Immortalia wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2023 2:23 pm
Whoaaa there's an ARK thread here!
I haven't been playing ARK for as long as a lot of the other veteran beach bobs and survivors, I started playing in December 2022. In that time though I've put nearly 1000 hours into it, it's easily one of my most favorite games and I haven't had this much fun playing a game pretty much since childhood. My favorite map is Fjordur and my favorite tames are the thylacoleo and baryonyx.
The Ascended remaster has really put a divide right through the fandom and it's kinda sad to see. I see people say "oh, gaming companies have done worse launches than this" but honestly I really haven't seen a launch this bad well, ever. Constantly going back on promises and delays... It's a mess. The poor subreddit for ARK has been kind of ripped to shreds in the past few weeks. It's hard to try and point out the mistakes Wildcard has clearly made when its die-hard sympathizers will foam at the mouth and call you dumb and how could you possibly dare say that about such a company, they're doing their best. It truly all started when they announced they would be shutting down official servers for ASE. I saw so many people saying goodbye to their tames and buildings and logging off for the last time. Just for their favorite game "remaster" to be treated like this?
As an ARK fan don't get me wrong, I would love nothing more than to play ASA the remaster like everyone else. It looks beautiful, you can't deny that. It's just that, it's kinda funny how 8 years later, Wildcard is repeating the same exact mistakes they did with ASE... I stayed away from playing original ASE for years because it was a buggy mess at launch and it was unoptimized. Nowadays I can actually run ASE at least. But now, I'm doing the exact same thing again and staying away from ASA because currently my PC cannot run it. I have patience; if I have to, I'll wait years until they fix their game, just like I did with ASE.
It does suck though, missing out on the experience. I look back on ASE's growth and it's kinda sad, seeing all the experiences I kinda missed out on. For the people who had friends in tribes, I can't imagine how frustrating this must be. We all just wanna enjoy our dinos and fantasy critters and tribe up together to explore the ARK dangit.
...and now the devs and some other WC eomployees are getting death threats. How wonderful.
If you've been following the latest Ark news on the SurviveTheArk website, every week a Community Crunch is published showing the latest news, game updates, plugs to Ark content creators and artists, and the announcement of Creature Submission Votes.
But, lately, Crunches are 'nothingburgers' because they're showing little content but plugs, and no word on releae dates for consoles.
Dollie, one of the higher-ups keeps stressing that people should curb their enthusiasm, and stay humble.
I get that ASA's launch was buggy at best and controversial at worst, I understand that people are pissed off about the fact that they are repeating past mistakes with ASE, and I fear for Ark's future and name, but the devs are still humans at the end of the day.
They don't deserve this, especially Dollie who is doing what she can to keep things in place and help others.
This is the thanks the devs get.
Disrespect on a hostile level.
I pray they do get their shit together and fix the majority of issues by the time Scorched Earth is re-released. And the playerbase who lashed out at the devs are ashamed of themselves, get over it, and find better things to do if they're gonna act like pissbabies.
