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14 minutes ago, Legion85 said:

All you guys complaining about the frontier pack: are u Poor? Unemployed? The pack will sure be around 10-20 bucks 

All of u Play hundreds of hours in a fkn Game u paid Max Like 50 bucks for

stop crying and buy the pack. Or simply stop crying. It is so ridicolous

The fact that people don't want to dump money on crap doesn't make them poor or unemployed, it just means they got other priorities.

And brains.

4 hours ago, Seruum said:

every dlc has always had dinos and great items behind a paywall. 

Yes, but at least everyone on the map had it. Sure you could transfer items to non-DLC maps but this is a new level of pay to win.

3 hours ago, Udam said:

Wish we got the crab 

You got ASA, isn't that crap enough?
Oh, wait...

3 hours ago, Noricha said:

ASE is still full of bugs that sadly now will probably never get fixed since they no longer support the game.  Why would anyone buy ASA if it’s an unplayable mess.  There’s going to be a lot of people like myself that will wait and see if the game improves before they buy a ps5 to play it.

Let's be fair: It is not a complete unplayable mess.

Some unplayabele parts are still missing.

On 1/15/2024 at 7:37 AM, Hurebhsdyrgsg said:

You actually believe ur or anyone's vote makes a difference to which creatures are paired with what maps? They will release whichever creatures they want with whatever map they choose. They asked people to vote to gain favour with gullible people who think their having a say in the games development. 

It is not the point what I "actualy" believe, it is about what WC tries to make us believe. They were pretty clear about what we were voting for.

To be fair, I did not give a rats behind about the votes and in my personal opinion it was only to built hype. Seems we are pretty much on the same page here. Some of the idea's were way over the top (or beyond WC's ability as was confirmmed with this CC) and I did expect dissapointments.
My way of avoiding dissapoinment was just wait buying untill ASA has enough maps rolled out to confirm it was an improvement of ASE. So yeah... I'm stuck at ASE for the next few years.

15 hours ago, KarelBeranek said:

... endless tapestry of spam, false accusations and personal attacks. I wonder whether the server transfers will make this better or worse. I really wish they would have implemented an ignore list for global chat by now.

It will get worse. Toxic players and cheaters hopping from server to server are kind of anonymous. No one can keep track of them so it is easier for them to stay undetected. Official ASE already teached that lesson.

The other thing we will see returning is all the "I got ARKed" posts from people that lost all when transfering.

9 minutes ago, Gsage77 said:

Don't vote then... Sometimes things need to be switched up. You will still get your Dino you voted for. 

You are missing the point: We were offered a saying in the future of the game by voting specific creatures for specific maps. People designed these dino's to fit in that one map. What is happening now is making as much sense as giving a basilo-like creature as the new dino for Scorched Earth.
Giving this creature on another map is just a vote wasted and votes were what all the hype to ASA was buil on.

Tl;dr: The current situation is WC doing a "We here you" while giving the finger simultaniously.

15 hours ago, kahiko said:

Im new to game ark ascended was my first game.  I lost everything last night including my dino for no reason.  I looked it up, apparantly its been bug since the older game, anti mesh.  I wasnt even meshin or anything (official) just landed on ground cause fog then poof instant death to argy 1 min later me too.  Cant even recover my stuff.  Really put sour taste in my mouth that somethin like this gone so long where its unsafe to even touch ground.

First, welcome to the community.
I'm genualy interested what made you buy ASA inspite of all the controversy. As you might have seen by now the community is kind of divided on ASA and to be fair the discussion if it was all hype or not started straight from the first announcements.

9 hours ago, Tonarinookami said:

Everyone complaining about not getting the Shastasaurus with the Center please remember that they did say they are having problems getting the saddle everyone is wanting for it to work correctly.  I can't remember when they said it, I want to say right before ASA came out or around that time, but they did mention they are working on it and was having problems. 

Yes we can ask but don't get upset about it or start yelling at the overworked devs.

If they knew they needed  more time to get that saddle working, why the F did they push the release of that map instead of sticking to the announced scedule? The whole voting thing never appeared to me as a good idea but if they can't even give people what was voted for it is all just baked air.
Don't want to be a partypooper but it seems to me they are pushing things way too much with too many unsolved issues.

20 minutes ago, WaxLizardSkin said:

There is zero reason to have bought the windows version when you could have bought xbox version or steam version. There is no windows exclusive servers.

There is also no "excluding server". Everyone is free to play on a platform of choice IF a game is available on that platform. ASA was available on Windows so WC should either give them acces to servers asap or refund asap.

That Windows is a weird choice is not relevant here.

I'm sorry to say but you realy have to take this up with the server owner. No one on this forum or at WC can help you with unofficial server issues.

7 hours ago, TonyTempah said:

Interesting point. Do you mean ASE or ASA or both? Source?

In the past there were a few initiatives that tracked console numbers, for PS4 the trends where in general much like the Steam trends for ARK. Unfortunatly the one I used stopped a few years ago.
What I do see lately is the behaviour on the private cluster I play on since last year: The hype for ASA and crossplay was massive but the activity on the discord shows people getting bored with "Again the Island". Since their bases on ASE have decayed they just drop out. Activity for the PS ASE cluster is also declining
A few numbers: ASA Servers got 100 slots when consoles got access but are down to 50 now. ASE varries per map but are cut to max 20 since there's hardly anyone playing anymore.

5 hours ago, UDGxKnight said:

You seem to be confused but ASA is in fact back to being considered Early Access. Not sure how you missed that one 

Indeed it is but imo it is WC (and you) that is confused. ASA was supposed to be BETTER than ASE. The "back to the beginning" was supposed to mean "start fresh on the first map" instead of "start fresh with every bug we fixed and more".

Your frustration is understandable. We were made to believe that ASA would be fresh new code, so the old issues would not have been ported. When announced, ASA was not said to be "early acces" again, that frase was later intruduced. I'm still baffled with the ammount of people that (tried to) jump in blind at launch, we all could and should have known better and sofar I have no regrets of not getting ASA.

Unfortunatly ~100k people did so they do get away with it.
Sad side effect is that this forum is turned to a never ending rant from dissatiffied users of wich many not even understand the difference between ASE, ASA and ARK2.

Since the launch of ASA the ARK2 part of the forum is often used for ASA related topics, isn't it time to either add a specific ASA part or at least keep ARK2 part clean from ASA polution?
Just locking this section untill there's actual news on ARK2 is an easy option in my opinion, there has not been any ARK2 related posts in this section for weeks and it looks now like even the moderaters have given up.

For sarters: You are impatient. Reposting within a day is spamming.

Second: No one here can answere since we don't know what the settings of your server are, if any kinds of mods are installed and if the owner is trustworthy. We also don't know how your base is build, if there are any blindspots or backdoors.

With killing ASE support before ASA went out of early acces they kind of killed the future of ARK and ARK2. Snail is presenting a different story to their investors as WC presents to us. In all fairness, I gues Snails story is just an attemp to cover up their scams and losses.
Wildcard on the other hand still thinks that the animated series can do what it Cyberpunk did for CDPR, the difference is that with Cyberpunk it wasn't an afterthought but developped alongside the game.

Meanwhile ASA numbers on Steam are dropping below ASE, wich is not a good sign at all: If ASA flops there won't be an ARK2 and at this moment it is even unclear if they can hold up ASA till all maps are finished given the delays and rescedules.

I hate to be this pessimistic, I realy had a great time with ASE but there is just too much going wrong for me to invest the same time in ASA again if the result is the same: "Sorry, we could not finish this in UE5, we gonna do it all over again in UE6."
And it looks just like that at the moment with the only (but very important) difference we know by now that they try their best but ignore the flaws and "F"-ups.

1 hour ago, SWAP said:

Tell me what's been patched.

WC is giving up on this forum: No up to date patchnotes.
Not that new to be fair but they reached a new level of sloppyness since ASA.

18 hours ago, loudplatipus said:

when are we getting the next creature vote

Who gives a flying Pteranodon as long as ASE is the more stable option?

Switch to Steam or PS5, you ran into the MS profanity filter.

On 12/26/2023 at 6:08 AM, Brucelou said:

How do I pay for a full game and the simplest actions don't work How can I pay $70 And the one thing I need to tame dinosaurs doesn't work which is dinosaur inventory I want my money back

Lucky for you you can wait paying for ARK2 until it finaly will launch, unless it gets cancelled before launch. If you are smart you wait till the first reviews drop.
Just curious why you already predict now exactly what will be broken in ARK2 but still think you will pay full AAA price for that...

6 hours ago, texasturok said:

For PS5? Why can't I see them when I search in official servers?

Official servers are unmodded, you need to search private servers. The whole point of official is they are all the same standard servers.

39 minutes ago, Oli4 said:

The website itself also just seems to be some poorly copy/pasted template:

https://store.survivetheark.com/pages/faq

This entire site looks to have been made in <5 minutes and looks pretty sketchy...

If I was a troll, I could make a joke about ASA being a copy/paste like that website...

Oh, wait... That's not a joke.

No one can help you in a game that does not exists yet. Try posting in the correct part of the forum. And keep in mind Giga's drop torpor FAST.

Then you have to wait a few years and maybe forever, ARK2 might just as well be canned.
Suggest you post in ASA/ASE threads.