LOL This is an exit strategy, not a continuing to work on the game move. They never recovered from their botched launch, now it's a matter of server cost reduction. The reality is, the game is probably as fixed as it ever will be. If this was them working on the game, there would be new content. new ships to build , new monsters /achievements. If they weren't giving up on the game , they would be doing what Ark does to get new revenue. I say all this as someone who has been through this with several other early access games, I would love to be wrong .. but when you have been through it multiple times before , you learn the patterns.