Early Access?

[Jiro]

How can this be titled "Early Access" and be sold on the steam store...when the official server's are shuttered and they have no future plans to give more "access" to players to anything...Stop selling it, Put work into it, or refund players...pick one. Stop Scamming money off players who misunderstand this game is over and was never anything special.

[orhaf]

some people want to make unofficial servers, so i imagine none of your 'pick one' demands will be met.

[orhaf]

it had official servers since 2019 and only stopped this year. The main people behind this game don't want to do anything with it anymore because their company Snail Games went bankrupt. The only thing you can do now is join an unofficial server. Many modders have made their own server, so i don't think anyone is going to shut down their expensive efforts to make their own Atlas server.

What you can do now, is find an unofficial server that you like, or go play another game.

[Jiro]

Originally posted by Jump:

it had official servers since 2019 and only stopped this year. The main people behind this game don't want to do anything with it anymore because their company Snail Games went bankrupt. The only thing you can do now is join an unofficial server. Many modders have made their own server, so i don't think anyone is going to shut down their expensive efforts to make their own Atlas server.

What you can do now, is find an unofficial server that you like, or go play another game.

The game was sold on the concept of a giant multi-server cluster ocean that players could all exist on together. They basically just broke the game gave you pieces, and said to get over it.

[orhaf]

no man it just costs too much to run this game, so everyone that's stepped up to the plate has eventually had to wipe the server and start fresh or sell it off to someone else. That doesn't mean it's a bad game, it just means that it's 3000 a month on most server hosting platforms to host a 10x10. Now I don't play atlas, i only play Zombie Ultima Server where i've made it completely different and unrecognizable to atlas. But dude, renting a 1x1 for 30 people is 50 bucks, and renting a 1x1 for 255 people is $165 so you can imagine nobody wants to tell their dad they went from spending 80 dollars on a nintendo game to 30 dollars a month for a WoW subscription to 3000 dollars a month so that other people can play a game on a 10x10 that you're hosting. It's legit never ever going to happen again, you can almost guarantee it by the way the owners silently walked away from their server. Someone else could buy it and run officials and you'd never know the difference. You can just go into the unofficials list and see all the private servers running and log into one of those. So nobody is going to shut down my private server efforts or i'll be mad about it, so stf to the u and get over it there's no official server for minecraft either.

[Jiro]

Originally posted by Jump:

no man it just costs too much to run this game, so everyone that's stepped up to the plate has eventually had to wipe the server and start fresh or sell it off to someone else. That doesn't mean it's a bad game, it just means that it's 3000 a month on most server hosting platforms to host a 10x10. Now I don't play atlas, i only play Zombie Ultima Server where i've made it completely different and unrecognizable to atlas. But dude, renting a 1x1 for 30 people is 50 bucks, and renting a 1x1 for 255 people is $165 so you can imagine nobody wants to tell their dad they went from spending 80 dollars on a nintendo game to 30 dollars a month for a WoW subscription to 3000 dollars a month so that other people can play a game on a 10x10 that you're hosting. It's legit never ever going to happen again, you can almost guarantee it by the way the owners silently walked away from their server. Someone else could buy it and run officials and you'd never know the difference. You can just go into the unofficials list and see all the private servers running and log into one of those. So nobody is going to shut down my private server efforts or i'll be mad about it, so stf to the u and get over it there's no official server for minecraft either.

if was an unfeasible goal and product to make, why did they sell it?

[Jiro]

Originally posted by Jump:

no man it just costs too much to run this game, so everyone that's stepped up to the plate has eventually had to wipe the server and start fresh or sell it off to someone else. That doesn't mean it's a bad game, it just means that it's 3000 a month on most server hosting platforms to host a 10x10. Now I don't play atlas, i only play Zombie Ultima Server where i've made it completely different and unrecognizable to atlas. But dude, renting a 1x1 for 30 people is 50 bucks, and renting a 1x1 for 255 people is $165 so you can imagine nobody wants to tell their dad they went from spending 80 dollars on a nintendo game to 30 dollars a month for a WoW subscription to 3000 dollars a month so that other people can play a game on a 10x10 that you're hosting. It's legit never ever going to happen again, you can almost guarantee it by the way the owners silently walked away from their server. Someone else could buy it and run officials and you'd never know the difference. You can just go into the unofficials list and see all the private servers running and log into one of those. So nobody is going to shut down my private server efforts or i'll be mad about it, so stf to the u and get over it there's no official server for minecraft either.

why are you comparing a AAA game company to novelty home developers hosting modded servers?

[orhaf]

BECAUSE I HAVE THE EXACT SAME DEV KIT

[orhaf]

https://youtu.be/Q3s9Qi4MoYE

[orhaf]

look man if i buy the game right now are you going to play on a server if it says official on it? why don't you just play an unofficial then?

[Jiro]

Originally posted by Jump:

look man if i buy the game right now are you going to play on a server if it says official on it? why don't you just play an unofficial then?

Nothing you just said proved a single point you were trying to make, in fact it exposed you're probably a teenager. Address what I said or don't respond. If you respond and it isn't a response to my point I'm going to ignore it. So if I don't respond from this point on it's because you're just talking to yourself and not addressing any point I've made. Making a "zombies" server, when that's not even what we were talking about, doesn't prove the game is the product it was when they sold it to the community. In fact it proves the opposite, that you have to do something completely different in the game instead of the designed core gameplay proves my point that they didn't finish or even make a product yet sold it and keep selling it as if they are, and will produce more content for the game , which they won't. Again the entire point of this thread is that they shouldn't be selling the game if the actual game isn't available anymore, and they don't plan on doing anything about it. Talking about a modded server you run that has vastly different modded mechanics to atlas is proof of that. Thank you for proving my point.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Jump:

Yeah, but, i dunno, you could dig a hole and cry in it until your care bears go away?
I'm still having fun in Atlas, regardless of your tastes, so they guaranteed won't take that away from me by forcing Atlas refunds or removing the game from the market.

This is my old motto, don't flex this very much let me just sit up straight.

NERD! if you're not having fun here GO PLAY ANOTHER GAME. stop WHINING.

Originally posted by Jump:

I hate to school you here, but you're failing to look at the trend. Respect the trend. Remember World of Warcraft? Are you mad that they made expansions and funneled the game into the new zones and left old azeroth behind? DON'T PLAY IT THEN. GO EAT AN APPLE, WALK YOUR DOG, KISS THE SUNSHINE, AND STOP COMPLAINING WHEN THINGS CHANGE.

I don't know what to suggest to you, you're breaking down at the seams on the forum instead of just joining a match and playing. CALL THE COPS!!!!!1111 tell them that your 30 dollars was wasted buying a video game that doesn't work. LEGIT CALL EVERYONE YOU THINK WILL CARE AND ASK THEM IF THEY CARE.

I'm legit the only person on this forum every day, so personally i don't think anyone cares, but if you can find these people here who care just as much as you do, maybe you can all start a group where you discuss it a bunch? I'm trying to be helpful and set you on the right path, since you come in here so distraught looking for them to change things for the betterment of the people.

Originally posted by Jump:

Originally posted by Jiro:

Nothing you just said proved a single point you were trying to make, in fact it exposed you're probably a teenager.

Hate to nyt pick but you saying that immediately proves that you're an adult that didn't go to university.

Yes, we recognize that you do post here daily(mostly self promotions), but it is also important to point out that when people see such nonsense and attacks you seem to relish in doing towards potential new folks or those still remaining in the community, you're not exactly being a great representative of said remaining community nor your server you also promote daily.

It's rather silly really.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Jiro:

How can this be titled "Early Access" and be sold on the steam store...when the official server's are shuttered and they have no future plans to give more "access" to players to anything...Stop selling it, Put work into it, or refund players...pick one. Stop Scamming money off players who misunderstand this game is over and was never anything special.

While it is a shame what has transpired and continues to transpire in some ways with the state of things:

1. Devs intentionally do not interact on these forums in this capacity. Some were laid off in May actually and the remaining are now (as before really) are fully working on Ark Ascended. So directing a post to them here is pointless.

2. Steam's policies allow for it to still be sold as the game still can support unofficial and singlle player game play(to an extent). Complaints of it being sold on Steam thus are best directed to Steam vs other players since what I mentioned in point 1.

Also this a common pitfall of games in early access: failing. That is the risk unfortunately taken, especially if you live in an area that does not have strong consumer protections.

3. The only potential glimmer of what may occur in the future is how steam is starting to change its policies. The recent change that steam will refund (in part or whole) failed to deliver future content dlcs/season passes and remove sale of those products on the platform may come to also hold EA games more accountable as well.

Time will tell.

[Beff]

The game BARELY works. I said the same thing, stop selling games that will never be finished or refund my $! I am tired of paying to get a game that they never complete. I have tried to play this game, I have a lot of hours in it still but it will never be completed, it's abandoned and a waste of money. You can only play this game with cheats or just not expect anything in the game to begin with. It's a real shame because IF it was completed I would love this game but as is, it's trash.

[Jiro]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by Jump:

Yeah, but, i dunno, you could dig a hole and cry in it until your care bears go away?
I'm still having fun in Atlas, regardless of your tastes, so they guaranteed won't take that away from me by forcing Atlas refunds or removing the game from the market.

This is my old motto, don't flex this very much let me just sit up straight.

NERD! if you're not having fun here GO PLAY ANOTHER GAME. stop WHINING.

Originally posted by Jump:

I hate to school you here, but you're failing to look at the trend. Respect the trend. Remember World of Warcraft? Are you mad that they made expansions and funneled the game into the new zones and left old azeroth behind? DON'T PLAY IT THEN. GO EAT AN APPLE, WALK YOUR DOG, KISS THE SUNSHINE, AND STOP COMPLAINING WHEN THINGS CHANGE.

I don't know what to suggest to you, you're breaking down at the seams on the forum instead of just joining a match and playing. CALL THE COPS!!!!!1111 tell them that your 30 dollars was wasted buying a video game that doesn't work. LEGIT CALL EVERYONE YOU THINK WILL CARE AND ASK THEM IF THEY CARE.

I'm legit the only person on this forum every day, so personally i don't think anyone cares, but if you can find these people here who care just as much as you do, maybe you can all start a group where you discuss it a bunch? I'm trying to be helpful and set you on the right path, since you come in here so distraught looking for them to change things for the betterment of the people.

Originally posted by Jump:

Hate to nyt pick but you saying that immediately proves that you're an adult that didn't go to university.

Yes, we recognize that you do post here daily(mostly self promotions), but it is also important to point out that when people see such nonsense and attacks you seem to relish in doing towards potential new folks or those still remaining in the community, you're not exactly being a great representative of said remaining community nor your server you also promote daily.

It's rather silly really.

Yea idk what he's talking about, I didn't report him but it seems some moderator banned him for just screaming on the forums without providing anything to the conversation. He used wow as some example of a trend being set that's an example of how trends work when it's the game the singlehandedly killed the MMO genre because it prevented developers from innovating and encouraged them to iterate instead. This guy just seems like some kid tbh.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Beff:

The game BARELY works. I said the same thing, stop selling games that will never be finished or refund my $! I am tired of paying to get a game that they never complete. I have tried to play this game, I have a lot of hours in it still but it will never be completed, it's abandoned and a waste of money. You can only play this game with cheats or just not expect anything in the game to begin with. It's a real shame because IF it was completed I would love this game but as is, it's trash.

It is a shame and basically it, like ASA and ASE, I tell folks to simply tell 10 friends to tell 10 friends to find something better to put money into playing. So many games on the market that dont embroil themselves in controversies that deserve the time and money to patron.

Originally posted by Jiro:

This guy just seems like some kid tbh.

According to his yt channel he posts vids from on this forum, that may not be the case.