DNAofDeath

See? I was right... Numbers don't lie!

Poor victims of the media i feel for you.

Ummm... thats bullshit and you know that... i played ark a LOT for like 6 months back when it came out because i had no job at that time, nonetheless i had no health problems or was addicted because i instantly stopped playing it when i got a new job (game was not playable for me with just ~4h per day freetime besides friends and other stuff). Wanna know something else? When i really like a game, and i have enough time, i sometimes play 2-3 days in a row without sleeping xD but you know whats even more interesting? That applies to everything i like to do, no matter if programming (my job), playing games, or just staying up 3 days in a row at a weekend festival. You know nothing dude, you just take the rules the government and the society and TV put on you and apply them to everyone. People can do what they want, and its not your business, nor you have the right to insult them while hiding behind "playing the concerned user". People like you are pure trash, and if you ever have children, poor beings my dear...

What if some of those people are disabled and cant work or go out? What if some of them are just dedicated gamers who like to play 16h a day for some time and then go back to reallife for the rest of the year? What if its not your business to judge people and dictate them how to spend their time? Pathetic asshole.

You actually never played PVE right? xD

This is not ark, people just dont care for this game anymore already xD

Welcome to the new ATLAS population count, ATLAS will be a very good "MASS"-multiplayer-online-role-play-game xD

First of all i didnt panic, i can play other games when atlas finally died, im not married to this game. Second: why see me back? I neither stopped playing the game, nor did i say so, nor will i leave the forums or sayd i will... My first sentence, where i say i kinda like this game, was ignored by all reality/fact-resistant people here, trying to bash my "opinion" (no opinion here, just facts and some wild guesses). Kinda funny how people always only see what they like to see and what matches their way of thinking lol

People? You count numbers and facts as people? I just listed facts. Im sorry you got hurt by them .

Trailers, especcially if SnailGames owns the publishing company/game, are always fake and marketing-lies. Just look at the trailer from ark where they announce the expansion "Scorched Earth" The movement the wyvern in the first scene is doing is flat out impossible in the real game, neither wild nor tamed wyvern can do this, yet it is in the trailer. But we are getting offtopic, topic is this game, and why and if it is dying xD

Don't know why i should, i love you all

Bye, you are leaving the Forums? Because i'm not lol...

No offense, but ATLAS is designed to handle 40000 players at once (thats what they adverdised it with). 1k Players is not enough to populate the world of ATLAS, thats arround 4 players per server... AVRG... we are talking about average, so only at certain times there are 4 players per server, other times its just a dead wasteland. Also we are talking about overall playercount, so there will always be a big chunk of players who fall off these numbers: the ones playing on private servers. The official servers are not well enough populated to make it a true MMO experience, you barely meet a player, you barely have any interaction, thats not how it was supposed to be.

Oh and you wanna know a fun fact? ARK would work perfectly fine with like... lets say 10k players playerbase, because servers are divided, one server can be well populated even with a low overall playercount for the game. Whole different story for ATLAS, its just not working with a low playerbase, and ATLAS already started out with a lower playerbase than ARK ever had, and now even dropping in playercount, unstoppable... So tell me how a MMORPG works without the "MASS" the first M in MMO stands for? Im listening, just tell me please.

Oh yeah, the whiteknights are back xD guess what? got some numbers for ya Thats a crazy drop of players, and the drop hasnt finished yet And speaking about ark had a drop and is still going LOL you really want to compare ark to this pile of trash atlas is? Fine, lets take a look at arks player population in the first year... um yeah... sure... continue comparing (or referencing to) ark with this... like... you always compare 1-room appartments with entire castles? or... a paper plane with a spaceship? im sorry for your feelings being hurt by numbers, but im sure the numbers dont care xD

These are chosen by random, whats going on here isnt random at all, its predictably as fuck.

I like the game, well, kinda, what i dont like is the wildcard-attitude grapeshot has... but this game isnt ark (like ark wasnt ark anymore when snailgames bought the studio, because one of the founders stole work from trendy, and they needed a quick 40 million $ to pay their debts)... Sooo... im not happy to announce the death of this game, but numbers dont lie, and with a good portion of knowledge about how steam, modern playerbases and such work today, im sad to say it, but look below, make your own conclusions and keep this post in mind when the game is finally declared as dead. https://steamcharts.com/app/834910 Dec. '18: Started out with 40k+ avrg. Players -> Disastrous launch Jan. '19: People realize there was almost no effort put into the game -> 12k less avrg. players Feb. '19: Grapeshot continues failing by implementing stupid crap like the FoY and ppl cheating inside the persistent world -> 15k less avrg. players Mar. '19: So far only 400 less avrg. players, but Grapeshot wasnt finished with the stupid decisions Apr. '19: Grapeshot decides to wipe servers, and while at that, they also decide to wipe players motivation to play by announcing it A FULL MONTH PRIOR Predictions: May. '19: Playercount is down to 1000 Players, since the update was once more delayed and still no wipe happened Jun. '19: The update came out, along with a huge marketing campaign, thus we get 15k+ avrg. players Jul. '19: 12-13k less avrg. players, due to newly introduced bugs, exploits and the PVE community almost entirely gave up on the game ... ... ... Dec. '19: Grapeshot announces the closing of official servers due to maintenance and upkeep cost exceed income from newly bought copies of the game by FAR and thus gives no profit ... Feb. '20: Game is officially declared dead by both, gaming press and players.

Nobody is ever going to do that... just saying...

A game that was planned as ARK DLC but was released standalone for the Money Grabs that is similar to ARK? WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!

Yeah its fucking disturbing, why would you make it red in the first place (the X) when you have GIANT red circles everywhere? Another proof that they do not test or recheck their game at all... typical wildcard fails.

Actually i got 1000 points and 5 levelups by just looking at him!

I hope the guys in here know that ATLAS is actually a full 1:1 copy of ARK from 2yrs ago? I mean, yeah the Server Mechanics work slightly different and we have some reskins, but everything else? They just used an older branch so they know how to fix certain bugs, but also to prolong the actual fixing process to have longer time for "the early access excuse". Or why do you think ARK players are asking all day long why the EXACT bugs that been already fixed in ARK are back here? Oh and this was formerly planned as DLC for ARK, but when they saw how many people already have a Season-Pass, they decided to make it standalone to be able to grab more money. I dont blame Wildcard directly, i think they lost power over what was formerly their product to their parent company Snail Games a long time ago. And Snail Games has only ONE goal: making money, no matter what it takes. This game will be dead in late Summer, but i guess they will just push out another game to hype and abandon by then. Just look at the history of Dark&Light, ATLAS was just walking the same dirty road like DnL right from the beginning. I'm pretty happy that someone gifted me ATLAS, playing it just strengthened my decision to never ever again give any company connected to Snail Games even a single penny. Oh and if you dont trust into my words (why would you? im a nobody) just compare the numbers carefully: History of DnL: https://steamcharts.com/app/529180 History of Atlas (so far): https://steamcharts.com/app/834910 Even tho a drop in players after release is acceptable and well known for hyped games, a drop of 10k in peak and almost 20k in avrg after the FIRST TWO months clearly shows what players, streamers and the industry thinks about the game: "its a trash game, nice try, cya, bb, hf, gg, wp" And if you still dont believe me, there we go: History of ARK: https://steamcharts.com/app/346110 You can clearly see: ARK kept its avrg player count for 3 Months after release at a stable value of arround 45000 Players, and even with the 10K Drop in the 4th month it had more players than ATLAS has today in the 3rd month, and guess what? IT KEPT THOSE PLAYER COUNTS UNTIL TODAY! From its start back in June 2015 until TODAY! Always having arround 40k Players (except 1 single deep dive into the 20kish). The harder the first 2 months drops are, the more likely the game will die in the first 12 months of release... If you STILL don't believe me, just look up some bad/failed but hyped games in press and look at their steam charts data and you'll beginn to see a pattern. Afterall, if you still are in the opinion that this game has any future... well... go on and have fun as long as it lasts (and grow a brain maybe). TL/DR: Game is already doomed to die quickly, disappointed players will NOT forgive and NOT forget.

I instantly built a Temple for him! He is like Jesus + Dalai Lama in 1 Person...

This should work for ATLAS too, but no guarantee, try it on your own risk (haven't tried it yet).