why don't peeps move from ASE to ASA?

[EverTrek1701]

servers too much? everyone is playing aberration? game requires a bigger system?

[Ratigan]

Paid mods & the game runs like cheeks despite both costing more & being newer

This is just a bad, greedy port to UE5 lol

[Ferchi]

This new Ark need content, for now is almost dead, they have the opportunity to revive Ark with Aberration in September, bc is a lovely map, but if they release the Unreal Engine 5.4 and FSR update on the same day as the map, it’s going to be another failure bc nobody gonna play the first days atleast for the new crashes and insta updates lossing the hype and players

[𝓝𝓪𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓫𝓸𝓲]

Because of system requirements, mostly.

Not everyone has high-end GPUs to play ASA. Combined with the P2W DLC, crashing and general bugs and issues, it's no surprise ASE has more players.

That all isn't even considering how terrible the modding system is and how lackluster the mods are.

[Punkface]

Z790 Aorus Elite AX
Intel i7-13700K
MSI GeForce RTX 4080
32GB Corsair DDR5 RAM
2TB M.2 SSD

Ark: Survival Ascended on all Ultra/High Settings at 1440p Resolution and 144Hz. Video game runs perfectly without a single solitary hiccup. Looks beautiful and runs smooth as butter. Phenomenal upgrade and highly recommended.

[Ratigan]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

Originally posted by Ratigan:

Paid mods & the game runs like cheeks despite both costing more & being newer

This is just a bad, greedy port to UE5 lol

it looks nicer, nomore pipes/wires, and mods are good when they add new content (you mostly get what you pay for). i do think they lost control of their income and they are trying out new things to support the game.... we all have 100s of hours of game fun in Ark so a $40 tip isn't bad, so peeps should just move over and suck it up. as it stands steam stats has ASA at the bottom and this game is not that bad.

"just suck it up" is something console players do.

This game deserves to have less players than ASE lmfao

[Darksaint]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

Originally posted by Ratigan:

"just suck it up" is something console players do.

This game deserves to have less players than ASE lmfao

how long will we be punishing WC?

hes got all of 25 hours in the game and has no clue what hes talking about.
The game has become better than it was at launch. those who cant run it and are having issues, just wont take advice.

[Guest In Disguise]

Originally posted by Darksaint:

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

how long will we be punishing WC?

hes got all of 25 hours in the game and has no clue what hes talking about.
The game has become better than it was at launch. those who cant run it and are having issues, just wont take advice.

I would rather take his advice than yours.
Hours means NOTHING.

You could use the arguement "You played this game for 500 hours why do you complain you seem to enjoy it"

[Guest In Disguise]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

Originally posted by Guest In Disguise:

I would rather take his advice than yours.
Hours means NOTHING.

You could use the arguement "You played this game for 500 hours why do you complain you seem to enjoy it"

u missed my point. hours may be a good metric, but how long will we be sending a message to WC by not participating in their games? there needs to be some sort of half-way point from WC to players to create a break-through that makes this version of the game the default. a big start would be a private server discount. however this may turn into a bait and switch, so it has to be done right with full transparency. they need to add GM support to ASA official servers. but until they show some sign of direction with a "road-map" the game is stuck in this wait-and-see mode.

Honestly they should have a low end launch option like they did in ark survival evolved imo.

[RAMMSTEIN]

i would say that ase was more stable even though it took a while to load when you were using mods, asa gives way way too many dxg1 errors even with out mods. asa needs to be optimized a lot more. tbh i feel disgusted with my self for even buying this game. but as a note to myself & a lesson learned, i'll never buy another game made by wildcard.

[Smoka95]

Its simple, ASE is a game, ASA is a platform to sell you stuff.
But its okay the few remaining clowns would tell you,
"trust me bro, once the ASA content drops, things will change."
First it was the only 1 map excuse, then was SE is boring we already beat it, Center drops still underperforms compared to ASE.
ASE peaked at 41k on steam alone few days ago, while our shinny turd is consistently under 20k in the low 10k's.
The only people who benefited from ASA were the console players enjoying finaly mods, everyone else moved on, player counts show it.
Play whatever you like, just stop trying to convince everyone else that ASA is in bad shape because of lack of content, that's just objectively false statement.
That is one tiny drop in the pool of issues that dragged ASA down.
https://steamcharts.com/cmp/2399830,346110#6m

[Guard1an4]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

Originally posted by RAMMSTEIN:

i would say that ase was more stable even though it took a while to load when you were using mods, asa gives way way too many dxg1 errors even with out mods. asa needs to be optimized a lot more. tbh i feel disgusted with my self for even buying this game. but as a note to myself & a lesson learned, i'll never buy another game made by wildcard.

sadly i wish i had held off too. i think that steam/valve will see that the mods are being sold outside of the steam store and eventually take their share, thus the prices will go up. i wont buy anything outside of the steam store myself...

nothing about this game/company feels right.

I have seen a lot of games that have purchases not through steam once you own the game so I don't think that will be an issue at all.

While I don't fully agree with everything that Wildcard has done with ASA, I still think ASA is superior in almost every way except content to ASE. I honestly feel once Ragnarok and more of the maps are added and the Unreal Engine 5.4 update are both in the game that more players will start playing it. That is also assuming that the Unreal Engine 5.4 update helps the game as much as it is being played up which I honestly hope it does.

I honestly can't wait to see what the Unreal Engine update actually does improve the game for all of us but we will have to wait and see. I am more excited about that than Aberration honestly.

[Diggitydank]

ASA sucks, who wants to wait 3+years to get all the maps back. Not me or any of my friend group, that's for sure

[Fdpulpe]

Originally posted by EverTrek1701:

servers too much? everyone is playing aberration? game requires a bigger system?

Its a good question my son, i think its because UE5 need a good PC and the performance in UE5 are bad in generality its a fact, a lot talk of mods but me i prefer play Ark in vanilla like in official for exemple, In Ark 1 he have a lot of server empty and i cant understand why guy pay for empty server its just stupid ! 95% of all server are empty or like 1 player (the admin) who just whait a guy for cheat LOL, Official is better, For me now Ark ASA is better

[CrEaToXx]

Because anything running sub 60fps in 2024 on a SotA high end computer is no go. It's also just a minor visual upgrade which I have to pay for and it doesn't even remotely has the gargantuan amount of mods Evolved has.

I've got better things to do than waiting, crashing, and dia showing my life away.

[Pixel]

9,400 players meanwhile ASE has 2x the players atm nearly a year later. I think atm that says a lot, but hey maybe 5.4 upgrade will magically improve everything.

Even if it does we still have a year or longer for all the remaining maps.

ASA is hurting bad atm and the devs know it