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@Chismebeard @Gortok @Nami are very happy to see you, welcome! I hope that at least you get the habit of communicating with the community, past CMs were not very talkative, to say the least. So, apparently, with the change in the global map, the new season starts in Atlas, what will it be? But this is a general question, let's move on to the essence and specificity. 1. As far as I understand, developers are removing PVE servers and in the new season they want to combine aspects of PVP & PVE, as well as their groups of people. That is, you will be forced to make the PVP server more loyal to the PVE community. Are you not afraid that features intended for PVE players will be abused by PVP players? If this really happens, then we will come to a more deplorable state on PVP than now. We, pvp players from ARK, are tired of the fact that people are used to being more fighters of global chat and freeport, and not to fight in the normal way. You know, there are such companies on NA, but more of them on EU. If you know what I mean. I would like to know in more detail how this combination of the two sides of the game will be implemented. Do not get me wrong, I do not want to infringe on the rights of PVE players, on the contrary. But just as they consider the combination of PVE and PVP community unnecessary! Because this will generate more toxicity between the community of the game in general terms. 2. The concept of a new world map is incomprehensible. West and East located simultaneously on the same side of the world look a disorienting i think. I will not say anything about the rest, in shock ... but I will not say anything. It is also not very clear why the Golden Age and Lawless zones were moved to the center of the map, what is the point? Yes, in this way you will create more competition between the companies, create a “storm in a glass" (only a larger one) the so-called hunt / fight for experience. But all this will again affect PVErs, will they be deprived? From a “storm in a glass” it will turn into a storm of diarrhea in a global chat, my opinion. On the one hand, it’s a lot of fun to watch, probably ... but it really saddens me a lot. If I understand correctly, there will be sectors on the Lawless borders with islands that can be captured, as I heard they are called Low-Risk zones. These are sectors in which you can claim the islands, and at the same time it will be impossible to fight or raid on this island. The war is only in the water and lawless sectors. If this is for PVErs, that’s good, but again this refers to the first point that I wrote. If this is abused, I suggest that these islands will be clogged with PVPers parking lots. Or maybe whole cities on rafts, as they are now in free ports. As a result, we will not get any competition that the developers had in mind, and again we will return to afk campaigns against each other and to the chat war in words. I think that people from the first season look at all this with a wild laugh. 3. Lags, bugs and everything related to this. Two or three months ago, I already wrote a post about how much lags interfere, I play on PC. Can’t even imagine what the hell is going on with the guys on the Xbox, I am sorry for them. I’ll write again, the game is seriously lacking in normal optimization both in terms of ping and in terms of the graphic component. There is no breathtaking picture in the game, but the lags are like every pixel was made for some kind of ultra-super-nextgen project. Can we, the community of your game, hope in the new season not only for remaking the map, but also for normal optimization from the client side (in terms of graphic changes) and server optimization, normalization of ping for large Pvp hassles, for example? A large share of the lags is played by the fact that the game engine calculates the NPC aimbot very poorly. The more NPCs - the more lags and crashes. This applies to huge battles on ships. For example, imagine a battle of 25-30 ships, or rather galleons, more than 1k NPCs simultaneously in one sector, I’ll say more - you don’t need to imagine, just look at YouTube or the GMs guys will be present in spectator mode at one of these battles. Sea battles are certainly understandable, but imagine for a second that this is happening in the sector where all the islands are built up and they have at least the same number of NPCs. What will happen to the server in this case? Crash, crash after crash ... lag after lag. It is necessary to optimize it, please! #NeedForOptimization As for bugs, a person who recently laid out everything on the shelves was doing a post here recently. But his post was deleted, probably due to the fact that it contained information on duplication, starting with sets of armor and ending with duplication of anything. Also in this post contained information on other bugs that no less need a fix. I really hope that before the post was deleted, at least they read it and use the information received for the benefit in order to eliminate the vile errors that currently exist in the project! 4. New content, in particular the addition of new types of ships and landing mechanics, hijacking, improved melee mechanics. Will this be done? If not after a wipe, then when? Can we hope the developers still stick to the roadmap they once announced? Forgive me if you have the impression of a very curious child who asks too many questions that are very difficult to answer right away. But, as you understand, there was no normal communication with the community, so I think that so many complaints and questions have accumulated. I'm not trying to offend the work of developers or somehow belittle it ... It’s just that the situation is that less and less people remain and support you. It is deplorable and very sad. The fewer people - the fewer potential beta testers who report problems and send bug reports. It’s very a pity your rather promising project, it is as if shouting to the developers: "Mom, I do not want to die!" The request of those who read the post to support it please, peace my dudes!

I am a player like everyone else. I use the discord and forums and ticket system the same as any other player. Im in no more of a favoured position than any of you. I certainly dont know anymore than the rest of the players either. The information I get comes from the same announcements as you get them. So I am no more help than other players when it comes to information. I know there are a lot of players that know more than me as well. The community is great at answering other players questions. I would be happy to post more here as I am very active on the discord and love helping answer questions. But having my motives questioned when I do makes it difficult. I too wish grapeshot communicated more with the community. Because I dont have the answers us players really want.

Does East and West mean something different in atlas then the real world???

From the information provided so far they are not removing PvE. The last wipe they took down a cluster to use as the test server (I think it was EU PvE that time) and then after the full network wipe EU PvE was back. So it is possible that NA PvE will be used as a test server between now and the full network wipe (apparently a PTR branch has appeared on steam too), and then it could be possible NA PvE comes back when the wipe happens in the first half of July. All that aside for a moment the announcement is vague and not clear at all about what is happening so the confusion and frustration many feel is understandable. Hopefully someone on the dev team will clarifying the details for the sake of the community soon.

This post reminds me of that time my drunken father came back home after being missing for eight months and told me I had to change schools because we were moving with no explanation of why. He also introduced my new “mom and brother”. He was really friendly but I just felt like I was being poorly handled.

I really hope this is not as stupid as it looks and sounds on paper

right, because the first thing i think while playing atlas is : WOW! i wish this game was more like LoL or that giant dumpster fire Valorant. good luck. will watch this train wreck from a safe distance.

This is a videogame not a marriage, i should not lose the results of my time and effort only for quitting for a while, every single decent game understand something as simple as that (TERA, THE DIVISION, BDO, etc), also playing solo fixes nothing i would still have decay timers on my buildings/tames etc. You wanna talk about lag??? yesterday i installed the game again cause i was bored, with nothing else than the island trees and my naked character i couldnt even do a 360 using the camera without stuttering, if they are unable to make a game perform properly in a 1500$ PC that can run BDO and THE DIVISION 2 on max settings with no problems is clearly evident they should not have released the game until that was fixed, but not only that, we are 18 months into early access!! Unlike what it may seem evident most of the optimization process in a game is related to HOW the game process things and not with how many things need to be rendered, specially considering how powerfull video cards are nowadays and the graphic quality of this game.

Sounds like some kind of ponzi scheme.

Well I was under the impression you are part of the team in some way. That is not right that they are not in contact with you, they should be allowing you to pass information on to them especially since they do not come here. I hope the new team come here and read alot of these threads because they will realise how big a job they have coming. Thanks for clarifying that up, appreciated.

I personally do not understand why the game would be going more towards PVP. I've seen the PVP servers there's no actual pirates on there. 90% of it is offline griefing the rest is camping free ports. To those who think that PVE players shouldn't play a pirate game you're absolutely right. they should immediately remove all cargo racks and player shops from the building selection. they should remove weight sails and anything else that is not related to piracy.... Smh. If it was just a pirate game you wouldn't have the option to be a merchant, a breeder or other things. Maybe the pvpers would like it better if y'all just made this into a pirate version of call of duty.

Well do you actually pass information on to the devs? Do you tell them about peoples frustrations on the forums? Because they don't come here to see it for themselves or even respond. Not everyone goes on Discord, these are the official forums of the game, there is nobody replying on here from the dev team or the mods. The only ones who post here are the ones who actually want the game to be a success and change for the better. Expressing ourselves is one thing but the devs would have to see and respond to it, I don't see much response from the devs on here. They could have nipped all this frustration in the bud months ago with replying on these forums and letting people know what is going on. It would be nice to see mods more active on the forums, I don't know how many mods there is but being on the official forums you would think there is more communication. I get the feeling it's more about Discord than anything else. I hope the new team proves me wrong and turns the game around and engages with the community more but from past mistakes I doubt that very much.

Like they ever made a deadline.

I wih you the best of luck. If you respect honesty then the following should not offend you and you may even come to regard the following as constructive criticism... Not a SINGLE PLAYER ASKED FOR YOUR RESUME. Harsh, i know, but its a fact. Corporate advocated a pep rally that statistically speaking is irrelevant. I have personnally asked......How.... Many....... Atlas..... Game......Hours....Do......You......Have?..... Are you capable of operating independently from the incompetent leadership? When will the "pre release" end? When will the company begin taking responsibility for the product its selling/ releasing? How will changes that wipe hours of gameplay be handled moving forward?? Not responding directly to ANY of these questiong is proof that the chain of command is comprised and all players should just let the crooked companys involved keep thier con money and the player base should permanently boycot the products. Harsh, i know but weve been left zero recourse. Ranger1k, Formerly from the Company The Military. PLEASE show some support community

The map is a lot smaller, I think this will be laggy as hell for Xbox players....

Id pay a 1 month fee right now to have whoever approved pulling the server and whoever approved that Orwellin news release walk the plank

I like your idea and agree with you except for this game is still in early access they still have not giving us a finished product so no way do they need to charge us more money when they can't give us a finished(ish) game that they want wipe again. GIve us that before trying to squeeze us to pay for 1 of 4 official servers monthly fees.

Plenty of games arent subscription based and they DO NOT wipe or reclaim their servers. Period. This does NOT mean I'm opposed to the idea of going subscription based. However having to pull the servers for ANY reason demonstrates poor management at a minimum and complete incompetence at the other extreme. If theyre borrowing it for testing why wasn't it mentioned in the news? Another idea is quartly-ish realease of DLC at a reasonable price providing new skins, mats, creaures and general content. Works great for a competitor of thiers...dropped 30+ on it gladly after encountering the vague double talk being masqueraded as a news release I could fix this entire shit show.... But then theyed have to pay ME

Because I purchased a lie. I bought this only because it has PVE if I thought down the road they would switch it PvP (which lets face it, isn't actually player v player, it's just little noobs waiting for hard working people to log off do they can take their stuff.) I would never have paid. I am not getting what I paid for. If you were promised 1 million dollars but got 10 bucks would you be happy because it's still money? I bought 7 accounts across my family, none of us PvP players. These Devs have decided to cut out half the player base, those people should get back what they paid because the company can't give the customer what they paid for. I hope that answers your question.

I spent a ridiculous amount of time grinding the NA offiial server. I spread out the points of interst to keep lag down Built a beautiful cliffside base with a gorgous view of an Asian themed lake. A hardtack faciliy. A brewhouse. A petstore to assist new players Glider platforms that allowed inter island gliding and quick on island travelling Transport ship. Whaling ship. Discovery ship. Was starting a battleship. Built up 90days upkeep on my flag in case real life issues interrupted playing I motivated and assisted the settlers and was just beginng to explore the late game content. I was having fun and making friends... I was encouraging other gamers to purchase you product. I bought 2 accounts and was going to get a 3rd. You just left me hanging. Bad. Very, very bad. I did ALL of this thinking Id be ahead of the curve when you added some new content and popularity returned. Why would anyone go play EU PvE, your WIPING it also, correct? ..Part 2 of your exit strategy? WHEN are you going to end the "pre-release" lie? Got news for ya YOUR SELLING IT TO THE PUBLIC AND IT IS THEREFORE BY DEFINITION AND ACTION RELEASED......PERIOD. CHECK A DICTIONARY. Reword it to "pre-competence" or "functional cluster#@%!" How many hours of playing time, playing ATLAS, does this dev team have? Gonna include that info next week? You might want to consider a person ACTUALLY USING THIS PRODUCT Gonna tells us the EXACT F-ing plan to avoid wipes in the future? Last thing. Is ANYONE on your staff OLD ENOUGH to remember how things went when coca cola abruptly decided to switch to "new coke"? Anyone.... Im just skimming the surface of the irreparable damage YOUR DECISIONS have created. If you list ANY GOODWILL in your accounting its fraud. You should be ashamed of yourself. Change the warning from "pre-release" to compulive liars

If thats the case there will not be many PVEers left to grief, don't worry.

the main problem with PvE in this game is not only the lack of content but the lack of engagement, why would i feel engaged to work on a legendary brigg for lets say 100 hrs if it can be sunk and gone forever anytime for any reason, why would i feel engaged to go treasure hunting if there is nothing intresting to use the gold for? why would i feel engaged to play a game when the content i aim for is locked behind groupal activities?

I understand the sign post I saw the other day now. Was walking past a new base the other day with a sign out front which said "disgruntled NA PVE Players" now I get it... By forcing all PVE players onto one server do you think there is going to be anywhere to build when everyone floods the grids... NO! Imagine the lag this is going to cause. If the post reads how it sounds like focusing on PVP and something more for PVE is this a response to Sea of Thieves which you've probably lost a lot of players to reading their steam reviews. I've played each phase of this game since launch, i'm not starting from scratch again. All the time spent breeding and getting my bears stats up, wasted again... Why do you need to wipe maps? Why cant you add servers and create a new map on them like your little ARK baby. The Island, The Center, Scorched Earth etc and you can travel between them. You've already got the Mayan / Aztec aesthetic in Atlas, you could utilize that as some sort of long lost Mayan Power which you can use to travel between them, our version of Tek which you have to unlock through end game content. Previous experience says this is going to go like it has the past 3 times, give us a little taste, reap whatever profits and pump it into the next exp of Ark. People remember.

Hopefully with the new system and map there's some kind of build limit on islands. I get tired of dashboarding as I approach an island only to load back in and my ship is crashed and I am dead because people build unnecessary structures that cause serious lag for others...

Is the game not already grindy enough? I mean it’s hard to have a real life and keep up your Atlas base, while also going explore the fun things/end game Atlas has to offer too. It’s a game for Christ’s sake we should be able to play the game lol

You likely played 100s if not 1000s of hours for a one time fee, why ask for a refund if you likely spend cents per hour playing ? There is no monthly or ingame revenue for the company that develops the game and THAT is the real problem here to be fair, if it was subscription based we would not see all the troubles we see now.

why would you want to assert dominance over a bunch of pixels if at the end of the day when you go out in real life you will still feel the need to quench your inferiority complex?

indeed, one of the critical mistakes done with this game since start was the lack of value given to the player's time investment, yet as i read how they have decided to set up the new map i find evident that (at least in PVP) bases getting completely and utterly destroyed will still be a thing (wich i dont mind) i just hope we PVErs can finally get rid of the "decay timers" since i made an oath with myself that i wouldnt be playing this game for as long as decay timers exist.

i couldnt agree more, the moment i stoped having fun in this game was when they nerfed the guns's PVE damage to "balance PVP" and when they nerfed the glider for PVP reasons (again), i can hardly imagine the game in its current state being able to afford losing its PVE players. does that mean you are no longer associated with this project and the decision making in regards of ATLAS?

Then they should remove the PVE option off of their sales pitch if that is the way it is and myself and others of my friends will be highly wary of buying from either dev in the future due to this IF this is how it is going to be, just waiting for the ball to drop.

I don't want to get to know the new devs, the proof is in the pudding, they deliver then I will be back simple as that. I don't trust anyone at that place. They could have said something to us months ago but they choose not to, communication is key and they can't do the basics so forgive me for not wanting to know. Obviously mods naturally want to suck up for better things but that is not the way to go. You should be voicing the communities concerns and being more active on the forums just like the devs.

That is not what I bought, the game stated what it is no longer and to me that is a total rip off no matter that it came later and, no matter it is in early access, if it walks like a duck it most likely is a duck or in this case, rip off.

The 4th Wipe...... i dont wanna play....... I only bought this game for PVE......

Are you a member of flat earth society?

Your suggestion on vitamin deficiencies are out there, it is already hard enough to micromanage it as it is, I guess if you have a LARGE company that are doing the gathering and building and feeding and taming and raising the babes and gardening then sure as you have nothing to do anyway..... that would be fine but not for a solo player. I don't join large groups for a reason, I like to get my moneys worth out of a game and that means playing all aspects it has to offer, gathering, taming, mating, raising, etc. etc. why buy a game if you are just going to have others play it for you, seems a waste imo but to each their own.

Don't expect a warm welcome when the community has been given the cold shoulder for so long.

So you're killing PVE... Good job, Guys, because we all know PVE people didn't pay for the game right? Oh wait we did pay, we paid the same for it as PVP players, yet they get everything! Love that. You should issue full refund to all PVE players, because you robbed us if the game that we bought because of the PVE servers. And pushing people out to sea won't work either because you made the build limit so small. For the galleons it's disproportionate to the rest of the boats. The great thing here for me is, my hubby has been saying for months you would do something like this, but I held faith you would give PVE love. So yeah... Great. Love that. Well done, you win a car. I can't believe I actually gave you guys my money, not just for one account but for my hubby, my daughter, my 3 nephews and my brother in law. You have just royally EFFED us all. Thanks. I think you should seriously rethink this, if you are determined them refund the people that bought the game based on the PVE online server play. Anyway, I know based on history with you guys, you will ignore the PVE community and just do whatever you want. REFUND PVE PLAYER'S.

This is bullshit I don't mind server wipes but removing the North America pve server is fucked up so I would officially like to tell atlas thanks for fucking the people that don't do pvp because they don't want a ass wholes to destroy there stuff and for also fucking them because they were lead to believe that they hade a option on pvp or pve and taking there money like a fucking thief GOOD JOB THIEF'S

I personally really enjoy meeting people while playing on PVE. Grouping together to complete tasks is a lot of fun to me rather than fighting each other. For me this is much more fun then just playing single player.

Not to be too hash man(because you are new and all) but do you think you are going to get some WOW type of scenario? most of these people are from ark and they are “very much” either pve or pvp. Depending on how you act they will either hate you or hate your guts lol. the company you decided to work for gave you a bar that is way higher than you thought you had. Even if you do a good job, expect a “well you did your job” attitude. You better take that and be appreciative of it! No questions asked. After you have done your job for over 6 months(the typical probationary period for any job) then we can start giving kudos. but please, if you consider yourself a professional you will realize that any praise given within the probationary period was given by people that would literally praise a toothbrush for brushing teeth. believe me, there are some easy to please “people” here. Lol. Just do what you got hired to do and you will be fine. Your predecessors luckily left a very low bar for you, so thank god for that right? you think these guys got it @PeglegTheAngry

North, East, South, West? North, West, South, East? Did a 3-year-old come up with this map? What's a compass???? LOL!

Thank god for that. Yourself and Dollie were probably the two most incompetent community managers / developers I have ever witnessed in any computer game. Yes, very much looking forward to some changes / development and not just empty promises; who remembers the 'road map', I member' Best of luck to the new team.

Hey there @Chismebeard, @Nami, and @Gortok. I am glad that the hidden gem that Atlas is has not been forgotten on the seabed. Im sure you can understand that the community is a bit salty as it had been left there as well You have my respect for willingly jumping into such rough waters. I would suggest you to communicate as much info as you can as soon as possible to give players a clear and honest idea of what to expect and also include singleplayer and pve-players which make up a large part of your playersbase and potential new players. Everyone understands that money, time and abilities are limited resources so it would be a good thing if you could share if you are able to extent the Early Access Phase or if you have to finish up the game for the 1.0 release in a few months. New Map Well it is much smaller so i can already give you feedback on problems that will arise if you havent made some significant fix for it. Putting the lawless sectors into the center of the heat/map is problematic since those sectors are mainly used buy new and solo players or small groups. On PVP a even smaller number of players will now be able to clear the game of any other players. On PVE even fewer players will now be able to litter the whole map so you cannot find a place to build. The reason why the official servers could not sustain a large community is not that there are not enough players that want to play. It is more that even with the big map the game could not support more players on a server -> not technically but from the gameplay side. People left because there was no room for them to play, and playing includes much more than just sitting around somewhere. I am all for one big map with a hot spot in the center and a progression from easy to harder the near you get to it. But keep in mind the reasons why most people left the game dont make the same mistakes again and again. I hope you leave the old map atleast optional for Singleplayer/Dedicated and Serverhosts. Deleting it would be ultimativly negativ even if it would not get the new features like traderoutes. The giant size of the map is a unique selling point of Atlas you should try to hold onto it as much as possible. All in all it sounds really promising but we need more info. I hope we can give you more feedback once we get a clearer picture. I guess the following are some of most important questions for players that consider playing or buying the game. 1. Scale of the work you plan to put into the game. How long do you plan to build the release version? Do you plan to add significant content after the release and continue to grow the game? 2. How do you plan to stop griefing. Even games like Red Dead Online had to put passive mode as players where fleeing the game and there you didnt even loose anything except for the fun. 3. How do you plan to provide a place to live for players be it new players, casuals, or groups. Whether it be a rental house, base or a ship but something you can actually use not just rebuild every day to lose it overnight. 4. How do we spent more time on water when on the smaller map there is so much less water? Will it be optional fun activities that make you want to go out sailing or will it be necessary grind that forces you out. 5. How will there be playerinteraction besides KoS? Do you plan to have hubs like neutral cities or npc guarded areas where players can live and work together with strangers? 6. How do you plan to kick off the economy, will there be an NPC economy as foundation and players can jump in? With a smaller map it seems even more like getting the stuff yourself is always easier than finding a trade partner and organize it. 7. Most requested feature -> new ships. Can you do it? 8. Are you planning to bring alot more cooperative content to give players more reason to work together? Maybe even stuff seen on almost any other mmo like drop-in drop-out events and quests? Are you planning to add scaling difficulty so a mission will scale to the size of an group to give everyone a good experience while playing? 9. Servers cost money so it figures you want to reduce the amount of servers. What playernumber do you plan for the new map and will you open new official server when they reach that number? I am positive the news you had planned will answer this all but if not please try to include it, thank you. Good Luck Lin

i do not want to partake in any pvp whatsoever, nothing but griefing and toxicity, forcing people who literally dont want any part in pvp is just going to kill the game for them and then you loose a really big chunk of your player base that you wont get in return, learn from the mistakes like blizzard have made... deciding for the players how they should be playing the game is only going to lead to more backlash, and more people leaving. maybe take a dedicated PVP server since they are already doing both pve and pvp.. pvp players would be more open to a change like this, i get that this is "early access" but the way this is being handled right now seems like constructive criticism isnt welcomed, and devs dont actually care about how any of the pve players feel about this change because "it's not what they want to see players doing" when taming/breeding/building etc is EXACTLY what players want.. dont punish the players for playing your game the way they want to play..

I spent six months on this game and over two different xboxes just specifically for this one game yall took a good thing and are literally ruining it we had a community we had friendships and trades and all sorts of stuff ourselves sure the content wasn't great but it still wont be yall took what we had and are literally crapping on it good for you I doubt I'll be part of that just so you can screw me later with another "necessary " wipe to add more bull crap amd take away the great parts of the game that made this a place I wanted to be part of guarantee you ruin everything i loved about this game while not fixing anything that was wrong time will tell but past dev's said they would fix things and only "fixed" minor stuff that was helpful to us the players and made the rest of the game lag central and loosing of tames wayyyyy worse once again I hope I'm wrong so restore my faith and you'll have a player for life though next time before you screw us how about a little more notice so we actually have time to do end game stuff if we haven't yet for all those daily grinders who never did end game stuff because they wanted to build an empire or have a million tames in short dont just lie to us about how you are gonna do all these great things then not deliver and if that's how yall are gonna do business I'll be taking my business else where

I've always been PVE, even on Ark and it always irked me when new things were added and important mechanics changed that hurt PVE for the sake of PVP balance (flyer nerf). The same with Atlas. Please Wild Card/Grapeshot, give some love and attention to your loyal PVE fans. Thank you.

Alrighty, news is out there now. Probably no surprise to most that Dollie and myself have been working on ARK for sometime now. We're glad to finally be able to introduce some of ATLAS new crew members, including their Community folk. It was a pleasure sailing the seas with y'all and we're looking forward to the changes that are coming from the team.

the instant you become a PVP only or PVP centric game is the day I lose ALL interest in this game. NOT EVERYONE LIKES PVP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not that i think you give a damn about what your players want

I see everyone implying that NA PVE is being removed permanently, and replaced with another PvP server, based off a completely vague news release that lacks details, or any semblance of the roadmap previously communicated. The bottom line is that this news release does not include enough information to know or understand the future plans for the server being taken down. Was it taken down because it was the least populated, and it is now the test server for the new map and game structure? Will there be 100% PVP, 100% PVE, or PvEvP servers brought up on official in July? We simply don’t know, and writing comments implying facts based off this news release is not very useful. I think I can speak for the entire community when I say the developers should write a brief follow up news release with more information. We are left with more questions than answers, and the level of communication is piss poor at best. If you are going to make zero announcements for months while working on Ark, and return to wipe a server with 24 hour notice, it sure would be nice if you had a more concrete news release with higher levels of details. Player like me dump thousands of hours of gameplay into Atlas. Is it too much to ask for a news release that takes more than 15 minutes of your time? Show us that you care. Please.

Ah yes, there's always one, "well why are you here, then?" Because I have many many hours in Atlas, on Official, and a lesser amount on unofficial. There are aspects of the game that I love, and aspects that I hate, and many people hate, and it drove them from the game. I am here, because I would like to see changes made that make the game more fun for more people, so that we can once again, have a healthy sized player base in Atlas.