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11 hours ago, Luewen said:

And you have gotten a product for your money. What compensation are you expecting?
You have not purchased the servers. Those are purely complimentary service that can be stopped at any point.

You obviously didnt read the other posts to do with this.  2 bugs blocking the ability to beat the base game as it was intended to be done, 1 of which completely destroys ur ingame profile wiping ur character and note progress.  I wasnt even aiming at the multiplayer in any of my posts.  Tho if u want to get technical WC has stated this to be a multiplayer game at its core.  Technically everything else is the add on.  So, under those guidelines, the multiplayer accessibility is arguably the true game and product being sold.  That would be like WoW or division without the servers.  Again, get in a car with factory defective brakes, someones going to pay for that because u paid for it and it is not working as intended. There are a slew of game breaking bugs across all variations of the gameplay, server or not.  People wanting something simple because the devs refuse to fix core problems that theyve known about for years is more than fair.

9 hours ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

Not necessarily. If the baseline product worked as intended or at least did as advertised then legally they're safe. If you can establish a paper trail leading back to the product's inception and prove it was faulty from the get go THEN you have the basis for the case, elsewise the producer can potentially shift the argument a more defensible point to weasel out of the key issue being addressed. Law's a slippery thing like that. I mean just look at CD projekt red and the horrid mess that was cyberpunk for an example of how game developers can escape the proverbial gallows.

Which they shouldnt be able to escape.  Law needs reworked so companies cant do that.  Which the base game is not working as intended.  The story is broken by a missing artifact and to complete the base game is to delete ur file.  I get what ur saying, big business F's us over and gets away with it.  Im saying it should be mandatory and someone needs to inact it.  It seems we both agree that the game needs fixed.

I need to point out, a lot of the screeching is because of WC actions.  The community used to be better.  WC focusing on money and gimmicks instead of improving quality has pushed the community to this point.  Thing is the screechers are actually fans and want this game to thrive.  We want to be loyal to WC.  They just dont care about us in this area.  They will 1 day regret it and i believe that day is coming.  But we screech because we dont want to give up on them, even though we are rightfully pissed off.

1 minute ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

You're well within your rights to abstain from the product at that point, but again keep in mind that the complementary service is not mandatory. Further still it's likely that the product providers will likely begin to refuse the complimentary service out of sheer spite if they receive a hostile enough reaction or are simply just nagged about it too often.

Still the fact they still have ur money...Compensation at that point is mandatory...Or lawyers usually get involved next.  Tho like u id prefer a more civil approach.  Some people/companies just dont understand civil tho.  Which is when the customers get hostile, and rightfully so.

2 minutes ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

I mentioned in a post on the previous page that bugs should absolutely be ironed out. Defects in a paid for product should not be tolerated. Sticking with your analogy you don't go to the McDonald's after they mess up your burger, and scream at them to fix it AND throw in a large fry if it isn't expressly listed in their rules that they will compensate you for a failing. Is it good customer service to do it even if they don't have to? Yep. But always remember they still don't have to.

Well, the majority of people would probably call them and throw a fit...Lol.  Tho i agree, you just dont go back if they dont compensate.  Thing is, ark doesn't compensate.  Thats why u have screechers demanding something.  If we're going to stick with my analogy, than hes not even asking for a new big mac.  Hes just asking for a small fry.  Still a steal for WC

20 minutes ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

What I offer is not a shut down of criticism, it's an answer to an easily avoidable problem. Whether it's the intended method is irrelevant to the fact that there's a playerbase acting as if it's necessary to their ability to play the game. Either make do with what you can or move on to greener pastures. Screeching like a speared hog because the rates aren't adjusted when you want them to be won't fix a problem that is, at the end of the day, YOUR problem 

The fact we pay money for a product means it should work as intended and if it doesn't there should be consequences like any other company selling a defective product. There is no excuse for it, period.  The fact theres a workaround is irrelevant because it shouldnt have to exist to begin with.  Go jump in a car with defective brakes and tell me how that goes.  Someone would be in trouble for those brakes.  Less extreme, ok, u get a big mac and its F'd up.  What happens?  U get a new 1.  U get the problem fixed.  No company is supposed to ignore the problem of the product, but game companies do.  With WC being the posterboy of this.  Under these circumstances its completely fair to be wanting some kind of compensation.  Also this problem will become WCs as they lose loyalty, revenue, and eventually all standing as a company.

Now to be fair, the evo screeching thing is a lil much...I mean we already got 2x rates added permanently.  So i agree thats a lil silly.

56 minutes ago, CosmicSkeleton said:

Then they adjust accordingly or don't play on official. I balance college and a job and still find time.

I wasnt pointing that part at WC as much as i was confronting that guy verbally attacking the other guy.

2 hours ago, Polsknox said:

I understand that It isn't a whole lot of time to get a lot done, Especially since I'm coming from Official, but you have to consider that they are being a lot more generous with these events way more than they used too. 

We used to get Valentines event for 3 days. 3 DAYS. along with that most other events like Christmas were all x2, Summer bash didn't exist till 2020, and the weekend events that had raising increase that we experienced throughout last year would have never in a million years been expected from all the years before.

So I think you ought to be a little more grateful that they are even giving us events like this, especially when they have to read comments from ungrateful brats like you.

Thats a bit harsh and uncalled for.  What if they work, or have kids?  Hes more complaining about the lack of evo events.  I dont think its very hard to implement these events that have been done repeatedly before.  Chances are they have these settings saved and can flip em on or off relatively easily, with minor adjustments maybe.  And if not, theyre stupid and need to create a simple file they can implement repeatedly for evos for their own ease.  The kicker here is increasing the event timer wouldnt be any extra trouble to them.  It was simply the choice between a date, not any extra code to prolong it.  So that hints more at the devs just being sausages because they know some people cant be on 24/7.

U want to call people spoilt brats?  WC is spoilt compared to other game companies.  No other company would get away with as much broken content as WC does.  The entitlement of gaming companies as a whole is obscene.  No other company designed to sell products to customers can legally get away with things that gaming companies do.  The CC u pay for on skyrim and fallout causing the 0kb bug is a great example.  How on earth bethesda hasnt had their azzes sued off astounds me.  Arks ascension wiping everything youve done and artifact not spawning in the NW cave breaks the game.  It also blocks 2 or 3 base game trophies, which blocks the platinum without cheating, and that should violate terms with sony and microsoft.  The fact WC blatantly ignores the headaches to their own playerbase (In these important areas at least, while taking our money to sell us a broken product) seems rather bratty to me.  Since after all, if it wasnt for our money and loyalty, they wouldnt have anything.  Whos ungrateful now?

3 hours ago, Vaskur said:

Next Community Crunch should include a free Box of Kleenex ... Community needs that.

Cedric was considering it...But the accountants said it would cost to much, and the team said it would take to much effort.

How about fixing thr argys broke grab hold.  It can no longer be used to snatch and carry wild creatures without being ate alive.  1 of my main reasons to have 1...

On 1/15/2022 at 9:11 PM, Tylanater said:

only reason breeding is slow is because people like the infinite grind. There was only supposed to be 20/20 mutations and it was a bug that you could go beyond. However people didn't want them to change it so they didn't thus creating an infinite breeding grind. What they should do is nerf breeding to what it was inteded, 20/20 mutations which would cut back on the grind significantly and also fix the balance issues of having 2k+melee gigas, manas, stalkers etc. But of course all the same people would complain about that.

Youre kidding right?  Breeding chances: roughly 1/200 is what your chances are for getting the mutation u want.  Thats excluding when u roll a double mutation that f's you over for that 200.  Now throw time into redoing or rebreeding the new 1 if its the wrong gender.  Now do all that 40x.  Now consider the boss dinos u NEED to breed take at least 2 days to be ready to mate again...Does no one see how absurd that is?  Breeding in this game is absurd.  Even combined all the other grinds in this game dont even come close to how much time breeding takes...And thats not even considering the hunt for good tames to start the process.

Idk about you, but any game that literally stonewalls you for over a month at the end of the game before you can finish it is poorly designed to me.  U can dominate the map, get a great base, and great "wild" tames...Just be finished with the map basically...And then you have to drop everything in the game because u hit a stonewall with the bosses and you need to breed over a month just to finish it.  As stated its very tedious, absurdly so, and its a real killjoy.  I like basically all the other rates (Taming needs a lil boost), so im not a grind hater.  I just HATED going coma zombie breeding dinos.  I boosted the crap out of it and it took me a year or more to breed 40 mutation boss dinos.  That was mainly to do with just losing all joy for the game, causing me to take more than 1 hiatus.

21 hours ago, GeneralTalon said:

It said it's movement is barely slowed in deep water. That's probably meaning its swim speed.

Then explain the as long as its feet touch bottom bit.  I think it sinks and charges on the bottom like the other guy said because it also mentioned its density at 1 point.  Still, it was very poorly explained regardless.  The fact we could debate it is proof that dossier needs work.

7 hours ago, GeneralTalon said:

If feet can touch the bottom then it isn't deep water.

Thats my point, the details literally say, as long as its feet touch bottom it wont be slowed down.  Every creature in the game moves at full speed as long as its feet touch bottom.  Someone said it might be referencing that it can sink to bottom and charge, but that skill wasnt really detailed at all.  The way the crunch puts it just suggests it doesn't lose speed running through water as long as its feet touch the bottom...Which every creature already does lol

On 1/8/2022 at 9:54 PM, Chrysa1is said:

The bison is far superior than the Charizardsaur

I want a charizard XD

Why does it keep referencing the pigs water speed?  Water never effects anyones speed "as long as feet touch bottom".

So wheres the snow?

I like how the trailer shows everything snowed over, but theres no snow on the island at all...Except the usual areas

Trailer wont play for me, 1st time i had this problem.

3 hours ago, Ofren said:

Question: how big are the rates on singleplayer

Joes right, event rates have no effect on single player.  Whatever u set it to, thats what it stays.

On 8/17/2021 at 9:00 PM, Mistwraithe said:

I know I am very late to this thread. BUT, I would like to ask if it is possible for Lost Island to have explorer notes?

I don't mean notes which are part of the main Ark story, I know it isn't one of the core story maps. But that doesn't mean it can't have some sort of self contained story. Presumably Lost Island is meant to be one of the many arks floating around earth, equally presumably survivors have lived there in the past building the ruins etc. So some sort of background information about them, perhaps how their civilization rose/collapsed, etc would be great.

I ask this from experience playing PvE as a group on our own private servers. While playing through the story maps we had a side go with new characters on Ragnorak and had a blast. Ultimately though interest fizzled, in large part because the map felt empty or even soulless. The map itself was great, but it was constantly disappointing to find new ruins, sunken ships, caves, amazing vistas, etc but never getting any feedback from the game, no story or hooks to hint at how the map came to be like that.

The added bonus of an XP boost from finding an explorer note also helps a bit with making exploration more exciting.

We felt Ragnorak could have been amazing if it has just had a story to go with the sprawling and beautifully designed map.

I agree with u, but then theyd have to go back and give all the maps a revamp of notes and after getting shafted on SE development we know WC is to lazy for that.  What should be doesnt matter to WC...Only profit.

On 10/16/2021 at 8:12 PM, Batfloke said:

Sssooooooo......

Everything in this Crunch is, in essence, 100% worthless as the transfers are STILL locked, we are STILL waiting on the rollback/fix which means there is STILL no point playing as everything we have done for the last 28-odd hours and everything from now until they FINALLY fix what they broke and roll it all back again - EVERYTHING done in this period will not count or show up anywhere.

WHY are people even bothering to cry about no Evo - you could have x100000 and it would mean absolutely nothing as it will all be as if none of it was ever done when it rolls back. Which may or may not even be this year considering we are halfway through October.....

And now to compound the problems we are all having to suffer through - the Fear event is now going to be running ACROSS the Extra Life Event! I mean, how ridiculously and badly planned is this shower? Last year the Fear event ended the day before E-L and it was still a bloody nightmare with performance etc. So now, with the whole G2 farce continuing and turning out to be the best thing possible for new releases like New World etc as people are fleeing Ark to buy & play those games now, they choose to change the dates of the Fear event to run straight through E-L? What - you think it won't be a complete disaster?

Are you kidding me?!!?!


But no - as usual when everything goes horribly wrong like this, there is NO communication about it from the "community manager" or indeed anyone else from WC. We get a meaningless and really rather ridiculous update but no fix for the broken and stasis-bound game as a whole.

People crying over no Evo event when the game isn't even running? Changing dates so as to have Fear running at the same time as E-L..?....     

Hahahahahahahaha! The horrendous, yet somehow now incredibly comical, state of this mess is stunning!

On 10/16/2021 at 8:39 PM, ccz2887 said:

Man you guys are really batting a thousand. By reading what people have said on Twitter regarding the supposed “QOL” balance update that you unleashed on pc lol.  Sure you say it’s aimed at pvp but you blockheads are gonna make pve TAKE THE SHAFT FOR IT AGAIN!  Just like the flyer nerf, the mana nerf, the umpteen million giga nerfs over the years, the gacha nerf, the inability to put turrets on platform saddles anymore (that was 5 years ago and that’s what started this rabbit hole we keep going down).  You DO NOT listen to the community, you DO NOT understand the difference of game play between the 2 modes, I have to question whether or not you even care.  If ya did there would be separate balances right from the start instead of this long list of bs that has come down the pipe over the years.  It seems like lately your only sight is on Ark 2, when EVERYONE knows that ark 2 is gonna be just as much of a disaster as Ark 1, and why is that?  BECAUSE OF YOU AT WILDCARD BEING YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY!  Especially when you have players telling you about issues with the game for months, and what do you do?  Ignore it, push it aside and throw up some vague and useless community crunch to distract and redirect, hoping the problem just gets forgotten about.

In regards to the extra life event taking place during the fear evolved event, THEY DO THIS EVERY YEAR!  And then in the meantime while rates are hitting 5x, 6x, 7x we’re all stuck with full servers, rubber banding, high pings disconnects and whatever else can go wrong.  Einstein said “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result”.  I’d like to say the Einstein was being too nice, that’s the definition of STUPIDITY!  They know what these events do to the servers, they know what the aftermath is, and they know how bad it ticks off the community.  Not to mention WC has not EVER put out a clean near seamless update or patch IN 5 AND A HALF YEARS!!  So fear is gonna go live, it’s gonna take 4 days to fix it because they broke SOMETHING!  Then it’s at least a dozen server resets to get it so it’s right or fairly stable to play.  Who wants to bet me on that?  Anyone?  
 

My last little vent is as much as this game, WC, cheaters/dupers and just the natural order of the universe seem to screw everyone over, yeah evo events could be enacted more often, but only with stable servers.  It’s just that little piece of justice that us Ark players need to keep some skin in the game, literally.  Sorry WC, you should have known the can of worms you opened 5 years ago when ya started doing the evo events, if ya didn’t I dunno what to tell ya.  
 

After all that, WC you guys have an awesome game and it has the potential to kick the big game developers right in the knees.  We don’t gripe to annoy and be thorns in your sides, we gripe because we care and love the game! You guys have done an amazing job creating a game with this much depth and involvement, but the bad decisions at the company level are holding it back.

Holy ****.  People with real minds capable of understanding and fairness...World really is gonna end!

On 8/21/2021 at 10:43 PM, JdogMcFuzzl said:

Enabling flyer movement speed increase on xbox still bugged? Haven't been able to ark in a few weeks but I would love for that to be fixed. 

Ya, on ps4 as well

as far as i know theres no way to submit video evidence from a ps4.  At least without jumping through a bunch of hoops.  You aught to just make your website qs4/xb1 friendly.  We shouldnt have to buy extra devices or download extra apps just to get you to fix your crap...

4 hours ago, GP said:

You mean outside of the current event rates?

Hey GP, been awhile.  Anyways yes.  I been gone since like a month after Vals release until the start of this event.  Im on SP so i dnt receive event rates normally.  Ive always put event rates of 2x xp and harvest.  Thing is when i played before i wouldnt be level 60 b4 i was done building a wooden house and making 1 saddle.  I created a topic on this last night called broken xp gains.  I put more detail and explained more on there if youd be kind enough to help me out.  And thanks in advance GP

Has anyone else experienced increased experience gains?

I like how wc has enough money to hire a top class actor for a rather lengthy trailer, but apparently not enough money to hire the staff needed to fix the game or put some effort in for the poor switch users XD.

3 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

Valient effort. You said it was still the 9th in your post when it was long into the 10th. 😆

Quote me specifically saying it was the 9th today.  U cant because i didnt.

2 minutes ago, Joebl0w13 said:

It's also completely irrelevant by now.

Its relevant if they do it again in the upcoming event