After complaints about 'free' Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade being sold in a $50 bundle with Ark 2, now it'll be in a DLC bundle for $60
Studio Wildcard, creators of poop-harvesting dinosaur trainer Ark: Survival Evolved, has responded to players who were upset the Ark: Survival Evolved upgrade turned out not to be free. After raising the ire of those players by announcing it was going to release the Unreal Engine 5 remaster in a $50 bundle with Ark 2 and then sell remastered DLC for it separately, the studio now says it has «digested the feedback and consulted with our partners to revise our upcoming plans.»
In a community update(opens in new tab), Studio Wildcard describes those plans: it will instead release Ark: Survival Evolved as a standalone package that will contain several DLC upgrades at launch, and receive more without additional cost (including community-created maps) when they become ready. Also, it'll be priced at $60. Now I'm no mathematician, but that sure does seem to be $10 more.
Explaining how it arrived at this decision, Studio Wildcard said that, «when we had first considered doing an Unreal 5 upgrade, we planned just to port the Switch version of the game and undo the 'graphical' limitations required for that hardware. We weren't going to maximize the potential of the new technology, we weren't going to introduce new gameplay changes, and we weren't going to make critical design changes that would have had an impact on existing save data.»
Ark: Survival Ascended will apparently have new creatures, items, structures, and other content that wasn't in the original game, as well as extra features, which Studio Wildcard listed some of:
Regarding the original statement that the UE5 remaster would be free, Studio Wildcard said, «We weren't trying to mislead you with earlier comments; our plans and overall intentions changed. So you're
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