Wildcard Studios

[Guy]

At this point it is absolutely ridiculous how irresponsible your studio is being. You guys make a great game / online experience, so it's really too bad that it is entirely unplayable by the severe LAG, DUPING, EXPLOITING, CONNECTION ISSUES, DOWNTIME...

The excuse used to be that you guys were still in early access.
That's what people clung to when defending you guys on all of this absolute garbage.

But now you almost or over doubled your games price, are expecting to release in a month, and it is as BROKEN AS EVER.

And to top it all off, you don't plan to wipe servers of an EARLY ACCESS game (essentially alpha/beta) before you release it!?

W H A T.

Beyond the fact that this game is not at all ready to release, (I'm not even going to bother spending the time typing up the lists and lists of bugs and exploits that TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS should be fixing E A S I L Y.

Who do we have to sit down with to stop servers from crashing sometimes every 5-10 minutes for HOURS? (Isolated ragnarok servers since they have pretty much been released, dozens or hundreds of posts and tweets about it).

WHO do we have to sit down with to show and duplicate every single game breaking bug in this >COMPETITIVE< EXPERIENCE, so it can be FIXED?!

WHO do we have to sit down with to explain why you WIPE OFFICIAL SERVERS ON AN OFFICIAL RELEASE. PEOPLE WERE TESTING, NOW THEY ARE NOT TESTING. Quit catering to people's feelings, you're going to ruin your game on launch.

If people quit they will be back or they would have quit in the foreseeable future anyways. They are null and VOID.

Wildcard your game's popularity is not in single player, it is in the people who play online and support your game vocally here.

Your single player experience is not that bad and getting better, but it's still like kicking a can around for almost all of us who wish to truly experience the game and see social value in it. The thing that makes this game work WELL is playing with friends.

I don't hate anyone, I'm not really angry. I think fed up is more of the word. For the last few months I have swapped going out with friends or many other activities 'IRL' to play Ark with 20-30+ other friends I have met on the game and growing. It has been surreal -- when we can connect, which is about half the time if that now and getting worse it seems.

You guys are not ready to release this game. Do not roll patches out on Friday because often they break everything and fix nothing.

I hope I don't sound like I'm bashing too hard because I know that the developers spend a lot of time on this game. I am not bashing the game, I am bashing their business practices as a whole. I think Wildcard Studios needs a reality check.

Your game is great but your game is not playable, and here you are trying to release it with so much anxiety building in players with hundreds / thousands of hours.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

*Useless rant is useless* (puts on tin foil hat) Doooooooooooooooom!

[Guy]

Just the truth from one of many who would know it.

[The Waffle that Lurks]

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

Just the truth from one of many who would know it.

Truth? What truth? The truth that the game is being released broken when it's not even released yet? That there are rampant bugs and the game is unplayable? Despite there being 40,000+ active players at all time? Seems playable to me...! Oh wait is it that the Devs are terrible and don't care about the game? Yet they still push out patches 2 to 3 times a week? Hmm....

[Speedbump]

Jesus Christ. I won't reply to every point of your post, just the bit about the money being able to fix the bugs. It doesn't work that way. Money doesn't fix bugs, people do. People also cannot just be hired and jump right into fixing everything. They would have to be taught by existing employees which would slow development down. There are even more things to think about too. So no it isn't that easy.

[Guy]

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. You clearly didn't read the post to see the validity in my words. This is not rocket science and Wildcard's communication is terrible.

If you're fighting me on that then I could care less about your opinion -- point blank.

I'll give you an example, wyverns / other eggs take days of hard work to hatch and imprint properly, and now the isolated servers are down for hours and I BET YOU that dozens of them are dieing right now across all the tribes playing. Along with tames, already tamed dinos dieing to wild dinos while the game is still running even when the server is down, etc etc etc.

And I'm not even talking about me. Sincerely just an example, one of many. This game is not ready to release with its instability.

Give me a break defending this current garbage. Nothing will change within 30 days if it hasn't changed in over a year.

I don't know how many times I have to express my absolute love for the game while loathing the development teams' standards.

And by the way money does make everything happen, I hate when people use that stupid argument. It has made every little single thing that you see in the game today happen, and they SHOULD have / DO have enough cash in the bank to do something about the rampant issues that are in their faces.

How about they go pour a drizzle of that green sauce on the dozens of servers crashing every few minutes or hours, FOR hours.

[NGCaliber]

You are ranting... the game has been in the same process which includes updates, patches, optimization, and added intended content for over 2 years now. What? Cause they are forced to follow through on a release date and forced to increase the pricing set by the retail gaming mafia who dictates that all new games that are released on console cost $59.99 for the base game? btw I am not joking, that is the very reason for this.

[Speedbump]

Boom, you're a troll.
Nothing to see here girls and boys, move along.

[Unknown]

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

[...] I could care less about your opinion[...]

You lose all credibility with that statement. The fact that you can't even distinguish between "could" and "could not" is a home run for anyone arguing against you. Just to clarify, if you "could care less" it means you care. If you "could not care less" it means you don't care. Just think about it for a second or two. They're all pretty simple words; I think most children know the difference between those two statements by around age 4.

If you have such a small amount of thought going on inside that head of yours, I think it's pretty obvious that your post holds no validity or substance. It's like watching celebrities try to talk politics.

[Guy]

I'm not here to talk about what is or isn't. I am not the only one with this viewpoint, and if you don't understand then your statements are not valuable to me, just as mine clearly are not valuable to you.

You can call me a troll all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that I am not a troll. I have no need to defend myself or my statements, they are quite accurate and there are just as many threads where you can find people who feel the exact same way that I do -- but even more strongly.

People who argue with hypocritical statements and provide no valuable information to the subject at hand are the worst.

[Unknown]

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

I'm not here to talk about what is or isn't. I am not the only one with this viewpoint, and if you don't understand then your statements are not valuable to me, just as mine clearly are not valuable to you.

You can call me a troll all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm not a troll. I have no need to defend myself or my statements lol they are quite accurate and there are just as many threads where you can find people who feel the exact same way that I do -- but even more strongly.

What!? You just told us you could care less about our opinions... Now you tell us our statements are not valuable?! Make up your mind.

[Guy]

Originally posted by One Mode Only:

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

I'm not here to talk about what is or isn't. I am not the only one with this viewpoint, and if you don't understand then your statements are not valuable to me, just as mine clearly are not valuable to you.

You can call me a troll all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm not a troll. I have no need to defend myself or my statements lol they are quite accurate and there are just as many threads where you can find people who feel the exact same way that I do -- but even more strongly.

What!? You just told us you could care less about our opinions... Now you tell us our statements are not valuable?! Make up your mind.

Are you okay?

[Unknown]

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

Originally posted by One Mode Only:

What!? You just told us you could care less about our opinions... Now you tell us our statements are not valuable?! Make up your mind.

Are you okay?

Are you? I mean, you can't discern between "could" and "could not". That seems like English 101.

[kotawolf]

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

I'm not here to talk about what is or isn't. I am not the only one with this viewpoint, and if you don't understand then your statements are not valuable to me, just as mine clearly are not valuable to you.

You can call me a troll all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm not a troll.

Except that you are a troll and don't understand software development. Money doesn't buy everything.

[Unknown]

Originally posted by kotawolf:

Originally posted by michael jorDAN:

I'm not here to talk about what is or isn't. I am not the only one with this viewpoint, and if you don't understand then your statements are not valuable to me, just as mine clearly are not valuable to you.

You can call me a troll all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that I'm not a troll.

Except that you are a troll and don't understand software development. Money doesn't buy everything.

I wonder if he could or could not care less about this statement? Stay tuned, we'll find out!

"Point blank".

[Guy]

The only people in this thread are people trying to spell check what I said or people trying to tell me what I said is wrong, without actually telling me how what I said was wrong.

Bring on the facts people. Please tell me how I'm wrong. I'm always open for open discussion, but if you're here to call me a troll, I'm here to tell you that I don't care about your opinion.

So far I've been pretty peaceful to be honest. Just tired of beating around the bush.

I mean reading One Mode Only's posts are legitimately sad to me. I am not calling you sad, I'm saying it's sad that you're attempting to talk down to me when I never really talked down to you in the first place.

I don't care about you calling me a troll. Is that more politically correct for you? Because you know exactly what I was trying to say when I said that I don't care about your opinion.

I care about valuable arguments, not 'you're a troll'. It's so immature.

& @kotawolf if I have 5 million dollars for example, I can hire all of the developers to make a game in a timeframe according to a pre-determined scope, (without the massive amount of issues Ark still has while trying to release). Any responsible development team can. Tell me how I'm wrong or leave it alone.

Thank you for making me clarify, & also I am not a grammar wizard so if you're going to use that as an excuse to bash me for voicing a structured argument, it is in one ear and out the other over here.