CosmicSkeleton

I can almost forgive the ASA thing for bundling the dlc and removing A2, but let's not pretend that this is some little oopsie and you just misjudged things while having good intentions. You people know full-well that it was about being able to fudge sale numbers and you would have let it ride if a majority of the community hadn't come down on you like a hammer. Call me jaded but hiking up the price by ten dollars just smacks of trying to squeeze out an extra penny since the original plan fell flat. While I'm happy for players that actually have the ability and interest to get ASA, the new creature vote really doesn't excite me this time around either seeing as it's something that not everyone will get to enjoy unless we've all been good little consumers and shelled out cash, be it for a new console, the game itself, or both. The sensible thing would've been to make it something to release for both parties, if only to act as a balm to soothe tempers and remind everyone that this is a community. This just turns it into a case of the haves and have nots. I suppose if nothing else I'll give you lot credit for not meeting my abysmally low expectations and making rhynio exclusive to ASA.

They could weasel out of it by pointing out official and SP still work

The funniest thing about that guy's argument is saying "I want to start from scratch and experience it all over again". Like what? My brother in Christ, you can do that with baseline AsE if you just delete your character. He's so npc brained that he both forgot that's an option and failed to realize not everyone wants to just build from zero, especially if they've had the same setup for a while. A lot of players that have been on since the game came out were likely younger and had more free time at their disposal then that isn't available now.

Not so mucha slap as a hard finger flick to each one. Flicks hurt far worse than any slap or punch

Honestly the issue is still finding the damn things. Somehow two years later scalpers still have a stranglehold on the things in my neck of the woods

Valve is acceptable, granted it'd mean we'd never get an ark 3

But if they do that how can they milk you for more money? Honestly this is one of those things the big ark content creators should be blasting onto the web to screw over the greedy bastards. It's too late for those that missed the window for a refund but every coin not added to their coffers from this point on hurts them. After all it can't have been cheap to hire on Vin as a VA, may as well make the process of paying him even harder.

I don't tackle all of your points because you're posting walls of text whereas I being the criminally lazy goon I am prefer quick and concise points focused on the things I pipe up on unless something really vexes me into dragging it out. I skim for the points of interest and generally disregard everything else unless explicitly necessary to address. Some people will quit and likely move to unofficial or simply drop the game but not all of them will. If even one person stays put then it's still a net positive, if the people that choose to quit miss the window for a refund then why should wildcard care? They have your money, they clearly don't care about proper server maintenance, consumer satisfaction, or bugs so why should they care about a low player count? The Timmy point doesn't show anything about my mentality, it's to highlight the issue that while some are getting up to speed with beginner basics the alphas will already be halfway through the metal era. The funny thing in all this is I don't even play official, I run my own unofficial server cluster. I just really dislike the idea of people losing their work and being told to double dip into their wallets to get the dubious privilege of doing it all again from zero. It's nothing like building up a base and having an alpha steamroll it since you can at least attempt to fight back and walk away knowing you tried, it's more akin to watching a meteor the size of New Mexico barreling at you and knowing you can do nothing. The thought of it disgusts me.

*plays bass boosted "you are a pirate" with devious intent*

Wait you fail to take into account is that not everyone just up an quits after getting crushed on a server. Some simply move to a different server or try again because its part of the game's mechanic or simply out of sheer spite. You're using your frustration at a practice that existed long before ark (rookie crushing) to say that it's a contributing factor when in truth it's not; wildcard has simply always been run by incompetent buffoons. New servers with everyone is essentially reset to zero won't change the issue you harp on because eventually they're either going to build back to where they were before or someone else will. The difference you fail to take into account there between those alphas and Timmy the new kid is that the alphas will know exactly what to rush to get back up to speed while Timmy will still just be learning you have to forcefeed narco berries to things to keep torpor.

The more I think on it the more I realize that this is why companies shouldn't love their customers but instead be absolutely mind numbingly afraid of them. A company that knows that their consumer base will metaphorically (or literally) burn their entire enterprise to the ground if they get out of line is a company that strives to keep its playerbase happy. No one in their right mind would bother using that knowing that it will all go poof in about four months.

That's a lot of anger for someone with such a pathetically poor understanding of the issue. It sounds like you're mostly just mad at alpha tribes wiping you and projecting the idea that everyone upset is part of that alpha group rather than people that hate the fact that 7 years (if you can't into math that's roughly 2,556 days, 61, 349 hours, or 4,504,800 minutes including a leap year) of work will go down the drain with no way to fight it while being told to re-purchase the product they already own to start from zero.

There's humor…just at the sheer absurdity of the situation and the gall of this half baked company to pull a stunt like this.

Man, wildcard really just sat back and assumed everyone on official was a mindless consumer who'd shell out money for a product they already own but prettier and thank them for deleting nearly a decade of hard work. You guys vastly, and I do mean VASTLY overestimate the value of this game if you think that'll fly for all but the most diehard braindead ark stans. What next, rhyniognatha will be exclusive to ASA?

They probably won't bother this close to the end. Our poor raptors must suffer unto eternity

You say this as if every ark player has an account here and complains and comments on every thread.

It seems to vary from person to person. I never have issues with crashing during transfers, play or bosses. However for some godforsaken reason recently I've been crashing every time I exit to the main menu. Wildcard needs to iron out its primary issues rather than doing the gaming equivalent of putting a broken transmission in a new car

Unless you literally do not log on unless they do an EVO you do that anyway.

Pointing out that one already happened and you're not cut out for official if you constantly whine about EVO is white knighting now? I rip on wildcard for things that make sense. Not having a constant boost when there are servers with a permanent boost ain't something worth ripping on.

They did one last week. Not their problem if you somehow can't survive without one every week. Either get off official or learn to make due rather than fussing about handouts.

Not sure why you're agreeing. Anyone that needs a breed boost for every or every other EVO shouldn't be playing official, period. They need to find a boosted server and leave official to the players that want ark as is

I feel nothing. They know what they did. You should be doing that anyway.

Not going to lie; that diplo pic activated my fight or flight response. Years of being in the tek era and diplodocus still manage to trigger my "get the hell away from me" mode.

Oh make no mistake, I'm not saying that in defense of WC, I'm saying it to mean that it's sadly business as usual for them

Considering how much is wrong with ark 1 they'd genuinely be better off doing the sequel from the ground up. If they didn't it'd basically be the equivalent of trying to put a transmission in a twenty+ year old car with 300,000 miles on it rather than buying a new one.