VioletSnow

He made that post in January. And when replying to a comment on that same post, he also said that no wipes would be needed and save data would carry over perfectly. So clearly, either he was lying; or at the time that was the case, but at some point over the past few months they changed their minds and decided why bother making it free when they could make money off of it.

Wait wait wait, the standalone Ark: Survival Ascended is forty dollars? Why? What is this absurd price? Ark Survival Evolved's base game costs half that. And Survival Ascended isn't going to have any new content. It's going to include remastered content, sure, but that would lead one to assume the price is going to decrease not increase. Are they paying for all of the free DLC that's included? Because that content is free - expecting it to be paid for is absurd. And why in the world are the Explorer's Pass and the Genesis Pass still two separate things? Let me propose an alternative pay model: $30 - Ark: Survival Ascended which includes The Island, all of the free maps, and Scorched Earth. $30 - The Genesis Explorer Pass which includes Aberration, Extinction, Genesis 1, and Genesis 2. Is this pricing model any less absurd? No. It's still insane to expect to sell a remaster for a price like this when the last expansion only released two years ago. This price is even more insane when you take into account the new DLC that's being made, but it's a lot more reasonable than $80 dollars.