CosmicSkeleton

On 4/16/2024 at 5:58 PM, St1ckyBandit said:

WC must be aware of its popularity and it would be a mistake not to capitalize on the hype it'll get.

Sadly I feel as though any capitalization that is made will also be locked behind a paywall. As you’ve said Rag is one of the most popular maps from the base game so it’s all but guaranteed that someone has eyes on it. 

They’ve been radio silent on the next round of voting since announcing the hiatus. My advice is to take some time to think up a good submission while waiting. 

21 hours ago, FlorianWind9 said:

By the Steam developer agreement a developer can't just decide to completely break a game that others have already paid for just to make them have to buy their new game right?

See, that’s the neat thing about wildcard incompetence: more often than not adding one thing breaks another. The only difference now is whereas before with ASE being the only game meant they had they had to fix it (or simply say they’ll fix it and put it off indefinitely) now they can default on saying they planned to offer no more support for the old game and leave whatever mistakes were introduced courtesy of their screw up in the old game. They don’t have to maliciously and intentionally break AsE to try and force players to move, they can simply keep on the course they’re on and no one can call them on it because they said no more support.

9 hours ago, FlorianWind9 said:

but I wouldn't want to have a 10,000 TON creature riding on my shoulder. 😛

Nonsense! That right there’s prime warm up material for a full range upper body day. Just throw an extra scoop of pre workout in the smoothie and you’ll be fine.

19 hours ago, MMaas said:

You realize you are aplauding for WC's policy to only use CPR to keep the game alive?
No structural health improvement, no pacemaker to keep it goin.

Just CPR everytime the patient stops breathing for another short burst of life.

Pretty sure it was a joke, bud. The player count screenshot was the clue. I don’t think anyone here genuinely thinks they’ll pull a cyberpunk and animated series their way back to success. 

You’d think someone at the company would’ve sat them down and explained that the whole bob’s tall tales thing would just remind everyone that they promised an animated series and just went radio silent on it.

10 hours ago, Joebl0w13 said:

The PS4 would catch fire trying to play this game. 

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

On 3/9/2024 at 8:57 PM, RandyCVG said:

is the weather fixed yet? totally asking for a friend.

Weather machine broke. And the map machine. And the dino machine. And the…

On 3/1/2024 at 8:00 PM, Eskwyre said:

... That's it? More mod crap, wonderful.

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.

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?

On 1/23/2024 at 12:47 PM, Legion85 said:

No. „Buy the Map „ is no longer the case. So… How on earth has this managed to escape you?

“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.

1 hour ago, Legion85 said:

You dont get my point. I knew I would get such reactions. What i am saying is:

ASA costs about 50 Bucks incl. all coming Maps. So on average I suggest everyone plays at least 200 Hours and Even Even more. In total.  So why on earth is everyone crying about a fkn DLC?! The 50 bucks for all those hundreds hours of fun is nothing 

it wont hurt to Buy a cosmetic pack. I myself will do it cuz the games great 

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?

34 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

“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.

17 hours ago, Seruum said:

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

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 

4 hours ago, Duffmek said:

wait 1st april? ...... IF this goes forward with ZERO problems i will be immensely surprised  lol

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

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.

2 hours ago, MooseX said:

That's what they said about Cyberpunk 2077😉but look at it now. The hardware is not the issue.

1 hour ago, Krimzun said:

Blud drew the spino with paws 🙄

Gonna wager it’s a furry artist given the general body design they went with.

12 minutes ago, Pidder said:

Are you guys gonna post this weeks delay for console on your website or do I have to find it on X or though a youtube video?

It really is like playing delay Russian roulette at this point isn’t it?

1 hour ago, Rcpb97 said:

taking off work time

Honestly I hope people learn to stop doing this for video game releases of all things. 

4 hours ago, Joebl0w13 said:

More on-topic, less personal arguments. Thank you. 

Oop, sorry Joe. 

1 hour ago, MrCrash84 said:

You kind of seem to forget Ark 2 will not be available on PS. Learned as well I can play Starfield too. The money is already paying off. Not sure where you're from, and no offense, but 500 is peanuts. Plus I only payed 389, which isn't a big deal to be fair.

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

12 hours ago, Rocker323 said:

You would be more okay if they had bought it to to play “Insert Generic AAA trash like AC”?

 

There is no game like Ark. I find it so fascinating that someone could even be on this site and not understand how much people love the game.

 

Have to know, what kind of player are ya? 30x pve? 

 

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.

On 11/13/2023 at 2:09 PM, MrCrash84 said:

I bought an xbox X today next to my PS5 for one purpose... Ascended.

Fell in love with ARK a year ago and hate that PS comes last in many cross platform games, especially now with no release date for Ascended. I can understand that but the xBox version better be launched at 0.00.

 

Ps. How are xbox users not completely annoyed with the controllers..batteries..really?

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

8 hours ago, HitUrgSpot said:

They can't help that PS has a lot of checks they have to go through to get "verified" before launching. You can blame Sony for that. It isn't on them.

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.