Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

That's so mean! lol

Schiz, why are you posting screenshots of music videos?

The first pic is the girl from Len?

I remember when Len covered Kids in America for the Digimon movie.

A high paying contributor to the original fundraising campaign of ARK ($3000+) voicing his concerns about the new paid-for DLC.





Developer response to said high paying contributor.







Worth noting a few things here, outside of the obvious, for those who don't know anything about ARK:

-The first DLC was The Center map. It was a fan-made mod that was put into the game as "official DLC" for winning a contest. Wildcard did not create the map, that was all due to hundreds of hours of modeling and creativity of the mod maker, all they did was adjust some things such as dino spawn parameters and level scaling and put it up on Steam as a DLC. The map is quite buggy and performs very poorly in this official DLC version, most of which being introduced via Wildcard's tampering.

-The second DLC was Primitive+ survival total game conversion. It essentially locks your game to the primitive technology level, adds a few new items, and is a gigantic buggy mess. This was also a fan made mod that was turned into an "official DLC". Once again, Wildcard had no hand in the primary legwork of making this.

-The third DLC, Scorched Earth, is a Wildcard creation. It introduces a multitude of new dinos, items, environments, weathers, and gameplay systems that are not present in the base game (The Island or The Center maps). The things from Scorched Earth can, however, be transferred over to the other two maps to "show them off and make people who don't have the DLC jealous", according to the devs:

(Posted on the Steam page for the DLC, http://store.steampowered.com/app/512540/):


They went as far as to say on their reveal stream, where dev team members were playing the DLC, that "you will never get the experience that we're getting right now unless you buy it" as well as several "why haven't you bought it yet", "go and buy it now", etc. every 2-3 minutes. This raises several concerns with existing backers, funders, and fans of the game as Scorched Earth holds far higher quality assets, both artistic and gameplay, than the base game that they had originally paid for and funded.

For a Developer to go out of their way to ***on valid criticisms by a concerned high-value backer of their project (and not just one, but many) is ludicrous to me.

I'd probably take the balloon after though

The last part of the dev's response is cringy considering who he was responding to.

Honestly if the launch history had been that bad... it was just a dodgey to begin with ><;
i feel sorry for anywho who funded that because to be honest it just seems like a mess and a total money grab by the devs.
hate it when this happens to kickstarters.

It's an unprecedented move, this is still an alpha-stage (despite what the Dev says there) early access game that just released a $20 DLC before finishing the game by polishing it up, optimizing it, and shipping it out as a feature complete game.

Can't steam do anything about it?

Seems like a lot of "early access alpha" games just never come out of that and actually release

I mean i have seen some AWFUL kickstarters ran in my time, one of them a friend of mine actually funded, and 2 years LATER after the curator went silent, he released a test build. (AFTER 2 years of development).

you couldn't get passed the first screen it was that bad...

Didnt they do that with 7 days to die and other early access games that went to other ports and are gigantic buggy messes?

I still want my DayZ standalone...

The bad part about DayZ Is it's hugely popular, has Tournements and the lot. Still Alpha...

c u b e w o r l d

there hasnt been a single update to the game in 2+ years and the developer has been silent for almost the entire 2 years

.62: Still cant figure out how to fix wall and floor zombies (Which is more terrifying than player encounters).

Some people have speculated that this may breach Steam's early access guidelines in one way or another, but so far there is no official word.

The Dev's response made my brain hurt, and he put gg at the end of it. What a gigantic douche. Time for their backers to pull out imo. How shitty.

Damn, today's Dragon Ball Super is hype.And the animation is great too. I only hope they can keep improving from here on out.

Is that the one where you play it like a real guitar?

I'm normally one for telling kids to get the *** over stuff, but to be fair I'd probably knock that guy's block off.

Then again I'd have to ask why that little kid is standing there without anyone paying attention to what's going on, I call staged.