ARK: Survival Evolved Classic

[TEK Managarmr]

I believe that WildCard should take a page out of Jagex's or Blizzard's book and make a classic version of ark that encompasses everything released up until extinction (excluding extinction) and make it it's own game with its own content roadmap

[Alessio]

there is the time capsule if you want on the beta build settings

[william_es]

There's no more roadmap. It's over. Done. Finito.

[x0Z3ro0x]

Because players loved ASA so much, wildcard should do it again but with even less content than what we have now...

[Bones]

I like the idea but would rather see a mod creator do it than WC. I would fully expect WC/SG
to screw it up somehow.

Even a server host could do it if they wanted to put the time into heavily customising their server.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by TEK Managarmr:

I believe that WildCard should take a page out of Jagex's or Blizzard's book and make a classic version of ark that encompasses everything released up until extinction (excluding extinction) and make it it's own game with its own content roadmap

1. Ark Survival Evolved is done. There are to be no more updates for it unless there's some maintenance mode related thing as that's what it really all is now.

2, All development has shifted to Ark Survival Ascended (basically ASE in Unreal Engine 5 with some other differences/additions and with all its dlc's being staggered over the next 1.5 years or so. Currently, ASA only has The Island map to play and no tek dinos are enabled on the map so that can give you that "classic" feel if you wish.

3. While I know Blizcon is in full swing and people have "classic" on their minds, you can, in effect with ark now, do 2 things that give you the "classic feel you seemingly desire: Settings, Ini.file settings(to remove specific dinos like tek dinos if you wish ), mods and more.
This option is pretty much your best and only one with ASE.

4. Asking devs on here for these sorts of things is very pointless as devs intentionally do not interact on these forums in such a capacity(even on the Ascended forums either). Snail-Wildcard has been pretty clear on this and even reaffirmed it 3 weeks ago on twitter too. You could opt to use Twitter, the official discord, the official forums or reddit in that descending order but to be blunt, it'd be a waste again because ASE in the eyes of the devs is done.

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

On point 1 I would also add except to force us to look at that stupid ASA ad. And on point 3 I would say try a private server for WoW like the Elysium Project or something only because the classic experience on private servers are more close to the time period then the classic servers Blizzard runs. Plus they don't cost ya nothing mates. lol