Premium dinosaurs: WHY?

[Koelium]

Paying for a DLC with it's new map, dinosaurs, items etc. is RIGHT

Bob's Tale, althought a bit itchy to me, can be fine if the future content on other maps is good; it can be worth the money. (I'm waiting before buying)

But to pay for 1 dinosaur?

COME ON !

The Pyromane is a strong tame, but cost is 5 euros. Don't tell me it's not much, because in the end, all the transactions will add-up and for sure make a significant amount of money.

Micro-transactions are generally seen as a good thing as long as it doesn't impact gameplay.
But here it is a game about DINOSAURS and some of these will for sure be "must-have".

There are many, many different ways to make money, you can basically add cosmetics on most of the things (building structures, gear, dinosaurs, even sounds...)
You could add character customization premium features.
Premium cosmetics from special events (Easter eggs, Halloween etc)
Basically anything that's cosmetic is alright.

Hell even a kind of game pass, if well-treated, could be an idea to add to the game, with in the end for premium pass a nice Rex skin or something and for F2P pass people you put a carno skin or anything else

I get that you need money but if don't listen to your community you'll end up losing it.
Think about Robocraft for example, this game has recently announced going back to the "2014-2015 Era style" after YEARS and YEARS of bad decisions and dropping player base.
Guess what, their fall started with micro-transaction.

[CertifiedPVEChad]

they have never had a clue before, i will never pay for any dino dlc if i like a skin yes but a actuall gameplay mechanic/dino behind a paywal is a fat no... but people will buy it best to boycott buying these types of things so they learn to not go down this pay 2 win path..

we all know snail is behind this crap we dont support snail, snail cant win

[Graverius]

Yeah just dont buy it. Not buying anything from ark anymore.Cant support a company who does this P2W ♥♥♥♥

[JohnnyKeys]

I entirely agree.
I have also learned by playing this game, and encountering players who use cheats (without consequence), that appealing to morals and goodwill causes thus cheaters to lick their chapped lips in delight whilst they think of ways to gain an unfair advantage over those pesky "morals".

THAT is the target market. Of course they will buy the pay to win DLC. We've all known that one individual who has never been able to accomplish ANYTHING due to stupidity. THAT is the target market for this DLC. WTF wildcard. You are a disgrace.

[Smoka95]

Oh well, almost like the so called "haters" tried to warn everyone back when this pile of shxt released.
This being nothing more than a cash grab.
So lets sum up what we have thus far.

-We got MTX.
-We have paid DLCs. Which like ASA you have to prepay and get what you have paid for in the future(months/years).
-We are 8 months into EA and very little has been done for optimization, but we have the above.
(Before someone tells me im running a potato and i expect to run this, here are my specs 3090 suprimx, 64gb 3200ddr, intel i9 7920x oc to 4.3ghz)
-ASE made snailgames/swc 1.3B as of 2023 and yet they managed to fumble all the funds and be in debt. Thats without any MTX just the DLCs/Season packs.
-Nitrado exclusivity.

Now someone would come and be like, but its optional.
Okay for PVE it might be depends who you are.
PVP is completely different can of worms, but all the players ignore the fact this is PVP game too.

Another note, but they are working on content you can't expect them to work for free?
How clueless are you?
Do you believe that their paycheck is dependent on how much MTX they sell or they don't get paid?
That's not how this thing works buddy.
Could MTX impact their bonuses, sure depending on their contract.

[Odai]

As long people buy everything wildcord throws at them, they will continue this praktice and it will get worse

[♂eat CHICKEN♂]

Originally posted by smokleto_95:

Oh well, almost like the so called "haters" tried to warn everyone back when this pile of shxt released.
This being nothing more than a cash grab.
So lets sum up what we have thus far.

-We got MTX.
-We have paid DLCs. Which like ASA you have to prepay and get what you have paid for in the future(months/years).
-We are 8 months into EA and very little has been done for optimization, but we have the above.
(Before someone tells me im running a potato and i expect to run this, here are my specs 3090 suprimx, 64gb 3200ddr, intel i9 7920x oc to 4.3ghz)
-ASE made snailgames/swc 1.3B as of 2023 and yet they managed to fumble all the funds and be in debt. Thats without any MTX just the DLCs/Season packs.
-Nitrado exclusivity.

Now someone would come and be like, but its optional.
Okay for PVE it might be depends who you are.
PVP is completely different can of worms, but all the players ignore the fact this is PVP game too.

Another note, but they are working on content you can't expect them to work for free?
How clueless are you?
Do you believe that their paycheck is dependent on how much MTX they sell or they don't get paid?
That's not how this thing works buddy.
Could MTX impact their bonuses, sure depending on their contract.

the people that said this was gonna be a cashgrab in the beginning ended up being right for the wrong reason. It was totally justified to charge money for the re-make considering all the continued support their doing in addition to upgrading the maps, None of the people that said this was gonna be a cashgrab or anyone at all knew there was gonna be additional scummy MTX.

[Yagonian]

Yeah, maybe pack it in with some skins/special build stuff etc but one tame is just crazy haha. I won't buy it but being reminded of the money grabbin stuff all the time is a little immersion breaking and makes me feel gross tbh

That said I wouldn't mind having paid a season pass or something.

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

Originally posted by ♂eat CHICKEN♂:

Originally posted by smokleto_95:

Oh well, almost like the so called "haters" tried to warn everyone back when this pile of shxt released.
This being nothing more than a cash grab.
So lets sum up what we have thus far.

-We got MTX.
-We have paid DLCs. Which like ASA you have to prepay and get what you have paid for in the future(months/years).
-We are 8 months into EA and very little has been done for optimization, but we have the above.
(Before someone tells me im running a potato and i expect to run this, here are my specs 3090 suprimx, 64gb 3200ddr, intel i9 7920x oc to 4.3ghz)
-ASE made snailgames/swc 1.3B as of 2023 and yet they managed to fumble all the funds and be in debt. Thats without any MTX just the DLCs/Season packs.
-Nitrado exclusivity.

Now someone would come and be like, but its optional.
Okay for PVE it might be depends who you are.
PVP is completely different can of worms, but all the players ignore the fact this is PVP game too.

Another note, but they are working on content you can't expect them to work for free?
How clueless are you?
Do you believe that their paycheck is dependent on how much MTX they sell or they don't get paid?
That's not how this thing works buddy.
Could MTX impact their bonuses, sure depending on their contract.

the people that said this was gonna be a cashgrab in the beginning ended up being right for the wrong reason. It was totally justified to charge money for the re-make considering all the continued support their doing in addition to upgrading the maps, None of the people that said this was gonna be a cashgrab or anyone at all knew there was gonna be additional scummy MTX.

Yup, i 100% agree.

I don't think ASA itself is a cashgrab. super buggy sure, but it's improved a lot since release.... Still pretty bad though... The game itself runs well when it works, looks great and the QOL/added little details show WC's love and creativity. The building is really nice and integration of s+ snap points and structures is awesome. As cool as it is to hate on everything WC, they've done a lot good with ASA and there IS obvious effort.

However, the MTX's are where the cash grab takes over. It's clear their goals were to rope as many into ASA as possible, then turn the game into an MTX platform first, then finish the game second. I've also heard some things about maps being outsourced for development, but that could be false; just something i've heard.

Maybe i'd have thought differently if the MTX rugpull was later in the lifecycle of the game, but, maybe not. I'm getting older and tired of seeing good games get ruined by greed.

[Smoka95]

Originally posted by ♂eat CHICKEN♂:

the people that said this was gonna be a cashgrab in the beginning ended up being right for the wrong reason. It was totally justified to charge money for the re-make considering all the continued support their doing in addition to upgrading the maps, None of the people that said this was gonna be a cashgrab or anyone at all knew there was gonna be additional scummy MTX.

Wrong, this was never a remake.
Its a remaster majority of ASE got ported over to UE5, thats why you got ASE glitches in ASA.
Or you believe its that faithful that they were like lets make sure we all recreate the exact same bugs that were present in ASE while doing the remake.
Stop being naive.
Prepaying for remaster which has just island for months was absolute cash grab.
SE got delayed 4 times?
Just to get all the maps ASE got we would need 2years since release.
So we effectively prepaid for 2years upfront for this "remake" and then we got all the BS that i listed above.

Also what support ? Have you ever tried to speak to their actual support?
What kind of technical support its EA after all.
Remember that SP save bug that would randomly corrupt and possibly cost you hundreds of hours? They slept on that for months.

Do you remember ASA on Windows PC without anticheat being able to connect to main clusters?
Wheres the support for that platform release?

What about duping exploits on official running for months? What do we get 24hr rollback 1 month later.

Lets examine their bobs tails dlc shall we.
So you have 30$ dlc price on EA game.
Which also makes you prepay for the future releases in the following months.
So why not let us have 10$ per DLC map packs instead of this?

So called "free maps" which were supposed to be included in the price of ASA are not so free after all are they?

So lets tldr
We have ASA for 40-45$, we have DLC for 30$ and now another creature "dlc" for 5$.
And we have gotten 2 maps, aka were are not even half way there to getting all the maps.
You can bet that they are not done.
Add the MTX and you are looking at pretty grim picture no?

[Steve]

I'll buy skins. I'll buy emotes. I'll buy maps all day.

I won't buy progression. That dino is 3 dinos and a weapon, the best caver in the game at present.

That's paying $5 to play the game for me. No thank you. If there's no challenging content, time to move on to games that have it.