What is wrong WILD CARD?

[xMusicFruitx]

You know, ARK is an awesome game that can be played in so many ways. It enables PVE and PVP game play with solo and multiplayer capabilities and before this current update I had not seen too many problems. However, this current release HOMESTEAD is not only incredibly flawed with many things that were working fine either corrupted or even completely missing but also new components flawed beyond belief even when the mod it wasa taken from was working perfectly. The thing is there has been NO cpomment from WC about this. Other game companies would be crawling overthemselves trying to let the players know what was happening (viz BLIZZARD) but not WILD CARD. The arrogance is unbelievable.

[123-R.E.D]

We pay one up front fee and then play on their official servers for free, which has provided 1000 of hours of play, for which they get nothing. To be honest I don't see how they are still in business using this model.

So I guess what I,m saying is, if we all stop playing, they get to close a lot of servers, and save a lot of money. Given that, I don't think they need to care all that much about the player base.

[Rukus_82]

Well, if you want consumers to purchase future titles and current paid content, you have to have a happy player community. For players this is entertainment, just a game. For them its a business. I have no doubt they want the fans to enjoy the product, but that would come after the business side of things. Each year games are worse and worse. I personally have not touched atlas as a result of arks ongoing issues. I'm happy (or was ) playing ark as broken as it was ( Before the new update). I will not pay for any future content or titles until they fix the foundation they currently have.

[Viper]

As usual over reaction and overblown words. The thing was only released yesterday. Things do not get fixed that quickly. And no Developers do not crawl all over themselves releasing comments. They cannot comment until they actually have something to comment on.

Besides the fact that this is a Steam forum. You want official commentary and word look in the actual Ark Survival forums.

https://survivetheark.com/index.php?/forums/

[Scrapper-Lock]

Viper の投稿を引用：

As usual over reaction and overblown words. The thing was only released yesterday. Things do not get fixed that quickly. And no Developers do not crawl all over themselves releasing comments. They cannot comment until they actually have something to comment on.

Well, they have already acknowledged the problem.

And what frustrates people is not that there are bugs, but that some of these things, like the S+ lack of snapping problem, were detected by the players and reported in beta. This is the purpose of beta. But they released it anyway, despite the reports, and without having fixed it first.

This sort of thing is highly aggravating. Known bugs being ignored before an update...

[Erico]

Since when is a developer responsible for fixing a mod? S+ being broken is up to the author of the mod. Other mods are still snapping. Too bad the Mod author has quit supporting the mod. Maybe WC might address since S+ is by far the most popular mod, but the responsibility for fixing broken mods falls on the author, not the game developer. Fixing the crash and freezing issues is developer side, but not S+ snapping problem.

[Gnawty]

please fix this update or take it out , can't even play it now. had to pod all my dinos tell they fix the massive lag going on now.

[Ripp Savage]

It's no secret that WC is incredibly incompetent, they have wrecked patches over and over again. The fact that they can't even implement a mod without jacking it up is really sad. On top of that, they aren't implementing the entire mod but if players still want those missing features we're screwed.

It's painful watching these jackwagons screw up everything they touch. It's astounding.

[Liralen]

123 の投稿を引用：

We pay one up front fee and then play on their official servers for free, which has provided 1000 of hours of play, for which they get nothing. To be honest I don't see how they are still in business using this model.

So I guess what I,m saying is, if we all stop playing, they get to close a lot of servers, and save a lot of money. Given that, I don't think they need to care all that much about the player base.

Except that they broke unofficial servers too, which cost them nothing but our good will, which prompted me to buy their Season Pass when Extinction was released, after which they released the next expansion as an entirely new game, not included in Season Pass.

I'll probably never again give them another dime unless they fix this soon.

I've played both Anarchy Online and The Secret World within weeks of their release, and still do every year or so for a couple of months, for a monthly fee, so Conan Exiles have cropped up from time in their forums (same developer), but having played Ark before CE was released, I had no reason to switch, plus it sounded like Ark fit my preferred playing style better.

Which it did, until this latest patch. Which I'm guessing only affected non-official servers/players? Or did it affect official as well? The freezing/crashing issues, yeah I can see affecting both. But S+ not snapping, surely not?

Regardless, I'm obviously willing to pay a monthly fee, if that's what it takes to play a good quality game that is fun.

It's lunch money, ya know?

[Baron Von Dark]

It appears they (WC) have killed all servers alike, official and unofficial.

If I loose it all (starved dinos and auto decay) it will be time to move on after playing casual for years.

[Fanne]

I guess the s+ mod maker knew they will put out this , formerly , brocken piece and had no interest in spending more time to iron out wc different implementation of things from his mod.
Open source, everyone can fix it, call bob!

[Scrapper-Lock]

tony.dark の投稿を引用：

It appears they (WC) have killed all servers alike, official and unofficial.

If I loose it all (starved dinos and auto decay) it will be time to move on after playing casual for years.

At least one huge advantage of SP is that nothing runs while the game is shut down, so I can wait until WC fixes it (if they do) and then even if it's weeks from now, my dinos will be fine.

Doesn't help the rest of you though, and I do feel for ya.

[Tsal Vlaxitov]

123 の投稿を引用：

We pay one up front fee and then play on their official servers for free, which has provided 1000 of hours of play, for which they get nothing. To be honest I don't see how they are still in business using this model.

So I guess what I,m saying is, if we all stop playing, they get to close a lot of servers, and save a lot of money. Given that, I don't think they need to care all that much about the player base.

Remember when video games used to be an entertainment product instead of a "business model?" Pepperidge Farms remembers.

[Scrapper-Lock]

Tsal Vlaxitov の投稿を引用：

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Oh man you are dating yourself now.... LOL.

(I remember those commercials too)

[Tsal Vlaxitov]

Chessack の投稿を引用：

Tsal Vlaxitov の投稿を引用：

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Oh man you are dating yourself now.... LOL.

(I remember those commercials too)

I don't even know what your comment is supposed to mean.

What I'm saying is that people's Stockholm syndrome to games now a days is as such that they automatically think that infinite payments to play a game up and over charging for additional content is a legitimate "business model."

[Rocky_Fox_Boi]

Erico の投稿を引用：

Since when is a developer responsible for fixing a mod? S+ being broken is up to the author of the mod. Other mods are still snapping. Too bad the Mod author has quit supporting the mod. Maybe WC might address since S+ is by far the most popular mod, but the responsibility for fixing broken mods falls on the author, not the game developer. Fixing the crash and freezing issues is developer side, but not S+ snapping problem.

You actually raise a good point. Granted, I wish the mod author was still invested in his own creation but yeah, someone was going to pick up where the original author left off on way or another. I love the game but I think someone at Studio Wildcard needs to find a better marketing and PR Team. Because they have had this business problem for years now and I am just as surprised as everyone else that they continue to survive this way. Maybe I might be missing the point. if I am let me know....