Khalesh

"To clarify: the UE5 tease a couple weeks back is referring to in-the-works complete free upgrade/remaster of ARK Survival Evolved in UnrealEngine5. Not a cinematic. We havent officially announced the ARK UE5 upgrade yet 'cause there's other major things we wanna show then as well" (Twitter, Jeremy Stieglitz @jeremystieglitz, 23. Jan.) Yea, Yea ... sure ... sounds great ... "The underlying data structures of UE5 and UE4 are quite similar outside of certain features - though of course getting everything to migrate 100% is a process. But much of underlying nongfx technical work had already been done for ARK Switch port which brought codebase to UE 4.27" (Twitter, Jeremy Stieglitz @jeremystieglitz, 23. Jan.) Ah... that sounds worth 50 bucks, ain't it? *siiiiiiiiigh* Ah... sorry yeah... we all were reeeaaaaaal dumbos ... ARK2 is 50 bucks and the ASA is free ... oh how generous ... then please sell us both separately ASA 0 bucks, ARK 2 50 bucks ... thats fine. But for real, the proposal from @slejo sounds reasonable: Maybe think about it. I think especially for players that allready own the game the 90 bucks are a hard slap in the face - even with ARK2 included. I don't like souls-like games, so I would pay for a game that I won't play. Or the other way around I pay the price of 1 1/2 AAA titles for a repolished version of a game I allready own - sound not fair to me...

AND WHY SHOULD I WRITE POOP?

Huh... and I though screwing up the ATLAS release was the worst to come... WC allways is able to top poop up xD... ... so with ATLAS and nearly every WC release in mind I was expecting a delayed ARK II ... fine (nevertheless 2 years was also beyond my expectations) ... the trailer for ARK II also fed my fear that ARK II would not be a "real" ARK experience for me anymore - an experience no other game could provide me with - a mixture between survival, non-grid-locked base building, shooter like combat with support of a variety of tames, each with dedicated pupose ... fine ... I don't have to play it if it's not "my" ARK experience. BUT NOW THEY FORCE ME TO BUY THEIR poopY VISION OF "CONAN ELDEN EXILES RING SOULS" TO BE ABLE TO PLAY MY ARK EXPERIENCE AND THEY DARE TO MAKE ME PAY FOR SOME FUNNY WATER REFLEXIONS, LIGHT RAYS AND (HOPEFULLY A TON OF) FIXES THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE YEARS AGO - NON-CONNECTING SHOTS, GRAPPLE GLITCHES, RELOAD BUGS, A MESH LIKE SWISS CHEESE AND MANY I FORGOT IN RAGE MODE... YOU HAVE BALLS GUYS AND GALS... Holy GSS