Sausagedog85

Honestly, as one of Wildcard's biggest critics, I have to say the extinction launch, while a tad late has been pretty uneventful for me, server uptimes have been decent, patch requirements pretty low considering it's a new release / rerelease, and crashes have been few and far between. Outside of the gachas in the walls business, getting into a server is the only real issues I've experienced thus far, something we have come to expect when new maps drop and major events coincide.

Had a full year to plan for it, still didn't get it in time.. Thats the Wildcard way isn't it? Perhaps listening to the community in first place and not putting all your eggs in that godawful Club ark idea should have been the path forward in the first place, this reads to me that there was already full plans in place to shaft us on an ongoing basis with substandard clubark events planned as a permanent downgrade for the community, and since that didn't work out so well because you didn't actually ask the community; now YOUR poor planning and poor community engagement has become OUR loss... again Perhaps the new community manager (whomever that is) should focus on being a bit more community focused and forward and a little less incognito, the fact that most of us don't even know who the community manager even is now since Cedric changed roles speaks volumes. How on earth do you lot manage to get it so wrong, so often?

Great that the event is finally being delivered in the way it was meant to and kudos to Wildcard for taking the community's advice on this one, and I'm definitely excited about the thestral, but can we talk about the new cosmetic menu they secretly snuck in without warning or community input? I hate always having to say something negative, but it is remarkably unintuitive now, it was already bad before, but now it's just confusing, the whole menu-within-menu, within-a-tab stuff is crazy inaccessible, the old system with a simple drag and drop or equip onto the hotbar was all we needed, maybe add some folders to sort types at most was needed, who decided to complicate the crap out of it and add a stack of tabs and menus all over both sides of the screen? While it is difficult enough to navigate on a 4k monitor, as an ultrawide monitor user the vast majority of the menus are hidden and need to be moved around and closed before the ones at the bottom can even be seen to exist at all. similar issues exist for lower resolutions. Whatever happen to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" From my point of view as a web developer, for me; this UI is an accessibility nightmare, fitting that it came out in the Halloween update. Did they even bother to focus group test it first? Aside from that, so far I'm super happy we got the event we wanted.

It happens on all games I play on Ms/Gamepass.. To temp fix the chatbox issue, plug in a keyboard.

(excuse my wall of text, lol) Ok, so it was 12x, then it was 8x, now it's 6x with drastically moved goalposts between each tier, leaving us with expectations of what will basically be a slightly better evo event rate, if we look at donation trends over the last couple of events. Not sure who's idea this was, but it will have a dramatic negative effect on donations, We already saw evidence of this between 2021 and 2023 while I understand that donations are meant to be from the heart, anyone with any business and/or marketing experience would know that removing the incremental achievable incentives for people to purchase (read: donate) just to see how high they can get it will have an impact, It's no secret to anyone that giving people smaller achievable goals will always yield better results in comparison to large ones that feel "too far away to bother trying" Worse still for the player base, the 2022 rates on ASE where naturally 2x more than 2024's rates, so the 6x this time around is really the equivalent of a run of the mill typical event weekend on ASE... Where is the incentive for people to even bother logging in?! Additional rates come at no additional cost, so I just don't see the reasoning behind this decision, maybe it's just me, but it feels like a punishment not an incentive. Being required to give more to get less is not a good marketing tactic, especially when the whole world is already tightening their purse strings. And I'm not sure if I read this wrong, (correct me if I am) but it sounds to me like Fear Evolved will be kneecapped without the most popular features, the dodo-wyvern and dodo-rex (It's not what they said, but what they didn't say (or show)) And again I could be wrong but this post reads like it will be for the most part restricted to Club Ark, and as much as I liked the initial concept of club ark, it's pretty much useless, and I (and I'm sure many others) simply don't use it because it punishes solo players who don't have a team for some of the games, and anyone with less than perfect internet can just forget about being able to play most of the games due to elevated ping issues (And this kind of crap feels like it's being forced upon us.. using a COMPLY OR ELSE methodology, with no alternative offered) (and quite frankly minigames are just mindless unimaginative filler, many of us just dislike the minigames, much like the ones added to the genesis DLCs which felt like boring chores than actual content) I'm sorry, but this is yet another (2 infact) swing and a miss..

We hit 12x in 2021.

This is a Microsoft thing, not a Wildcard thing, Wildcard has no control over this at all, its Microsoft's chat safety filters, and happens locally on your own PC/Xbox, not on the server/game.

Did you check if you have the unlocked Guardian notes? It took me about 40 runs at monkey and dragon before the game (official server) awarded me the notes for them. Spider and manticore happened immediately, but monkey and dragon took literally months. I finally got them literally yesterday.

Knock off Pokémon Pyroar cat thing is OP af for a paid DLC item. The transfer to a pay to win model is in full swing now huh? I thought they said there would be NO addition paid DLC for official servers? More lies from wildcard I guess.

Unofficial servers never last.. people want longevity, they want to keep their items and not have overbearing power hungry admins breathing down their neck for dumb poop like building in areas they don't want people to build in. While some unofficial servers/communities are great, most are terrible, and ALL unofficials are likely to go offline long before officials do, leaving you with nothing. I played unofficial for the first couple of years of my Ark experience, Every single community shut down within a year or less, tried again recently and it happened twice more in less than 3 months.

Another delay.. as expected.. Wildcard are the only people on earth that have worse track records for keeping to their word than politicians. Not an iota of integrity in this bunch.

I loved the bit where they addressed and apologised for rolling back the entire community by almost an entire day, costing many of us uncountable losses. Oh wait.

No better Xmas gift than nerfing and changing everything to appease the PVP players at the expense of the PVE community. Rhynio armor = nerfed Rhynio weight = nerfed Rhynio carry = nerfed Rhynio stamina = nerfed Rhynio health = nerfed Console commands to improve computer performance and game breaking visual glitches = nerfed Harvesting = nerfed (reducing the number of nodes you can hit at once IS a reducing the amount you can harvest, no matter which way you try to spin the language) Cryo fridges on platforms = nerfed Render distance = nerfed (then lied about, then admitted it, then went back to lying about it) Non-nitrado server list = nerfed That's just in the last month, and I left a bunch out.. so what will you guys take from us next to appease the PVP players who get owned and then blame the game for their lack of skill?

Well that was a complete and utter nothingburger.

LOL.. expected nothing less.. I'm betting a December release is closer to reality, maybe even Feb, if they where even remotely close to releasing they would be showing in game screenshots, not UE5 asset screenshots that anyone with any experience in modelling can render in a few minutes. Can we just hurry up with getting the damn saves sorted so those of us who want to jump ship can do so without mindlessly refreshing bases for an additional 30 days while we wait.