Will a new map (the center) bring you back?

[bishop6363]

After 120 hours on the island I took a break and started playing Palworld.
As of now I am not sure I would pay for the center, or if I would even play it for free.
I got 120 hours out of ASA, so money well spent.
Not sure how much juice is left in this 9 year Dino apocalypse for me.

Thoughts?

[enchanter100]

We never played center on evolved, didn't seem to add anything. So unless it actually adds something/story etc... Then they gonna charge for it probably.. So no..

[littleronney]

No becasue i never even showed up the game doesnt work on a an AMd 6800 xt and an intel 13700k processor. thats the most pathetic video game on the market right now man. Idk how you got 120 hours in. lmao Worse dev team i have ever seen. Hands down, straight facts.

[bishop6363]

Originally posted by enchanter100:

We never played center on evolved, didn't seem to add anything. So unless it actually adds something/story etc... Then they gonna charge for it probably.. So no..

I agree, without some really cool new features or QOL. Existing maps are probably nor going to be enough to bring me back.
I was curious to play scorched earth and aberration because I never played those in ASE.
The center looks and feels like the island.

BUT IMHO ASA was, and is a hit!

[Rogue Serenity]

Personally I bought ASA but I have barely played it yet. I have over 2000 hours on ASE without doing any dungeons or bosses. Yeahhhhh I liked the building side of the game. But I'm waiting for there to be a buffer of maps to play through first before I dive into ASA proper. (I don't want to complete a map and then wait 3+ months for the next.)

Honestly Wildcard you made the wrong decision forcing people to buy ASA by closing the official servers on ASE. If the steam charts have proven anything by now it is that people were always going to leave ASA and go back to ASE when they finished the Island on ASA. It's the most overplayed map between both games.

Yall should have had the official servers on ASE stay open until you had at least released Aberration on ASA. Looking at the game's statistics that would have made the most sense and if yall were worried about the server cost yall could have just halved the number of servers for ASE. Then as soon as you release aberration you could have done a slow phasing out of the ASE servers in favour of ASA.

[FizzyX]

Mainly, all dlc should be for free as they wrote and the only thing that should be for money is the third genesis sequel. Otherwise, it's a lawsuit and a collective petition to return the money, because no one has ever released a remaster early access for 45 until now. For me, it's a big disappointment and today we're witnessing again how he doesn't keep his promise because the Love Event is supposed to run for two hours and it's still not running

[bishop6363]

Originally posted by FizzyX:

Mainly, all dlc should be for free as they wrote and the only thing that should be for money is the third genesis sequel. Otherwise, it's a lawsuit and a collective petition to return the money, because no one has ever released a remaster early access for 45 until now. For me, it's a big disappointment and today we're witnessing again how he doesn't keep his promise because the Love Event is supposed to run for two hours and it's still not running

I am perfectly happy to pay for DLC; even though I already bought it all in ASE. Its a for profit company, they got financial problems. I dont mind paying, BUT just the map the center, and I will probably pass. UNLESS there is something really really cool in the paid DLC.

I dont put weight into any company promises made by companies that already had a history - it is what it is,
and I dont expect anything worth having to be free.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice - you bought ASA and are here complaining GG LOL

[Feralkyn]

I started Ark: Survival Evolved around the Genesis pass release. I never played the Center bar moving my Rex army over there to speedrun the boss for Engram unlocks. But I always heard how phenomenal the map was, how everyone loved it, and how they adored the underwater world aspect. So in a sense, I am looking forward to playing it properly (hopefully upgraded) and checking it out for "real" this time. That being said, I'm much more looking forward to Scorched Earth and would drop Center in a heartbeat for it. (This is assuming Center is free.)

That, and we really, really need game optimization to be able to enjoy *any* map. I'm still stuttery & framey with really bad anti-aliasing (everything is 'watery' and fuzzy on any setting), with frequent crashes, have to keep foliage interaction off to prevent even more crashes (so I have a ton of floating rocks all over), *and* a load of textures (map, otter/various dino faces etc.) simply don't load beneath Epic settings *still.* So I'm hoping they'll fix all of that so we have a smooth run into a new map, rather than still struggling with the bugs. I wanna make good memories, not frustrating ones.

[Rogue Serenity]

Originally posted by bishop6363:

Originally posted by FizzyX:

Mainly, all dlc should be for free as they wrote and the only thing that should be for money is the third genesis sequel. Otherwise, it's a lawsuit and a collective petition to return the money, because no one has ever released a remaster early access for 45 until now. For me, it's a big disappointment and today we're witnessing again how he doesn't keep his promise because the Love Event is supposed to run for two hours and it's still not running

I am perfectly happy to pay for DLC; even though I already bought it all in ASE. Its a for profit company, they got financial problems. I dont mind paying, BUT just the map the center, and I will probably pass. UNLESS there is something really really cool in the paid DLC.

I dont put weight into any company promises made by companies that already had a history - it is what it is,
and I dont expect anything worth having to be free.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice - you bought ASA and are here complaining GG LOL

Honestly I bought it knowing we'd get all of ASE's dlc in the initial purchase down the road. Much like when Cyberpunk released, I didn't refund it because while the gameplay was massively flawed I could tell CD Project cared because the quality of the story. So I stuck with it knowing they would later redeem themselves.

But with ASA it's a mixed bag. I think Wildcard are in frantic survival mode and making mistakes along the way because they probably don't have much time to think. I just hope they can learn from this can crack on with the dlcs so they can move onto the new stuff they want to do.

If I was them I'd forget about Ark II and double down on ASA and the formulae that has worked before. Focus on enriching what they had in ASE for ASA and overtime it should translate into more sales as more people buy it. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason they haven't sold as much as they wanted is because most are just waiting for more maps to come out first.

[bishop6363]

Originally posted by Rogue Rabbit:

Originally posted by bishop6363:

I am perfectly happy to pay for DLC; even though I already bought it all in ASE. Its a for profit company, they got financial problems. I dont mind paying, BUT just the map the center, and I will probably pass. UNLESS there is something really really cool in the paid DLC.

I dont put weight into any company promises made by companies that already had a history - it is what it is,
and I dont expect anything worth having to be free.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice - you bought ASA and are here complaining GG LOL

Honestly I bought it knowing we'd get all of ASE's dlc in the initial purchase down the road. Much like when Cyberpunk released, I didn't refund it because while the gameplay was massively flawed I could tell CD Project cared because the quality of the story. So I stuck with it knowing they would later redeem themselves.

But with ASA it's a mixed bag. I think Wildcard are in frantic survival mode and making mistakes along the way because they probably don't have much time to think. I just hope they can learn from this can crack on with the dlcs so they can move onto the new stuff they want to do.

If I was them I'd forget about Ark II and double down on ASA and the formulae that has worked before. Focus on enriching what they had in ASE for ASA and overtime it should translate into more sales as more people buy it. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason they haven't sold as much as they wanted is because most are just waiting for more maps to come out first.

If I was Snail or Wildcard I would sell my IP to Microsoft. Problem solved.

[user44]

I have been waiting for the Center Map. It's like deer isle is to dayz: the map that SHOULD have released with the game.

[FizzyX]

Originally posted by bishop6363:

Originally posted by FizzyX:

Mainly, all dlc should be for free as they wrote and the only thing that should be for money is the third genesis sequel. Otherwise, it's a lawsuit and a collective petition to return the money, because no one has ever released a remaster early access for 45 until now. For me, it's a big disappointment and today we're witnessing again how he doesn't keep his promise because the Love Event is supposed to run for two hours and it's still not running

I am perfectly happy to pay for DLC; even though I already bought it all in ASE. Its a for profit company, they got financial problems. I dont mind paying, BUT just the map the center, and I will probably pass. UNLESS there is something really really cool in the paid DLC.

I dont put weight into any company promises made by companies that already had a history - it is what it is,
and I dont expect anything worth having to be free.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice - you bought ASA and are here complaining GG LOL

What you wrote is a beautiful example of how stupid people are and how obedient sheep can be. The Willcard company earned over 30 million euros from the sale of ASA, so I see no reason for it to be in financial trouble. In addition, if I buy a car with luxury equipment in advance, I will not expect to receive only the base with the justification that the company is in financial need. so I want what I paid for and if I don't get it I want my money back.. and not that steam tells me that I have played 2 hours and I'm not eligible... so I definitely don't like it.. because I wouldn't buy the game and wait up to the years-promised ARK2

[Superchewbacca]

with the way things are going and if the YouTubers are to be believed this company is brokeish to broke and bleeding money fast.

Most likely they gonna sell us the maps again. lets just remember ASA was supposed to be free with ark 2, just that they promised us all the maps does not mean they will deliver that and they might not have a choice other than piss the players off even more and charge them for the maps or go bankrupt.

Centre is just a better Island. does not add much but i liked it and prefer it to island. would be better for them to be working on scorched...

But reality is people are mostly not playing due to the game not working or running terribly.

And they seem to have 0 focus on that. That's what they should do short term to retain players. But i fear they already lost many players permanently... People are F ing furious. i was mostly due to servers loosing all their players. and now its a lonely place in our country on ark.

i just log in every other day to keep up with base maintenance and to reset the timers.

[bishop6363]

Originally posted by FizzyX:

Originally posted by bishop6363:

I am perfectly happy to pay for DLC; even though I already bought it all in ASE. Its a for profit company, they got financial problems. I dont mind paying, BUT just the map the center, and I will probably pass. UNLESS there is something really really cool in the paid DLC.

I dont put weight into any company promises made by companies that already had a history - it is what it is,
and I dont expect anything worth having to be free.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice - you bought ASA and are here complaining GG LOL

What you wrote is a beautiful example of how stupid people are and how obedient sheep can be. The Willcard company earned over 30 million euros from the sale of ASA, so I see no reason for it to be in financial trouble. In addition, if I buy a car with luxury equipment in advance, I will not expect to receive only the base with the justification that the company is in financial need. so I want what I paid for and if I don't get it I want my money back.. and not that steam tells me that I have played 2 hours and I'm not eligible... so I definitely don't like it.. because I wouldn't buy the game and wait up to the years-promised ARK2

#1 "so I see no reason for it to be in financial trouble" your ignorance of a companies financial situation is not an excuse for you.
#2 "f I buy a car with luxury " I own a luxury car BMW4LIFE ASE/ASA is nothing like a BMW, bad example.
#3 "played 2 hours and I'm not eligible" You knew who and what Snail and Wildcard were. fool me once shame on you, fool you twice and you will cry on steam.

[FizzyX]

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Most likely they gonna sell us the maps again. lets just remember ASA was supposed to be free with ark 2, just that they promised us all the maps does not mean they will deliver that and they might not have a choice other than piss the players off even more and charge them for the maps or go bankrupt.

Centre is just a better Island. does not add much but i liked it and prefer it to island. would be better for them to be working on scorched...

But reality is people are mostly not playing due to the game not working or running terribly.

And they seem to have 0 focus on that. That's what they should do short term to retain players. But i fear they already lost many players permanently... People are F ing furious. i was mostly due to servers loosing all their players. and now its a lonely place in our country on ark.

i just log in every other day to keep up with base maintenance and to reset the timers. [/quote

Originally posted by Superchewbacca:

with the way things are going and if the YouTubers are to be believed this company is brokeish to broke and bleeding money fast.

Most likely they gonna sell us the maps again. lets just remember ASA was supposed to be free with ark 2, just that they promised us all the maps does not mean they will deliver that and they might not have a choice other than piss the players off even more and charge them for the maps or go bankrupt.

Centre is just a better Island. does not add much but i liked it and prefer it to island. would be better for them to be working on scorched...

But reality is people are mostly not playing due to the game not working or running terribly.

And they seem to have 0 focus on that. That's what they should do short term to retain players. But i fear they already lost many players permanently... People are F ing furious. i was mostly due to servers loosing all their players. and now its a lonely place in our country on ark.

i just log in every other day to keep up with base maintenance and to reset the timers.

try to use the r.Nanite.Max PixelsPerEdge 8 command in the console, it helped me a lot with optimization.... now I don't have FPS drops and the visual effect on the game is practically non-existent..

[ProfDarkside]

This game burned out my 3080TI. Until there are some proper client-side stability updates, I'm not touching it. I got the card RMA'd, but its just not worth it to me right now to come back.