How To Save Ark Survival Ascended....

is Ark survival ascended dying only released in October of 2023 the player base has plummeted in recent months and to say that the community is growing Restless would be an understatement a couple of months back I did a video titled the problems with ar survival ascended which seemed to spark much debate amongst the community about the direction that ASA needs to go from here considering that video was made a couple of months back now I was kind of hoping that a lot of my points would have been addressed by now but sadly that is not the case as I sit down to write this video in late February of 2024 the art community is at its lowest point in history the center which was meant to release this upcoming week has just been indefinitely delayed and many players have given up on ASA already either quitting the franchise to play other games or returning back to Arc survival evolved which right now is sadly a overall much better experience so is Arc survival ascended actually fixable can a once great franchise dig itself out of its self-imposed grave and return once more to the height of one of the finest survival games out there I do think it's certainly possible but things need to change quickly and over the course of this video I'm going to go through how I think that wild card and snail games can fix Arc survival ascended so let's start by going over where we are today the main problem at this point with fixing Ark survival ascended is that it's past the point of being a quick fix the game has been now out for 4 months and the reality is that not a lot has changed this has meant that some of the Goodwill that people will give a recently launched game G is quite simply gone people are no longer willing to put up with the same game-breaking bugs many of those that were present in a game released almost a decade ago by the way and optimization updates have been thin and far between meaning that you still need a high-end PC to play the game on any decent settings servers also still run like absolute trash which is something that has become increasingly obvious as official transfers open recently all of these reasons have been factors in the plummeting player base with ar survival evolved often rocking double the number of online players in the steam charts and is anyone really surprised about this some of these players will have already purchased ascended only to get bored of playing just the island a map that they've already likely played countless times on evolved some most likely abandoned or refunded the game shortly after release unable to play it smoothly at all due to the game's ridiculous minimum specifications and seriously if there is a worse optimized game out there please inform me but the worrying reality for Studio wild card and snail games is this there is not enough reason for existing Arc players who perhaps have not purchased ascended yet to move over yes the hardcore Arc audience may have already lapped it up within the first week leading to snail games boasting about sales during that period of time but interestingly not a word has been said about sales since any player who decided not to buy it in October upon release is probably feeling pretty Grace about their decision right now unless they enjoyed playing official servers there is nothing to look at enviously and really feel that they are missing out on while I do completely understand that for console players the ability to finally play with mods is a huge deal and and crossplatform is obviously a neat addition I don't believe these make up for the many issues that the game has on all platforms yet despite all the various issues we ascended whether that is the performance consistent crashing or just simply a lack of content I actually don't believe that that is solely what has sent Community morale to an all-time low I think the main reason that people are so overwhelmingly frustrated with wild card is the lack of communication communication when you release a game in the state that ascended launched in is just so so important and yes I know that wildcard probably never wanted to release ARX 5al ascended in its current state I know that financially SEL games probably tied them to that deal and thus having to release ASA in the unfinished unpolished and quite frankly mess of estate that it did release in in October yet how many times have wild card missed ETA after ETA and it does reach a point where it's just not amusing anymore let's not forget that wild card originally set themselves the deadline of August to release ascended 2 months before the actual release date and on top of that they also promised they were going to launch with triple the content the game actually launched with when survival ascended was first announced in April of last year we were told that they would launch in August with the island scorched and surviv of the fittest by the end of quarter 1 this year we would have every map up to Genesis part one fully remastered and in the game Genesis 2 would then drop in quarter 2 and that would be every story map done remastered and in the game with the modern maps to be drip fed to us over the course of 2024 to put this into perspective Arc is about to release its first DLC scorched Earth at the start of the second quarter of this year and who even knows at this stage whether that will drop on time the communication from the minute that survival ascended was announced has been nothing short of shocking even when they did row back on these promises in July of last year they still claimed that se would release in December an aberration in quarter 1 of 2024 what's more to put this into perspective a little bit better we will now not get a single map in quarter 1 this year with the recent delay of the Center also a quick mention to survival the fittest which has to be the biggest waste of developer time that I've seen in the game for some reason wild cards seemed to think that SF would be huge this time and it was worth investing the time into porting over during the extra life event Jeremy steitz said live on air that he thought survival of the fittest was going to be huge this time I'm have absolutely no idea where he got that idea from it's the same half bait game that was released previously and died within a month this time around it appeared to die within a couple of weeks and good luck getting a game of surviv the Fest now even if you do enjoy it as the servers are an absolute graveyard we mentioned the center earlier and it's probably about time that we mention that promise also seemingly reading the room a little as the new year started wellcard came out with an announcement which entailed that the center originally intended to be launched after Scorch sometime in quarter two of next year will be brought forward and now release in February of 2024 this was a promising sign seemingly Wild Card had read the room and figured out that we were a little bit starved of content so we're doing their utmost to provide us with some more content this weekend we heard that this was no longer happening the question is why in Earth did they leave it so late to communicate this to us while card would have likely known for weeks that the center wasn't going to make the date yet left it to the weekend before everyone was expecting a release to tell us that it would be delayed not just delayed but delayed indefinitely another thing just adding to this communication issue is how arguably the most important piece of news didn't even make the crunch VI the ark survival ascended official Discord Dolly did confirm that the center would now be coming after scorched Earth with no ETA actually being given the thing with this also is that wild card have just completely shot themselves in the foot they brought forward an ETA raising expectations only to miss it by a complete mile judging from Dolly's message in the Discord and further dampening morale amongst the community something that was incredibly obvious as all creators even those who are normally amongst the most positive in the community were incredibly disappointed speaking selfishly as a creator for just a moment here I cannot stress to you guys how difficult planning content around this game is at times no etas are ever met but of course you still do have to prepare for them anyway just in case that you are caught out that one time that they actually managed to hit a deadline I recently accepted a position into monarchy which is a Creator server with a group of extremely talented and hardworking individuals for those unaware we were planning to launch our new season of Ary upon the release of Center and even as a new Joiner I could see the tireless work that was being put in by certain individuals to have everything ready for the new season which of course was going to drop with the center watching the current downfall of Ark and its franchise is just so incredibly tough worsened by the fact that you feel just so much of it has been self-inflicted so where do we go from here I think to say that there is a lot riding on scorched Earth in April would be an understatement I'd almost go as far as saying that the the future of the game may be decided there and then it is imperative that well card not only meet their deadline the 1st of April but also deliver a much better experience than the Ireland on day one these things will begin what we can hope is the gradual regain of trust between developer and Community which quite frankly is just non-existent right now another thing that they need to think very carefully about is the implementation of the incoming microtransactions given the current state of the game the fact that scorched Earth is set to release alongside first introduction to microtransactions just adds extra pressure to the dev team we are yet to see how the frontier Adventure Pack will play out as little key information such as price and how it will work is known yet but its mere existence has people watching on from afar during an interview with industry Biz in 2019 co-founder of Arc Jesse rsac boasted about how pleased he was that they had been able to keep Ark microtransaction free up until this stage to be fair in the same interview he does also acknowledge how they were doing this which was via releasing a premium expansion pack every year of course by this he is referring to lacks of aberration Extinction and the Genesis expansion all which helped to pay for the continued running costs of Arc survival evolved the irony in all of this of course is that I think that Arc players would have happily had various skins in Arc survival evolved however wildcard wanted to implement this whether it was character skins dino costumes weapon skins the possibilities were truly endless and people honestly wouldn't have minded optional payments and I think it would have brought in a decent amount of revenue for them however to suddenly release them in a brand new game that is already been loaded as a cash grab just seems like a crazy decision it remains to be seen how much of the payto win impacts the frontier pack actually has but if the latest crunch is anything to go by promising an exclusive Dyno that can bring dead tames back to life it could be quite sizable with the microtransactions now though it is all just speculation and it's hard to speculate about the impact of something when we don't know the most important details on this one one thing that I do passionately believe in is this porting over all the old existing Arc maps from survival evolved will not save survival ascended these are the same experiences that people have already had just with enhanced visuals the island in itself is a fine map with plenty to do on it especially for new players but existing Arc players are now absolutely sick to death of it survival ascended needs brand new content that has not been played before short over time that will come in the form of mob maps with some talented modders on the scene but I don't understand why Wild Card are spending all their time porting over existing Maps when people are dying for fresh Arc experiences and Adventures now this isn't me saying that I don't want any ASE content ported over I think remastering some of those maps with the love care and attention they deserve is a fantastic idea the likes of aberration Fodor and Ragnarok which are all fan favorite Maps would be amazing to bring bring back an Unreal Engine 5 and allow us to appreciate them once more Nostalgia is everywhere these days it's in games in films and it's a powerful weapon if used correctly but there is limited to no Nostalgia with Asa if we just follow the exact same path as the previous game to change path and prioritize new content would be a major shift I realized that especially given they had sold AR survival ascended under the premise that all maps would be ported over yet if Arc survival ascended is to truly flourish become the bigger brother of surv evolved and make the most of the new Unreal Engine 5 it needs to be brave and make new exciting experiences not remakes of map that were built on a now out-of-date engine and if they do insist on sticking with the same road map that they have they're going to have to do a lot more than they did with just the island based on what they have said on scorched Earth so far it seems they are moving in the right direction with this with talks of new caves and other additions to what is by far survival evolv's smallest DLC of course this all just adds up to the idea that there is so much pressure on scorched I'm excited to see what they do offer up with this map and as you'd hope with the extra time that has been given to it they are going to deliver a polished experience with a map that has been revamped completely from the ground up that almost feels like a fresh experience I think whatever happens with the delays and setbacks though we are in need of a new road map which will be about the fourth time Asa has had to publish one and snail's Financial reports they have claimed that there are brand new paid DLCs coming to ASA this summer but at this point no one really knows what to believe on the latest road map we saw there was something in November 2024 noted down as an arc survival ascended surprise forgive us for being slightly skeptical about what that surprise could be with a strong chance that wild card themselves aren't actually sure what it's going to be themselves of course there is something else that is still stated to release around November this year which of course brings me on to our last chapter the ark 2 problem so this brings me on to my very last point which I feel we need to discuss do we we need arc 2 in the buildup to the release of Asa I think a lot of people would have said no little we had really heard about Arc 2 up until this point sounded like much to be excited about the new Souls like combat system that was being Ted about was being met with a mixed reception to say the least in terms of what has actually happened to Ark I though that could be a completely different video it is slightly confusing for me to read that wild cards seemingly have no experience with Unreal Engine 5 when you would assume that they have been using it for the last couple of years to make Arc 2 let's not forget that Arc 2 was meant to be launching in 2022 then 2023 and of course now finally Q4 of this year in the community crunch announcing the launch of survival ascended they claimed that we want to provide you with an evergreen classic Arc experience one that can continue to grow over time on a cleaned up code base making use of the technological advancements not only in the industry but also in what we are working on with Arc 2 the words certainly sound like a company that that should have some experience with the engine I'd like to reiterate that I am not a game developer and if anyone has an experience with Unreal Engine 5 who might be able to shed some light on this in the comments please do go ahead and do so with wildcard seemingly hard at work on ASA the development of Arc 2 is a bit of a mystery could it be being outsourced was the original concept canned and what effect does the current accusations against Finn Diesel have on the game's future with the slow release of maps and content for ASA it is possibly because the team has been completely split in half with half of the team remaining to create more content for ASA and half moving over to Arc 2 either way the simple question is whether the ark survival franchise now needs Ark 2 whether that is running alongside a fully optimized and released descended or being the mainline game to take the franchise forward and honestly barring a complete change of course and wild card with Asa I believe that we do I believe the unsatisfactory launch of Asa has been enough to put some people off the game for good and may never return to it from the moment that ASA was announced people were skeptical of the nature of the game and while I do applaud wild cards honesty when they admitted in the announcement of the game that the funds generated from ASA would be used to fund Arc 2 this has only further added fuel to the fire with Asa looking more and more like a cash grab every single week I don't think people are prepared to wait until 2025 to play some of their favorite Maps again when they can quite simply play them right now on ASC a more polished and better optimized experience at that according to snil games we are still on course for the launch of Arc 2 in the last quarter of this year but honestly it's hard to see that happening perhaps if the game is being outsourced with wildcard operating on more of a consultancy basis it could be possible but despite all their flaws I would still want Wild Card involved with the production of the game once upon a time there was so much passion in there for their game and their idea I just hope that if we do get Arc 2 enough of that passion remains to make an unforgettable gaming experience as quite frankly survival ascended so far has been Unforgettable for all the wrong reasons so to conclude if you made it this far I can only assume one thing like myself you deeply care about Ark as a franchise and the state that we find Arc survival ascended in is a Deeply oppressing One I am desperate for this game not to go down as a lazy abandoned cash grab just asign to fill snail game pockets up until the launch of Arc 2 if we do ever get Arc 2 of course when ascended was first first announced I passionately defended it to my community stating that it could be a fantastic idea if executed properly the reality is that up until this point we have all been sold a lie can AR survival ascended recover from here yes will it be easy no the first thing that the studio must do is restore trust within the community for this to happen communication has to improve and setting widely unrealistic deadlines has got to end there can be no more getting to within one week of release date with the community panicking over whether stuff will be delayed or not surely it's time to start teasing screenshots of scorched Earth or even the other maps in Unreal Engine 5 and build up a bit of a good feeling about what the future of the game might look like it is going to be a gradual process to rebuild ASA and at this stage I think there is little margin for error on this one it's important that snail games grasp the fact that Arc has one of the most loyal fan bases out there but they should never ever take that for granted as even Ark players can turn and move on which should hopefully become clear to them in recent months it's also important that snail are under no illusions that they can simply leave ascended to rot completely turning their attention to Arc 2 people will not forget that upon the release of our hopefully much revamped and improved scorched Earth it's important that wild card try and turn a page on the last four months 1st of April 2024 is a very important day for Ark and it's not far away if you did enjoy this video don't forget to leave a like And subscribe to the channel if you haven't already I just wanted to thank my patreons for the consistent support if you do want to have Early Access to videos and access to my special sub servers for ASC ASA and pal World why not check out in the link in the description below I'll see you guys very very soon for another video bye-bye for [Music] now

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Length: 18min 19sec (1099 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 04 2024