Snail and Wildcard have done this to themselves . They don't want to listen to the community on anything so WHY would the community even TRY to help on saving the game? Wildcards MIS-management of EVERYTHING killed the player base .
woulda been nice if they finished ark before greenlighting all this junk, early access day 1 bugs and glitches are still rampant throughout ark survival evolved, try firing a dozen bolts from a crossbow without the game forgetting how to reload it until you unequip and reequip it, lol, still happens with longnecks too,
They literally have this last chance with Engine upgrade with Aberration for consoles. I’m frustrated with low performance this Ark has and this update is my last hope
Poor optimization and large tribes taking over and controlling an official map and some being punished while others are allowed to get away with it has made the game not fun. Let's be truthful here. Ark2 isn't coming. I don't think it every was. And the game Devs are now trying to lay blame on the people not buying ASA instead of blaming themselves and their lack of integrity. They deserve everything they get.
@@GenDrake3 I take it then, you have a 3090 or Above graphics card. Not everyone has $700+ depending on which Country you live in to buy to upgrade to to play at optimal settings. Most have to use a long code to remove shadow, remove volumetric clouds and fog, remove water reflection etc just so the game isn't a laggy mess or crashes every few minutes.
@@rekabharas9904 So what you meant to say is poor optimization for outdated computer parts. The 3090 was released over 4 years ago now and still does well for anything recent. My buddy runs a 3070 and it runs ASA and any other game we play just fine without jumping through any hoops. He bought his on Amazon for under $300. People can't hold onto their 1080ti for 8 years and expect modern graphically intensive titles to run well. I'm not saying you need to buy the latest and greatest every time it pops up, but newer titles have visually really taken off. These newer games are being created with the new techs capabilities in mind. Anyone still running graphics cards older than 30 series is going to struggle with modern games.
Asa has way better lighting and every texture is remaked you have to be blind to call that "slightly" upgraded graphics but i agree that currently asa is not worth of money for most people especially for those who bought all ase dlcs
@@anonymous16472unless you have a previous gen console and you get the current one like the ps5. You can get ASA. Then that will definitely be worth it
@@anonymous16472 something like FF7 is definitely a massive upgrade in terms of graphics... ASA is not so much considering most of those extra particles are causing problems and you have to basically turn them off to get a stable FPS.
Programmers have to care while trying to figure out how to get stuff working properly. The basic problem is when a new engine is employed, there is a lot to learn. You think you had a huge learning curve when you started playing ASE, or ASA?
@@Snowy_prime I guess the idea they don't care is not going to be resolved in the minds of those that have no clue. When you are tasked to learn how something works, but are having trouble getting ahead of the learning curve, frustration by all involved, even the users will be normal. Then there is the problem with asking for an increase in income. A struggling enterprise cannot afford to increase anyones check, but the boss is likely to take an increase thinking it could be the last before the whole mess caves in.
@@wastedwatts Are you seriously comparing a professional getting familiar with an updated tool to playing a videogame? It is not the responsibility of the end user to directly pay for the education of the developer. The company works as a buffer in the middle, taking the risks and potentially reaping the benefits.
I do not want to play ark again untill the developers have sold the game to another developer that actually knows what they doing. DE is a really good DEV that I would love to see buy over the ark series and make it into something that we can constantly play without being lied to by the devs.
The console servers are dead. Mega tribes locking down the official servers and on smalls everyone is allied because wildcard doesn’t enforce the rules.
PVP is disgusting on official. The only thing that slightly redeemed it in ASE was being able to hide on a large map like Crystal Isles, and deploy and stash pods without fridges.
Once again just play singleplayer if you dont like official servers they have always been like this even since ase if your having a skill issue just do singleplayer
I am seriously considering going back to Evolved. I just love the versatility of game play, not to mention it runs so much better. Please save Ascended. 😊
With such a rookie start asa had, introducing shady and predatory p2w mechanics was THE worst thing they could've done. For someone with management background the absolute pathetic work of marketing team they did since wery beginning is just disgusting. Damage controle is non-existent, community communications are non-existent, no marketing research on general quality of machines your customers have, no research of feedback from players and so on. It honestly hilarious how easy it was to fix the game before it all went down so bad. And it's enrage me that they didn't
All the best dedis are on ASE because of the maps. The new maps on official ASA generate numbers till the alpha tribe is determined then population drops like crazy. Rinse and repeat for each map
People would just rather play ASE, it has more of what we all want from an ark game still.. Facts are Hopefully snail wakes up and just sells out to devs who can turn this game around..
The game SUCKS on the xbox. You keep saying console players love it but that is not true. The game is broken beyond belief to the point I can not even load saved worlds without it completely crashing the game. If they had kept going with evolution and just added modding to the console they would be raking it in. You say it is draining and frustrating seeing comments like this? Maybe there is a reason they keep being made. I paid for the game on release day which was a massive layout for me as I am disabled and live on benefits to not be able to play it for over half the time it has been released and then the kick in the nuts to have it go onto game pass a few months later. Snail and wildcard deserve all the bad press they are getting. I am adding this as an edit. This is all on solo, I do not play on official or unofficial and I have well over 2000 hours on ASE just playing solo on xbox.
I even upgraded to the xbox x and it still crashes and ark has always been my go to game for years. I'm almost more mad I paid full price then they put it on game pass like a smack in the mouth
I don't have these issues and I play xbox so it could always be something with your settings for the Xbox and TV I had issues but I just lowered my TV graphics and it went worked perfectly so always check to see if it's an issue on your end or the games
Amen brother. I'm on Series X and my single player is completely broken. I'm stuck on scorched earth, every time I try to transfer to another one the game crashes and it duplicates my character and items. It really doesn't matter what maps they release if I can't play them, the optimization is terrible. There was a month I couldn't even play it because it was running so choppy that it gave me headaches. If they don't do something fast, this is going to turn into Atlas 2.0
Since the originals LAUNCH they've always been content>function and it grew old so quickly. Years and years later, it's just sad to see that still hasn't changed. I haven't wanted new content for so long because we want the game to FUNCTION correctly. That should always be first, before adding new content.
Can't say that I'm surprised ASA is going down. It's basically the exact same buggy game just with console mod support and a new coat of paint. Heck they didn't even include the Primitive Plus conversion which is a criminally underrated game mode.
I hope they can succeed. I truly am enjoying asa. Although i have nobody to play with and play by myself on my server. I still have fun. And luckily i have a decent computer that allows me to see the beauty of the game. Despite the constant crashes
I hear single player on ASA is broken from a few of my friends. When we all play on a server we have no problem and we love it (PVE). Only issues on servers when we have someone with an over the top base with every single Dino out.
I have my theory and that when ASA gets so far with content released Snail will quietly and officially shut down Evolved and make it disappear to force all those players over to ASA by giving no choice of playing the old game. Then they will say to investors hey look our game is doing great when it's not.
This is sad because when it first hit it was major but now this game came and kind of made a mockery of things hopefully aberration will boost it but we will see
Well, I'm playing It on the p. S5, I'm just playing It right now. I mean the game one is fine in consoles. It's definitely really well done and stuff like that. And I'm really having fun with the game that I did ever back in the evolve, I mean evolve, was okay back in the day like I really did enjoy did but with ascended. I am really having fun a lot with The Mods. They're definitely interesting and stuff. I had a couple of mods to play round and they were a lot of fun. I really did enjoyed it. And I'm really looking forward to the future of ascended, and it does well in the Console, like on the PS5, it's really a lot of fun. I even have. Ascending. Copy of the game, because I pre-ordered it. And I have it, and anyways, the game is really a lot of fun. I really do enjoyed it. What do you guys think?Do you enjoy ascended
Big issues that never seem to get fixed, or gain attention from game management tend to chase off players. Obviously the programming has suffered due to so many on the team still trying to figure out how to make things work, so naturally players notice and believe it will be like Ark SE, some stuff will never work right. One issue that has even me ticked off is when I get disconnected by either ARK servers, or my ISP my avatar tends to die. Most call it a lag kill, but the programmers cannot fix this? It reminds me of the same problem with ARK SE when an avatar would get kicked off their mount for all sorts of reasons and death was so common.
I have no issues with ASA, I love both games and haven’t had any problems with Ascended that I didn’t have with Evolved. I play on Xbox and both games crashed on me at times. At least with Ascended I get to play with mods! Love the videos man, keep them coming!
Not to mention a small fact. I looked up the stats and while it can be played on Series S, the game is optimized SPECIFICALLY for Series X. Because of that, if you didn't have the money to buy a Series X, the game runs decently enough but the graphics are actual garbage. Everything is blurry and put of focus
i play on console split sreen with my dad and sister and first we cant go 1000 metres away from eachother or we will get telaported to player one and we cant unlock engrams at the same time also player ones controller drifts on two play pls fix
Man, they really did badly this time around. There's a crazy amount of foundation spamming, and people are able to block the Obelisks. You can't open a cryopod without a generator and cryofridge, and if someone is nearby, you can't even open the cryopod.
Former xbox player, now pc. Still love the game, and I know that a lot of the players now have a little break before abb. The most interesting maps are yet to come, so a lot of the players will for sure return.
If they were to change the amount of generators you can have per server to limit the number of caves 1 single tribe can control would make it more enjoyable. Also having club ark bank have an actual use like refreshing upload or having an increased timer in upload or something
People are just waiting to get back to where we left off on ASE. Over time we condensed maps and few tribes stayed on the island meanwhile we moved onto abb and gen etc. I think the biggest thing that hurt Ark was them sunsetting all but Ark’s engine was way past due for an update as the engine was never meant to be what we knew it as at end of its life cycle.
I think in due time with optimization / performance updates, new maps and mods the game will once again be what we remember only better. Time is all they need.
I play on ps5 with my 10 yo and even HE was asking what happend to the window's the fog and the werid blur pixel mornings. They need to do a No Mans Sky and FIX THIS
I'm not putting my ASA server back up until both the performance update and Abberation are both released. This is pretty much ASA's last chance with my group though. Half of us struggle to get enough performance for the game to be 'playable'
I've put 1000s of hours into this game but stopped playing when they went to the new engine as I could see what they were gonna do and boy was I right. After screwing over the community numerous times before when it was just ark survival evolved, then re-releasing the exact same game but with a new engine AND charging for it again then going full on pay to win and still not fixing the game they have the balls to complain about player numbers. WC and snail deserve to fail massively. Gas lighting the community saying it'll be their fault that ark 2 is not released as they're not buying and playing a broken unsupported game with loads of issues and broken official servers that are taken over by tribes even on PVE and they do nothing about it yeah make it our fault.... They never had any intention of releasing Ark 2 just milking the cash cow as much as possible. Rot in hell WC
They should have done Ragnarok before Abberation as it’s one of the most popular maps. Once that releases and they get towards the end of the pipeline and they release Valguero and Fjordur the playerbase will start filtering back in I think.
It's a mix between not enough content for the price, at 25 usd plus tax a month for each server. If more non dedicated were built at lower rates, we'd see more players
I love ark and have done since day one of ASE but ASA we have had so many issues on xbox, we even had to leave the centre and back to the island as the crashing on the centre was unreal every boss fight we ran weall lagged out and died and lost everything including all the tames we took in, so im hoping upon hoping they don't break Aberation and comes out on time.
nobody is talking about the literal unplayability of ASA because of the optimization so does that mean THAT part has actually been worked on and fixed?
Im on xbox x and im loving the game, just being able to use mods is amazing. Also all the quality of life changes are great, it was rough at the beginning with not being able to save the game on singleplayer, but once that was fixed its been fine. There is the occasional crash now and then but evolved had that to so all in all im enjoying ascended.
ark se player. i would watch your vids as soon as they came out before launch to get details since it was always being pushed back. I was there the night it was supposed to launch but got delayed a few hours hyped to play. here we are months later i havent watched ark content in months just because its unplayable on pc
I love ASA and my PC has no problem playing it. The problem for me is, as a gamer who enjoys a lot of varied games, I simply don't have room for both ASE and ASA on my system, thus once I get bored with the 3 maps, I do something else. Then again, I also don't play on Official. ARK is a HORRIBLE space hog and its absolutely ridiculous how much room ASE takes up. I have honestly been playing other games while waiting for my favorite maps to drop because Island, Center and SE are at the bottom of my favorites list.
When they tied themselves to Nitrado it didn't help either. A min of 20 player slots is silly and in turn makes it too expensive to play with a few friends.
Tbh why do you expect ASA to even be big at the moment? Why would ark players switch to ASA when they have been on ASE? I think most are simply waiting till asa is finished
If Studio Wildcard can get ASA to a point where it doesn't crash as much as it does now and make it where you don't have to turn off clouds and fog, I'm sure players will return. They also need to get more maps out as well, I mean you can only beat the bosses on each map right so many times before it is really boring to do. If these updates come out and doesn't fix the issues they are having right now, I really don't see any reason for them to stay in business and keep us the fans of the game around. Studio Wildcard needs to break away from Snail Games before they too go under.
I'm on PS5 and honestly, I would never go back to Evolved unless i'm forced to... the differences are major.. Even with the actual engine. The improvements done so far makes the game already more enjoyable than what it was in Evolved. The only downside is the delays to get all maps.
On the aspect of mods, love it never get rid of it. But when it comes to the game itself, I hate all the crashing, I hate the random fpf drops, I hate the constant kicking me out of the game. They just need to work on fixing it all cause if they did I would love it, but for now I kinda want to stay away from it
If anything revives the game its abb rag or the engine/fsr upgrade For me premium mods were not a good idea if you want people to be able to support mods just give them the option to donate to them directly instead of locking out the content behind a paywall and most of the time (at least in case of maps) the content youre paying for is unfinished
The PS5 version of Ark Survival Evolved was horrific for me. It ended up unplayable for me. Constant crashes. I originally had it on PS4 and absolutely loved it. One of the best games I've ever played apart from building issues like pillars etc. A few crashes but not many at all. When I bought my PS5 that was a very different story. It was always crashing. Called Sony Support and they kept saying the crash code was because the PS5 was too hot. Even though it would crash within 2 minutes of me turning the thing on. I held off getting Ark Survival Ascended until only 2 or 3 weeks ago. I love it. I've had no crashes. The building aspect has improved but is still tedious. I would give ASA a 8/10 for sure. If the building system would allow of levelling of the ground and less stupid glitches I would give it a 10. The graphics are brilliant. However, the devs should not have spent there time remaking this. ARK 2 should have been there priority. Gamers are not stupid and Snail games are playing on that we are. What a very bad investment move. Look at how long it is taking to bring out the new version of the maps. Imagine all of those man hours being poured into ARK 2. For them to say if Ascended does not do well there will be no ARK 2, they might as well give up the goose now. What the heck are these ARK devs thinking!!!
The devs need to fix the existing bugs and problems but they can’t because they are SO far behind schedule. The developers focus is on getting the maps out to justify people buying the DLC’s. All this and the game is STILL in early access. How are they able to sell DLC when the game has not fully released yet? I love ark but the developers sure know how to sour the relationship. My main problem at this point is the anti-meshing. I have died to that more than actual players. Anti-meshing rips you out the game and makes you lose a bunch of stuff. For no reason. The volcano, the ocean floor and caves are stupid for it. I’m in no was trying to do anything I should not be. Just playing the game ASAP INSTEAD and die to anti-meshing. Quite literally have no motivation to play as at any moment you can just lose everything for no reason.
Most people can’t afford a 4090 to play the game at 60fps. I’m still running a 1080ti and I can’t afford a 40 series card, and I’m definitely not buying one just to play one game
Also , what happened to Wildcard saying that after the release of ASA , that they were going to be more transparent with the community about the game ?
The first couple weeks were good once dino render distance was lowered that was the beginning of the end. No new maps for months. Pay to tame creatures and over crowded official servers I quit about a month into scorched after I couldn't get on my server. Maybe I'll come back for gen 2 and crystal isles if it doesn't take another 5 years to come out
Thats the exact reason I wont buy the game, when they had the option to play Ascended for free for around 3 days I was ecstatic because I wanted to see if I could run it without paying the money so I can make sure my money wasnt gonna go to waste if I did get it! And unfortunately, no matter how low I put the graphics the game would crash, the game would run at 10 or lower FPs it was unplayable for me, I really do hope they optimize the game at some point because I really do wanna play it! But as it stands right now, I am unable to play it, even though my PC meets the required specs for the MINIMUM requirement to play the game, truly unfortunate.
I mean, you can barely play the game on series s due to the console having issues with running the maps and mods which makes it hard to stay interested in the game as it is hard to play some servers with your friends
Loving this game, my daughter and I play it on ps5 and pc. It's a shame to see the game struggling due to poor decisions and lack of working fixes on WCs and Snails part. Might have to jump ship, kinda worried I'm wasting my time playing something that, at this point, seems to be a sinking ship.
Maybe it was, but 2 months later we're right back at ASE having 8 thousand more players active than ASA. Not only that, according to SteamDB, ASA hasn't managed to break a higher player count than ASE since April of this year, and even then it wasn't for longer than a couple weeks. ASA is a bit of flop with metrics like that.
As a creator of Ark, content I went back to ASE as ASA just sucks right now. The most going for ASA is probably the building mechanics. Sloppy graphics throuought even though it looks amazing but a closer look you'll see how cheap it looks.
I have over 10k hours in ark across both versions and i cant bring myself to play a game that cares so little about what its player base wants. Dropped it 6 months ago
ASA HAS BEEN PERFECT FOR ME IT PLAYED FINE THE WORSE LAG IVE HAD WAS BECAUSE SOMEONE MADE A MEGA BASE HOW ARE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVEN PROLEMS IF MY XBOBX S CAN DO IT A GOOD PC SHOULD BE TO if you cant play it that well just look at what xbobx has and buy thoses pc part pc stuff upgrades every 2 or 1 years it shouldn't be that hard idk how pc work but ik how technological gets better fast
I kinda had it with ASA after playing on The Center Map. Too many bugs. Too many issues. Just like the previous maps. I went back to ASE and I have been really enjoying it. I am on PC.
Ark is one of my favorite games. I like ascended. But it's like load crisis said at launch it only had one map I've just been waiting for more maps. Thankyou load crisis for this video. I will get back into ascended when I can. I really want ark 2 to come out asap. Even though I don't have the problems everyone have on this game, (possibly because I built my computer from scratch with a 2.5K budget) I agree with what people are saying about snail, they are slow in more ways than one(pun intended) I wish they would giva crap about the community. I'll get back in it for ark 2.
I love this game despite it being so broken as in were PC players are able to write scripts to either move faster, or use aim bot, or anything to give them a more advantage over tribes that have consoles( PS5 & Xbox series X ( series S can't handle most maps do to spam)). And then there the meshing still which WildCard/Snail games claimed they had it under control ( which we all know is a lie), so the devs need to get their act together or ask for help from a bigger more experienced gaming company to figure these things out.
The main reason many console players still play is because we have played without mods for years and now we have them theres even more reason to play ark again
On Xbox for ASA, I crash while flying, and in certain areas of map the game will crash and i cant even log back into the server until my body dies in that area, ASA is trash on console as well ):
I have a love/hate relationship with Ark. The IP has the potential to eliminate what I hate, but their are so many other games out there that I do not hate and only love. But they don't have dinosaurs.
I love ARK. has over 10,000 hours in ARK evolved but in ARK Survival Ascended I have given up a join en sever. have built a new PC and it didn't help so I only play single ply.
It's because the game is unplayable. No one on Xbox wants to keep deleting their saves because the game won't launch after playing one of the maps for a while. They are really lacking and they just need to scrap it and put the mods on ASE
I left art survival ascended. Because every time there would be an update, it would get rid of my mods and I play on xbox, so yeah, until they fix that issue, i'm not coming back, cause it's really annoying
I only play ark ASC on Xbox and also have Survival Evolved with all the maps, but definitely prefer ASC because of the mods. Question are these play figures stats just steam stats?
The biggest complaint I’m constantly hearing from people is the cryo pods. Who wants to play with these new cryos over the old ones? Probably almost no one. Start talking about that in your videos to get the topic rising. Everyone’s praying extinction they change it back and if they don’t this game is unfortunately dead
If they made the ascended a rework and make it cheaper and not poop on players they could see a top 30 spot they made one game and sold it 2 times at full price
My major issue is that we glitch through the map and die because either we fall until we die or can't get back onto the map. Otherwise for the most part I really enjoy the game.
@@AlpezgamingWhat exactly is the main issue for player base? Cuz im on the same page as ol' boy. Some days i crash a bunch, some days none at all. Every now and then i glitch thru a rock or something and lose stuff. Other than the whole pay situation it feels just like ASE. But let a "not noob" inform me.
@@kenmorris8219I have to admit I’m curious about this answer too. How does not being a noob affect map stability, oh wait nevermind that dude is just an example of how toxic the gaming environment is to people. Omg I haven’t fallen through the broken map yet I must be op.
The only ppl playing ase is PVP players and pve players that haven’t upgraded. They are clearly doing away with “toxic” PvP in Asa. But that’s kinda what made the game popular. Making the game pay to win didn’t help them. Tbh Asa could do good with the maps they have but it’s not because they are ignoring their pvp side.
Sounds like Wildcard are trying to blackmail Ark players into buying ASA or they won't see Ark 2. That might work if people actually cared about Ark 2...
From a pvp perspective this ain’t going to make a difference they have already ruined ab by allowing you to have a blimp to fly around the map that was designed to not have a single flyer not including the pay to win Dino they will drop for like they did for the center
they just need to stop releasing unfinished maps for two seconds and focus and just improving what they have now and fix the bugs, the glitches, the crashing, the graphics/optimization, if they had just done that from the start it would’ve been so much better
Never bothered with Ascended because I didn’t see the point of purchasing the same game ~but with better graphics~ twice. I stuck with regular Ark and see now that it was the correct choice. Not exactly thrilled about Ark 2 limiting itself to mundane creatures and primitive tech either. The devs need to get their shit together.
I lost my server progress 5 times in a row from nitrado and lost single-player saves twice from updates corrupting the files I've quit the game for 3 months now sense I was told too just deal with it
They should have never shut official support on ASE and forced ASA as a replacement. Then they release the maps one by one like day one ASE and expect to hold their playerbase? ASE did find half its player base till abb and rag. There's definitely still die hard ARK fans that will see ASA through and frankly theyre probably propping the game up currently 👏 i want to see ARK as a whole prosper but i think alot of greed has distracted from the true goal. THE ARK.
It’s so like snail games to run the game into the ground and get out of fulfilling their promises by blaming the players for not loving the dumpster fire they created.
Prayers do you not want to continuously pay for extra content when you purchase a game you should be able to play it adding extra content makes it paid to win
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You know your doing something wrong when the game you made to replace its predecessor is doing WORSE than said predecessor
Wc needs to remove the cryopod restrictions on pve. There is no reason for this.
@@199209armando agreed
They probably did this to reduce lag as well using waterless pipes.
Snail and Wildcard have done this to themselves . They don't want to listen to the community on anything so WHY would the community even TRY to help on saving the game? Wildcards MIS-management of EVERYTHING killed the player base .
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woulda been nice if they finished ark before greenlighting all this junk, early access day 1 bugs and glitches are still rampant throughout ark survival evolved, try firing a dozen bolts from a crossbow without the game forgetting how to reload it until you unequip and reequip it, lol, still happens with longnecks too,
If anything revives the game, it's the engine upgrade, aberration, and ragnarok.
Exactly. Asa is always dying or in serious trouble when the players just have to wait.
Or a cleansing by fire...
They literally have this last chance with Engine upgrade with Aberration for consoles. I’m frustrated with low performance this Ark has and this update is my last hope
cant wait to see the yellow rocks everywhere in aberration
Devs were fools to even waste their time with the center and SE. Should have just gone straight to ab and rag
Poor optimization and large tribes taking over and controlling an official map and some being punished while others are allowed to get away with it has made the game not fun. Let's be truthful here. Ark2 isn't coming. I don't think it every was. And the game Devs are now trying to lay blame on the people not buying ASA instead of blaming themselves and their lack of integrity. They deserve everything they get.
Where is the poor optimization? I haven't experienced it yet in like 300 hours.
@@GenDrake3 I take it then, you have a 3090 or Above graphics card. Not everyone has $700+ depending on which Country you live in to buy to upgrade to to play at optimal settings. Most have to use a long code to remove shadow, remove volumetric clouds and fog, remove water reflection etc just so the game isn't a laggy mess or crashes every few minutes.
I mean it sucks but that's always been official servers, big tribes taking it over and kicking everyone else out
Just play singleplayer?
@@rekabharas9904 So what you meant to say is poor optimization for outdated computer parts. The 3090 was released over 4 years ago now and still does well for anything recent. My buddy runs a 3070 and it runs ASA and any other game we play just fine without jumping through any hoops. He bought his on Amazon for under $300. People can't hold onto their 1080ti for 8 years and expect modern graphically intensive titles to run well. I'm not saying you need to buy the latest and greatest every time it pops up, but newer titles have visually really taken off. These newer games are being created with the new techs capabilities in mind. Anyone still running graphics cards older than 30 series is going to struggle with modern games.
They selling a full price game that’s basically just a slightly upgraded graphics version of the first one
Asa has way better lighting and every texture is remaked you have to be blind to call that "slightly" upgraded graphics but i agree that currently asa is not worth of money for most people especially for those who bought all ase dlcs
That’s a silly thing to say.
@@anonymous16472unless you have a previous gen console and you get the current one like the ps5. You can get ASA. Then that will definitely be worth it
@@anonymous16472 something like FF7 is definitely a massive upgrade in terms of graphics... ASA is not so much considering most of those extra particles are causing problems and you have to basically turn them off to get a stable FPS.
😂 slightly. Go buy a better PC
its because the developers dont really care about the community
They dont care
Programmers have to care while trying to figure out how to get stuff working properly. The basic problem is when a new engine is employed, there is a lot to learn. You think you had a huge learning curve when you started playing ASE, or ASA?
They don't care as much as they used too
@@Snowy_prime I guess the idea they don't care is not going to be resolved in the minds of those that have no clue. When you are tasked to learn how something works, but are having trouble getting ahead of the learning curve, frustration by all involved, even the users will be normal. Then there is the problem with asking for an increase in income. A struggling enterprise cannot afford to increase anyones check, but the boss is likely to take an increase thinking it could be the last before the whole mess caves in.
@@wastedwatts Are you seriously comparing a professional getting familiar with an updated tool to playing a videogame? It is not the responsibility of the end user to directly pay for the education of the developer. The company works as a buffer in the middle, taking the risks and potentially reaping the benefits.
Ark was my favorite game but they have ruined the game for me.
Exactly the same for me to… wish we just stayed with ASE new content 😅
I do not want to play ark again untill the developers have sold the game to another developer that actually knows what they doing. DE is a really good DEV that I would love to see buy over the ark series and make it into something that we can constantly play without being lied to by the devs.
Fr Asa is ass and you have to buy a new pc just to run it@@christiansmal6997
"There won't be an ARK 2 if ARK: SA doesn't succeed!"
MF they think we're playing ARK 2 if its *this* level of quality?
The console servers are dead. Mega tribes locking down the official servers and on smalls everyone is allied because wildcard doesn’t enforce the rules.
PVP is disgusting on official. The only thing that slightly redeemed it in ASE was being able to hide on a large map like Crystal Isles, and deploy and stash pods without fridges.
For real. It's absolutely disgusting. Community is making the game die even faster.
Once again just play singleplayer if you dont like official servers they have always been like this even since ase if your having a skill issue just do singleplayer
@@walterwhite5764 a terrible argument, it's like you ignore everything people say 🤡
I am seriously considering going back to Evolved. I just love the versatility of game play, not to mention it runs so much better. Please save Ascended. 😊
Yeah if they can’t nail the abberation release and engine upgrade, I’m switching to evolved
I enjoy evolved way more
I tried ascended and went back IMMEDIATELY to evolved. So much better on solo
Imagine saying "if you guys buy enough ASA copies, we'll have enough money to make you an ARK2 that you can buy as well" lol.
With such a rookie start asa had, introducing shady and predatory p2w mechanics was THE worst thing they could've done.
For someone with management background the absolute pathetic work of marketing team they did since wery beginning is just disgusting. Damage controle is non-existent, community communications are non-existent, no marketing research on general quality of machines your customers have, no research of feedback from players and so on.
It honestly hilarious how easy it was to fix the game before it all went down so bad. And it's enrage me that they didn't
All the best dedis are on ASE because of the maps. The new maps on official ASA generate numbers till the alpha tribe is determined then population drops like crazy. Rinse and repeat for each map
People would just rather play ASE, it has more of what we all want from an ark game still.. Facts are Hopefully snail wakes up and just sells out to devs who can turn this game around..
Preach the truth
The game SUCKS on the xbox. You keep saying console players love it but that is not true. The game is broken beyond belief to the point I can not even load saved worlds without it completely crashing the game. If they had kept going with evolution and just added modding to the console they would be raking it in. You say it is draining and frustrating seeing comments like this? Maybe there is a reason they keep being made. I paid for the game on release day which was a massive layout for me as I am disabled and live on benefits to not be able to play it for over half the time it has been released and then the kick in the nuts to have it go onto game pass a few months later. Snail and wildcard deserve all the bad press they are getting. I am adding this as an edit. This is all on solo, I do not play on official or unofficial and I have well over 2000 hours on ASE just playing solo on xbox.
I even upgraded to the xbox x and it still crashes and ark has always been my go to game for years. I'm almost more mad I paid full price then they put it on game pass like a smack in the mouth
I don't have these issues and I play xbox so it could always be something with your settings for the Xbox and TV I had issues but I just lowered my TV graphics and it went worked perfectly so always check to see if it's an issue on your end or the games
Amen brother. I'm on Series X and my single player is completely broken. I'm stuck on scorched earth, every time I try to transfer to another one the game crashes and it duplicates my character and items. It really doesn't matter what maps they release if I can't play them, the optimization is terrible. There was a month I couldn't even play it because it was running so choppy that it gave me headaches. If they don't do something fast, this is going to turn into Atlas 2.0
Works fine on the xbox for me, but I have my own server so that may help
Actually on Xbox I’d argue the graphics are better on ase. And way smoother
Since the originals LAUNCH they've always been content>function and it grew old so quickly. Years and years later, it's just sad to see that still hasn't changed. I haven't wanted new content for so long because we want the game to FUNCTION correctly. That should always be first, before adding new content.
Can't say that I'm surprised ASA is going down. It's basically the exact same buggy game just with console mod support and a new coat of paint. Heck they didn't even include the Primitive Plus conversion which is a criminally underrated game mode.
I hate having to download mods. It gets stuck alot and I can't play most servers. I don't understand the mods as well.
I hope they can succeed. I truly am enjoying asa. Although i have nobody to play with and play by myself on my server. I still have fun. And luckily i have a decent computer that allows me to see the beauty of the game. Despite the constant crashes
I hear single player on ASA is broken from a few of my friends. When we all play on a server we have no problem and we love it (PVE). Only issues on servers when we have someone with an over the top base with every single Dino out.
Yeah ong thoses big ass bases are the only time I lag
I have my theory and that when ASA gets so far with content released Snail will quietly and officially shut down Evolved and make it disappear to force all those players over to ASA by giving no choice of playing the old game. Then they will say to investors hey look our game is doing great when it's not.
Evolved is already shut down. There's no support for it anymore and official is gone
@@brianodonnell8842 Meanwhile, Evolved is all we have if they don't fix Ascended for PC.
Ase needs some attention to put mods here in ase
This is sad because when it first hit it was major but now this game came and kind of made a mockery of things hopefully aberration will boost it but we will see
Well, I'm playing It on the p. S5, I'm just playing It right now. I mean the game one is fine in consoles. It's definitely really well done and stuff like that. And I'm really having fun with the game that I did ever back in the evolve, I mean evolve, was okay back in the day like I really did enjoy did but with ascended. I am really having fun a lot with The Mods. They're definitely interesting and stuff. I had a couple of mods to play round and they were a lot of fun. I really did enjoyed it. And I'm really looking forward to the future of ascended, and it does well in the Console, like on the PS5, it's really a lot of fun. I even have.
Ascending. Copy of the game, because I pre-ordered it. And I have it, and anyways, the game is really a lot of fun. I really do enjoyed it.
What do you guys think?Do you enjoy ascended
I play on ps5 and I crash a good 4-5 times at random different times. I have good internet so I know that's not the issue
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Big issues that never seem to get fixed, or gain attention from game management tend to chase off players. Obviously the programming has suffered due to so many on the team still trying to figure out how to make things work, so naturally players notice and believe it will be like Ark SE, some stuff will never work right. One issue that has even me ticked off is when I get disconnected by either ARK servers, or my ISP my avatar tends to die. Most call it a lag kill, but the programmers cannot fix this? It reminds me of the same problem with ARK SE when an avatar would get kicked off their mount for all sorts of reasons and death was so common.
I have no issues with ASA, I love both games and haven’t had any problems with Ascended that I didn’t have with Evolved. I play on Xbox and both games crashed on me at times. At least with Ascended I get to play with mods! Love the videos man, keep them coming!
Not to mention a small fact. I looked up the stats and while it can be played on Series S, the game is optimized SPECIFICALLY for Series X. Because of that, if you didn't have the money to buy a Series X, the game runs decently enough but the graphics are actual garbage. Everything is blurry and put of focus
i play on console split sreen with my dad and sister and first we cant go 1000 metres away from eachother or we will get telaported to player one and we cant unlock engrams at the same time also player ones controller drifts on two play pls fix
Man, they really did badly this time around. There's a crazy amount of foundation spamming, and people are able to block the Obelisks. You can't open a cryopod without a generator and cryofridge, and if someone is nearby, you can't even open the cryopod.
Former xbox player, now pc. Still love the game, and I know that a lot of the players now have a little break before abb. The most interesting maps are yet to come, so a lot of the players will for sure return.
This exactly. We missing the best maps.
Yeah good point everyone favorite maps are none of the 1st 3
I agree with you I really don't want them to delay the Unreal Engine 5.4 I have faith in them
I play on Unofficial PS5 with mods and it's the best survival experience I've ever had.
If they were to change the amount of generators you can have per server to limit the number of caves 1 single tribe can control would make it more enjoyable.
Also having club ark bank have an actual use like refreshing upload or having an increased timer in upload or something
on console its blurry, the map doesnt render at all when you look at it, it has performance issues and its still a stupidly large download size
People are just waiting to get back to where we left off on ASE. Over time we condensed maps and few tribes stayed on the island meanwhile we moved onto abb and gen etc. I think the biggest thing that hurt Ark was them sunsetting all but Ark’s engine was way past due for an update as the engine was never meant to be what we knew it as at end of its life cycle.
I think in due time with optimization / performance updates, new maps and mods the game will once again be what we remember only better. Time is all they need.
Gta 6 will be the final nail in the franchises coffin
That's almost 3 years away
@@Emmery1798 that's next year
@@malekat8539 not for PC unfortunately it's at the least another year after console release
@@Emmery1798 damn...
@@malekat8539 yeah lol plus as far as Ik it hasn't technically even been confirmed for a PC release
I play on ps5 with my 10 yo and even HE was asking what happend to the window's the fog and the werid blur pixel mornings. They need to do a No Mans Sky and FIX THIS
I'm not putting my ASA server back up until both the performance update and Abberation are both released. This is pretty much ASA's last chance with my group though. Half of us struggle to get enough performance for the game to be 'playable'
I've put 1000s of hours into this game but stopped playing when they went to the new engine as I could see what they were gonna do and boy was I right. After screwing over the community numerous times before when it was just ark survival evolved, then re-releasing the exact same game but with a new engine AND charging for it again then going full on pay to win and still not fixing the game they have the balls to complain about player numbers. WC and snail deserve to fail massively. Gas lighting the community saying it'll be their fault that ark 2 is not released as they're not buying and playing a broken unsupported game with loads of issues and broken official servers that are taken over by tribes even on PVE and they do nothing about it yeah make it our fault.... They never had any intention of releasing Ark 2 just milking the cash cow as much as possible. Rot in hell WC
They should have done Ragnarok before Abberation as it’s one of the most popular maps. Once that releases and they get towards the end of the pipeline and they release Valguero and Fjordur the playerbase will start filtering back in I think.
It's a mix between not enough content for the price, at 25 usd plus tax a month for each server. If more non dedicated were built at lower rates, we'd see more players
I love ark and have done since day one of ASE but ASA we have had so many issues on xbox, we even had to leave the centre and back to the island as the crashing on the centre was unreal every boss fight we ran weall lagged out and died and lost everything including all the tames we took in, so im hoping upon hoping they don't break Aberation and comes out on time.
hey.do you think there is any chance that wildcard will fix the singleplayerbugs in the near future?
nobody is talking about the literal unplayability of ASA because of the optimization so does that mean THAT part has actually been worked on and fixed?
If course steam numbers are down they've had mods all along. What are the numbers for Xbox and ps?
i was sold ASA as ASE in UE5, but it was not all the QoL stuff that was there at the "end" of ASE not even there at all or the total op
Im on xbox x and im loving the game, just being able to use mods is amazing. Also all the quality of life changes are great, it was rough at the beginning with not being able to save the game on singleplayer, but once that was fixed its been fine. There is the occasional crash now and then but evolved had that to so all in all im enjoying ascended.
ark se player. i would watch your vids as soon as they came out before launch to get details since it was always being pushed back. I was there the night it was supposed to launch but got delayed a few hours hyped to play. here we are months later i havent watched ark content in months just because its unplayable on pc
Im HUGE ark fan but am at the point where im just jumping on to reset my timers cause I'm waiting for Ragnarok to jump back on full time again.
I love ASA and my PC has no problem playing it. The problem for me is, as a gamer who enjoys a lot of varied games, I simply don't have room for both ASE and ASA on my system, thus once I get bored with the 3 maps, I do something else. Then again, I also don't play on Official. ARK is a HORRIBLE space hog and its absolutely ridiculous how much room ASE takes up. I have honestly been playing other games while waiting for my favorite maps to drop because Island, Center and SE are at the bottom of my favorites list.
When they tied themselves to Nitrado it didn't help either. A min of 20 player slots is silly and in turn makes it too expensive to play with a few friends.
Tbh why do you expect ASA to even be big at the moment?
Why would ark players switch to ASA when they have been on ASE?
I think most are simply waiting till asa is finished
If Studio Wildcard can get ASA to a point where it doesn't crash as much as it does now and make it where you don't have to turn off clouds and fog, I'm sure players will return. They also need to get more maps out as well, I mean you can only beat the bosses on each map right so many times before it is really boring to do.
If these updates come out and doesn't fix the issues they are having right now, I really don't see any reason for them to stay in business and keep us the fans of the game around. Studio Wildcard needs to break away from Snail Games before they too go under.
I'm on PS5 and honestly, I would never go back to Evolved unless i'm forced to... the differences are major.. Even with the actual engine. The improvements done so far makes the game already more enjoyable than what it was in Evolved. The only downside is the delays to get all maps.
On the aspect of mods, love it never get rid of it. But when it comes to the game itself, I hate all the crashing, I hate the random fpf drops, I hate the constant kicking me out of the game. They just need to work on fixing it all cause if they did I would love it, but for now I kinda want to stay away from it
If anything revives the game its abb rag or the engine/fsr upgrade
For me premium mods were not a good idea if you want people to be able to support mods just give them the option to donate to them directly instead of locking out the content behind a paywall and most of the time (at least in case of maps) the content youre paying for is unfinished
The PS5 version of Ark Survival Evolved was horrific for me. It ended up unplayable for me. Constant crashes. I originally had it on PS4 and absolutely loved it. One of the best games I've ever played apart from building issues like pillars etc. A few crashes but not many at all. When I bought my PS5 that was a very different story. It was always crashing. Called Sony Support and they kept saying the crash code was because the PS5 was too hot. Even though it would crash within 2 minutes of me turning the thing on. I held off getting Ark Survival Ascended until only 2 or 3 weeks ago. I love it. I've had no crashes. The building aspect has improved but is still tedious. I would give ASA a 8/10 for sure. If the building system would allow of levelling of the ground and less stupid glitches I would give it a 10. The graphics are brilliant. However, the devs should not have spent there time remaking this. ARK 2 should have been there priority. Gamers are not stupid and Snail games are playing on that we are. What a very bad investment move. Look at how long it is taking to bring out the new version of the maps. Imagine all of those man hours being poured into ARK 2. For them to say if Ascended does not do well there will be no ARK 2, they might as well give up the goose now. What the heck are these ARK devs thinking!!!
The devs need to fix the existing bugs and problems but they can’t because they are SO far behind schedule. The developers focus is on getting the maps out to justify people buying the DLC’s. All this and the game is STILL in early access. How are they able to sell DLC when the game has not fully released yet? I love ark but the developers sure know how to sour the relationship.
My main problem at this point is the anti-meshing. I have died to that more than actual players. Anti-meshing rips you out the game and makes you lose a bunch of stuff. For no reason. The volcano, the ocean floor and caves are stupid for it. I’m in no was trying to do anything I should not be. Just playing the game ASAP INSTEAD and die to anti-meshing.
Quite literally have no motivation to play as at any moment you can just lose everything for no reason.
Most people can’t afford a 4090 to play the game at 60fps.
I’m still running a 1080ti and I can’t afford a 40 series card, and I’m definitely not buying one just to play one game
Also , what happened to Wildcard saying that after the release of ASA , that they were going to be more transparent with the community about the game ?
that my friend is called Gaslighting... you believed them about it and carried on playing and buying from them, or broken promises really.
The first couple weeks were good once dino render distance was lowered that was the beginning of the end. No new maps for months. Pay to tame creatures and over crowded official servers I quit about a month into scorched after I couldn't get on my server. Maybe I'll come back for gen 2 and crystal isles if it doesn't take another 5 years to come out
It’s good thay need to release more maps quicker
Thats the exact reason I wont buy the game, when they had the option to play Ascended for free for around 3 days I was ecstatic because I wanted to see if I could run it without paying the money so I can make sure my money wasnt gonna go to waste if I did get it!
And unfortunately, no matter how low I put the graphics the game would crash, the game would run at 10 or lower FPs it was unplayable for me, I really do hope they optimize the game at some point because I really do wanna play it!
But as it stands right now, I am unable to play it, even though my PC meets the required specs for the MINIMUM requirement to play the game, truly unfortunate.
I mean, you can barely play the game on series s due to the console having issues with running the maps and mods which makes it hard to stay interested in the game as it is hard to play some servers with your friends
Yea for real my wife can’t even join me bc she’s on the series s when she try’s to join it just dashboards
I still have hope
Aren't you milking this subject now for all it's worth?
Loving this game, my daughter and I play it on ps5 and pc. It's a shame to see the game struggling due to poor decisions and lack of working fixes on WCs and Snails part.
Might have to jump ship, kinda worried I'm wasting my time playing something that, at this point, seems to be a sinking ship.
Im on PC and I love ascended. I know this is 2 weeks later, but its number 32 on steam atm, and blowing away ASE.
Probably due to the hype of the new engine update, and Aberration coming out.
Maybe it was, but 2 months later we're right back at ASE having 8 thousand more players active than ASA. Not only that, according to SteamDB, ASA hasn't managed to break a higher player count than ASE since April of this year, and even then it wasn't for longer than a couple weeks. ASA is a bit of flop with metrics like that.
As a creator of Ark, content I went back to ASE as ASA just sucks right now. The most going for ASA is probably the building mechanics. Sloppy graphics throuought even though it looks amazing but a closer look you'll see how cheap it looks.
I have over 10k hours in ark across both versions and i cant bring myself to play a game that cares so little about what its player base wants. Dropped it 6 months ago
the only reason why i dont play ASA is because my pc not good enough for that i am sure many players have this issues
ASA HAS BEEN PERFECT FOR ME IT PLAYED FINE THE WORSE LAG IVE HAD WAS BECAUSE SOMEONE MADE A MEGA BASE HOW ARE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVEN PROLEMS IF MY XBOBX S CAN DO IT A GOOD PC SHOULD BE TO if you cant play it that well just look at what xbobx has and buy thoses pc part pc stuff upgrades every 2 or 1 years it shouldn't be that hard idk how pc work but ik how technological gets better fast
I kinda had it with ASA after playing on The Center Map. Too many bugs. Too many issues. Just like the previous maps. I went back to ASE and I have been really enjoying it. I am on PC.
Ark is one of my favorite games. I like ascended.
But it's like load crisis said at launch it only had one map I've just been waiting for more maps.
Thankyou load crisis for this video. I will get back into ascended when I can. I really want ark 2 to come out asap. Even though I don't have the problems everyone have on this game, (possibly because I built my computer from scratch with a 2.5K budget) I agree with what people are saying about snail, they are slow in more ways than one(pun intended)
I wish they would giva crap about the community.
I'll get back in it for ark 2.
I love this game despite it being so broken as in were PC players are able to write scripts to either move faster, or use aim bot, or anything to give them a more advantage over tribes that have consoles( PS5 & Xbox series X ( series S can't handle most maps do to spam)). And then there the meshing still which WildCard/Snail games claimed they had it under control ( which we all know is a lie), so the devs need to get their act together or ask for help from a bigger more experienced gaming company to figure these things out.
The main reason many console players still play is because we have played without mods for years and now we have them theres even more reason to play ark again
Definitely agree if they make it run better and get rid of the machine and the cheaters, at least the machine.I think it'll get better
On Xbox for ASA, I crash while flying, and in certain areas of map the game will crash and i cant even log back into the server until my body dies in that area, ASA is trash on console as well ):
People forget that games are for fun, and ASA is still fun even with issues. It’s still more fun than 90% of what is out there
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I have a love/hate relationship with Ark. The IP has the potential to eliminate what I hate, but their are so many other games out there that I do not hate and only love. But they don't have dinosaurs.
I love ARK.
has over 10,000 hours in ARK evolved
but in ARK Survival Ascended I have given up a join en sever.
have built a new PC and it didn't help so I only play single ply.
It's because the game is unplayable. No one on Xbox wants to keep deleting their saves because the game won't launch after playing one of the maps for a while. They are really lacking and they just need to scrap it and put the mods on ASE
I left art survival ascended. Because every time there would be an update, it would get rid of my mods and I play on xbox, so yeah, until they fix that issue, i'm not coming back, cause it's really annoying
I never got my server back..been 2 months now.😢 Just can't log on it at all
I'm waiting to afford a new graphics card before I can get on ascended 😢 what graphics card would yall recommend I have an AMD set up
Nvidia Titan RTX 24GB GDDR6 at this point, and even that will give you 40fps 😐
I only play ark ASC on Xbox and also have Survival Evolved with all the maps, but definitely prefer ASC because of the mods.
Question are these play figures stats just steam stats?
The biggest complaint I’m constantly hearing from people is the cryo pods. Who wants to play with these new cryos over the old ones? Probably almost no one. Start talking about that in your videos to get the topic rising. Everyone’s praying extinction they change it back and if they don’t this game is unfortunately dead
If they made the ascended a rework and make it cheaper and not poop on players they could see a top 30 spot they made one game and sold it 2 times at full price
My major issue is that we glitch through the map and die because either we fall until we die or can't get back onto the map. Otherwise for the most part I really enjoy the game.
That’s because you’re a noob. That’s not the issue with the main player base who know what they’re doing.
@@AlpezgamingWhat exactly is the main issue for player base? Cuz im on the same page as ol' boy. Some days i crash a bunch, some days none at all. Every now and then i glitch thru a rock or something and lose stuff. Other than the whole pay situation it feels just like ASE. But let a "not noob" inform me.
Dang why is that even happening I have never seen that happen
@@kenmorris8219I have to admit I’m curious about this answer too. How does not being a noob affect map stability, oh wait nevermind that dude is just an example of how toxic the gaming environment is to people. Omg I haven’t fallen through the broken map yet I must be op.
Are they ever going to do anything about all the hackers that are aimbotting and ghosting bases?
The only ppl playing ase is PVP players and pve players that haven’t upgraded. They are clearly doing away with “toxic” PvP in Asa. But that’s kinda what made the game popular. Making the game pay to win didn’t help them. Tbh Asa could do good with the maps they have but it’s not because they are ignoring their pvp side.
Sounds like Wildcard are trying to blackmail Ark players into buying ASA or they won't see Ark 2. That might work if people actually cared about Ark 2...
From a pvp perspective this ain’t going to make a difference they have already ruined ab by allowing you to have a blimp to fly around the map that was designed to not have a single flyer not including the pay to win Dino they will drop for like they did for the center
In my opinion is the missing content the biggest problem for ASA
they just need to stop releasing unfinished maps for two seconds and focus and just improving what they have now and fix the bugs, the glitches, the crashing, the graphics/optimization, if they had just done that from the start it would’ve been so much better
Never bothered with Ascended because I didn’t see the point of purchasing the same game ~but with better graphics~ twice. I stuck with regular Ark and see now that it was the correct choice. Not exactly thrilled about Ark 2 limiting itself to mundane creatures and primitive tech either. The devs need to get their shit together.
I lost my server progress 5 times in a row from nitrado and lost single-player saves twice from updates corrupting the files I've quit the game for 3 months now sense I was told too just deal with it
They should have never shut official support on ASE and forced ASA as a replacement. Then they release the maps one by one like day one ASE and expect to hold their playerbase? ASE did find half its player base till abb and rag. There's definitely still die hard ARK fans that will see ASA through and frankly theyre probably propping the game up currently 👏 i want to see ARK as a whole prosper but i think alot of greed has distracted from the true goal. THE ARK.
It’s so like snail games to run the game into the ground and get out of fulfilling their promises by blaming the players for not loving the dumpster fire they created.
Prayers do you not want to continuously pay for extra content when you purchase a game you should be able to play it adding extra content makes it paid to win
I went back to ASE and still play that all the time. Just don't get the same satisfaction from ASA. RIP Ark2 :P