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Yeah I apologize for the whole nobody is leaving thing. I mainly did that at the expense of a couple people on the forums lol. yeah people will definitely leave because of stuff like this

As I told the other guy, the casual gamers and gamers new to wildcard will leave. The hardcore ark fan base will never leave though. i am with you as well. I am not saying it is good, just how it is This is wildcard though. There are plenty of ideas that could work but if they can’t use ark code and have to make new structures, that just won’t happen. Good idea though, wildcard just won’t do it

They already killed trade companies by making the player shops in ports. i kind of like that idea though. When I played wow I used to love going to the auction house and see what was for sail. to be honest the main point of the game will never be sailing. Way too much of ark has been brought into this game. Once they put in a fast travel(they will) sailing will be pretty obsolete Oh dude. The best decision they could have made was a faction based mmo. Would have gotten rid of the whole “mega” mentality. Horde and alliance. But instead they could be pirates and trade companies/pirate hunters. They would have been an instant success. This is ark and that is that

Yes, you are correct. My point was mainly player slots and since the total amount of players slots being used to even equal to 25% of the total capacity, there would be no reason, especially financially to make any more servers. as it is they could already combine na pvp with eu pvp, as well as na pve with eu pve, cut the total globes down from 4 to 2 and still have plenty of player slots left. being able to build and the claim system is a different subject, but just looking at capacity they are actually running about 450 servers/blades too many

Oh I am very anti mega as well. The reason why I know my theory is right is because this is there MO for how they fix stuff. i didn’t bring up the advantage for Megas because on any change no matter how small the advantage will always go to the Megas, that is why I don’t even bring that up anymore. Being an ark veteran I am already familiar with that.

And technically double. Atlas servers are 150(they say) and the average ark server was 70 which is less than half. Even maps like ragnarok that have 100 per server is still 50 less than an atlas server. Since there is 225 servers per globe and there are 4 globes, that is already 1000 total servers and since ark maps are on average half the size of ark servers that would be about 2000 ark servers worth of player slots. i doubt they will be making more Lol, you got me on that one. And sure it is speculation but to me at least they have actually became pretty predictable and I can usually see what coming before it comes with them

Way more than that. It also sold a lot more complies though and there was a lot more money. To be honest there almost isn’t any point in more servers. with an average of 30k players and 4 big clusters, that really equates into 3 of the 4 clusters having only 10k players and one big cluster having zero. or another way to look at it would be 1 of the 4 clusters having 30k people and the other 3 clusters having zero on all. ark did keep getting servers because the servers kept staying full. These clusters are no where near full so o don’t see additional servers being added. there might not be a place to build but that is just the claim system. They are nowhere near full capacity so it is a different story then ark. I could actually be wrong, but this actually makes a lot of sense. They are trying to stop something that was a big deal in ark, but they are going about it in a stupid manner

Don’t underestimate ark fans. They will stay no matter how bad it gets. But yes, the casual gamer that isn’t familiar with wildcard will leave, not the ark fans though. they have been grinding for 3 years already

To be honest if you have played ark before at least towards the end game stages the lag becomes completely unbearable. And it is something they never fixed, well until now with the kibble rework which isn’t really a fix. one thing is for sure, they don’t want animal farms and huge bases, that much is clear

I was beginning to wonder about all of the unusual changes being made recently and then it hit me. if you put together the nerfing of animals and the increased cost of stone structures you can actually see what they are doing. arks servers were full of lag and the main reason for that was massive bases and so many tames they reached the server cap on a constant basis. they are making sure to slow you progress down so the servers don’t full lag out, but also to keep you interested in the game. some might think that these bad decisions will make you leave. Nah, you won’t leave and they know it. They have you right where they want you. i personally like the change in stone and tames. They create too much lag. I have seen it first hand on ark and these devs aren’t good at their job so they won’t be able to correct it once the damage is done. this is also a grinding game. You only think it is a pirate game. I like they are putting more of an emphasis on grinding.

No, you didn’t see what I said? Good or bad. I didn’t say it was alright or justified. I am saying this company knows you will keep playing no matter what so they can do what they not. Definitely not good but it is the truth

Well it’s the way they want it. Doesn’t matter if it is good or bad, they know you will keep playing so it isn’t on them.

Nope, not like this. This decrease is way more than what should be. I was even surprised by how much it has dropped. I was expecting these numbers not to happen until 3 months in not 1 month in

To both. No there will not be a wipe unless it is accidental or at least an emergency. Even two years down the road. As far as ark goes(yeah jeremy is still the boss) jeremy wanted to do an official wipe but after the other devs(not players) begged him not to, he decided to not wipe. I will expect the same here. There most definitely should be a wipe but it will not happen. By the time this game gets to full release it will be hurting for people so bad they won’t be able to afford getting rid of 2 years of players progress. quick solution would be regular wipes(it is EA after all right fan boys? ) anyways, fanboys like using EA as an excuse, wait till a wipe does come. They will be the most butt hurt of the bunch It would hit I am more waiting till it fails, I am cool with them making bad decisions

Yeah they love making their game bad, that is for sure. Really sucks to that a good idea that could be implemented so badly it becomes a laughing stock across the internet You seem like a pretty tough guy there buddy

Good post man. Very true to the core as well. I have never been a pve player either but I always felt for them because they are a big part of the community. i can’t tell if the devs are lazy or just don’t have the skill to make changes based on the mode. My guess if the lack of skill is the reason. They can’t even make normal changes that affect both. Imagine how much they would mess things up if they tried to do two different adjustments. They just aren’t a good dev company. i have seen the long and drawn out pvp vs pve arguments and it is really stupid. But hey not everyone in this world gets to be smart.

Yeah and watch the numbers go from 32k to 5k total. There is a reason they aren’t doing that

I don’t know if I would trust them to pre build my base. Might have holes in it. Smh

You are going to see all the smaller companies getting submarines so they can avoid the large companies. Guess the large companies just won’t have anyone to attack anymore lol

Yeah I wasn’t actually making fun of your grammar. I did notice it but wasn’t making fun of you. i think it is interesting. I can usually tell someone’s origin by the words they use wrong. Filipino’s actually have a totally different set of words they use at the wrong time. British is probably the easiest though. They say the words in the right sequence but tend to use their own words from their area. so yeah just asking

Oh yeah. I totally wasn’t saying that ark it just awesome by any means. But yes you are right. A lot of the same business practices are still being utilized and they aren’t the good ones. Extinction was a real disappointment because we all know they were working on atlas instead. Should have been a lot better. That desert titan was actually a very bad idea, you are definitely right there. the reason arks numbers still haven’t fully dropped is because they already know how it will go will atlas so they aren’t bothering coming over. even though ark has a ton of problems still , it is still a better game than atlas for many reasons. your name sounds familiar, I think I remember you on the ark forums

You are right about that, it will fail regardless of what I do. I am standing up for what I believe and nobody is shutting me down. you can be happy with 17 all you want, by that isn’t anything to be happy about lol

One game is 3 years old and still top 10. One is brand new and barely 17. I already know ark is a success. I am saying that atlas is not, which it isn’t. It can’t even beat out a 3 year old game ark lost 56% of peak recently because exticntion was broken. It was clear they spent their time making atlas instead of focusing on extinction. That isn’t my opinion, that is widely known everywhere to every ark player. atlas has been out 1 month and lost 46% of its peak? yeah that is a true success story right there man. still drops everyday. Let’s check back next week shall we? Bet ark will still be around the same with atlas even lower

Are you Russian?

And sorry dude. Ark was popular because it’s ark. Not because of the devs. The devs messed it up beyond belief. Marla’s is not taking a page from ark. It will never even come close to ark in any way shape or form.