LuckyPed

Super hyped about SE, Thanks for the news ! hope no last minute delay or problem show up that you didn't expect.

5 hours ago, AlucardCrimson said:

Oh look at that, postponing the center but still giving us a dino that we don't care about instead of the map that we actually give a crap about. Or hey, maybe you know. Actually fixing all the issues currently in the game instead! Not adding more mods that will continue to break the game, or premium mods that we don't care about so you can just make more money off your players instead of actually caring about us and what we actually want and FIX THIS BROKEN GAME ALREADY!!!

don't talk for all, I want that new dino for sure.

but it's indeed a shame they delaying The Center, altho sadly not unexpected.

it seems this time they gave it to some partner to work instead of themselves tho... guess their partner also love delaying

the rest of what you said is stupid tho,

They are not giving us mods, they are the community making the mods,

Premium Mod is also made by the Mod author, they showing off or selling these mods or not doing it have no impact on the game getting fixed,

So stop complaining about that because there is people who love the mods, either to use it on unofficial or the ones that can be used in officials.

On 2/19/2024 at 2:54 PM, KarelBeranek said:

Sorry for late reply. Read the article. There are instructions how to check the mods. In total five links to legacy.curseforge.com

Does that help to clarify what web page I talked about? Wildcard provided those links here. If there is a safer way to install mods without the need to navigate through the cursefore web, then why did Wildcard still post links to the web?

ah, well I never clicked the links here to check, but I assume they had to link it like this here coz they can't link you to in-game Mod page or everyone had to open the game just to view lol

but yeah for browsing through the mods and installing them you don't need to leave ARK at all, you install them right from inside the game and obviously there is no advertisement inside the game.

I installed like 6-7 mods so far and it's as easy as opening the game, clicking the mods menu and searching/browsing and clicking install. done.

Loving the custom cosmetic stuff specially as an official players finally being able to use mods and improve some base design.

like that Greenhouse design is fantastic

3 hours ago, KarelBeranek said:

Wow! Four adds, some of them from the category "scam". Thanks to Wildcard I now know I can get abs in few days by doing one simple action every day. Just 30 seconds and I increase my metabolism by 450%. And that there is a simple method to lose weight but scientists don't want me to know how. I can learn it, all I have to do is to buy something.

Enough irony. I know that Studio Wildcard can't be held responsible for the scam advertisement served by CurseForge. I just somehow expected that mods would be available in some more trustworthy way. At least the officially approved and whitelisted ones. Or at least negotiate some exceptions with CurseForge, e.g. that they would only show GoogleAds. Right now CurseForge also shows advertisement from other providers, e.g. Zemanta, who are not very keen of fighting scam and malware.

such a confusing message, first you said "adds" instead of "ads" so It took me few second to get what you even talking about.

but it still didn't make sense regardless, where do you go to see ads ?

how do you install mods ?

I simply go inside the game and in the mods menu install any mods i want and there is no advertisement in there?

you don't have to open curseforge website at all to download these mods as far as I know.

is it only for Windows PC version of ARK from EpicGames ?

I know Console and Steam/PC would install it from inside the game and there is no ads.

29 minutes ago, Akizo said:

Actually it fixed it. It wasn't supposed to change when cryopodded. They just didn't bother to fix it in ASE.

27 minutes ago, doverbeach said:

I doubt re-rolling imprint requests was ever an intended effect of using cryopods. We're lucky to have been able to exploit something that remained uncorrected for such an absurdly long time.

if that is true then I hope they break it again xD, because it was such a useful "feature" for such a long time.

I mean I usually have everything babies ask for imprinting, but it's still specially annoying with the Walking one.

Big Dino, bad AI walking, small bases, specially on my water dino, I really don't want to have to spend so much time and possible risk for walking babies for imprint lol

Also this was not in their patch note, so I am hopping it was unintentional and will be reverted,

I thank you in advance Wild Cards !

8 minutes ago, Thalana said:

No indication for unofficials until now is low, even for you WC. I'm fine with extra time for less bugs but I have noticed a trend where we're just not in the loop at all and if we're the ones to be buying the premium mods and supporting you in other ways then it would be nice if we were given a bit more prio, at least in the communication department.

apologize if I'm out of the loop, but what is the problem for unofficial they didn't answer ?

is it the fact that server transfer for unofficial is not yet enabled ?

they said this here :

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Transfers are only for Official Servers at the moment, but we’re working to expand the functionality to Unofficial Servers as well.

they mentioned this in the discord as well :

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• The CrossARK system is now enabled for Official Servers and will be coming to unofficial next week.

but since they didn't say next week in the official announcement here, they might not be 100% sure if it will be ready next week or not, but I guess it's something lol

Great update but Please Fix cryopoding Dino to change their Imprint requirement like before.

last update broke it and when we cryopod dino, they no longer change  their imprinting.

Thanks.

5 hours ago, moaningmini said:

As much as soon can be.  so playstation get two days to prep for extra life so no point then only get two weeks of bonus rates if you haven't lied so much a d gave us soon so much I wouldnt be so angry that I've now decided that I won't even bother as I'll be so far behind on cross play. I really don't think it will be end of November so it's by from me I've stayed up all night to be so disappointed 

server transfer is disabled.

new servers will launch as soon as it release for you guys.

you will have boosted rate from the start for several weeks all days just coz you guys getting the game later.

honestly as a PC Player, I would have rather I had your situation coz I would get a better experience and a faster, more convenient play instead and no, I would not feel far behind coz of everyone in server starting just now and server transfer is disabled and I am getting boosted rates !

let alone you guys have advantage of more knowledge early one, I would have already played different on first week and first tames or wild baby tames (how to get boosted lvl on them) and many more if i had the knowledge i have today which you can have on launch if you want and watch a few youtube video on it.

7 minutes ago, Firefallz said:

To say your console community is disappointed is a joke just like your company as a whole. The fact is you all have lied to us from the start and now your inability to make sure your game works ahead of time has shafted over half of your community.

Not too mention the complete lack of transparency in all of this you still refuse to set a date for console. "OH wow November." Very informative can't wait for another delay because that's all your company is capable of.

They can't set a date coz they don't know.

It's very clear man, very simple and clear lol

the bigger the project, the more problem it might have that you can not expect, the more freedom you need.

coding and game development is not like making a movie or drawing where u can have a clear estimate coz so many unexpected can happen. giving a clear date simply mean you are putting a big pressure and possible disappointment on the line.

Ofcourse, they could say something like 20 or 30th November, give themselves a big gap of time so they are sure they can do it in that time, but if they think they might do it earlier, giving such a late time is just gonna make people mad.

Thanks Everyone.

Excited to try ASA, downloading it right now.

Hope the Console version will be ready too soon for the console players.

Congratz to Yi Qi

But I'm pretty bummed, oh well, it's a shame the Jumping Spider not win, I really wanted it...

To be honest the reason it didn't win is most likely similar to some other community vote... the way this voting system work, usually the majority first vote won't win.

Like the Number of People who wanted The Jumping Spider most of all as their #1 is more than others. (6760)

but since Jumping Spider was Top voted in the forums submission, many people who don't like it but like other things, put the spider at their very last Vote under everything else so the other creatures have more chance.

this make the #1 most popular creature to not win when all the other votes are summed up together, the most popular is always the unluckiest one.

I mean I can't blame people who do this, I also did this before for other creatures that were #1 in submission vote but i didn't like them, i put them in the very last even tho they were not the most disliked creature by me i just want them to have less chance and my preferred one to have more chance.

6 hours ago, Voidtoker said:

Nonsense. Ark has given me more playtime for under $150 than nearly 50+ other games I’ve played combined.

 

There are titles that charge $60 for 10-15 hours of content. I’ve spent over a hundred hours just breeding Dimorphodons…..

I know right I spend like 90$ total on ASE but I played it for thousands of hours, like 4100+ hours.

I bought many other AAA games for 40~60$ which I only played like 16~40 hours max.

even if I only play ASA for 100 hours its 100% worth the 40$ cost let alone I already know I'm gonna be playing it for another 1000+ hours at the very very least lol

Also even putting aside our future play time on it, the game content of All the maps and system that getting remastered is well worth the 40$, there is like 6 canon map and 6 free Map all of which are getting Remastered and a new Dino also added to them, plus the usual system and backend upgrade needed for the game....

That Mean we getting  something like  40 / 12 = 3.33 $ cost per remastered map and dino  not including all the other system changes and upgrades to other things that works across all game maps etc.

It's a great deal, no doubt about it.

4 hours ago, Maria064 said:

But What happens when ARK 2 is released . Will they shut down ASA then too?? 

Based on what they said,  ARK ASA is not just a game to fill the time between ARK ASE and ARK 2.

but they realized ARK 2 is not completely similar to ARK 1, and many people might not like ARK 2 even if they loved ARK 1.

So they came up with ARK ASA which would remake ASE into a Next Gen Modern Game that they can support for another ~8 years or so alongside ARK 2.

So the people who like ARK 1's game play can still play  a better ARK 1 through ASA for the years to come and they also will keep up updating ARK 1 even after ARK 2 come out.

At least that's what they said their plan is atm.

To the people who still complain about the 40$ cost of the game and think it should be free or 10~20$... stop crying... it's a remaster of a game that gonna keep on going for years with services and all... a lot of stuff changing and it's huge when including all the DLCs... 40~45$ is well worth it,

Someone said the ASE pricing was fine, why change it... but ASA pricing that include DLCs too is way better than the ASE pricing we had so idk what he is talking about lol

if you don't like it, just don't buy it.

5 hours ago, ladyteruki said:

Just one note about that : it's not exactly a kind gesture, as WildCard gets half the revenue from Premium mods.
And since so far we haven't heard about it, it could potentially replace the Sponsored Mods program (mod devs can get funding without such a program in ASA, afterall). That's another thing WildCard has yet to clarify.

Other than that you're entirely right about the Premium mods : they allow for mod devs to decide whether their mods will be paid or free (or add-ons to their main mods, if they wish to still maintain some free presence), and this is nothing new. It was announced in the Community Crunch 355 with the early version of the roadmap. People have been wondering about why Overwolf for a few months now, considering a different platform was announced for ARK2. For that too, we're waiting for answers.

yeah it's true that it's only 50% for modders but it's still an option for them to earn regular money from players who buy their mods and a motivation and reward for delivering good mods or updates for more and more people to buy their mods. so overall it's a good thing.

Also, I am not really knowledgeable about this, but is there any game that have Premium mods and give more than 50% to the modders ? I don't think a big share of profit is really possible coz of all the Tax and stuff like that.

I remember way back when Skyrim got Premium Mods and it was so bad with Modders only getting 20~25% profit from their mod sales that they eventually canceled the whole feature lol

I myself am a programmer and I made modules to sell in Prestashop Market place or such, it's not even for games but Website modules, and after Tax and Prestashop Cut which was 40%, I would not earn much more than 50% of the profit either lol

5 hours ago, Duffmek said:

yeah just my burnt / baited / and burnt again cynicism leaking out

Yeah Also what you said about if some modders gonna get early access, they actually might.

Since they said this a while back:

• We plan on streamlining the process of upgrading legacy ARK: Survival Evolved mods to the next-generation platform. We plan to reach out to current/former sponsored modders in preparation for the launch of ASA with the tools they need to get their mods ready before the launch.

Seems pretty great, so far my favorite.

I keep on saying it's obvious the Price gonna include all DLCs from how they annouced it... but some people keep on not believing, it's good we got clarification so people can finally stop arguing about this.

54 minutes ago, Duffmek said:

Weird having mods READY on day ONE / launch day when it usually takes community mods to make said mods .... unless wc is going to give 'certain people' access to the game to develop mods? OR (lol) the mods are released by WC and they pocket 100% of the cash made instead of splitting it with legit modders lol

I believe they are saying the Mod feature is available, so people can instantly start publishing their Mods from Day 1.

Furthermore... I don't know how you might come up with WC pocking the Cash made from mods by releasing mods Day 1... when they literally said Premium Modes gonna be in the future and not at launch.

you can be sure 99% of all ARK Mods are still gonna be free and without any pay needed, Premium one is only some very good ones some Good Modders put out to earn some money only if the Modder decide to ask for it (well if its not a good mod and its accepted to be premium it probably wont sell anyway)

1 hour ago, Vaskur said:

Premium mods? Overwolf? 🤮

51 minutes ago, Relapse said:

Overwolf? TF Why are we getting away from Steam? And another thing. Premium mods??? TF? Snail games real greedy huh. 

Premium Mods is a good thing and it's been mentioned for a long time, don't know where you guys been sleeping until now.

All the free Mods we had before, can still be free, all new Mods coming out, can still be free too.

Literally the whole Premium thing is a Good feature for Modders who want to make their mods Premium and Earn some money from their Mods, if the Mod Creator is not planning to make his mod Premium, then it will remain fully free without problem.

Overwolf tho... I have no comment on that, I once installed it coz of WoW, didn't like how it worked, and deleted it,  wish WC used another platform with less bad rumor about it.

2 hours ago, DirkInSA said:

It depends on where and what you read ....... The initial ASA announcment sez 

 

All the expansion packs will be sold separately on all platforms:

• $19.99 for Explorer’s Pass, which includes Scorched Earth, Aberration (Q4 2023), and Extinction (Q1 2024).
• $19.99 for Genesis Pass, which includes Genesis Part 1 (Q1 2024) and Genesis Part 2 (Q2 2024).

And then there is this .....

ARK: Survival Ascended will now be a standalone package released on every platform (PC Windows/Steam, Xbox Series S/X, and PlayStation 5) at $59.99. The package will include the following pieces of content built-in (not sold separately), with each remastered and altered for the next-generation:
 

• The Island (Released at Launch)
• Survival of the Fittest: The Island & Scorched Earth map variants (Released at Launch)
• Scorched Earth (Released at Launch)
• Aberration (Released by Q4 2023)
• Extinction (Released by Q1 2024)
• Genesis Part 1 (Released by Q1 2024)
• Genesis Part 2 (Released by Q2 2024)
• All the community-created maps are also to be released over time in 2024 (Fjordur, Ragnarok, The Center, Lost Island, Valguero, Crystal Isles)

And now most recently 

 

Given the news:

ARK: Survival Ascended will now be launching at an Early Access price point of $44.99
with a launch-discount bringing it to $39.99.

We had initially planned to ship with more content on Day One, but that won’t be happening, so we’re adjusting the launch price accordingly.

So what I read in this is that they have bitten off a LOT more than they can chew with their remaster attempt, and sadly underestimated the work required for "conversion" to UE5. As a consequence they are kicking the DLC question down the road.

All of which leads me to believe that the DLC's will in fact become paid for - if it is so much "work" doing a map remaster they ain't gonna do it for free, they will charge what they think they can get, just as soon as there is an invested player base on ASA that is a captive audience.


 

You didn't include the original announcement's price for the game itself, if you did, i think it makes it obvious.

let me explain,

They were selling 2 DLC, 20$ each, while the Main game was 50$ for both ASA & Ark 2.

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Xbox Series S/X and PC players will only be able to get it via an ultimate-value bundle known as the ARK Respawned Bundle. This bundle includes ownership of both ARK: Survival Ascended AND ARK 2 and will be priced at $49.99.
PlayStation 5 users will be able to get their hands on ARK: Survival Ascended as a standalone next-gen game at launch in August 2023 for $39.99.

This Mean, if we remove ARK 2, the Original ARK ASA base game, was never meant to be more expensive than 30~40$. (even if we consider Ark 2 to be only 10$ of the price)

So Even if it was their original announcement,  ARK ASA Base without the DLC was at maximum 40$.

now they mention how their adjusting the price because :

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We had initially planned to ship with more content on Day One, but that won’t be happening, so we’re adjusting the launch price accordingly.

So they are reducing the price coz they are giving us Less at launch ! That's literally what they said.

if this price is not including the DLC... then the original not reduced price was at max 40$... how can it reduce to 45$ ?!?!? it make no sense.

So Clearly, they are talking about the Full package which was what we were gonna get until before this news.

Meaning, it's the 60$ Package that got Reduced to 45$ !

Also it make sense and fit the "Early Access scheme" of how these usually work, its 45$ while the game is on early access and once it's finished it will change into a full 60$ costed product.

2 minutes ago, Cryha said:

Its not a $15 reduction though is it... We are literally investing in a beta test for the game just like we did with ASE and the fact they havent said that they wouldnt charge extra for the maps doesnt mean anything at this point in time... Hell they said ASA was a free upgrade to those that had ASE look how that turned out. 

Final thing... If you think that ASA will be in early access for only a year then you are deluded. WC has never ever hit a deadline or initial date since the launch of ASE and I dont see that changing.

It is a reduction from what we previous gonna have man... now if u hated the old price, and still hate the new,

Sure. I understand

But I'm just stating the fact that they reduced it further now. whether its "enough" or "not enough" depend on each person's opinion.

Also, I don't care if it's in early access or not and I don't know why anyone should care.

do you think by the time ASE was out of Early access and become full it actually fixed all the bugs or was all that much different from when it was in EA ?   it was not.

if it is gonna be buggy, it will be buggy regardless of EA or not.

and if it take 1 year or 2 year, I don't care either,  as long as they regularly release a new map every 2-3 months, which I think they will.   I think it's well worth the 40$ for me.  (ofc I wait for the gameplay and some opinion on it on launch before final decision to make sure the improvement is worth it)

2 minutes ago, Cryha said:

"Nah man, when did they say you need to buy the DLC separately again ?"

You really think they wont?

"They simply reduced the price (by 15~20$ overall IIRC from 59.99$ to 39.99$ at start)"

They didnt reduce the price by $15-$20... They knocked $5 off the early access price... Its literally in the article...

You have way too much faith in Wildcard.

Yes I think they wont. coz they clearly didn't say it, plus it would completely break the point they were mentioned in the last price change.

So I'm 99% sure the 39.99$ include all maps !
 

Also, The Price of ASA including all Maps was 59.99$ IIRC,  but now it's 44.99$ for Early Access Period (which is 1 whole year or so until all old Maps are remastered and released in ASA)   it's clearly a 15$ reduction.

the 5$ Reduction is an extra Discount for buying the game at launch, it's the usual Steam Launch discount price for most game. its only until 1 week or so after the game launched, then it will change back to 44.99$.

1 minute ago, Duffmek said:

you mean EXACTLY the same as ase AGAIN ... lol delayed and since they have bugger all knowledge / experience with ue5 it IS going to be BUGGY still shiny gfx do not make a game.

 

To the posted images .... wow yeah such a massive change /yawn that is a really poor way of opening the CC, the rest is just as predicted from day ONE by many on here

 

ONE I refuse to buy into the same game been in declared to be EARLY ACCESS AGAIN, this is just money grabbing / 'we cant get stuff done on time EVER'

to be honest, I don't see the point of a few of you saying these comments every week here  about how it will gonna be before it is out.

It's not like it gonna change anything and it's not like we are really sure of it being bad or good at this point. seems like a waste of time

I certainly am not gonna buy the game before I see some game play and i see some of the long awaited bugs or pain point of the game fixed,

And I will see these stuff before the game release with the showcases And on the first 1-2 day of game release with the Twitch/Kick etc Streams and Once i make sure it's what i want, I will get it.

and if it's not what they promised, now i will start to waste my time poop about it.

2 minutes ago, xBlitzz said:

Why not delay everything until December and at least release a half-decent playable game with The Island, Scorched Earth, and transfers?

I Actually like this way more that they release The Island First and SE later.

I love to play on the "Early Rush" of a new map a lot,  and I had a very hard time deciding on starting on The Island or SE  coz both were coming at the same time and I was gonna miss 1 of them no matter what.

but Now i can play for 2 months in The Island before I also Start ASAP on SE as soon as it show up.

15 minutes ago, davetherave said:

 it's going to be early access is that a joke? How can it possibly be early access? Is that because you know it's going to be broke as hell

they just explained, It's early access while Each Map is being Remastered,

So when all the old ASE maps remaster into ASA, the Early Access End and the game is Full version and the price will most likely increase again too similar to ASE early access and full version few years later.

34 minutes ago, Cryha said:

" it wouldn’t be feasible to complete Scorched Earth to a standard we’re happy with."

When have standards ever been a priority for WC?

"We had initially planned to ship with more content on Day One, but that won’t be happening, so we’re adjusting the launch price accordingly."

So basically "It was a mistake to mention the DLC being included within the standard price of ASA now we reduced that price by $5 but we will later charge $15 for each map moving forward unless we decide to hike the price"

Nah man, when did they say you need to buy the DLC separately again ?

They simply reduced the price (by 15~20$ overall IIRC from 59.99$ to 39.99$ at start) overall for Early Access Period and the price will be going to full price at the end of Early Access Period, it's similar to ARK Survival Evolved, when i originally bought it in 2015 it was cheaper, after early access ended, it become more expensive.

the DLCs are still included in the package otherwise they would mention it here.

1 hour ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

Even as I man with tattoos I can't bring myself to fathom what would posses someone to get an ark themed tattoo. It's a fun game yeah but not quite what I'd call tattoo worthy. To each their own I guess.

Could be one of those removable tattoos

I mean I would get some nice or funny removable ones for sure just to have for a bit too, but yeah I would never get a permanent one like this