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CosmicSkeleton

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  1. Now Joe you leave my poor jet engine noise simulator of a console alone. Sure it sounds like I’m standing on the tarmac at take off when I let it run literally anything for five minutes without dusting it out and chanting in binary to appease its machine spirit for an hour first but by god it’s trying
  2. Weather machine broke. And the map machine. And the dino machine. And the…
  3. Why of course. Why improve and innovate when you can just let others do the work for you and take a slice of the profit? Better still if a mod doesn’t give people what they want that the game itself should be providing they can just blame it on the mod rather than their own incompetence. We’ve reached the point where wild card’s gone from dangling shiny keys in our faces to keep us distracted to dangling other people’s keys instead. What a time to be alive.
  4. Jesus I stop visiting the site for a few weeks and come back to a complete circus. Map’s not being released on time for the poor suckers that bought ASA? Not shocking in the slightest. What is shocking however is how they doubled down on making the pay2win dino even more busted to try and tempt folk to buy it. Resurrecting dead dinos? Seriously? So now we’re just completely removing a very crucial risk from the equation if players throw out some extra coin? I never thought I’d say this but I pity the pvp players, poor bastards are going to be trapped in a downright hellish loop of trying to fend off mega tribes with more money than sense with a nigh endless stream of tames. Manage to kill someone’s imprinted carcha after burning all of your resources and nearly every tame? They come back with that exact same carcha and finish the job while you’re licking your wounds. How’s that going to be even remotely fair to the average player?
  5. “Buy the map, play with the creatures on it” is still the basic business model. Once it turns into “buy the map and get everything but this one creatures unless you give us more money” you’re working with an altogether different situation. While having access to creatures a player that doesn’t have the same map would not creates a sense of powercreep it’s still fair enough in that those that DO purchase the map are all on equal footing by virtue of having the map. Once you reach the point where players who should be on even footing aren’t because player A shelled out more money for an extra creature the dynamic shifts. Either you’re blind or willingly ignorant of this.
  6. It stops being merely a cosmetic pack once creatures exclusive to the pack are added. Not skins, creatures. Unless they can be claimed by people who haven’t purchased the pack this opens the door to far more predatory p2w features and microtransactions. Prior to this the game’s system was merely a case of ‘buy the map and get access to all the dinos on it’. Now there’s a chance that it’ll be ‘buy the map and get most of the dinos except these exclusive ones that we want more money for’. How on earth has this managed to escape you?
  7. “Don’t ask questions, just consume product and get excited for next product”. This is you. This is how you sound. You don’t reward a company for implementation of practices like this.
  8. Yet it stopped at simply buying the map before. If buying packs for Dinos becomes a thing and players can’t access specific creatures without buying a pack regardless of having the map things get real out of hand real quickly
  9. Quite frankly if it has zero problems on implementation I’m going to take that as a sign of the end times and start counting my canned goods and ammo supply
  10. So we’re all in agreement that the modder’s track just boils down to “develop mods for us on the cheap!” right? Some food for thought ladies and gents: any time a contest says win “up to x” amount in rewards you should never expect the reward to even get near the value of the top amount. Unless the prize is cash with a hardset agreeable minimum winnable amount don’t waste your effort.
  11. Gonna wager it’s a furry artist given the general body design they went with.
  12. It really is like playing delay Russian roulette at this point isn’t it?
  13. Honestly I hope people learn to stop doing this for video game releases of all things.
  14. Again man it’s your wallet so have at it if that’s your prerogative. Whether or not it’s peanuts doesn’t matter as much to me as the oddity since again it’s multiplat. If you wanted to play it earlier then at this point I can’t help but feel you’d have been better off getting the jump on buying some parts to start building a pc rather than buying a different console. At least then you get far more mileage out of it to make up for the jump in cost that comes with it. Plus on top of gaming it’d still be a really good Pc to use for day to day stuff
  15. It would be unhealthy in my eyes to do it with the intent to play any singular game. In this particular instance it’s weird to me because it’s completely unnecessary with the game coming to all platforms. Contain your butthurt and odd projections towards AC.
  16. That’s, in my opinion, a frankly disturbing and concerning level of consumerist commitment. It’s your wallet so do what you want with its contents but I don’t really see why anyone would be proud to tell people that they dropped an excess of 500+ dollars specifically to purchase a 60+ dollar buggy game that’ll eventually be multiplatform
  17. That’s almost entirely on them though. When you as a company know that a product you intend to disperse to multiple other companies will take notably longer with one particular company to get cleared you do the smart thing and get that ball rolling as early as possible. If the company in question continues to stymie you in spite of that effort you inform the consumer base on the matter rather than make a vague statement on releasing it at a later date. Considering the complaints we’ve seen from the pc crowd those verification checks aren’t exactly unwarranted. Also regardless of which platform is the largest the fact remains that a sizable chunk of the consumer base is not buying the product. The longer the product remains off the shelf, the more time the people that have the product have to point out the flaws, the more potential profit is lost as the prospective consumers are lost both by the complaints and by moving on after running out of patience.
  18. If that’s the case then they should have started to lay the groundwork for console implementation much earlier in the process to allow for a platform wide release. It’s no secret to anyone at this point that Sony in particular will drag out the process as a one part quality assurance, one part sony being sony deal. Instead they let snail continue trucking them forward and in doing so disappointed two thirds (or I guess two fourths since switch is a thing) of their entire playerbase.
  19. Some games do just fine with crossplay (Chivalry, path of titans, warframe). The problem is that the very territorial and competitive nature of ark is so innately hostile to any sort of late start that crossplay ONLY works at any decent capacity when everyone starts on an even ground. Players new to ark as a whole are already at a massive disadvantage compared to long time players, now those that are new and aren’t on Pc are at a bigger disadvantage and those that are on PlayStation even moreso.
  20. Ok now this is just hilarious. Why even bother to introduce crossplay at all if you knew somewhere along the line there was never going to be a same day release across platforms? It’s not like you lot didn’t know until the very last second that there would be troubles. Now your console consumer base will be more or less relegated to playing the console only servers because, as other people have pointed out, console players will do their damndest to deny the console consumer base access to anything. This is on top of having at the bare minimum a month’s head start since we all know the release date in November will turn into the release date in December. My heart goes out to the poor console playing fools that actually decided to jump over to ASA.
  21. It kinda smacks of snail being keen on trying to cash in as much as possible before people realize that they’ve been sold the exact same mess in a slightly prettier package. No doubt there’s going to be a ton of returns if the game really is the same buggy mess but maybe, just maybe, enough people will stick to it either because they missed the refund window, because they want to go back to official, or because of sunk cost from holding out so long that they’ll come out of the situation with a profit. Personally I think it’s an idiotic decision and if wildcard had any sense or integrity they’d be fighting tooth and nail to try and get snail to reconsider this boneheaded decision on top of the mass grave of other boneheaded decisions.
  22. You’re missing the point. No one knows what to expect in terms of performance and it’s a worrying prospect given the track record of this company and its parent company. Months of no substantial proof that things will run as they should from wildcard doesn’t instill confidence
  23. Why exactly is being able to view a wiki page in a different color newsworthy? Why is there no pertinent information for the people wondering about ASA a little over a week from the proposed release time?
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