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ARK: Survival Evolved - A Huge Hit on XBox with Over 1M Downloads in Under a Week
SBFord
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A Huge Hit on XBox with Over 1M Downloads in Under a Week
ARK: Survival Evolved is a huge hit on XBox with over a million downloads of the dinosaur-infested survival title. In a new post on XBox.com, Jess Rapczak, Co-Founder & Co-Creative Director at Studio Wildcard, also revealed some of the forthcoming plans in the months between now and the official launch. The community can expect regular updates that include high-demand features, gamepad customization, UI improvements, game mode tweaks and much more.
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This site should change it's name. Seriously. You've already shifted coverage over to the other genres. Just get it over with already... do what the Sci Fi Channel did a few years back.
I understand why you do it... so just change the site name and let the mmorpg dead horse die already.
I'm genuinely curious... do you think MMORPGs are PC only? FFXIV is on PS4, ESO is on XB1 and PS4 too.
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So that people that are interested in ark will click and people that are not will not waste their time. There have been multiple posts recently where the game being talked about in the article has been left out of the title.
ALso If i click a link, load the full story, why do I have to click another link to get to the same damn page that has the full story instead of the first paragraph?
Its like a bloated UI in a game or something, just full of redundant clicks.
As for the link clicking, again, it's a relic of the old site with new forums. When the new site launches, it won't be an issue. Hang in there a little while longer. As an MMO gamer, you have to be used to waiting, right?
EDIT: Wait, the thread title says "ARK: Survival Evolved - A Huge Hit on XBox with Over 1M Downloads in Under a Week" --- what exactly is missing from the title?
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Dinosaurs = very popular
Survival game = very popular
Dinosaurs + Survival game + polish = Megabucks !!!
It was right there in plain sight, but they were the ones who made it happen.
They just made around $17M or so in a week...
No doubt they will be having a very, VERY Happy New Year !
XBox? ... why would I care?... I play mmorpgs on PCs.... I thought this site was... oh nevermind.
This site should change it's name. Seriously. You've already shifted coverage over to the other genres. Just get it over with already... do what the Sci Fi Channel did a few years back.
I understand why you do it... so just change the site name and let the mmorpg dead horse die already.
First let me just say the PC MMORPG market has become nothing more than a AAA title low content high microtransaction pile of garbage of late that's exactly why I left the PC market. Second, Console gamers don't put up with low quality we actually have more control over the quality of the titles put out because we haven't dropped all sense of honesty, integrity or common sense to allow companies to come out with garbage and get away with it. Remember ET need I say more?
Xeno.phon said:
Kind of getting tired of the click bait titles, can you not just say "Ark:Survival Evolved a huge hit on xbox"?!
So that people that are interested in ark will click and people that are not will not waste their time. There have been multiple posts recently where the game being talked about in the article has been left out of the title.
ALso If i click a link, load the full story, why do I have to click another link to get to the same damn page that has the full story instead of the first paragraph?
Its like a bloated UI in a game or something, just full of redundant clicks.
This is a product of the forums auto-posting from the news articles. @Meddle can take a look, but I think it's not intended to do this and only recently started happening.
As for the link clicking, again, it's a relic of the old site with new forums. When the new site launches, it won't be an issue. Hang in there a little while longer. As an MMO gamer, you have to be used to waiting, right? :)
EDIT: Wait, the thread title says "ARK: Survival Evolved - A Huge Hit on XBox with Over 1M Downloads in Under a Week" --- what exactly is missing from the title?
It is really good to hear Bill address this,i haven't said anything about it,i don't think "poor memory" but has been bothering me as well.I kept wondering why we had these constant multi clicks to get to an actual article.I also thought this was the finalized site,so it is good to see this is not the case because this present site is imo and likely others worse than the old one.
Sometimes i think this site just doesn't care and only cares about advertising articles and reviews,so it is really nice to see this site actually cares a bit about how it appears to users as a site and communicates to it's users what is going on.
I like to use a term "integrity" a site ALWAYS has an agenda but needs to stay true to it's real cause of gaming first and foremost.
As to the game,i think ARK is way over rated as mentioned by last poster,i like 7 days to die better myself both now and with further potential as Ark is really a one trick pony and that is everyone is excited to have a dinosaur mount.
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In this day and age of big bucks pre alpha play packages, selling of stuff that doesnt exist that will allegedly be in games that dont exist either this should be something EVERY MMO player champions.
They did something RIGHT..they MADE a game (with no begging for money or trying to sell anything BEFORE it was available) they made the game FIRST and THEN sold it.
Now I am not one of the apologists who is blind to this game. It has problems and it is definitely not an 'alpha " or even a beta at this point. Despite what the apologists always go to when it has issues. Simply because it is stated as such on STEAM.
ARK is probably the best game to come out in the past 10 years. Not all because of the developers but definitely because of what they have allowed to happen and the direction they have taken. The OFFICIAL version (while getting better) is still a cesspool, as most PvP based games are. The mechanics of PvP are maybe the worst ever. But rather than change everything they simply let people run private servers and make their own rules. So rules through the honor system some rules through how you can change game setting basically on the fly. It also has modding, and they made a modkit (still needs a lot of work) that modders can use to continually make and update their mods. They also have single player local access servers. They also jumped on board the whole 'MOBA/Egames" crazy train and they gave away quite a bit of money. So they are not only selling a playable game and a product they are also giving the players of that game something back (rather than calling them selling a 2500 dollar dinosaur a Christmas gift).
The single biggest complaint has been optimization, which has been semi fixed, unless youre trying to play it on an ancient machine. You can play this game on a 900 dollar machine and get 40-50 FPS with hi setting. When Nvdia fixes their cards and how they work with DX 12 that should improve a bit more. But since the first month the optimization complaints have gone down greatly, now just troll bait for the most part.
Rather than being outraged at this article the REAL outrage should be that after all this company and game has done that is GOOD for the 'industry' they still dont have their own forum section on this site. That excuse is I am sure based on the opinion that ARK isnt an "MMORPG". When in fact it is probably the MOST MMORPG game released in the past few years.
Its basically everything everyone wants, an open sandbox world with no rails. There arent even any NPCS and no quests. So you literally have to make up what you want to do in the game. That right now is pretty limited, but because od the mods and other things I have mentioned it isnt devoid of content.
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The first month was rocky, I actually stopped playing because official servers were garbage, but then the made changes let mods take off, got some decent unofficial servers and interest grew again.
So I am not sure where this hype came from OTHER than the players. This site still doesnt say anything about it even though tens of thousands of people play it every day still. Which in this day and age is a miracle, not many games hold that many people for a month let alone six.
Also for a game that supposedly lacks content (and it does to some extent) its 'legs' are insane. But that also leans on the shoulders of th eplayers to create their own content, thats why in the grand scheme it is the most indepth RPG game going. As far as 'survival' goes, its a joke. It isnt hard surviving at all, it is basically a 'normal' game with decay, which is something I said a long time ago that MMOS should all start doing .
I am not a fanboy of it I just appreciate a good game. I actually havent even played in about 2 weeks, but thats because it is a game you can burn out on but once you reset you can go back and play for another few hundred hours.
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But it's also apparent I am just a relic. I don't have much in common with most here anymore. Time to go. Happy New Year everyone and may your lives be rewarding and happy ones.
I support your desire to play PC MMORPG's but for a site like MMORPG.COM to ignore the changing of a genre and the news that is important to that Genre makes them irrelevant and frankly gives poor service to their consumers. I have been a regular on this site for as long as I can remember. I am glad they are evolving with the times so I don't need to change and look for new sites constantly.
Frankly we still need your voice. Leaving in a huff is childish and will only deprive you of the best source of news of the emerging gaming genre we call MMO.
BTW Ark Survival evolved is a fantastic game and a fresh take on the Dino Survival Genre.
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