15k players and dropping

[Pixel]

Something tells me ASA was a mistake. Meanwhile ASE has twice the population as Ascended. Maybe we should all go back to play ASE instead of this?

Edit: Below 12k now

[Dradiin]

Maybe we already are ?

[Fluffy_Llama]

all the other problems aside the Island map was never going to retain people's attention for long

[Plug]

PALWORLD

[Darkweapon]

Originally posted by Plug:

PALWORLD

i'm not here to promote another game i'm saying that they messed up at wildcard should never had snail involved smh this game will now tank especially now that they are trying to get us to buy special dinos wtf pay to win? another money grab you clowns

[wildbill]

Originally posted by Darkweapon:

Originally posted by Plug:

PALWORLD

i'm not here to promote another game i'm saying that they messed up at wildcard should never had snail involved smh this game will now tank especially now that they are trying to get us to buy special dinos wtf pay to win? another money grab you clowns

He didn't use a sentence, but what he meant is we are all playing Palworld, not ARK. It runs smoother (although officials also suck like they do for ASA), and is new content, not the old boring Island.

[Darksaint]

Originally posted by Darkweapon:

Originally posted by Plug:

PALWORLD

i'm not here to promote another game i'm saying that they messed up at wildcard should never had snail involved smh this game will now tank especially now that they are trying to get us to buy special dinos wtf pay to win? another money grab you clowns

they dont have snail involved., SNAIL owns them. They dont have a choice in the matter. Speaking of clowns, why dont you stop posting the same drivel everywhere.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Darkweapon:

Originally posted by Plug:

PALWORLD

i'm not here to promote another game i'm saying that they messed up at wildcard should never had snail involved smh this game will now tank especially now that they are trying to get us to buy special dinos wtf pay to win? another money grab you clowns

Snail has owned Wildcard since December 2015. Most of the existence of the studio, essentially.

Originally posted by Plug:

PALWORLD

The decline in ASA has been pretty steady, well since before Palworld released this past weekend. Obviously with millions playing and it being so popular it has perhaps helped to accelerate some of the decline over the last couple of days but really according to player concurrency, its not showing to be evident:

https://steamcharts.com/cmp/346110,2399830#1m

You can see from the last 30 days comparison charts of ASE and ASA that the last 3-4 days show no significant changes in impact of decline due to palworld's release. More compelling would be to say that the cumulative losses for players from October that caused both ASE and ASA declines are cumulatively possible to be contributing to some of the numbers playing Palworld instead.... along with the millions who have never touched Ark either.

It is also important to note that ASE actually -has- had a slight, albeit very tiny, uptick in players over the last 30 days as seen when looking at the specifics for ASE on steam charts alone. That' would lend credence to some of the responses that people have reverted/turned to playing ASE over ASA as well.

All in all, though the decline for ASA is likely to not be impacted until the next map is finally released to play on but given Palworld's release, Enshrouded in less than a day, Nightingale next month and updates to other survival genre games coming out(like Ashlands for Valheim(specifics when its dropping arent out yet mind you), that it all is going to conspire to make it a pretty tough situation for people to feel clear about returning more sustainably to Ascended.... especially if the next map release is fraught with the same or worse issues people have been experiencing.

Snail-wildcard is therefore likely in for a pretty tumultuous year at best.

[Darkweapon]

dude on here keyboard talking it with 65 hours on ASA bahaha i have more on ASA then you have on ASE go sit down dude shut your ass up

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

Yeah, ASA has been downward since launch. I assume it will have the same trends as ASE when new maps drop: Player count increases for a bit, then drops back down.

ASA had a really rough launch and people are enjoying better games with more content.

[Pixel]

Originally posted by 𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲:

Yeah, ASA has been downward since launch. I assume it will have the same trends as ASE when new maps drop: Player count increases for a bit, then drops back down.

ASA had a really rough launch and people are enjoying better games with more content.

Yeah people are still having a lot of technical issues with the game sadly. It also doesn't help they have two different versions that split their representation up on Steam. For the longest time Ark was in the top 10 to 20 games every single year. Hell when Fjordur released there were over 200k on Steam playing Ark.

It'll take almost two more years before we likely see Genesis 2 finally released for ASA, and by then a lot of players might have moved on.

[Fate]

The biggest draw ASA has over ASE right now is official server support and crossplay. Think about it. We only have access to Steam player numbers. Who plays on Steam? PC players. The demographic of Steam users leans heavily toward modded, unofficial gameplay. The majority of that kind of playerbase will be on ASE. Console players and crossplayers have no choice but to migrate to ASA if they want to play on official, and we can't see console players or gamepass enjoyers on the Steam charts. This somewhat explains the disparity between ASE and ASA player count on Steam. As for the downward trend, that's just lack of content, optimization issues, and loss of interest.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Fate:

The biggest draw ASA has over ASE right now is official server support and crossplay. Think about it. We only have access to Steam player numbers. Who plays on Steam? PC players. The demographic of Steam users leans heavily toward modded, unofficial gameplay. The majority of that kind of playerbase will be on ASE. Console players and crossplayers have no choice but to migrate to ASA if they want to play on official, and we can't see console players or gamepass enjoyers on the Steam charts. This somewhat explains the disparity between ASE and ASA player count on Steam. As for the downward trend, that's just lack of content, optimization issues, and loss of interest.

Actually no. Battlemetrics tracks the console numbers for ASA also:

https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/arksa

[Onyx Wake]

Palworld might be stealing some players.

[Chip Patton]

Anyone else notice the same 4 people constantly attacking all critique of this game like they're sock puppets of the developers?

[Tree]

ive played 4500+hrs in ase, i played asa and did all the boss's on alpha and im waiting for more content. maybe others are ? chill out peeps