ARK developer is under fire for releasing DLC for their early access survival game, it costs almost as much as the base game...

[niofalpha]

We all hate day 1 DLC, but what about DLC for Early Access games? ARK just did... No, not gonna update it to DirectX 12 which has been in the patch notes saying it's coming soon has been in the patchnotes since November of 2015... 

 

Beyond how much I hate that, I can see why they would... They did just recently get hit by a large lawsuit. But they also just crippled the base game... They're planning to allow you to (Source there <)

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TRAVEL BETWEEN ARKS
Survivors can take their character, favorite creatures and items between the Island and the new Desert ARKs, making their Island-dwelling friends jealous with all of the amazing new items, structures, creatures and secrets they find in the Desert.

If the trailer is realistic to the game, this is gonna break the normal game by adding a paywall into an Early Access survival game...

 

 

http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/first-ark-survival-evolved-expansion-now-adds-new-creatures-items/

 

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Studio Wildcard was teasing a major new expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved earlier this week, though now it has been officially revealed. The expansion is called Scorched Earth and is available to download now on PC and Xbox One for $20. The base game is required in order to play the expansion, and that has been marked down 40% on both PC and Xbox One.

 

The game costs as much as the DLC, since it's on sale...

 

Large portions of the /r/PlayArk, and the steam community page for ARK are up in arms about this. 

[redbaron28]

I Know right. I have dual titan x's and i cant run the dam game at epic at 60fps. Like devs get your crap together and fix your game!!!!!!!!!

[Gravemind]

Well of course it's just as expensive.

How else will the game developers afford a new Ferrari every day.

You people are so insensitive to the plight of the game developer.

[niofalpha]

1 minute ago, redbaron28 said:

I Know right. I have dual titan x's and i cant run the dam game at epic at 60fps. Like devs get your crap together and fix your game!!!!!!!!!

It doesn't even support SLI yet...

[redbaron28]

Just now, niofalpha said:

It doesn't even support SLI yet...

Its dum it doesnt it needs it bad. The minimum system requirements is a joke.

[Gravemind]

2 minutes ago, redbaron28 said:

I Know right. I have dual titan x's and i cant run the dam game at epic at 60fps. Like devs get your crap together and fix your game!!!!!!!!!

wot

 

I have an RX 480 8gb and it runs just fine.

[niofalpha]

7 minutes ago, Gravemind said:

Well of course it's just as expensive.

How else will the game developers afford a new Ferrari every day.

You people are so insensitive to the plight of the game developer.

It's an early access game, and they're already releasing DLC for it. If you don't see an issue with this, you're beyond thick skulled.

[Zultax]

i love this game but the way the devs are handling this it worries me  

[Gravemind]

Just now, niofalpha said:

It's an early access game, and they're already releasing DLC for it. If you don't see an issue with this, you're beyond thick skulled.

*facepalms*

 

Its called sarcasm.

ARK is a pile of shit.

[SpaceGhostC2C]

8 minutes ago, Gravemind said:

Well of course it's just as expensive.

How else will the game developers afford a new Ferrari every day.

You people are so insensitive to the plight of the game developer.

They can charge as much as they want, and I can choose to buy it or not... when I know what I'm buying. I adopted a "let me know when it's finished" policy with games (and I don't mean released, but actually finished). Since I don't play online, there is no value to me in playing games when they are new, while there is value in playing them when they are good, which is after they finish patching, debugging, and adding stuff. 

If a game actually survives, I can buy "game of the year" or whatever edition 1 or 2 years later, fully supported by everything, running well on hardware that doesn't cost that much any more. It's not like I'll be waiting, there are so many not-so-new interesting games I still haven't played, and not so much time to play them...

[crysilis]

16 minutes ago, niofalpha said:

It doesn't even support SLI yet...

lol the games terrily optimized so i would reccomend optimizing it first then adding dual gpu support

[niofalpha]

1 minute ago, crysilis said:

lol the games terrily optimized so i would reccomend optimizing it first then adding dual gpu support

It's not that poorly optimized. I play on a combination of Epic- High and run ~45 FPS on a 980. Sure, the FPS is low, but the game looks beautiful.

[PerfectTemplar]

48 minutes ago, Gravemind said:

wot

 

I have an RX 480 8gb and it runs just fine.

At what settings? High Settings suggest GTX 970 yet only run at ~40 FPS. I have a 980 Ti and it runs at ~40 FPS on medium when it's 1440p. Btw, the game looks like GARBAGE when its on anything but high.

[Belgarathian]

Shit, man. Hes one-upped EA. 

[rattacko123]

1 hour ago, redbaron28 said:

I Know right. I have dual titan x's and i cant run the dam game at epic at 60fps. Like devs get your crap together and fix your game!!!!!!!!!

You have dual GeForce GTX Titan X's, you should upgrade to dual GeForce Titan X's

[redbaron28]

Just now, rattacko123 said:

You have dual GeForce GTX Titan X's, you should upgrade to dual GeForce Titan X's

Heres the thing i upgraded from one titan x to two because i find two of them for 600usd and sold my first one. Didnt want to do 3 way sli.

[rattacko123]

2 minutes ago, redbaron28 said:

Heres the thing i upgraded from one titan x to two because i find two of them for 600usd and sold my first one. Didnt want to do 3 way sli.

Which Titan X? The new one? or the old one?

[redbaron28]

1 minute ago, rattacko123 said:

Which Titan X? The new one? or the old one?

Old one of course lol.

[suicidalfranco]

AH! serve you right, that will teach to buy promises instead of waiting for the finished product

[Trik'Stari]

It's about time we stop calling these games "early access".

 

Call them what they are, "always in development" or "constantly in development".

[RagnarokDel]

4 hours ago, PerfectTemplar said:

At what settings? High Settings suggest GTX 970 yet only run at ~40 FPS. I have a 980 Ti and it runs at ~40 FPS on medium when it's 1440p. Btw, the game looks like GARBAGE when its on anything but high.

the 980 ti isnt a 1440p60fps card at max settings.

[CynicalSalmon]

What would you class as a "full release game"? As we've seen over 2015 and the majority of 2016 so far is that a full release game is far from "perfect". These games are released with many bugs, optimization issues, server problems and the list goes on.. Ark Survival Evolved has given me 230~ hours of gameplay for £20 and now a DLC with more dinosaurs, more items and a brand new map [all of which nobody had a clue about, even I didn't and I beta test for Studio Wildcard] for £15 so as far as I'm concerned, I've got more play time and a better finished game for £35, some of which AAA games priced at £60+ couldn't achieve.

 

Class dismissed.

 

edit - english.

[CynicalSalmon]

5 hours ago, niofalpha said:

It's an early access game, and they're already releasing DLC for it. If you don't see an issue with this, you're beyond thick skulled.

Your reply is as closed minded as you're making out other people to be.

[Realist Peter Pan]

9 minutes ago, CynicalSalmon said:

What would you class as a "full release game"? As we've seen over 2015 and the majority of 2016 so far is that a full release game is far from "perfect". These games are released with many bugs, optimization issues, server problems and the list goes on.. Ark survival evolved has given me 230~ hours of gameplay for £20 and now a DLC with more dinosaurs, more items and a brand new map [all of which nobody had a clue about, even I didn't and I beta test for Studio Wildcard] for £15 so as far as I'm concerned I've got more play time and a better finished game for £35, some of which AAA games priced at £60+ couldn't achieve.

 

Class dismissed.

 

edit - english.

The point is, it's still early access, if they released it with bugs fixed, called it complete then released DLC no one would have as much of a problem with it. 

 

Your hours put into it is irrelivant 

[CynicalSalmon]

2 minutes ago, Realist Peter Pan said:

The point is, it's still early access, if they released it with bugs fixed, and called it complete then released DLC no one would have as much of a problem with it. 

 

Your hours put into it is irrelivant 

My hours put into it are relevant due to the fact I've paid £35 for a game I've been getting more fun out of than a game I paid £60 for that's a "full release".

 

Edit - To address your shortened & more straight to the point than OP, people would still complain but in a different way for different reasons. If there's something to complain about it, someone will.