all we wanted was the old ARK with less lag and no cheaters that's it

The fact that ASA right after a "new" map release can still barely hit HALF the player count that ASE still has speaks volumes

the new generation of gamers who are growing up with "pay to win" "battlepasses" "microtransactions" don't know the golden age of gaming where once you buy the game once, you get access to everything. So, they will buy into this crap and keep giving greedy devs and publishers money.

I miss the old day when there was patch that introduces new dinosaurs, like yutyrannus. Now we have to pay $5 to enjoy one creature.

Love how pyromane one tap survivors with its flame attack and it cost money to use, what the fuck dude its literally pay to win

I think everyone is forgetting snailgames is a big reason why wildcard is In the position they are in

Over 10k hours in ARK:SE...Even if they made ascended FREE I still wouldn't be interested. Wildcard has completely destroyed any confidence I had in them. Why would I waste more time in their game just to get unceremoniously wiped *AGAIN!*

A performance update should've been out a looong time ago...

Imagine how dead asa would be if they didn't shut ase official server lol

I stopped following ark news after the first Scorched Earth delays for Ascended. So I didnt know about the Pyromane, but when I saw, I assumed it was a premium mod. Having a creature in the game for everyone but needing to pay to tame it ??? What the actual fuck ?

Their nasty business practices and their crashing game. Killed the most amazing game ever.

i miss when ark was a dinosaur game

I miss the old days man 😢

I put this on Nooblet's video but I wanted to extend it here as well H.O.D since I've seen all of the counter-points out there from the WC sycophants that defend this (which they have a right to of course) 1) Many people will argue that there wasn't as much controversy within the community when the original paid map expansion DLCs came out, and I'd like to note that's a false narrative. Kishko notably stopped playing becuase he recognized how much of a detriment to the original game Extinction was -specifically the managarmr. However many players before then, notably those that either couldn't afford to, or didn't want to, buy the DLCs found it unfair - you could be raided from a map you couldn't access, dinos and equipment were added that continuously tipped the scales, and many balance patches needed to be applied. It was ALWAYS an issue. -Here's the counter point to that: Eventually free DLC maps were added that gave access to many of those engrams and dinos. Unlike the Pyromane, you could still use any dino/equipment yourself from DLC you didn't own if someone gave it to you (freely or in PvP), and those maps were, well, maps! Is the shadowmane as (1) dino, really worth 1/4th the content of say, Aberration? Of course not. It's substantially more bang for your buck AND it expanded the game content which led towards Ark as a completed game - the collector's edition which contained all DLC. 2) "Developers need to get paid, they're a business" and you're absolutely right! They do! However, the devs of Rust, Fortnite, myriad other survival and PvP oriented games have managed to integrate paid mechanics that don't tip the scales in the favor of those who either have the funds, or have the desire to support them. The cambridge definition of P2W is as follows: "involving or relating to the practice of paying to get weapons, abilities, etc. that give you an advantage over players who do not spend money" cut and dry, the Pyromane & Bob's tall tales, some could argue even more-so than the previous DLC maps, are P2W content. Specifically because as previously stated, you cannot access this content whatsoever unless you pay for it. The issue ISN'T the community not wanted the devs being paid: why would they have bought the game in the first place afterall? That argument is purely a straw man fallacy. The issue is that ASA promised all the previous DLC for free, and they are obligated to keep that promise. The paid DLC now unequivocally adds an advantage over those that don't give in, to those on the same map. Those that don't have BTT had the Oasisaur drop golems and titans dropped on them. Those that don't own the Pyromane will have their walls rocket ran and selves set on fire. The devs need to be paid of course, but that's what premium mods and cosmetic items are for, as well as their deal with Nitrado which SHOULD have been to their financial benefit, and of course the initial purchase of the game. 3) It's only 5 bucks. Correct, good catch, it is only 5 bucks. It's only 5 dollars that everyone individually needs to pay, from the CEO who plays in his off time to the 11yo kid in poverty playing at his friend's house. As long as all current roughly 45k people playing ASA buy it, then it's an even playing field! But then what? The next 5 dollar, 10 dollar, 20 dollar P2W dino/item/engram comes out. By the end (assuming they ever stop) you'll have put over 3-4x (135-180usd) the cost of the original game JUST to either have an advantage over the regular player, or to "support the devs" on a handful of dinos and items, when originally half that price granted you 6 whole maps with their associated tames and items. ASA is currently 45usd. BTTs is 30usd and the pyromane is 5usd. With JUST those 2 DLCs alone we're at 78% the cost of the initial game - does that sound like it's a fair deal to you? The issue isn't it only being 5 dollars. The issue is it's a slippery slope that isn't just a fallacy, it's a historical trend for developers to push the envelope AND you're being objectively cheated. 4) it's not that op. This one is almost self-explanatory. Shoulder-pet to ridden on a dime, can bypass enemy foundations negating the cryopod changes, infinite shoulder-mounted flamethrower, pre-saddled with 60armor, will be able to/can be bred for mutes, is entirely fire-based which is the current meta, AND is a passive tame that you can get almost immediately if you make a trap for it. Is it going to beat a giga or carch? No, but neither do most if any previous DLC dinos. What it will do is give a clear and definitve advantage in PvP that bypasses all the current mechanics in ASA and again, isn't accessible to anyone that hasn't paid for it. 5) stop crying. Why? If your neighbor gets their roof's shingles re-done and thinks the job is poor while you don't, your opinion doesn't negate nor trump theirs. They have just as much a right to demand more from the service they've elected as much as you do a right to be content with yours. The issue with this argument is quite literally, constructive criticism will always be to the benefit of the whole, while sitting back in complacency will only benefit the originators of the service. The community at large doesn't like what's going on - and presumably if the detractors left à la "if you don't like it, get out" you'd be left with a truly dead game, as that opinion is the current minority. For every mesh hole fix, for every PvP rebalance, for every DLC that became a free modded map, for every cheater that got reported, behind them all was someone raising the flag of discontent and concern. You don't complain about something becuase you DON'T care about it, you complain because you do - that applies to everything in life. From a dino survival game, to your job, to marriage, to life, you should want to fix what's deemed broken - to better. Content creators are there to give a voice to the people, because they've put the work in to build a platform, and they've promoted the game a LOT more than bob-schmo beach-man. Lastly, I'll just say this. Most everyone that's watching this video, and HOD, and Shane, and Xavii, and every content creator that isn't simply meat riding - we all want the game to succeed, and by extension, studio WC, and to a lesser degree for obvious reasons, Snail Games. We love Ark. It's truly a bang for your buck game and unique - but there's a limit to what the community can/should take. If the detractors of this argument TRULY believe in what they're saying then fine - go and buy copies of ASA for the people you know, go to the WC store and buy their merch, and buy every premium cosmetic mod you can - it will ALL support the devs in a way that doesn't support unfair gaming practices or encourage their implementation. You can tell from the lack of Ark videos from your favorite or even lesser known YT'ers and streamers that the game is essentially on life support - everyone needs to encourage WC and SG to benefit the community in a way that can actually garner them a desire to support the game - becuase currently, most are feeling cheated. Literally, and figuratively.

Prim-only servers should be a thing

The Pyromane's problem is not only just pay to win, it's just not realistic for this setting and ARK IS A PRETTY UNREALISTIC GAME heck we have Wyverns yet they fit the setting. I thought Shadowmanes were Rockwell's creations in Gen Part 2, we shouldn't have a fire reskin and on top of that why does it need to be able to TRANSFORM into a chibi? Thats just too much for me, it feels cheap, unrealistic, and like a cash grab, not a genuine addition.

Still laughing at the Ark discord mod who replied to me and said "Eww it's not a Shadowmane reskin!"

Weirdest thing I felt with the center is when they used the desertish looking ground/soil on this map almost everywhere you'll see it and it feels off to use on a jungle/island theme map... They should've just used more grass and made the ruins also looked overgrown like nature took over it for many many years :( even just painting the ground green would've probably made it look more ASE Center...

The DEVS Lied to the community. They said ASA was built from ground up, but it’s not. It’s same “lazy” code from ASE. They just Lazy copied it into UE 5.0/5.1. Slapped on few minor upgrade and game updates then called it day. Slapped full Price on it. There is ZERO optimization on it, it has Same bugs as when ASE launched back 2015. Where at least ASE has years of bug fixes. Don’t forget wildcard is run by snail games. Scam of company who supposedly invested ark money, and snail games put all that money into EV car company, then it went bankrupt. If rumours are true. So all money snail/wildcard made. GONE. They are broke. Or that is the rumour. And maybe why they dropped the free ASE to ASA upgrade. Cus they needed money again. Devs said ASA is running UE 5.2. They have lied. I swear it running UE 5.0 or 5.1. Not 5.2. How we know this? Remember when UE 5.0 matrix demo came out? It ran horrible. Epic made a lot fixes, bug tweaks and optimization in UE 5.2 to 5.3 and now 5.4 is the latest UE version. So that why feel bland, runs like crap even on 4090. Didn’t Jess or was Jeremy one ark devs say on Twitter, that they would never go MTX or pay to win? Lol Bs. The high end game content should be locked behind instant, like they do in wow. When enter the raid. It’s separate raid. You have be in party to fight the bosses with chance of high end loot dropping. Player can roll for loot. It’s not perfect. But at least it stop tribes camping at spot and locking it away from all other players. But yeah devs don’t care. Clearly none of them have ever played classic wow back in the day. When was good. It’s now shit game also, Cus all good devs left/quit and got corrupted by Activision. Now ms owns same corruption. Snail games is a cancer.

Personally, the nostalgia hit hard when ASA released. Only because it had my 4090 feeling like I was back on xbox one.

I think the current state is perfectly encapsulated by the recent trailers. When WC was just getting their foothold/cared about the game, it felt like they took it seriously. The ASE Scorched Earth Trailer may not have been some flashy thing, but it was serious, and honestly got me extremely hyped to play the new "hard" ark. It looked cool, challenging, and completely broke open the games story. It was/is buggy, but someone cared about it. Now, we get this new game, and you watch the new Scorched Earth trailer, and the "serious" stuff looks meh, and then there's all this added goofy cowboy bs. It quite literally has shifted the thought process from, "Look, we're trying to be serious game devs," to "The community thinks we're a joke, so we might as well be a giant joke. Give us money, and don't forget to reset your despawn timers." I think that kinda goes hand in hand with the divided community you mentioned where the game is having the identity crisis of sticking to its roots as a serious survival game with unintended jank vs embracing that jank as almost intentional design to dodge the accountability of designing mechanics properly and trying to pass it off as a goofy kids games. Unfortunately, I'm only willing to support games that produce substantial dlc not microtransactions, so I had to let this game go. I love it dearly, but they've chosen their path. I'm under the impression the best thing we can do is don't play it if it's not worth playing. One less addiction in my life. Good video mate.

I did enjoy how ASA looks when it 1st came out. Visiting the island again and it looked amazing but they didn't need to do it and paying again for a upgraded version that we already had was disappointing

I hate the fact that they removed official servers on ASE

I wonder if an indy studio can make a dino survival game, seems like a pretty open market atm

I agree with all of this. I have been a long-time Ark player and have done both large tribe and solo play. I’m very disappointed that as a solo or small tribe this time, it’s so hard to do anything if you aren’t in a large tribe. I’ve started on ASA multiple times, tamed, built up and end up just giving up & letting stuff despawn because it just doesn’t feel worth it. Can’t go anywhere else but the map I’m on without making a cryofridge, generator, etc ..and that breaths the whole point of remaining a solo hiding out in the shadows. There’s no more just loading into another map to scout around or go for a particular resource. The beaches are littered with cryofridges and that limits new players from being able to find a spot to build and learn the game. It’s just a mess right now and I regret buying it. My friend & I returned to ASE just so we could play on the same platform together, but even that is lackluster with no actual official servers anymore.

I tried reinstalling ASE after I bought ASA and realised that the "remaster" had made the game unplayable on my PC (like it literally would crash constantly at startup and wouldn't allow me to create a char without crashing) - I finally got it working and then it started crashing randomly and was horribly laggy, even on low graphical settings / resolution. ASE was no better, sadly, and despite the game being well within my PC's capability, it runs like crap and crashes a tonne more than I ever remember in the past... It's crazy how both versions of this game have been ruined in the time it's taken for ASA to get to this point - I had really wanted to play Ark and experience that fun again trying to tame dinos and make progress with friends, but it's impossible with the game in the state that it is in 😢

thank you for mentioning beds issue, im seeing not many are talking about it and its a big issue, instant subscribed you speak for us!

"built from the ground up" 😂

Today we explore what has happened to Ark and ask how did we get here and explore the future of Ark can they save it? what do you think?

ASA was the end of an era ark will never be the same as the good days

at this point the community should work together and make a new game that felt like og ark before all the tek and nonsense

I've played many games over my 32 years of life, its become a sad yet common occurence having to let go of a franchise you used to love. Halo, Destiny, COD, the early battlefeilds and of course ASE. It hurts remembering the memories playing these games in their prime and what they've become.

OTHER MAIN ISSUES WITH ASA PVP: 1.Game performance, (No other game comes to close to how poorly ark servers/game perform, I get its a mmo with alot of things going on at the same time but just look at rust their servers run 10x better than ark and some servers have more than 800 players on them.) 2.Raid balance, (alot of caves are way to hard to raid rn, all you need to do is sit there with a stego and block off the entrance if they decide to terror run and if they grapple the stego just heal with a pig/cakes or throw out a new stego. Also with cryo changes its makes it pretty hard to soak turrets, plus with the new turret settings you can set them to ignore turtles. Unlike caves its too easy to soak on land, should maybe buff turrets to 1.5x or nerf stegos.) 3.Foot pvp/dino rebalance, (even though it is a dinosaur game foot pvp isnt as strong as it should be imo, foot pvp is alot more fun/skill expressive than sitting on a dino pressing bite, I think it would be cool to see a 50/50 ratio between foot pvpers and dinos in big raids/defense. Main killers of foot pvp rn: carchas way to fast, player speed a little bit to low, no cryos, and kill time is to slow against other players unless bolad. would like to see better registration from weapons, tlc to weapons: buff to some weapons, nerf to flame, increasing use of attachments/adding more like a grip/extended mag,.) 4. To hard for new players, ( Maybe adding rat holes/small caves that are very hard to raid but offer limited space. ) 5.cheating There are deffo alot of other issues with asa but even if WildCard fixed/improved half of these issues game would be thriving imo. Would love to see some sort of pole/videos put together by some of the big ark youtubers that list all of the main issues with asa, and atleast this way if WildCard dont change anything after that we'll know for sure there's no saving the game.

Well, they removed official ORP servers which knocked out at least a 4th of their player base, theyre screwing over their pvp communities by nerfing. The entire game at this point is a big cash grab, they lied to their entire community about it pretty much the entire time and trying to make ASA a standalone PvE p2w game and refuse to listen to anyone in their community unless if snail games is the one saying anything they wont do anything or listen. They dont even need to make a new dlc to get them out of the hole theyre in just listen to your damn community. Fix the fundamentals of the game add in the modes people wanted like official orp and stop adding in p2w bs that forces your hand if you want to play a game. You cant spawn in a rathole and caves are buggy, its all just a PVE trashy cash grab by snail games and nitrido. If they just did what they promised and add in everything that was in ASE how it was in ASE and stop ruining things like cryopods. If you want to rework something add in things like in ci where owning artifact caves didnt lock people out of progression and listen to the community.

I've watched you for a few years now and would occasionally pop in to watch your vids only recently but I still do enjoy them a lot. I hope you're able to move on from Ark and find more success if the Ark videos don't work out for you. Good luck man.

ASA is only worth it from a dedicated/private server standpoint. Where you can control the balance of things. Sadly officials are just getting ruined more and more each update

HOD, just move on to better content and games. We all know ASA won't get better no matter how much time has passed. It will draw in more players with more maps, but at that point, the game will be filled with functional, paid DLC content and crossovers (like MMPR). ASA almost has ASE beaten, we'll definitely see the trend flip when Ab releases even if it's a 2/10 remaster. I admire the fact you're holding hope, but buddy, it's just not happening. Wildcard doesn't seem to be interested in community reception unless we're threatening them or being overly annoying in Discord. They proved to be out of touch with the initial announcement and it took three tries to get the business model right. Remember what Wildcard said about The Center immediately after release? We are currently working on a major update for The Center, which includes numerous fixes for visual issues, polish, level design, and bugs, such as an issue with Pyromane Breeding on servers, and the inability to build in some spots around the map. Many of these fixes have been queued up in advance, but due to maintaining cross-platform compatibility and certification requirements, we had to wait to release them. Now that the release is out the door, we’ll be working on getting this patch out ASAP, ideally, we can have it released or into cert before the end of the week. ^ literally admitting TC wasn't finished and they couldn't be bothered to delay to at least get the map fixes they have ready finished... Much respect, but don't hold your breathe.

One thing that I’ve found which many people might flame me for but idk, caves need to be changed. I genuinely don’t think you should be able to build in them at all. Me and my friends like to play smalls, we’re good but not good enough to take over the major caves. What we find is if you don’t get a major cave you cannot survive. What this does is make it so only a couple tribes (the ones who have the caves) can be on a server. When new servers drop they are PACKED, then once the caves are taken. The whole server dies. It’s not fun especially for groups like mine where we are experienced and good, but can’t play enough to take these caves.

very frustrating, I didn't know about the rathole issue until I found a rathole on scorched, tamed a moth just to get up into it threw down foundations put down a bed and nope can't spawn, really took the wind out of my sails as I thought I had found a good spot.

"They need to do this..." or "They need to do that...". Wrong. You/We need to stop supporting shitty companies. Not just with gaming but restaurants and shopping centers in general. This is no different. We have the power. Take a poll for the next game to support that deserves it.

You listen well ARK Devs take notes you greedy bastards.

I keep trying to get into ASA, but end up going back to ASE every time. It’s just not the same. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thank you Hod.

I have 17k hours in ASE. Really miss all my friends and the game and the struggles we had together.

I miss ase so much that I play fiber craft for it lol

My friends and I havent played ASA since the Island, and even then we quit because of all the crashes. But when SE came out with its p2w DLC we hard-noped in it, and it looks like the Center has its own p2w creature so we won't be coming back for that either. I agree with the blandness too. The colour pallette in ASA seems to be this sandstone desert brown almost yellowish tone everywhere. Even the Redwoods weren't red they were brown iirc. Other odd details stood out too like silica pearls looking like rocks and no longer glowing. Just all in all, ASA is a letdown and if my friend circle (easily 15k hours between us) is representative of the playerbase at large, no wonder the player count is in the gutter, because we aren't playing anymore and likely won't be back unless WC does a complete 180.

HOD been fighting the good fight for a long time. don't ever stop brother we with you

If they did servers where there was only dinosaurs and primitive stuff it'd be so much better. I once played a no flyer server too on the centre map, it was the most fun I had in years.

i miss my ark 😥

Why they dont add solo or duo servers? I DONT GET IT

This has been my ark experience every time I try to play online; I find a server and create a new character. I run around for 2 hours looking for a place to put a base with no luck because there are pillars everywhere. I give up and play something else. I've done this several times cause I want to like this game but never get to play unless I play offline

Good perspective on ASA... I only play Solo on ASA at this point and jump back to ASE most of the time...

very good video 👍

I have over 5000 hours in ASE and 750 in ASA, the Pyromane and bugs just ended it for me, so I am playing Soulmask and Enshrouded!!!

18:12 I felt that bro, can tell that came from the heart

its like you re meet your old chilled hood friend / crush your lover and you still over her but she's changed so now you just love her shadow only the memory onf what once was

Idk lol. I agree fuck wildcard and snail but from the generic standpoint, saying the center looks like the island isn’t a strong take. They feel about as different now as the original two maps did

I don't know hod but i think the game was p2w from the beginning if someone attacked me from se for example and i don't have se i cant attack him that's p2w but i am agree with the other stuff about fixing all the other shit in the game

Wildcard need to listen to you, no doubt the franchise pays your bills and puts food on your table, your invested as much as a dev but your a player your point of view is honest and on point, its money for them if they listen, great video!!

Ratholes are a must have, and this is coming from someone whose typically a solo player. And even when I had 5 people, we still needed ratholes cause of how impossible it is to have a defendable base in the open on a map. I remember back in the early days before scorched even came out on ase. Pvp was a bunch of bases out in the open and was fun like that. Now, its a mega tribe consisting of 10+ people on at all times blocking off player spawns and obs with every single cave sealed shut with more heavy and tek turrets than you could count due to dying before your game can even load them

something missing yeh like the bobs tall tales and new pyro thing dont even work on xbox px or normal xbox store says i own both but in game says i have to buy it fk this game im done bobs tall tales worked perfect until centre map release the just fkt everything iv had it all i want is what i pay for to actuly fn work but it works on steam fine tho imagine tht.

Did you guys really not see this coming? I guess I'm just ahead of the curve. I never listed to the "the devs are just doing their best" bs that the fanbase has been spouting for years, trying to make it out like Snail is the only problem. I never forgot that the reason WC is owned by Snail in the first place is Jeremy's shading business practices, violating his own non compete clause. When the fans tried to say it was because WC was a small studio, I pointed out that they were big enough to split their studio to fail at Atlas. Yes, lets not forget this isn't the first time WC has failed at an Ark clone. It's not the first time Snail has been involved in an Ark clone and most of those were abandoned. I also never forgot that fan is short for fanatic and these people's opinions weren't reasonable. Even now they're claiming this new $5 reskinned Shadowmane isn't P2W. I started playing Ark a bit late in 2018 after Extinction dropped. I quit official servers almost exactly a year later because of the way the fanbase behaves and I was only playing PVE. It was obvious to me that the fanbase would be split the moment they doubled back on their announcement it would be a free upgrade. The fans came to rescue them again. "It's a business, they expect to be paid for their work!" Yes, it's a business, and they're suffering from making a bad business decision. Let me remind you that Skyrim, one of the biggest selling games of all time released an upgraded Special Edition, Skyrim in a newer engine for free to those who owned the game already. Let's not forget the fact that this is a remaster... in EARLY ACCESS. WC has a history of incompetence and they're never going to change because the same people have their hands in the cookie jar. People like Cedric who never follow up on what they say they're going to do. People like Dolly who seems to spend more time thinking about what edgy thing she's going to say on Twitter than showing any evidence that she's in tune with what's going on with the fans. And MORE completely unfinished content, nabbed from modders. The Center, Ragnarok, Valguero, Crystal Isles, Lost Island, Fjordur... NONE of these were finished when made official and at least two of them were stripped of all the assets that made them unique. Why are you surprised? I play on another youtubers servers (ASE) and he's completely lost momentum on his ASE let's play series of videos and keeps putting out more and more ASA content. The vast majority of people on his discord don't care and most of the players who play on his servers can't even afford to run ASA. ASA runs like crap, but the fanbase always plays the "It runs fine for me" card. Move on, dude.

great video. you made several valid points. we have to be responsible consumers.

I tried joining a server where the alpha tribe would send out parasours on hover rafts and just zoom around clocking all bases with animals and would kill you once you got to a certain size.

Because of what they did to us in ark one I will never play one of their games ever again I don't care how good it is I will not waste my life or time on that just so they can erase everything that I do

remember when this was a dino game.

Amen brother. Very nicely said. I truly feel the pain since i play Ark from the beginning on aswell

They need to add crouches back to caves and make new smaller caves and move artifacts to the outside like valguero and crystal isles, and make cryos work like the used to, the game would be much better than it is now but the devs are all pve players so they won't lift a finger

Who the fucks buying dlc packs when they camt even stop the hacking

It’s no secret asa isn’t where it should be I just hope they listen to feed back and recover. It’s not too late (at least for me it’s not)

“You killed Adam goods” got me on the floor😂😂😂

Have some great memories with great friends and family on the OG game. Was really fun .. then. Haven't been on this game in some time.

Yeah that sums it up pretty well. Ark is in limbo, and ASA needs to get better and stop pushing bullshit DLC. I run both a ASE cluster and a ASA cluster (PvE), and all my long-time members just want me to launch fresh ASE servers at this point. I'm about ready to oblige them. Fingers crossed that ASA gets turned in the right direction.

This game died after the first official wipe of the official servers on ASE.

I encounter frequently an annoying glitch that causes supply drops to clip through the terrain, making them inaccessible.

They killed the game when they introduced Tek and everything that came after it. Ark was a super cool dino survival game and they completely killed that indentity.

One of the things I hated about this remaster was the fact that they didn't even bother to implement a proper first person perspective. You're still running around as a pair of arms 2 feet from the ground and it makes me feel sick to play like that

The reason we all love rathole content is because we all love to root for the underdog

Thank you for always sticking up for the players and not glazing everything the devs do like everyone else

My buddy and I used to grind all day long on ASE. We were so excited for the massive upgrade in quality that we were told would make it all worth it. Idk if maybe the game looks really good on PC, but last time we checked it was basically unplayable on Xbox Series X....

Feels bad man, but let’s be honest. They didn’t fix anything with ASE, so they definitely won’t fix ASA. Like you said, it’s just a money grab. Always has been, always will be. The cheating alone makes the game not worth playing, there’s tons of better games out there anyway.

ARK has become the senior citizen who buys a sports car and plays rave music with the windows down. It's being turned into a fucking joke! Will I fuck buy into the micro transaction bollox. Is this the "surprise" Wildcard was hinting at? Well, they surprised the shit out of me!!!

A simple solution would be to allow missions like in Gen 1 and 2. Missions could maybe allow for artifacts as rewards so everyone can get end game stuff

I went back to ASE, I just hate the huge downloads because of MOD updates on ASA every other day.

New Center looks ugly. Drained of all its color and charm, replaced by a wash of tan rock. Ice castle looks depressing. Lava Island and Half-Burnt Island are just jungles now. I don't like the direction Ark is going. I'm prepared to be disappointed by Aberration (my favorite map). Pretty much lost all hope for Ark 2 being any good also.

Asa is like your favourite burger place changing your favourite burger so that the bun is 100x better but replaced the patties with dog food..😔

I cant even look at Ark now, so I'm asking for any reccomendations of other games. Is it possible @HOD for you to do vid on any game suggestions. Would love to see a vid showcasing different games to consider.

Man remember when we were getting new dinos every patch or we were searching for teasers for Extinction. Good times we'll probably never get again

Stopped playing with the jump from ASE to ASA. Played years with my friends on PS Official Servers and have so many good memories and we had huge progress till the end of Gen2. Thats why I see no reason to start from the beginning after all this years of struggle and time on ASE. I dont even care anymore about ARK and just saw your video because I'm still subscribed to you after all this time

While I agree with the points made , this video came off as a repetitive long 20 minute rant when it could've easily been 5 minutes

I feel like Crystal isles had a really good idea going. Although there were a lot of artifacts to collect, very few of them were actually locked in a cave. Although I never played on public servers, I can imagine how this would have kade camping harder.

ratholes do need to be allowed to live in but also need to fix the stupid amount of mesh holes

Let's not forget partially why the rathole/cave meta came about because of the increasingly OP stuff ARK kept adding. Also Wildcard themselves partially encouraged it to (e.g. making Ruins of Nosti/Church cave on SE more accessible) as well as letting cave building exist on official servers. From a PvE private server perspective: while the QoL improvements are quite good, there's nothing more unique drawing people in. Especially in the global cost of living crisis and the growing disdain of the games industry that makes people less inclined to buy these DLCs. Not to mention Nitrado's monopoly on servers hugely discourages people even more. The lesson learned here is this: when your top investor & publisher says "Hey can I borrow a billion dollars so I can be Chinese Elon Musk?", say no

I don’t know about this one

Im still playing ASE, partially because if people with 4090s are having problems, my 3060 can't do anything. Ive always played Singleplayer. So im not as bothered by the shut down of the official servers. Though the worst part is that all the bigger mod developers are mocing to ASA to develop mods. So we probably arent gonna get any new, good mods or mod maps anymore. I wish I had the experience and time to make my own

there are plenty of useable ratholes though on center that beds work in

That CHINESE company are to blame for killing ark...

that old clip of the turret quetz clip i remember that vid looked so fun compared to what it is now

"Locking down artifact caves has destroyed the game" this is one of the main reason i only play unofficially now. The server i play replaces artifacts with snowglobes, you can get around 100 in blue drops (gamma 100, beta 250, alpha 500) meaning artifact caves can now be built in and EVERYONE has fair access to end game. Like to see official implement something similar, with artifacts instead granting special bonuses for placing in base on pedastal or something. Like, 1 artifact grants boosted maturation, another grants increased structure hp/ defense by a percentage etc. That way there would still be a point of running the caves but wouldnt be so necessary for end game! Just a thought!

I’m just chilling enjoying the games looks with my friend in pve 🤷‍♂️