game-over Increasing amount of unhappy customers.

[Case of the Scurvy 72]

I doubt you will get a response

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

2 hours ago, Case of the Scurvy said:

I doubt you will get a response

Still worth a shot though, I wonder how hard it is for them to just aknowledge that there are issues that won't solve themselves by ignoring them that need to be taken care of to make this game enjoyable rather than enchorable.

 

Edited January 21, 2019 by Jozzie McTowel

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

Bump cuz still no official reply what so ever and I'm not sure but there was "a letter to Jat" earlier on the forum that I no longer see here.

[Charles U Farley 46]

Bump.

[Forb Hidden 134]

Each of this posts increases my hope to find a beautiful landscape to claim

Thx to all the people who don't have the patience to wait for the change or fix.

And never forget: u are able to play a game, who is not finished yet for a lousy deep price. 10 years ago we payed up to 100.- for games, who had not a handfull of this content here and they were finished. No dlc's, no add ons - they were done.

Most of you are just spoiled too much and u have to learn about patience and understanding to the devs. They're working day by day hard (I hope^^) for us guys to serve a good game.

[Charles U Farley 46]

7 minutes ago, Forb Hidden said:

Each of this posts increases my hope to find a beautiful landscape to claim

Thx to all the people who don't have the patience to wait for the change or fix.

And never forget: u are able to play a game, who is not finished yet for a lousy deep price. 10 years ago we payed up to 100.- for games, who had not a handfull of this content here and they were finished. No dlc's, no add ons - they were done.

Most of you are just spoiled too much and u have to learn about patience and understanding to the devs. They're working day by day hard (I hope^^) for us guys to serve a good game.

I guess you´ve never been into ARK, aren´t you? I whish i had the kind of optimism you still seem to have. I don´t want to offend you, but what makes a lot of people angry is, that the dev team is making the same mistakes over and over again for years now. I don´t think this has anything to do with being spoiled (little rude to call some spoiled btw), to hope the game moves in a good direction.

And never forget: all this players who complain about the game in this forum don´t do this just for killing time. They actually play the game and just feel like the game needs a little push in the right direction from time to time. And to tolerate the concerns of others is the opposite of calling them spoiled!

[Forb Hidden 134]

I've played over 600h in ark...

And all together over 3000h in alpha survivel games.

And "spoiled" is the word, google translated me into. But when I write in German, no one would read it.

[Charles U Farley 46]

Just now, Forb Hidden said:

I've played over 600h in ark...

And all together over 3000h in alpha survivel games.

And "spoiled" is the word, google translated me into. But when I write in German, no one would read it.

k

[Charles U Farley 46]

Just in case someone of the developers has any kind of interest on players opinions -> Bump

[Lynx 92]

Actions speak louder that words. Stop playing Atlas and play a game you actually enjoy.

[Charles U Farley 46]

30 minutes ago, Lynx said:

Actions speak louder that words. Stop playing Atlas and play a game you actually enjoy.

You won´t believe it, but i actually like Atlas, but i don´t like the direction it takes.

Just in case someone thinks he has to post something like "hey it´s EA" I know that and i know what that means (Acronym for early access). Just another reason to hope the game develops in a good direction.

[Lynx 92]

6 minutes ago, Charles U Farley said:

You won´t believe it, but i actually like Atlas, but i don´t like the direction it takes.

At least there is the devKit. So if you don't like the official direction. Then you could make mods or support the modding community.

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

Not even a moderator here who can point this out to the one who has to read it?

[Charles U Farley 46]

But we have a "early access early access early access" troll thread now.

The "you don´t have the right to criticize"-narrative is doing it´s job.

Even though the causal chain is really easy to understand: we like the game, that´s the reason we discuss bad decisions and bad communication. If we didn´t like the game we would not writing threads about what could be better.

Playing bullshit bingo with "it´s early access" "delete if you don´t like it" "we will not miss you" "it´s too hard for you, that´s why you don´t like the game",etc etc. boring. I can complete my bingo row with every single post of those knockout argument trolls.

Edited January 23, 2019 by Charles U Farley

[wakkytabbaky 11]

i openly admitted to griefing chinese ships in a support ticket because i was sick and tired of losing ships and all i got in response was quote on quote "give us the ccc (which they already had) and we will look into it". didnt even acknowledge the fact i admitted to using exploits lol all the replies for several different tickets are the same person. its one guy running the support tickets and all answers are copy pasted 

[Illythid 4]

I have had an open ticket for almost 10 days.  5 Days ago I got a response asking if there was still an issue.  I have posted a million things that have gone wrong in the last 5 days from crashing, logging back in dead and in the middle of the sea then losing everything on me when I respawn, Stuck in between zones and getting host connection time outs, SoTD overspawned and sunk my Schooner ( I had @ 25 SoTD on screen and agro from 5 or more it was like an Armada blockade of SoTD), getting stuck in foundations, getting stuck in the structure of my boat and cannot get out, placed a brand new Elephant on my boat to watch it bounce up the mast then drop through the ship and earth and die (no corpse just disappeared and died), VULTURENADO so many vultures that when someone or something got agro it was like a tornado of vultures with at least 3-5 Alphas in the mix so it was instant death for you or anyone/anything you own including ships/crew/tames.   I have not gotten any help.  I came here looking for answers again only to see patch notes that makes me sick just thinking about trying to log on ( if only I could without Host Connection Time outs).  I have had a ton of technical issues and several game breaking issues that I have been patient and tried to overcome but the lack of response to my tickets,  the fact that I started with several people in the beginning and now none of them play anymore because they have given up makes a MMO hard to play solo.  I had peeps, the game has potential, but now I am on the frustration train with everyone else here.  I am not progressing in the game because all I do is spend time overcoming bullshit and broken game mechanics.  Going to see a lot of land available because I think you are going to see a lot more player base leaving this week. (steps off the soapbox)

[Will Parrot 18]

Reading this post again today after last patch with stone costs is really laughable x).
Just remember when you think things couldn't possibly go worse, in fact they can ! Enjoy present time, don't know whats coming next !

But still a lot of complaining going on, lets wait and see how things turn out, how people adapt and react (IG, not whining) to these changes. Kinda admire the devs, really takes some guts to push those patches :')

 

Just imagine the sadistic grin on dev teams faces when they tell community managers to communicate that kind of changes... x)

Edited January 24, 2019 by Will Parrot

[Scorpionshawn 134]

Hows those new patches working out for ya

On 1/20/2019 at 6:48 AM, Jozzie McTowel said:

They are unable to fix anything properly, people griefing ships because they can pick up more from the ground than they should be able to, well devs fix is let people glitch out on ships that aren't theirs when trying to enter them rather than fixing the real bug being people able to pickup too many items, log out, log back in, only have 250/250 weight until they drop an item or split their stack in their inventory for it to show the real weight again. So now people just hang from ladders on boats who didnt' pull those up and encumber it like that or just toss items on the deck for it to get encumbered. If they made it impossibru for ppl to get overweight in the first place even the ship dropping method would require a lot of players to sink a ship that way cuz the items dissapear rather quick.

Their claim that one of their dev's steam accounts got hacked is also a blatent lie, claiming this wouldn't occur again it only was an invitation to cheaters and hackers to show how quick they could fuck up their network once again. Not to forget that there are countless reports from cheaters and hackers being submitted via their ticket system which are going unanswered where these cheaters and hackers are going on with their malpractices until this very day (if servers were up though).

Everything they claim to fix they break it even harder, my two examples are just two of them, I bet alot of dissatisfied customers could come up with plenty more stuff.

Oh and not to forget their wonderous Fountain of Youth they implemented while about all players in game who have a character since launch are now receiving a very nice age debuff which they can only get removed when they travel to a Golden Age area where all people have to be right now and it only can hold up to 150 players in theory, in practice this wouild mean about 50 players to play it as it's meant to be played. But right now people just have to run through the lagfast that it is naked and hope for the best to reach the magic sparkles at the end of the cave. Same goes for powerstones apparently the much anticipated and praised end game they are trying to fix with each patch while their core game mechanics are broken beyond recognition. How are people supposed to play this game when everything is bugged and we have to find workarounds just to be able to progress in nearly each part of this game rather than playing as intended.

Far worse might be the interaction the devs have with this community, far too many people havea already noted and stated that they mostly listen to cringy streamers and crybabies in general rather than looking at these forums and see the daily return of many topics where players are most frustrated about. No they gonna nerf all kinds of stuff cuz some half ass streamer is giving them a bad rep about it on stream. The only thing those devs want is to keep this game look like it's shiny and fun on the streams until they raked in enough of our hard earned cash. Because let's face it, they robbed us from our money to let us play this aggrevating crappy coded "so-called-pirate-mmo". If I wanted to grind my ass of for materials I would have kept playing 7 days to die or would have reinstalled minecraft to have a better experience in harvesting and building stuff without having to fear that none of my work is still there when I log back in.

Let's have a look at the two twitters that are posting most of Atlas news and updates, now the official Atlas twitter is probably not into replying anyone at all just for posting update news and patch notes when Needed. Jatheish on the other hand is far more active with giving the community constant updates when shit goes wrong but also keeps posting ETA's that are never and are always late. Even seen people complain once about an ingame server message stating servers will restart or go down in 20 minutes, so players were rushing to a safe haven when on sea or make sure they got inside a house to logout before server goes down, what happens, server goes down only 5 minutes after that message appeared, making alot of players unable to logout safely with all the negativity as a result, players losing just their gear and die once ok very annoying, but those who never had a fair chance to park their boat somehwere lost alot of progress once again.

Now besides their shitty communication skills and their non-existant clock reading skills the only one who replies to certain tweets is Jatheish, the pain in the ass there is that he only replies to either positive comments or comments that have no informational value what so ever. Like last night he replied to a guy asking how often he must have said a certain word this year already whlist the majority of replies on his tweets are about the cheaters, the bugs, the game not being fun in general, those replies are being straight out ignored just as most of the topics are being ignored here on this forum by any official person. They implemented moderators and community admins, god knows why because the ones who should be more active on this forum are the devs, they should learn how to use their eyes and brain at the same time and read the massive reports of players that are begging for fixes in areas they have ignored since launch. Yet they bring out and even brag about their new features while the core mechanics of this game are still broken, people are still playing on 250 ping servers whilst having to deal with all the buggy shit that comes with predators, land claims, ship building, alphas, cheaters, hackers, and now we have rollbacks and constant patches that break stuff just a simple like doors no longer opening, if someone would just run the software they managed to  compile before they release it as an update they can prevent so many gamebreaking issues with each patch they release but nope, we are the guinneepigs, we are the rats in the wheels and why? Like most paid forumtrolls state here it's an Early Access game you should have known what u signed up for...

It's early access I get it, but doesn't that mean that what it describes in the EA stuff is that they are taking notes from customer feedback and listening to their playerbase on how to improve things? I've seen their Twitch live Q+A stream and I can tell you, there was no real Q+A part, it was just them talking about things they gonna implement while the playerbase is crying on the twitch chat to be aknowledged and to point out that devs are just ignoring the whole Black Butterfly incident by not even mentioning it once in their nearly 2 hour talk. To be honest the best description of that stream I read on this forum somewhere was someone saying those 4 guys at the mental hospital got some time off together and placed in a room with a webcam, this made my day just that little bit better because let's be honest, this weekend was horrible for those who actually took the time to play the game. Rollbacks, Fountain of Youth and Rollbacks.

This fountain of youth thing is so poorly designed and shows how badly these developers are connected with their playerbase,  we had freeport at launch that was overpopulated and with that mechanic they were lucky enough that there were plenty of freeports (and lawless areas) where people could eventually spawn, it wasn't enough for launch but it was somewhat managable. Right now u have to have the entire population of one server (NA PVE fe) to rush to one single grid where that fountain of youth is at, one grid that can hold 150 players maximum (in theory but in practice u get a ping of 250). So let's say about 5-10k players who have started near launch are now all over age 90 and have a debuff for being that old implemented on them whilst they dont' have the alternative at hand to make babies in game they are all forced at the same time with a serious debuff to find that fountain of youth before their character dies permanently losing all the progress and gear and landclaims and boats (if u play solo or have really small company where u all die before reaching it). So yeah, if one of those devs would ever have played on an official server and had to deal with all the previous bullshit before even thinking about going to a fountain of youth together will the rest of the playerbase at the same time they would have never implemented such a feature without having alternatives for breeding or even releasing something that makes us all get a random younger age. Cuz this issue will repeat itself in a couple of weeks when EVERYONE who's now 20 again will be at the age of 90 again, and yea you have to be 90+ to get a nice buff each time you go back after the age of 90+ you get a buff over your buff.

So tell me, am I exaggerating anything here? People who played this game for a few weeks now know very well that the way Grapeshot throws out updates is like a blind man playing darts, throw as hard and as fast as you can and see if one hits the bullseye, more misses than hits in this field. There are some obvious forum trolls here of which I hope they aren't being paid by Grapeshot to keep the negativity down by having so many people countering it with rediculous answers as: git gud, or learn to play, or game isn't made for soloing. I get it it's an MMO, but people all have to start out solo and the game mechanic only let's u stay on newbie island (freeport) until lvl 8 which is so low your chances of survival outside freeport are really small when u play alone and start to find land to claim to build a ship in case u want to start your own company and not become another companies slave to go pick cotton or other resources all day long whilst the guys who run the big companies get to play command & conquer while u play minecraft/lumberjack simulater.

They already stole our money after their terrible launch and steam still refuses to do refunds even when u try to explain all the issues ot them in a lenghty conversation like this one, u still get standard replies and support staff doesn't read your sentences the way you have written them. When I write: my first 20 hours of "gametime" were me sitting in main menu trying to login to a server. They read: you played 20 hours and thus Steam will not refund you after this much gametime. Now we all knew steam support can also be a pain in the ass sometimes, now we have to deal with Atlas dev team and Steam Support simultaniously. For those who gonna be trolls and say why u still play when u wanted refund and can only complain about it? Because I got robbed of my 25$ while Steam refuses to refund the damn thing due to timer things I felt obligated to play and see if I can still get fun out of it after each update and patch, as most of you trolls claim it's EA and (might/will) get better. Well it doesn't, they break the experience for most of us with each update they roll out or roll back.

I would also like to ask my fellow pirates who have had enough of this idiotic way things are going to just spam Jat and Atlas tweets as soon as they pop up with youtube videos of griefers, cheaters, bugs, glitches, anything that shows what a poor product this is to make sure they aren't fooling other people into buying this game until it might actually be playable. Please don't hesitate to even copy past my entire post here to spread the message on reddit, other forums or just in here in case mods think this should be deleted, as I have read from several users on this forum that posts about their incompetence get deleted sometimes.

Good luck to all of those who are still trying to play the game after all these things that happened, but for me it was over a few days ago, I'm done grinding to establish a little base and some boats on my own, I know it's not of solo players, but if u started this game with 5 friends and end up alone after a few days into the game u don't feel like joining a big company just yet, u try to build up a base and boat to show your friends and hope they want to play on from that part since they could skip the grindy part, but nope, it's so bad that they refuse to play it any longer and me myself have jumped ship and joined their boat, not playing boat. I will keep being a pest to this company until A: this game is a proper playable game (don't count on it). B: they refund this game to me (depending on steam here). As long as I feel like being ripped off, I'll be ripping on these nitwits as well.

 

This is what I picture how the game Atlas itself feels like if it were alive:

 

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

I haven't played since I posted this topic here and ever since trying to convince Steam to refund the damn thing and annoying as many Atlas personnel as I can without annoying myself. Read the latest patchnotes, can't see any imorovement on the side of listening to their peeps yet, even saw that they added extra costs to building stone structures with metal and organic paste, another slap in the face that is. Still no bugfixes for the stuff people really are struggling with. Oh and  the FOY can now only be done when u are +90 years and not before, adding even more issues to the damn quest cuz now people can't do it when they don't have the age debuff (even if it's only 50% left).

Edited January 24, 2019 by Jozzie McTowel

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

Even their bug forum section is broken, if someone reports a bug and it has 0 votes and views it ends up on page 4 or 5 where all the bugs are with 0 votes. This means new bugs that are reported need to be found by browsing to pages for people to find a topic and vote for it, this way it will never reach 200 votes cuz not even a single topic comes close to he 200 votes required. Posted this topic there

This way Jat and his eyeless mods and bosses have to take notion of this. Just rediculous how hard can it be to make the forum at least work properly, dipshit, pure utter dipshits.

[Charles U Farley 46]

Where will this "dry humping the cash cow" go next? We have ARK, Dark and Light, Pixel ARK, Atlas?

ARK

I still hate you about the flyer nerf, but at least i can understand that. You listened to us players…. somtimes. I still love ARK

Dark and light

Spent 500h there and had fun. But downward spiral of bad decisions took it´s toll. Dead now.

Pixel ARK

Bought it, tried to play it. Got no luck or any fun with this. Guess what: it´s dead now.

ATLAS

I adore the concept of this game. That great feeling when i left the lawless zone with my planks of freedom, that blew me away. SOTD wtf, alphas everywhere wtf, useless tames, PVP ship sinking in PVE mode, AGE mechanics, nerf here nerf there with no concept. You know the list. So is it dead already? I think the developers know the answer. Budget is running low and costs not dropping. That is simple economics.

THE NEXT ARK BASIS GAME BY Snailshotwild Games

Cool Concept, i will buy it (poor little me), Release delay: we release tomorrow, watch the twitch streamers, they already love the game(this will repeat for four weeks till release, EA RELEASE: yeah i´m so excited, damn servers all full. FPS sucks, lag sucks, rollbacks suck, etc etc. And the forum will just be a copy paste version of this one.

 

You have the chance to change it and become a good game development company, but not with repeating mistakes!

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

They rather have all of the unhappy customers to become griefers than that they would reply to their complaints or even aknowledge the so many issues that need to be adressed.

[Warspectre 141]

These last few patches were a dazzling display of ignorance regarding what makes games fun versus antagonistic and frustrating. Consequently, they more than earned my very first negative review on Steam. Granted there are currently nearly 12,000 negative reviews already so it's basically pissing in the ocean at this point but since it's obvious they're not listening to us, maybe other people will listen and not give these undeserving developers any more money. 

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

2 hours ago, Warspectre said:

These last few patches were a dazzling display of ignorance regarding what makes games fun versus antagonistic and frustrating. Consequently, they more than earned my very first negative review on Steam. Granted there are currently nearly 12,000 negative reviews already so it's basically pissing in the ocean at this point but since it's obvious they're not listening to us, maybe other people will listen and not give these undeserving developers any more money. 

@Jatheish where are u !?

[Jozzie McTowel 170]

Weak!