I would be absolutely thrilled if Ark II never came out as they conceive of it now.
I haven't heard anything at all about that game that makes me want it. It sounds nothing like Ark, nothing like what I want and love out of Ark, and I can't begin to understand who they think this is for among the current player base?
Update Ark for a new engine, fine, though poopty to the existing players who are getting wiped.
Continue the story, great!
Offer new maps and new dinos, awesome!
Finally fix all the f*$&ing bugs, outstanding!
But try to turn Ark, a game about riding dinos and wrecking poop, into a "hard" souls like game is just plain stupid.