Kenny026

Gamers that talk like this are children, stupid, or no gamers at all. You talking about ponies is just as sad.

Who says it’s about a found error?

Just a bit of background, i’m 43 years old and have seen my share of delays in the world of gaming. Me and my friends purchased a ASE server at G-Portal the same evening more info was released about ASA end of October. That was the moment we learned about ASA and we were surprised, happy and decided to wait for the console release of ASA. We were not disappointed since we only learned that evening about ASA. We do not care about PvP issues, shared servers, XP boosts etc. We don’t even care if we have to wait till the end of this month or hell even next month since we just learned about ASA. We will have our own private bubble with a PvE server, 6-7 friends, without anybody else than our own little group. That is how we played ASE, Conan, Farming Sim etc. i saw a huge blowback on WC with the community crunch update which I didn’t think was fair. I work for a big software company so i understand last minute delays, bugfixes, following process etc. What i learned so far spread out over different channels is that they mananged to solve the issue of why they had to postpone in the first place (one of my initial questions), and they are waiting now to finalize with Sony so it is out of their hands basically (also one of my initial questions). I think the community crunch update could have prevented a lot of the negativity we see now (of a huge 65% target audience). Believe it or not, i’m with team WC on this whole “issue”.

I think there can be many reasons. Sony could have more security checkboxes to tick because of modding. Microsoft could be more efficient or straight forward in the application process. I would like to know why also but i doubt we will ever hear the exact reason. But the blog stated the team is working with sony to get it finalized. That makes me think the game itself is ready to launch.

I don’t think this is fair. As for my understanding, wildcard resolved the issue why they had to postpone really fast. Now they have to follow proces to get it published on Xbox and PSN. PSN takes more time than Xbox apparently.

@Pipinghot thanks for your answer. I know i was sarcastic with the dumbing down remark. At that point i felt like being made a fool of. Inwas approaching this from a marketing point of view and since it cannot be pre-ordered or bought on consoles i was purely looking at that. again, thanks for the constructive response 👍

@Joebl0w13 all we have are the published sale numbers giled to the SEC bij Snail. Those show roughly a 50/50 for console. Are there numbers for actual PlayStation players vs Xbox players on Ark? just curious…

You are right, i have no clue how many players actually play on xbox and PlayStation. The only source we have is Steam with actual player counts. But there is a misinterpretation from the start of my post and a strange spin in taken into this this discussion. With a mod telling me um no and i hope you don’t do this for a living, whilst taking a very strange interpretation by him or herself, it’s difficult to stay respectful. Sales for PlayStation and Xbox for ASE have been roughly 50/50 based on published numbers by snail. The number of sales of sold next gen consoles are 65/35 in favor of PlayStation. Since Xbox doesn’t have the headstart like with ASE, i think it is fair to say that there is a reasonable chance ASA will sell more on PS. Then there is Gamepass and PS Plus but that has to be seen in the future. Since there are no sale numbers for Ark Ascended (it can only be wishlisted on PSN), i think the target audience is 65% towards PlayStation for console players. But if we skip this part, i think i asked some very normal questions. It’s a shame a mod is turning this into a strange discussion.

Let me dumb it down… if there are 100 Ark console players, and roughly 65 are from PS and 35 from Xbox, do you understand where the 65% comes from?

…… never mind….

Hi, The news today has been disappointing for PS5 users and there are just a lot of things unclear. Can we use this topic to get some answers from the devs maybe? Roughly 65% of the next gen consoles are PS5 players based on sold consoles. So I think it is fair to say that 65% of console players are still waiting for some clarity surrounding a possible release date. I don’t want to turn this into a console war topic so to all readers, please refrain from this. I’ve seen comments about having to buy an xbox etc, but when all your friends play on the other platform, it’s just not possible or shouldn’t be a discussion even. Having said that, there are a lot of rumors rising in the community. Some say it has to do with mods on the PS network, others say it’s because of PSN governance and processes, others say issues on the PlayStation version aren’t resolved yet. Nothing is stated in the update of today other than WC is discussing with Sony for a end of November release. I hope we can get some clarity about these rumors. Right now there is a huge backlash pointed towards WC and i think some answers and clarity can turn that around. Thank you

It’s just sad. They excluded roughly 65% of all console players for another two weeks. In the end it reflects poorly on WC.

Would like to know also….

Ingot a reply from nitrado regarding the 20 player minimum. They told me there is currently massive memory consumption. Within that consumption they can put 20 users. that suggest when memory optimization is in place, guessing patching is needed from the ark devs, they can lower the minimum player count. emphasis is on the currently, which tells me the are willing to low that number in the past and it is not because of making use of the monopoly they are in.

Why you so sure?