QueenAahlyia

Omg yes, thank you! I was thinking about the timers earlier. Having us start over and work from the ground up is going to stump a lot of people who are used to tek and tek gens. Some players have never experienced electrical structures or anything that some of us have worked with in the past. One thing for me is that I can't log in every few days to Ark sometimes, and the decay timers are a problem. If they stop the insane pillaring, they shouldn't have a reason to have such short decay times in my opinion.

This is significantly worse than it was before. Some people need to learn basic math skills. You traded out paying for 2 DLCs ($40), to giving up a bundled game with ASA (Ark 2 ~$60-$80). We have no evidence that ASA will be better than ASE, they haven't even mentioned server stability, pillaring, or duping concerns that have ruined ASE. At least before Xbox/PC players were paying $50 for ASA and Ark 2, then we had time to consider whether or not ASA was worth investing more into before the DLC came out. Now it's all upfront and no Ark 2 bundle. If ASA sucked at least you got Ark 2 in the bundle. ASE servers are still sunsetting. What exactly is the Ark community so proud of in this moment? I'm confused at the people saying this is a win lol.

Playstation users don't get Ark 2 included though lol. Xbox & PC users get ASA and Ark 2 for 49.99.

Delaying Ark 2 is probably the best move. So is wiping the official servers (the state of the servers is awful). However, I am really hoping that since we are paying for the game and DLC again to experience it in UE5 (all good), please make sure some of the game-breaking issues are addressed. People should not be losing characters or items/dinos in transfers at this point in the game's development. If people lose things, they should be returned by the support team. Nobody should be able to pillar or foundation an entire map to make the game unplayable for other people. I will tell you right now that if I log in for the first time to ASA and there are pillars and foundations covering the whole map, I will be using Steam's 2 hour refund rule for sure. Having better support for players is also a necessity when asking them to pay for a game again, so please address that. Lastly, I (and many others) are hoping the anti-cheat system will catch and stop duping, it lags and crashes servers. These are all positive changes for a lot of players (some will not be pleased), please ensure that we do not regret trusting your judgement on this.