The high-freedom sandbox game has a large audience of players, who are obsessed with building their own buildings and settlements in the vast world map, and composing their own stories. Released in 2017, ARK: Survival Evolved has amassed a large number of players over the years, and thanks to the high playability of the sandbox game itself, old users have become the main force.
During the Christmas holidays, many foreign players chose to return to the pit at this time to download the original game of "ARK: Survival Evolved". It turned out that the minimum storage required by the game has come to 330G. This is a huge gap from the previous initial version that only required a few tens of gigabytes, and "ARK: Survival Ascension", which only required 70G.
In this case, the general opinion of players is that the official is "lazy" and has not made the necessary optimizations to the game. This led to "ARK: Survival Evolved", which appeared in front of everyone with a posture that was inflated several times. Because in general, it's hard to see how much storage space new and old games need than new games.
Some netizens even commented: "ARK: Survival may set a record for the least optimized game ever." ”
In fact, this is not the first time that "ARK: Survival Evolved" has caused controversy.
Not long ago, Wildcard, the developer of ARK: Survival Evolved, updated the game with an Unreal Engine 5 remake, and the upgraded version of the game, ARK: Survival Ascension, was released. However, due to the official paid upgrade and bundling of "Ark 2", the reputation of this work has taken a sharp turn in the short term.
With a series of events such as the suspension of the old version, bundling sales, and the skipping of sequels, players have more and more negative reviews of Wildcard. The server optimization problem after the launch of "Ark: Survival Ascension" was also serious, and the praise rate dropped rapidly in a short period of time, and even Wildcard took the initiative to admit its shortcomings.
Earlier this month, ARK: Survival Ascension was removed from cross-play. Due to the intensification of the use of plug-ins by users on the PC side, Wildcard, which cannot make effective countermeasures, has to separate the PC and console players to ensure the game experience of players.
As a multiplayer sandbox game, the Ark series is updated frequently. According to Wildcard's previously announced "ARK: Survival Ascension" update roadmap, the game will also usher in a number of new maps. As of now, ARK: Survival Ascension has more than 250 cross-platform mods available in the mod browser, all of which are essential to make the game more fun.
At this stage, the update plan for "ARK: Survival Ascension" has been scheduled for 2025, and there will be many version changes in the middle. If the official can't pay attention to the optimization issue, I am afraid that there will be more bloated works than "ARK: Survival Evolved".
So what do you have to say about it?