JESwayze

How sad for you.

Which part. How bad Wildcard is or my cred. I haven't the time, energy nor will to prove myself.

As a CIO of a technology company that works with fortune 100 companies, YOU GUYS SUCK AT THIS. Everything from PR to development lifecycle to meeting launch dates, you must be about the worst group I have ever seen. If you were in regular tech without an addicted user base you would have never made it. You all need to find another job or get someone who has a business mind to manage you. Really, Get help.

The way this should have worked was and is, skip Ascended all together. Finish Ark2 with the delayed needed time to make it right, probably 2025 to be completely honest. Release more DLCs eg 2 per year to give yourselves cashflow. Keep Evolved servers running for at least 1 year after Ark2 releases for no other reason than to allow your PS users to continued play until their shot at Ark2. Ascended is just a cover for the delay of Ark2 when you figured out it was going to be a flop in current formulation. I don't know if that gives you enough cashflow to make it from here to Ark2 though. It feels like it may not, in that case you may need to get real creative on the financial side of things or you may need a bridge loan and if the money people believe in you then you may be ok but given your track record on deliverables you have a poor credit rating in that department.

I am a Chief Information Officer and have been one for 25 years of a company that services Fortune 100 companies. The last few years Wild Card has made some very bad business decisions. Too much energy spent on things that were not the things that made you successful. It is common when success comes, leadership fails to do those things that brought them their success. 1. Too much energy, time making a cartoon 2. Too much time and energy focused on the art and not the mechanics. 3. Poorly planned hyping a bleeding edge product in ark 2 that should have never been introduced as such before you had a handle on programming with it. Meanwhile you keep playing with the art and not the mechanics. 4. The #1 rule of business is meet your deadlines. If you cant don't set them, don't hint to them. Don't get your client base ready to buy and then bait and switch. The client base would have stayed interested in Ark Evolved well into 2024 and then you could have started your announcements. 5. Nobody believes you. You have missed too many deadlines. Nobody believes you. End of 2024? Nobody believes you. August 2023 for Ascended? Nobody believes you. Why should they. MEET YOUR DEADLINES=EARN TRUST. Earn the Trust and people will pay. Only the unreasonable think that 50 bucks buys you an eternity of game play. Unreal Engine 5 has been out since December of 21. There should have been R&D finished by the first Quarter of 2022 and the determination to Bring Ark Ascended should have been made then and announced with a roadmap then. You would not have had to rush the transition. Now you ran out of time and it is obvious to everyone you ran out of money. And now you are stuck between a rock and a hard place and you know it. By the way get a PR firm to handle debacles like this. Don't try to do it yourself. You did a horrible job of it. They specialize in these kind of disasters. Get back to what made you successful before you guys loose it all. I love Ark and I still think you can do great things but get back to basic business and stop letting the creatives run it.

Love the rates but PS4 Replicators broke. No Crafting Engrams. Wrong Item Qty Calculations and can't add any items.

Hatch? I didn't think this was a breeding event.

Fantastic Event, Love the Stream, Next year our tribe will participate as a team with fundraising/sponsorship in advance for the event. Thanks WC.

You were wrong. At 15k we went to 3.5x We will be at 8x at 60k

The information was taken verbatim from the live broadcast scrren shot from the 2017 Event reposted in a recent Ark Announcement on the Extra Life Event

5k - 2.5x 10k - 3.0x 15k - 3.5x 20k - 4.0x 25k - 4.5x 30k - 5.0x 35k - 5.5x 40k - 6.0x 45k - 6.5x 50k - 7.0x 55k - 7.5x 60k - 8.0x

Last year it lasted 25 hours for entire event (25 hrs due to the end of Daylight Savings Time. If I remember correctly it was 8x within 6 hours of the event starting which is at 12PM Eastern but that is completely donation dependent. Because so much was raised last year 4x was then extended by WC into Monday until the normal weekly event ending time.