After some fan backlash over how the Ark: Survival Advanced remaster is being dealt with, Studio Wildcard has responded by… making it costlier.
Final week, Studio Wildcard made a few massive bulletins associated to the Ark collection. The primary one, that Ark 2 has been delayed into 2024, is totally unsurprising, as we’ve got seen actually nothing of the sport to this point. The second was a bit extra stunning although, because the studio introduced that Ark: Survival Advanced is getting a giant remaster referred to as Ark: Survival Ascended, in addition to the truth that Survival Advanced’s servers are getting shut down, which means gamers must purchase the remaster. Followers did not like this a lot, so clearly Studio Wildcard’s resolution was to make it costlier.
To additional clarify, within the announcement Wildcard revealed that if you wish to play the sport on Xbox or PC, you had to purchase a bundle which additionally accommodates the upcoming second recreation for $49.99 (on PS5 you possibly can purchase simply Survival Ascended for $39.99). On high of that gamers must purchase upcoming enlargement packs. Now, in a brand new publish from Wildcard, apparently none of that is the case.
Survival Ascended will now value $59.99, is not going to embody Ark 2, and can embody all the upcoming expansions. “We acknowledge how combining ARK Survival Ascended with ARK 2 and requiring additional DLC upgrades wasn’t optimum, particularly because you wouldn’t be capable to choose ARK 2 as no gameplay or content material can be accessible but,” defined Wildcard in its publish, an odd factor to say contemplating this new model additionally drive you to pay much more than you probably did earlier than, for content material you additionally do not know might be good or not but.
The principle level of competition for followers is that they are being compelled into shopping for a completely new model of the sport, with servers of the unique being shut down which means that there is not any different possibility in the event that they wish to maintain taking part in (other than personal servers, which is not superb for everybody). Wildcard defined within the publish that “it might not be viable” to only make all these graphical adjustments within the unique recreation, however did not clarify why gamers have to purchase the sport once more simply to proceed taking part in it.
Servers for Survival Advanced are set to shut August 31, with Survival Ascended set to launch the identical month. All in all, a bit gross, so we’ll simply see if gamers willingly migrate!
