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November has 30 days, don't hold your breath 🤪

If you can't download the patch due to not enough disk space, just delete the game and reinstal. This is what consoles had to do all the time and there it worked.

Splitscreen? If I remember correct that feature was canceled for ASA on all platforms, have to look it up in the CC.

The description on YouTube also said: Coming in November to consoles! Xbox: https://www.microsoft.com/store/r/9P3... Playstation: https://store.playstation.com/concept... In other words: crossplay is wrecked before start if PC gets a headstart. Not impressed in general, I'm used to the level of detail now being equaly good/bad. In the trailer some parts look great while others just look... ARK? This is imersion breaking. By the way, available today but no PC specs yet???

And there is the difference: Shadowdropped. What is happening with ASA is far from "shadow", it is constantly screaming "LOOK NEXT WEEK AT US SCREAMING AGAIN". A good shadowdrop saves a lot of marketing cost, complaints about delays, unforfilled expectations and whatever more is dissapointing or negative while everybody is pleasantly surprised.

I do remember... It realy was a bummer my Megadrive games didn't fit in my friends Amiga or NES, most devs were specialized in their own system in those days. I also remember it was MS convincing the industry that exclusivity was bad when they entered the market with the Xbox, not the devs. When gaming was still a niche and you just had to visit your friends if you wanted a multiplayer... Those days 😹

That would have been funny if they had stuck with the initial ASA/ARK2 package. Even without that package it will be another change of hearts since they never realy mentioned ARK2 being platform exclusive, altough there has been lots of speculation about it already.

I remember another game that had a partnership with Xbox a while ago. For a long time all we got to see was some minor screenshots and old trailers while the hypebuilding was done mostly by content creators speculating. Xbox even made a special edition of the One halfd a year before launch... Got to say that Cyberpunk 2077 had a poor lanch and needed almost 2,5 years of patching before it became the game that should have been launched... That extra money or whatever they got was not a guarantee for a good product on launch, neither was the line-up of Series X/S the first year showing MS having the knowledge to create good games with their partners. So these new announcments are just new announcements to me and no reason to expect anything good or bad. I just wait and see, no hype here.

Same problem on PS. This was one of the first issues I made a ticket for and it was completely ignored. Worst problem with this is: If the operator of the server you play on is using a different language you cant use the search in inventories unless you know the right wording in his or her language but many things are realy wierd translated. So searching is a lotery

They did not intentionaly "held back" they just blew it but I realy don't see why this is making WC (not Grove) holding back the trailer, GTA got nothing to do with this. Correct, it sucked at launch. But who did the fixing? I think that was not WC but Grove doing what they do best: Making heavy games run on limitted hardware.

When it was announced that Grove Street was getting involved I was initialy thinking like you. That studio had little experience with upgrading games, they specialized in ports to mobile I believe and they indeed completely failed with GTA. As I understand the coörperation with WC was mostly porting ARK to the Switch, wich they did good. It does not seem they have a huge role in development of ASA or ARK2 besides mobile or Switch ports. Another thing they are not doing is making ASA trailers so I'm a bit confused about they point you are trying to make.

What year?

That depends on your timezone.

And that is the most inteligent thing you said 😹

I recal a content creator making a video that explained it was NOT easy to port mods due to all the customised code of ARK and it was impossible if a mod was no longer actyive unless he waived his rights. For some reason I tend to see this as more realistic for the more complicated mods.

I don't think Starfield on Xbox is a good standard due to the scale of it and Bethesda... Don't get me wrong, I like some of their games a lot but they are absolutely NOT the standard in performance on consoles.

Like everything else: If it's meeting the requirements somewhere between A(rk)ceptable and good. A better question would be: What are the requirements for a PC to run ASA?

You might have missed the news the last year or 3 but there are consoles like a Series X an PS5 these days.

Nice picture. Is certification still in time to make the deadline?

No body should have an issue with paying for a product they enjoy to use. People do have issues with broken promisses.

If nothing new already excites you, bet your pants are stained all the time.

This community is not tame, we only learned it does not matter what we say. The times it get a decent response or acknowledgement are very rare. (Edit: compared to many extremely hysterical communities it might look a bit tame )

That's easy: Wait till the first reviews have dropped before answering that question.

While your view on what a community crunch SHOULD be is correct, you can't blame people being dissapointed since WC start using these as the one and only regular news source on this platform. I feel sorry for everyones contribution being overshadowed by the general dissapointment but instead of blaming the sympthom why not adress the root cause? Dear WC, try to COMMUNICATE more often on this platform. You know, the place the in-game info directed us to with every question or issue we had for years.

The marketing team got an assignment to sell a survival game and is now testing who is surviving their marketing. If only ARK is getting as tough as this marketing campaign we would never see cryopods again!