slejo

As a veteran Ark player and someone who analyzes the forums, discords and Arklife in general, I have some idea what people would like from WC/Snails and giving affordable price suggestions: Redesign Ark 1 to ASA UE5 and code improvements - free or small fee ~$2-3 per DLC Make then NEW full DLC in UE5 based on ASA - with new polished map (as you WC can do), new boss (not just add Dragon or Monkey), new dinos, new engrams (yes we need Tek Behemoth Ceiling), some new creative mechanics - i mean something in quality of Aberration or Extinction - $19.99 - $29.99 Back to regular nice Community Crunches, creative holidays events, dinos TLC's - bring back life to the community Make PAID official server cluster connected to todays official cluster - Paid server $1/month/map Delay Ark 2 as much as you need. And then 1) gamers should be happy 2) you have money

Your confession is like a game changer to me. One of the hardest fundamentalist become apostate. Welcome to the club! BTW. Im still love Ark franchise, Im still play Ark, Im still believe WC is able to do great things. I just dont believe Snail games.. All started to get worse since they came. And they came (correct me if im wrong) after Extinction with Atlas. Wildcard Studios have true geniuses when it comes to game design but this artists deserve to have better management imho.

We got clear answers of the situation here inside official Snail, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter (of 2023) & Full Year 2022 Financial Results: https://investor.snail.com/news-releases/news-release-details/snail-inc-reports-fourth-quarter-full-year-2022-financial Weird think is that they are surprised that they have decreases when literally nothing has appeared in ARK in 2022. If you don't care about the playerbase, don't expect profits.

Lets hope Snail will sell the Ark franchise along with the great Studio Wildcard to another major company as part of cutting losses.

You're right, I don't know exact percentage of people playing with Epic Settings. However, I know that many players deliberately turn off the bells and whistles to Low Details to have a faster and more visible game (the vast majority of PVP players do this). It's just that for many players, the graphical change doesn't matter much. The case of the mysterious DLC, which would be created this year, is different. I'd gladly spend a few bucks on that. However, I think that such a general statement is intended to confuse our minds. Just another unclear promise we should not trust.

Maybe developers can give us some option for example: create new official premium paid servers connected to free official cluster set up good affordable price for it - better than typical Nitrado, because of mass customers discount make premium paid server much more stable make special "exodus" engram - kind of transfer storage box with unlimited weight and storage space - that will help to carry stuff from free to paid servers in more convenient way that dumb transmitter transfers wipe out free servers whenever they want to But it need some effort and to have good will.

Im still waiting for official statement if its April's Fool joke or not.. because Im confused if i should now wipe out my 2 bases and dinos and free ~400 GB disk store. Whats the difference between me doing it now or Dev wipe in August.

For me its clear that WC / Snail / Whatever Company is completly broken and we are now see disassembling of ARK. Yes its over, no one will wait FOREVER for Ark 2. And many, many big games are soon released. Its very sorry for best game ever - ARK Survival Evolved. Best news could be to sell Ark franchise to some agile game company to continue this beautiful story.

I've been peeking at every Community Crunch for last 2 years. Everything that is happening here is a big lie that something is being done, that they are adding something, that they are working on something. The truth is that even this news is simply pushing the inevitable - further waiting for postponed things. Has this company ever kept its word? Did they do something on time? NO! They keep making promises all the time. I envy fans of other games that their developers care about the players of their games. In my opinion we will NOT have anything new this year.. We will receive month before deadline information that due to the desire to create a better game, we need to announce new release date ... In the meantime, we will be shown spiders, tigers and immortal crunch filler - fanart. Lies, lies, lies!

Ark 2 will be released when modern games will be made with Unreal 6 and ver.5 will be outdated technology.

If this is not an April 1st joke, then what I wished in the comment to the previous Community Crunch is being implemented. And I wished for a paid DLC based on Ark 1 with new dinos, engrams and new mechanics. As it was with Aberration, Extinction, or Genesis. I honestly more expect that kind of DLC over Ark 2. Dreams come true. I'd love to buy this DLC.

Actually Ark 2 in late 2024 can be possibly not April's Fool part.

All nice paintings, but I like - Raptor Case - Untitled - Hobby Garden pictures very much!

Honestly i could be more happy with new paid DLC map for ARk 1 than the whole Ark 2. I mean paid DLC with quality, quantity of new engrams/creatures/features like Aberration or Extinction. I think theres more people like me, if not majority!

Thats a great piece of creativity. One week more of great news of my fav nostalgia game. By the way. This spider thingy is soo generic. Where came your creativity, WC. You have sent one pic, I got more: https://www.google.com/search?q=spiders+fantasy+concept&sxsrf=AJOqlzW1VVv0W-gVDuryNSfxoh2bSRN8Pw:1679105983982&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPqdydteT9AhV1XfEDHS0rASgQ_AUoAXoECDEQAw&biw=1440&bih=2399&dpr=1 You welcome.

Another great news from my fav nostalgia game.

This winner is just sarcasm. Someone made stupid joke and WC took it seriously. The vote should be IN GAME menu implemented. So that only people who really play votes and votes ONCE per bought copy of game.

Such a special reminder and days of celebration of the races works counterproductive in my opinion. Isn't black normal like everyone else? Isn't a disabled person normal like everyone else? Isn't a woman human? Actions like this only remind us of the problems of racial diversity. For me, everyone is equal .. and there is no need for such oversensitivity of the subject. There's no need to create such days.. or we'll get paranoid, so we'll celebrate white man's day, because why not?

Im at official Discord since the first day. Do you think there are masses of people literally eager to discuss spectacular ARK news? If you are mod there too, please make survey if politics of abandoning ARK1 and not feeding with ARK2 sneak peaks is the right choice. You will get answer.

@Joebl0w13 Player base and social involvement is a bit dead, because how to explain only a lively discussion between a complainer and addictive facepalmer on the official website, and there are no masses of people literally eager to discuss spectacular ARK news. And if there was a new map for Ark 1.... then I wouldn't complain, you would have peace, people would liven up. Win - win scenario

the same with 223, 493.. thats typical PVE officiale server i hope you are right and im wrong @Joebl0w13

Hard to believe in these numbers. Servers (at least official one) are so empty, no players here, just ghost bases. Yes, there are people.. logging in, walking around base not to decay, logging out. Is this is a real player base? Or just confused players for whom it is a pity to leave the achievements of their Ark life to oblivion. Empty numbers. without life. Of course, you can put on rose-colored glasses and pretend everything is ok. After all, for some people, masturbation is also sex.

I got active game since 5 years. But i think its dying. You should take care of your player base developing faster rk 2 or releasing new TLC and maps for Ark 1. I dont whine, Im just worried of my favourite game.

Exactly. I think Ark 1 without bugs, with UE5 and active developer care of it would be best option

I like new TSOTF, keep up developing! - Leaderboards - lobby without customising for every match - other maps.. and dinos, maybe aberration?