DEAD AND BROKEN

[𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿]

Unfortunately the game is dead and broken, full of glitches and errors... come back in a year it may be better.

[JediMastersInSocialWork]

Originally posted by ✪ Cartermatic:

the game is rapidly dying. anyone arguing against that is wild. look at the numbers for ark survival evolved over its entire lifetime, not once did it drop to the numbers that ascended is currently at. and on top of it, in its early life time, evolved had NUMEROUS more active and concurrent players than ascended did and does. this game was a flop, unfortunately.

It's a remake of a game that people have already logged hundreds if not thousands of hours into.

A remake of an 8 year old game.

A remake of an 8 year old game with ONE map right now.

A remake of an 8 year old game who doesn't have a new map (see old map) released until the end of this month.

A remake of an 8 year old game that has now seen two big releases of other Survival Games that people are playing and enjoying. Because they're new.

A remake of an 8 year old game that does not have a subscription or the need to buy anymore content once you have purchased it once. Meaning, everyone who was playing at launch, all those thousands upon thousands of players, literally just have to click play to come back.

Who cares if Official Servers are dead? Most of us play on private servers.

[dragonsphotoworks]

Originally posted by Pixel:

I love that people with i9's and 4090's are having issues with a beast system like that. Game definitely needs more fine tuning, especially with the fatal errors and purple rain bug.

14th Gen I9 13900KS
4080 16G OC
Z790
SSD 64G ram
Almost all ultra settings. And other then runs me a littler hotter on GPU then I like its run fine. Yes has occasional crashes and bugs. I wont say its perfect.. far from it. But not hitting any game breaking bugs YET. Though if use any mods the chance to crash or game break bug is increased a LOT.

Game still needs lot of work I agree. But not all high end systems have issues. Seen two exact systems where one ran ultra and other barely ran medium lol Game isnt broken for every one BUT it is for some people. As for dead.. doesnt seem like it from forum activity "discounting complaints lol".

But I can understand your frustration.

[Smoka95]

Originally posted by JediMastersInSocialWork:

It's a remake of a game that people have already logged hundreds if not thousands of hours into.

A remake of an 8 year old game.

A remake of an 8 year old game with ONE map right now.

A remake of an 8 year old game who doesn't have a new map (see old map) released until the end of this month.

A remake of an 8 year old game that has now seen two big releases of other Survival Games that people are playing and enjoying. Because they're new.

A remake of an 8 year old game that does not have a subscription or the need to buy anymore content once you have purchased it once. Meaning, everyone who was playing at launch, all those thousands upon thousands of players, literally just have to click play to come back.

Who cares if Official Servers are dead? Most of us play on private servers.

Its amusing how people call this a remake still.
This has been debunked so many times.

ASA has custom maps available.
If we were to take your argument that none cares for official.
You can still run servers with custom maps.
I won't speak about if that's possible under nitrado because I don't know.
If its not that would be more work on the user end, since you won't be able to use them as server provider and instead you would need to run dedicated server on your own.

Official servers don't matter, but the one official map matters?
I got confused.
That being the case is only an official network issue is it not?
Since according to you most of us play on private servers.
So who is stopping the community from starting servers with custom maps?

I have a crazy thought. Hear me out. Maybe, just maybe I know this is crazy to think, but...
What if the issue is ASA as a whole?

Clearly Ark players still playing ark.
Clearly ASA had same numbers and better compared to ASE for the first 2 months.
Here we are today with 20k player gap compared to ASE and dropping down to under 10k players.

[retsam1]

Dead is easily refuted. Using that claim just makes it much easier for the ardent supporters to be dismissive.

However:

https://steamcharts.com/app/2399830

The data shows a clear and consistent overall steep decline of the player base month by month and compelling issues with therefore player retention.

[𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿]

Originally posted by Nomad:

When they will fix and optimize graphics. Just releasing updates that no one needs. Release some improvement in graphic optimization. Have i9 12th generation, tuf motherboard, 32gb ram, 4060ti. And i have problem running on medium settings. Its absurd.

yea, its broken

[𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿]

Originally posted by JediMastersInSocialWork:

Originally posted by ✪ Cartermatic:

the game is rapidly dying. anyone arguing against that is wild. look at the numbers for ark survival evolved over its entire lifetime, not once did it drop to the numbers that ascended is currently at. and on top of it, in its early life time, evolved had NUMEROUS more active and concurrent players than ascended did and does. this game was a flop, unfortunately.

It's a remake of a game that people have already logged hundreds if not thousands of hours into.

A remake of an 8 year old game.

A remake of an 8 year old game with ONE map right now.

A remake of an 8 year old game who doesn't have a new map (see old map) released until the end of this month.

A remake of an 8 year old game that has now seen two big releases of other Survival Games that people are playing and enjoying. Because they're new.

A remake of an 8 year old game that does not have a subscription or the need to buy anymore content once you have purchased it once. Meaning, everyone who was playing at launch, all those thousands upon thousands of players, literally just have to click play to come back.

Who cares if Official Servers are dead? Most of us play on private servers.

i dont play official as i cannot because it broken... however unofficial works fine and is great.
but yes its still a dead game for what it is...

[𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Dead is easily refuted. Using that claim just makes it much easier for the ardent supporters to be dismissive.

However:

https://steamcharts.com/app/2399830

The data shows a clear and consistent overall steep decline of the player base month by month and compelling issues with therefore player retention.

my point proven thanks

[𝙎𝙆𝙄𝙇𝙇𝙀𝘿]

Originally posted by JediMastersInSocialWork:

Originally posted by ✪ Cartermatic:

the game is rapidly dying. anyone arguing against that is wild. look at the numbers for ark survival evolved over its entire lifetime, not once did it drop to the numbers that ascended is currently at. and on top of it, in its early life time, evolved had NUMEROUS more active and concurrent players than ascended did and does. this game was a flop, unfortunately.

It's a remake of a game that people have already logged hundreds if not thousands of hours into.

A remake of an 8 year old game.

A remake of an 8 year old game with ONE map right now.

A remake of an 8 year old game who doesn't have a new map (see old map) released until the end of this month.

A remake of an 8 year old game that has now seen two big releases of other Survival Games that people are playing and enjoying. Because they're new.

A remake of an 8 year old game that does not have a subscription or the need to buy anymore content once you have purchased it once. Meaning, everyone who was playing at launch, all those thousands upon thousands of players, literally just have to click play to come back.

Who cares if Official Servers are dead? Most of us play on private servers.

no not correct, DLC will be extra and also the mini transactions with new dinos being released... the other survival games timed it well to completely run over wild card

[Balls]

Originally posted by smokleto_95:

Its amusing how people call this a remake still.
This has been debunked so many times.

False. It's a remake.

[gunnyhighway]

Guess who's not buying Ark 2 <------------- Shove it!

[Aristacah]

There are a few things that need fixing, but dead? LMAO! Not at all. I feel like you're trolling.

[IAmTH3LAW]

First game I've ever refunded, apologists point to "early access" tag but this was supposed to be a free upgrade at first, then supposed to launch with additional maps, it runs awfully, doesn't have an upscaling option for AMD cards. Compare it to Enshrouded or Palworld both "early access" survival games and the state of Ascended 3 months after "launch" is just not acceptable.

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000100000077

[Pixel]

From what I heard they moved the entire team onto ASA and off of Ark 2 for the foreseeable future. We aren't getting Ark 2 any year soon. Hell it's probably 3 years off at this point or longer and by then Vin Diesel might not want anything to do with it.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by SKILLED:

Originally posted by retsam1:

Dead is easily refuted. Using that claim just makes it much easier for the ardent supporters to be dismissive.

However:

https://steamcharts.com/app/2399830

The data shows a clear and consistent overall steep decline of the player base month by month and compelling issues with therefore player retention.

my point proven thanks

No. Your point was it is dead.

My point was that claiming "dead" as you did is inaccurate/erroneous as in order to be "dead" the game would have to be shuttered and with 0 playing.

Thus making such erroneous statements leads to the dismissive nature of various replies that you've had to your thread.

My point was then to elude to the fact that if one shows the data then one makes a more compelling case for a significant decline and inability to maintain player retention. Such then becomes a more effective premise and less capable of being dismissed or refuted.

[Zef]

Originally posted by Pixel:

Before ASA, ASE was around 70k or better. Afterwards both combined are maybe above half that.

Ark is suffering atm

It's what they deserve for scamming their user base and re-releasing an engine update for full retail prices.