Valentine event 2023?

[Ellelollita]

Will there be a valentine event in 2023?

[wizard03]

It was stated that the last event for Ark 1 was the Christmas event, and for some reason, there was a sneaky new years event added literally last minute. As such I would not hold out hope. Valentines is probably not going to happen. In fact, Id fathom that all events will probably be a no go. If they was to do any events, it might be the big ones, such as Halloween and Christmas, or a evenly spaced out event. Such as summer bash and again Christmas.

And even then, it might be a simple copy n paste from last year. No new extra anythings, just everything that happened last year all over again.

[GrumpyBear]

 

 

Maybe the OP should read up on the website a little more on their own.   This question has been answered several times.

[Jessejames3024]

On 1/14/2023 at 2:11 AM, GrumpyBear said:

 

 

Maybe the OP should read up on the website a little more on their own.   This question has been answered several times.

Sorry if this has been asked but are the boosts still happening or is everything canceled. 

[GrumpyBear]

20 minutes ago, Jessejames3024 said:

Sorry if this has been asked but are the boosts still happening or is everything canceled. 

You should try reading the front page of this website.  THey announce those things in the community crunch.

 

 

[MisfitToy]

On 1/16/2023 at 2:08 PM, GrumpyBear said:

You should try reading the front page of this website.  THey announce those things in the community crunch.

I get that your name is "Grumpy Bear" so I'm sure this is moot, but there are nicer ways of saying something has already been explained.  In fact, you could have just linked the article.  Easy as pie.  But nope, you had to make someone feel bad for asking a question. Just because you've responded to the same question multiple times , the same person hasn't asked it.  Not all of us have are familiar with the postings here and amazingly, some of us don't even read every single thing put out to the community.  Even crazier, some of us like to communicate with other people that play this game!  What?!  On top of all that, things change, often.  Maybe responding to the forums isn't your calling.  Maybe it's telemarketing or shoe sales or underwater basket weaving.  Just saying, if you're going to take the time to respond to someone who may have had to work up the courage to ask, it takes the same amount of keystrokes to be kind as it takes to be a douche.  Honestly, most times it takes less to be kind. Have an amazing weekend.

[Pipinghot]

1 hour ago, MisfitToy said:

I get that your name is "Grumpy Bear" so I'm sure this is moot, but there are nicer ways of saying something has already been explained.  In fact, you could have just linked the article.  Easy as pie.  But nope, you had to make someone feel bad for asking a question. Just because you've responded to the same question multiple times , the same person hasn't asked it.  Not all of us have are familiar with the postings here and amazingly, some of us don't even read every single thing put out to the community.  Even crazier, some of us like to communicate with other people that play this game!  What?!  On top of all that, things change, often.  Maybe responding to the forums isn't your calling.  Maybe it's telemarketing or shoe sales or underwater basket weaving.  Just saying, if you're going to take the time to respond to someone who may have had to work up the courage to ask, it takes the same amount of keystrokes to be kind as it takes to be a douche.  Honestly, most times it takes less to be kind. Have an amazing weekend.

Riiight, because asking a question that every single person who uses this web site can already know the answer to is perfectly "nice", it's not rude at all to expect other people to do their work for them. Grumpy gave an answer that was just a "nice" as the question was.

 

Asking questions about topics that are difficult or confusing, or even more difficult than reading the community crunch that is available for every single person who comes to this web site, is reasonable. No one knows everything and anyone can overlook a detail here and there, but simply failing or refusing to look at the information that WC publishes for the exact purpose of making it available to everyone, is not "nice".

[GrumpyBear]

57 minutes ago, MisfitToy said:

I get that your name is "Grumpy Bear" so I'm sure this is moot, but there are nicer ways of saying something has already been explained.  In fact, you could have just linked the article.  Easy as pie.  But nope, you had to make someone feel bad for asking a question. Just because you've responded to the same question multiple times , the same person hasn't asked it.  Not all of us have are familiar with the postings here and amazingly, some of us don't even read every single thing put out to the community.  Even crazier, some of us like to communicate with other people that play this game!  What?!  On top of all that, things change, often.  Maybe responding to the forums isn't your calling.  Maybe it's telemarketing or shoe sales or underwater basket weaving.  Just saying, if you're going to take the time to respond to someone who may have had to work up the courage to ask, it takes the same amount of keystrokes to be kind as it takes to be a douche.  Honestly, most times it takes less to be kind. Have an amazing weekend.

people who fish for info are often too lazy to actually get involved with the game.  I reserve effort for when I think its appropriate, and for when the people asking truly seem like they have a question that isn't an easy answer.  People who fail to put any effort in reading and searching for links themselves, aren't entitled to my doing that very thing for them.   If I have to search for it myself for you , why can't you do that yourself?   Especially when someone asks a quesion in a thread with no more than 4 posts in it... I can't expect that person to actually read 4 posts and then process the info on their own?  The answer was straight up in the 2nd post on this thread, and i added the extra context of how there will be a certain type of event that isn't holiday related, because that was the final answer that nobody knew the answer to.  It was finally answered by WC offering up a weekend evo event.  

 

I like people who help themselves, and I respond very kindly to people who show the slightest of effort.  And I ignore people who want to scold me for not being kind and nice when they expect that in return for not doing their part in the conversation.

[CervantesMor]

1 hour ago, MisfitToy said:

 

 

39 minutes ago, GrumpyBear said:

 

calm down guys. those who regularly follow this Forum know well that GrumpyBear is one of the most available people here to help anyone (often also going to do tests and research on the topic asked), even the opinion retorted by Mistfit is not wrong after all (but you too you weren't exactly delicate in all your expressions..). we are all here to learn something more and have fun, many (often younger kids) simply find it easier to open this forum and ask their question without even having read a single Topic or without even knowing that Ark Wiki.gg exists where most part of the explanations can be found with a bit of goodwill (and I praise those who do it themselves). this certainly doesn't give anyone the right to be escorted, even if I confess that I too often wonder: --but is this asking the same thing that we are already discussing in another post? but is he teasing?!-- . immediately afterwards, however, I think of the same thing Mistfit wrote and what I said above. in short, let's not attack each other because we don't all think in the same way and we often respond in ways that we don't realize that can be disheartening for someone

[GP]

On 1/14/2023 at 5:05 AM, Ellelollita said:

Will there be a valentine event in 2023?

Keeping all the drama aside, to answer your question, Events supposedly ended last year, but there is always a possibility they could continue events.

Officially they stated last year was the last year of events, but they mentioned that back in March. When it came to the last event, Winter Wonderland (New Year) they never reiterated that in the Community Crunch, which to me is odd to not announce it as the last event.

Since then they have announced a new dino vote (they said Carchar was the last), since then they've also announced ARK 1 upgrade to UE5.

So, considering they haven't said officially that Winter Wonderland was the last event there's always a possibility. One that I think is pretty strong.

[wizard03]

Honestly I don't think they will. They got a lot of meat to grind.....Ark 2, ark the animated series, ark the movie? Also very much ark 1 UE5 upgrade.......lots of stuff going down, and none of it looks easy. Granted, Im positive its seperate teams doing their own things, but in the end, thats a HUGE undertakeing and drain of both cash and time, so to think they would also be investing in a team to push out newish updates after they have declared they would not be, well....I can't say it isn't a thing, but if it was, I would say that its more than likely going to be a copy and paste of what they did last year.

Maybe boosted rates, but not a full blown event

[GP]

1 hour ago, wizard03 said:

but if it was, I would say that its more than likely going to be a copy and paste of what they did last year.

That's what they've done with all the events the last few years, they've all been copy and paste, with just new Chibis added, it would be no different.

[GrumpyBear]

9 hours ago, wizard03 said:

Honestly I don't think they will. They got a lot of meat to grind.....Ark 2, ark the animated series, ark the movie? Also very much ark 1 UE5 upgrade.......lots of stuff going down, and none of it looks easy. Granted, Im positive its seperate teams doing their own things, but in the end, thats a HUGE undertakeing and drain of both cash and time, so to think they would also be investing in a team to push out newish updates after they have declared they would not be, well....I can't say it isn't a thing, but if it was, I would say that its more than likely going to be a copy and paste of what they did last year.

Maybe boosted rates, but not a full blown event

If they were to do an event this year , my money is on the yearly anniversary of the game release date, and beyond that a slightest chance for  Halloween and/or Christmas.   

The reason I would definitely not expect Valentines and Easter is because they already made public statements giving them an out on not holding holiday events.  Even if they squeeze a little time free to run them,  it would set a precedent for the entire year that players would then become very very vocal about an event not happening afterwards.   That makes it especially important for them logistically to not have Valentines and Easter to make sure the players don't go demanding every holiday event for the rest of the year.

 

added thought - I would add a higher probability chance for the charity event they have always done after Halloween being more likely than all the others I listed already.

[wizard03]

5 hours ago, GrumpyBear said:

If they were to do an event this year , my money is on the yearly anniversary of the game release date, and beyond that a slightest chance for  Halloween and/or Christmas.   added thought - I would add a higher probability chance for the charity event they have always done after Halloween being more likely than all the others I listed already.

Sadly, they did not do an event last year. In fact everyone was asking what the party dodo's was supposed to be. Wildcard never issues a statement, as such it was suspected that it was either an event that flopped and they kept to themselves, or a bug that accidentally spawned party dodo's when the calendar hit the clock.
I myself was truely set back wondering what happened, but never got an answer, Just theories. 

[wizard03]

14 hours ago, GP said:

That's what they've done with all the events the last few years, they've all been copy and paste, with just new Chibis added, it would be no different.

I ment, not even new chibi's. Just boosted rates and the same event as last year {or two years now if you want}

[Pipinghot]

18 hours ago, wizard03 said:

Honestly I don't think they will. They got a lot of meat to grind.....Ark 2, ark the animated series, ark the movie? Also very much ark 1 UE5 upgrade.......lots of stuff going down, and none of it looks easy.

I would argue that the move to convert ARK to UE5 show that they still believe they need to keep people playing ARK. Whether that's because ARK2 is behind schedule or some other reason is anyone's guess. I certainly don't know why, but my thinking is that you don't spend the kind of time and money needed to convert the game to UE5 unless they plan to maintain active support of the game for the forseeable future, that's not something a game company does just because it sounds like a fun idea. I have no specific facts to back up these opinions, but converting the game to UE5 is a pretty big deal and therefore they must have pretty big reasons for doing it.

This, in turn, implies to me that they're most likely going to change their mind about events because events help to keep people active. Just one opinion, only time will tell.

[wizard03]

4 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

I would argue that the move to convert ARK to UE5 show that they still believe they need to keep people playing ARK. Whether that's because ARK2 is behind schedule or some other reason is anyone's guess. I certainly don't know why, but my thinking is that you don't spend the kind of time and money needed to convert the game to UE5 unless they plan to maintain active support of the game for the forseeable future, that's not something a game company does just because it sounds like a fun idea. I have no specific facts to back up these opinions, but converting the game to UE5 is a pretty big deal and therefore they must have pretty big reasons for doing it.

This, in turn, implies to me that they're most likely going to change their mind about events because events help to keep people active. Just one opinion, only time will tell.

Could be, however Im more suspect that its either super easy to do because UE5 might have some shortcut tools to assist in the upgrade. Or maybe its their last attempt to fix some of the broken this and thats. The teleportation bug in aberation is a super annoying thing, and they also know that as soon as that anime drops, there will probably be a huge surge in new players wandering this way.....maybe its a last ditch attempt to polish this game proper before an influx of potential buyers.

[Pipinghot]

15 hours ago, wizard03 said:

Could be, however Im more suspect that its either super easy to do because UE5 might have some shortcut tools to assist in the upgrade.

I assure that this is not true. It's too long of a discussion to have here on the forums, but if you know anyone who works in software development call them and offer to take them to lunch in exchange for an explanation what this process looks like. It's anything but super easy.

15 hours ago, wizard03 said:

Or maybe its their last attempt to fix some of the broken this and thats. The teleportation bug in aberation is a super annoying thing, and they also know that as soon as that anime drops, there will probably be a huge surge in new players wandering this way.....maybe its a last ditch attempt to polish this game proper before an influx of potential buyers.

Possibly, but you're basically making the same argument I did. This would only matter if they (WC) "still believe they need to keep people playing ARK". And that, in turn, would only be necessary if there are problems with the schedule for ARK2 and possibly the animated series as well.

Any money they spend on ARK is intended to serve the purpose of maintaining the size of their player base, and they have crossed the point of diminishing returns at some time in the last two years. A large portion (and I suspect the majority) of new players in the last year have been getting ARK either for free or at a steep discount. WC is not making nearly as much money per person over the last year as they did throughout the life of the game. They might be maintaining pretty good revenues overall, because people who game for free often end up buying expansions, but even the expansions are now available at a significant discount.

There is also the possibility that WC is hoping to "reboot" ARK after the UE5 conversion and are hoping to make money from their existing player base by re-selling them a game they've already bought because "UE5 is better, so give us more money".

But, no matter what WC's longer term goal is, it still comes back to the same basic reasoning - WC is converting to UE5 because they think it's important to keep people playing ARK, and that need in and of itself implies (it doesn't prove, but it implies) that their other projects are not going as well as WC had hoped they would.

[DirkInSA]

4 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

There is also the possibility that WC is hoping to "reboot" ARK after the UE5 conversion and are hoping to make money from their existing player base by re-selling them a game they've already bought because "UE5 is better, so give us more money".

That's my bet - An Ark "re-mastered" or some such. With an attendant price tag! The precedent is very much out there with a good many of the older games. The question  then becomes "can I still play on "new" servers with my UE4 Ark client, or do I HAVE to repurchase?"

[wizard03]

6 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

I assure that this is not true. It's too long of a discussion to have here on the forums, but if you know anyone who works in software development call them and offer to take them to lunch in exchange for an explanation what this process looks like. It's anything but super easy.

I see, well I was hoping that the graphics was more "replace object C with object C 0.2" But if its much more intense than that, then yeah it would be a bit of a slog.
 

6 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

Any money they spend on ARK is intended to serve the purpose of maintaining the size of their player base, and they have crossed the point of diminishing returns at some time in the last two years. A large portion (and I suspect the majority) of new players in the last year have been getting ARK either for free or at a steep discount. WC is not making nearly as much money per person over the last year as they did throughout the life of the game. They might be maintaining pretty good revenues overall, because people who game for free often end up buying expansions, but even the expansions are now available at a significant discount.

I don't think so, I have been watching a youtuber stream 5 hour episodes now twice a week......He bought it on epic first because of said discount, then spent $30 to purchase the steam version. He did not mention anything about a promotion or discount from steam, and many of his followers have said something similar......Now while this is a single youtuber and his followers, I will agree that the revenue that wildcard is getting is probably on the tail end and is not at its peak. As such we will have to wait and see what they are going to try and add to their repertoire.
 

7 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

There is also the possibility that WC is hoping to "reboot" ARK after the UE5 conversion and are hoping to make money from their existing player base by re-selling them a game they've already bought because "UE5 is better, so give us more money".

Incorrect, the developers have already stated that the UE5 update will be free to everyone who has already purchased or downloaded ark......now as for any new players, they may get hit with the normal $60 version instead of the current $30 standard, but that has not been confirmed.
 

7 hours ago, Pipinghot said:

But, no matter what WC's longer term goal is, it still comes back to the same basic reasoning - WC is converting to UE5 because they think it's important to keep people playing ARK, and that need in and of itself implies (it doesn't prove, but it implies) that their other projects are not going as well as WC had hoped they would.

Ok, I absolutely agree with this. I was rather curious if they had been slamming Ark 2 behind the scenes for a year or two when they first announced it, and then the sudden radio silence between then and now......Games take years to make. It isn't as cut and dry as "lets make a game, get a graphics designer and a code master" it takes planning, hard work, debugging, and a lot more now a days. So to hear that Ark 2 would be delayed again, its expected. But you know how marketing goes, and while its dirty to promote something that doesn't exist yet, its effective. Said youtuber I mentioned earlier bought ark BECAUSE of the ads for ark 2.

But then again, maybe there is a good reasoning behind the delay. Maybe for once, the developers actually decided to listen to its audience. They said they wanted "souls like game play" That it was going to be "third person perspective only" and that this was the only way. A lot of people did not like that, and maybe they responded by trying to rework things to allow first person as well.

[wizard03]

Jeremy Stieglitz on Twitter: "To clarify: the UE5 tease a couple weeks back is referring to in-the-works complete free upgrade/remaster of ARK Survival Evolved in UnrealEngine5. Not a cinematic. We havent officially announced the ARK UE5 upgrade yet 'cause there's other major things we wanna show then as well" / Twitter

 

[GP]

3 hours ago, DirkInSA said:

That's my bet - An Ark "re-mastered" or some such. With an attendant price tag! The precedent is very much out there with a good many of the older games. The question  then becomes "can I still play on "new" servers with my UE4 Ark client, or do I HAVE to repurchase?"

They've said it is a free upgrade. I don't think the old UE4 client will exist after UE5 comes.