do, but a large portion of their customers do so you'd think that any half-brained company would be aware of this and be cautious of it. 😂

Unless...this is all part of their genius plot to turn Ark into a Comedy instead of a Sci-Fi Survival Drama. 🤔

That would certainly explain the Steam-Boat Willie costume. 🤔

Edited February 26 by FlorianWind9

On 2/24/2024 at 8:19 AM, DominicBastion said:

Just be happy they're revamping the game at all.

The problem is that they aren't revamping the game. They're just adding extra icing onto the old game while at the same time making it worse and worse with every update.

How is one supposed to be happy when a candy company ceases production of their original much-beloved flavor, only to show-case and essentially force a new flavor onto the consumer which looks prettier but tastes so much worse?

That's like a chocolate bar company ceasing production of their original addictive product, only to replace it with a hard bar of tar covered in golden icing. 

On 2/25/2024 at 2:17 AM, MorgensterTM said:

Bro you're the dumbass,  

A Remake you do to make a much beter game, not a 100 times more horrible product.

They promised all kinds of cool poop, a full recoded game.

Remade island, unpolish as it can be floating foiliage, Stones, some intern trainee went ape nuts on the peble brush, go look in the snow how rediculous it looks. Mesh holes everywhere.

(Center is not up to their quality standards, it seems they smoking pebbles aswell ) look at your island map.

The game grapical wise runs like ass it has 300+ seriously player affecting bugs.

Duping, meshing, exploiting since day one.

They need their partners to make center the had months time to make it and now need months more, so wild card can work on scorched?? 

Scorched is 90 precent desert, and a bunch of stones. I can indie Remake scorched in a week. They are with a full blown studio.

 

 

 

 

Wow Bro i think you should Start as a Programmer at wildcard. I think with your help the Game will be polished in a week and we have 3 maps 

We seriously need more maps. Most players have already been through this entire process with Survival Evolved. Many players don't want to play on The Island again or play on The Island in general. Having only one map also makes it more difficult to tame and gather resources with the competition and as a result, it's discouraging. 

There are so many people selling dinos/items for resources and also RMT. I don't see the point in this since, eventually, the servers will once again be abundant in resources and maxxed out stats. At that point, people would just be giving stuff away. (Maybe it's hype and FOMO... and that's not sustainable) Combine that with the fact that limiting boosted rate events only exists for player retention and i'm having difficulty making sense of all this.

I'm not saying that WC is doing a bad job. The quality is there. But why are we playing the same game again? Why are the rates so low when people are constantly complaining about them? Why are serious issues like bosses being invisible, duping, and server instability not being addressed? I personally don't care about the new dinosaur release because I know the entire server will be swarming to get those eggs. It will also be 1x. I'm not looking forward to playing the game right now. Once again, this is reminding me of Diablo 4 and their tone deaf approach.

Of course it's impossible to cater to everyone but WC has less of a playerbase to deal with than a game like Diablo. The way rates and breeding are currently set up are objectively not healthy for people. You shouldn't have to interrupt your work/life/sleep only to prevent suffering losses. I decided to play on official for ASA because I figured I would commit to it long-term. It's very difficult though, with work, sleep, exercise, and study, as well as other hobbies. I can only imagine what those with families have to sacrifice to play.

And people wonder why Ark2 never got made when it takes 6 months to remake a single ASE map...all the evidence show ASA will have the same cycle as ASE, so you're looking at a 4yr stretch to remake all the content of the original game.  

Edited February 26 by KingOfAshes

And when reveal something about the animated series

Reveal something about the platform and the release date pleasee!!!

On 2/24/2024 at 9:35 PM, Allelujah said:

 I can't even pick a fish up to give it to an otter 

Can't help with the other problems we are all putting up with but this one I can - use a primitive spear, it auto puts the fish into ur hand so u can tame otters once again. Don't mistime the feed tho, if u do it will drop and there's no picking it up again.

So where’s this “major version patch”? It’s almost 3pm EST and nothing has happened 

13 hours ago, Legion85 said:

Wow Bro i think you should Start as a Programmer at wildcard. I think with your help the Game will be polished in a week and we have 3 maps 

Im a business man i don't work for a company, i do it for the customer sell them a emotion with it every time they use my product they have a feeling of satisfaction, if their product breaks or has any complications they come TO ME and i fix it and they will be more happy, because i deliver costumer service with a Smile.

Be honest professional and care for your custumers, because of them you have money in the bank at the end of the month.

People love to spend their money at me and buy newer and beter version of my product. I would not sell a product that before i sell it i know its bad , you can already know what kind of problems and blowback it gives you. If you are desperate enough and you try it anyway you need to know how to deal with it and how to keep your custumers trust in you on point.

You be honest and tell your costummers  a simple Sorry (goes a Long end) we knew the product was not  up to our standard quality level but we needed the money to develop our next product, but as service standard i will a: always as Quick as possible fix your product even if i have to work over hours, b: i will refund your money if you really not happy with the product or give you a huge discount on the next product and a big sorry, i had to safe my self from going broke.

People will understand you because you have served them for many years, you are honest to them, and you help them when they ask for it. This is how you run a succesfull company.

Trust me when i say i don't enjoy talking this way for over  8 years i have been a True big fan of ark even tho it's state i had a statisfied feeling to the end.

But now we get such a bad product with loads of problems a copy of the old game ( which should be a remaster), People still suck it up and take it in hope of change. But now People are losing everything they built up in months , wildcard does not say a word to nobody, there is no support, on email, tickets discord.

What you expect People get so bloody mad and frustrated, if i would do this to my customers, i beter start running cuz people start showing up with torches and pitchforks. 

Greetings MorgensterTM.

 

 

 

Edited February 26 by MorgensterTM