Wildcard Staff Jesse Posted December 7, 2018 Wildcard Staff Share Posted December 7, 2018 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 View full article 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SurvivalServers Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Congrats on the announcement of the new game and cheers to the future Jeremy and Jesse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla2017945 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I came here 2 minutes after the post 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DauntedVenus Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 More ark DLCs hell yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOXCUSEE Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Good luck guys keep up with the good work ARK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knoxy3004 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Wasn't atlas teased months ago then removed from YouTube... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rahthos Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited December 7, 2018 by Rahthos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daimon03 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Honestly would’ve just preferred more ARK, maybe even a sequel but I suppose this is the next best thing. Happy sailing survivors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottyHunter Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Super excited about this and can't wait to set sail with my crew! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyanicEmber Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amirshaibi Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Looks like an amazing game. Hope to see it on console soon after release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallenDecay39 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setu3021 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBabyFaceBjorn Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) YES!!! cant wait for ATLAS to release! nvm this post, console gets it “next yeah” lol as usual console players had to wait Edited December 7, 2018 by MrBabyFaceBjorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crystalfox Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeddyTheNoodle Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tach Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeddyTheNoodle Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiiaAurora Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myosapien Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 "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. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartos Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Are you planning for this game to come to console or just pc for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umber0010 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 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. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeddyTheNoodle Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited December 7, 2018 by NeddyTheNoodle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaltyMonkey Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 (edited) 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). Edited December 7, 2018 by SaltyMonkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astolfo Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 I cant wait for atlas! I hope it comes to the consoles, we need more mmorpgs c: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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