Based on a shocking statement from Studio Wildcard Co-Founder, Jeremey Stieglitz, Ark 2 looks to have been cancelled.
Here’s the latest in Ark Survival Ascended, Ark Survival Evolved and Ark II News!
Ark Survival Evolved has been a survival game favorite since it released in 2015, combining dinosaurs into a survival setting. Ark Survival Ascended has had a rocky launch, and is possibly not selling the way Studio Wildcard and Snail Games had hoped it would. It was also previously revealed, that Ark Survival Ascended was needed in order to fund the development and distribution of Ark II. With this recent statement, it seems that Studio Wildcard is moving on from Ark II, and instead, focusing all their efforts into Ark Survival Ascended. What are the clues, and where does this leave Ark II?
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CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
1:08 – Extra Life Future Reveals
1:58 – Paid Expansions Incoming
3:45 – Ark Survival Ascended NEW Roadmap
4:47 – Say Goodbye To Ark 2
7:46 – Interesting Ark Dev Statements
9:13 – Recap & Thoughts
10:49 – SUBSCRIBE & Socials
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▶▶Here's a quick recap of the upcoming events and HUGE changes to Ark Survival Ascended. With everything I am seeing, it looks like Ark 2 has been canned.◀◀
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📣►Ark Survival Ascended Steam Page – https://rb.gy/xw1sr
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CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
1:08 – Extra Life Future Reveals
1:58 – Paid Expansions Incoming
3:45 – Ark Survival Ascended NEW Roadmap
4:47 – Say Goodbye To Ark 2
7:46 – Interesting Ark Dev Statements
9:13 – Recap & Thoughts
10:49 – SUBSCRIBE & Socials
Im dumb. I bought ark ascended thinking its was the same as ark 2…… didnt realize they are 2 different releases and ascended was just a remake
Gonna get tired of the game before all the maps come out. I understand if they are new games but they are just maps. Copy paste creatures after making the map. These people are slow af
now this is a dead game, wow
Honestly, after they managed to delay one game 4 times in November, I wouldn't have even considered for a second, buying Ark 2. Both of these companies are so unlikeable for me, now.
Easily my least favorite gaming company
Wildcard/Snail are one of if not the worst management in the games industry.
A thought occurred, can you compare the sales of vanilla ark at "early access" launch versus the ASA at its initial launch. I'm curious to see the side by side comparison between the two reports and the revenue stream generated. If this launch is better than vanilla, it would be weird for a company to be taking out a loan when their new rendition is even more popular than the original. If possible, I'd also like to see a refund report and compare the losses to the gross sales to get an idea of what the real financial situation is.
This is just my own desires and how I'd compare the data. You don't need to follow it directly, or at all. I'm just requesting information i can look up myself as potential content for you.
Controversial opinion:
• Instead of remaking ASA into ASE, all they had to do is stop ASE after Lost island and then make fjordor in UE5 with thr same dino and gameplay mechanics and name it ark 2. They could just update dino models in future updates just like they have done it before. I personally would not complain.
Ill br honest, looking at the roadmap, and giving each date a month or rwo extra if we are fortunate, we will seen all the maps caught up sometime in 2026. This is kust thinking of classic delays aswell, when you factor in bugs, new maps, and new dinos we hsve no clear idea how long thisll take.
Kinda had a feeling that (Ark 2 being quashed) was in the works. I didn't buy into the Ascended hype.
They need to sell the rights to people who will have ethics
I don't think wildcard ever had any real hope for ark 2. A total genre shift like what they were going for was destined to fail from the start. I think ASA was always going to be the future for this franchise. The core audience for this game are people who are in to fps survival games. They aren't playing ark for a knock off dark souls experience. ASA gives them another game to sell to people who they know will buy it and let's them keep releasing paid expansions. Ark 2 was probably a concept forced on them by snail to capitalize on the success of the original game.
The Baphomet Christmas skin is very appropriate. Great way to symbolize Snail Games 👹
Im not buying ASA because Ark survival Evolved is good enough for me , its great. I dont believe in rereleasing something that is already great…but fuck wildcard if they actually dipped on making ark 2.
i was lookin forward to that bro >.>
2years? Guess im gonna buy ark when its 2 bucks on black friday 2025 and hope by then its at least worth the money
The game needs optimization and performance updates, i honestly think wildcard is in panic mode, asa sold well but i cant imagine the player base will hang around for years to come to play the old story maps, micro transactions at this stage is just screaming cash grab cash grab. If i was a betting man id predict we dont see ark 2 and snail games goes under before all asa maps drop
Thanks buzz for another video!
Once again we are lied to (No more Paid DLCs they said No more Paid Expansions they said) yeah no
we were suppose to get EVERYTHING free if we bought ASA they waited ot announce it so everyone who bought he game couldnt refund it
Another Ten Years of effortless and imagination free development. CASH COW, MAKE THAT GAME MOO!!!
Playstation is not the largest Player base on ARK. It's not even close. Steam, win10, xbox then Playstation as far as player base numbers
the only way is we, should all unite together and boycott gaming industries until they open their eyes, because we are complaining about things and again encouraging or promoting these by buying or playing these games or publishing etc, but we are doing nothing for the solution. We are making these industries even more greedy, selfish, egoistic, stupid and crooked.
Sad stuff. Wildcard and snail have a sorted history but truth be told I've put alot of time into ark 1 and I've put a fair bit into ascended. Hopefully if they do can it we will at least get to see some of the work that was done put into ark ascended.
This developer is an example of a poorly managed development studio which burns money like crazy while making very little progress.
If they had a 100million, it would still not be enough! Their games are not rocket science either, they have the formula written in stone, they just don't seem to be able to correctly utilize the graphics engines and release a hot mess. Anyone remember ATLAS?
The game don't save but no one cares 😂
it was obvious ark 2 wasnt coming by the ark acended release i pity the people who got ark acended after they let that one group own mains servers and if you tried to raid them you got banned this company deserves nothing
Ok. Since Ark 2 is probably canned. I'm throwing out a Mod Idea that I would love to see and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Ark 2 had 1 particular Concept that I did like. NPC tribes. The ability to have 1 or several different NPC tribes that build their own base, tame their own dinos with a completely customizable aggression level. Could range from completely aggressive to almost completely passive. You could effectively turn Ark into the ultimate RTS game. Cmon modders…I know it can happen. I'd pay for it. Lol
ark ascended is ark 2. same engine same assets and nobody who plays ark wants an rpg dark souls game. even their own staff like Cedric stated he didnt like it.
I thing gaming is dead.. my top played games are Overwatch, call of duty and ark… all have followed the same path it’s all about money know and if things don’t change soon yearly games as well as multi year games will die out.. it’s sad to see it go this way especially when it was on such a great path a few years ago
Snail games has to pay off their failed electric company debts and other debts from failed games and buying off studios.
And people will keep giving them money so why would they ever stop being shady? Don't buy their little adventure pack crap. Make them lose money for spending some time on something nobody asked for and it's just a quick money grab. You keep buying this and they won't stop. I have some hours in ASE, not as much as others, but around 2800 hours. I want ASA, I can afford ASA, but I am not buying it on principle. If more people would take that stance on any game out there, then the gaming industry will go back to what it was before loot crates were a thing.
If you went to a restaurant and had to pay extra for forks, knives, etc., you probably wouldn't return. That should be included in the price of the meal. If you pay for it and a lot of others do, then before long every restaurant will charge for silverware.
so.. soul.. souls-like? with Ark's melee combat 😂 wtf were they smoking in there.. absolute clownery ffs.. ASA is gonna be in early access for at least a decade with million non-fixed bugs and every expansion and feature being delayed multiple times and then launched incomplete and broken and they wanted to do a souls-like Ark2 😂🤡
sounds like these new dlc packs alongside old dlc is necessary for the studio to remain alive
It sounds like the want to use Ascended like a hub, similar to Halo: The Master Chief Collection and Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
The whole ark 2 budget went to hiring Vin Diesel. Like who the eff asked for that in the first place. Just give us generic NPC #1 and it would had been the same result
Sounds to me like the community is letting them know that we won't stand for I don't even know what to call it except BS.
I think that's good they are reinventing the Ark game. It is great foundation for merchandise and for later games (and I don't mean DLC's). This game Has great potential but… It could achieve it all with another, more experienced publisher…
Anyone who asks for a sub won't get it from me. good vid though.
The infographic with the roadmap VERY CLEARLY says "ASA" roadmap… you're literally starting rumors
At this point they should just remove genesis part one in genesis part two from the story is it doesn’t make sense if the genesis part two ending has the arc two logo on it does it know it doesn’t so at this point genesis part one in genesis part two or a relevant to the story, and shouldn’t even exist
sigh …. no one has said anything about Ark II being canceled. This is just another doom and gloom, click bait video, based on speculation and misinformation, sensationalizing things, in order to get viewers concerned and upset about things that may or may not happen, only to raise viewer ratings, so the content creator gets their money. Every game I have ever played delays content. I'm not sure why people get so upset over this. But in fairness, you could be right. But I would rather enjoy the game, see how it goes, and make up my OWN mind. And if Wildcard does screw things over, then I'll go play something else. But until then, getting upset over something that might not even happen, without FULL information on what's going on, is just silly and a waste of time. And fyi, it is quite common for a loan to be given in two installments. The first is given so the company can show that there IS an interest in the game. At which point, the second installment is given once the interest has been proven. Interesting that this "second loan" was given just after the reports came out of the unexpected size of interest. Bottom line … investors don't lend money if they think the investment is going to fail. If that happened, they wouldn't get their money back. And that's just bad business. As for the added dino … you don't even know what it is! So why get everyone upset? It could be something that's good for building and nothing more. Why do people always assume the worst? If it turns out that you're right, then I'll be right there with you, saying it's not cool. But until then, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of this game =)
Wildcard is a one trick pony its sad theews some talented devs at that studio
See, this is where one of the big boys of game development and publishing needs to sweep in and buy WildCard and the rights to ARK. This game franchise is my absolute all-time favorite and I've been almost religiously playing ARK since its original release on Xbox One back in 2015. Almost 8 consecutive years of ARK, and several thousands of hours later, and now I'm witnessing the extremely unfortunate signs of the end of ARK as a whole solely because of a publisher with money issues and a studio that doesn't know how calendars work. Wild Card and Snail Games have made some… questionable… decisions over the years, but all-in-all, they've crafted possibly one of the best game titles of the last decade. Sure, it's unoptimized, doesn't have enough official servers, has poor moderation and even worse anti-cheat; but at the end of the day, the game is absolutely beautiful, and the things you can do in the game are absolutely exquisite. ARK 2 deviating a little bit to focus more on the story rather than the survival aspect is a highly smart move IMO, and I was saying since I found some explorer notes for the first time that I wish the lore wasn't as detached as it is, and that there should be a story mode or even an adventure mode that lets you discover the story directly instead of through puzzle pieces in the form of collectables. Canceling ARK 2 would absolutely break my heart. I seriously hope and wish a member of WC or SG would read this and hear me out about potentially being willing to sell the rights to ARK to another studio/publisher should it mean keeping ARK alive.
2 years to get remaster content we already paid for once. Ugh.
Clickbait crap. Finally blocking this channel.
I hope it works out. Getting long term Ascended content will be amazing. I'm not bothered by timelines, they constantly change and as long as we keep getting Ascended content its all good.
There is no rush for ARK2 and if financially its more viable to cancel it then so be it.
And if they can hand over development to a third party at least it will be looked after then.
Overall it seems positive and I hope they get the funds they need to keep Ark Ascended going for a long time.
Smartest decision they could have made, imo. When they first said "Ark II", I was really looking forward to a new map using new code, potentially new alien life and bosses, but the same basic premise – a sandbox dino survival game. It's the sandbox and dino parts that have kept me coming back to Ark for 5000 hours. So when they said "third-person only," I said Yuck. When they said, "Souls-like combat," I said Ugh, no.
This plan is fantastic; if they can do this without going bankrupt, I say Bring it!