Ark: Survival Advanced left early entry on August 27, 2017. That is practically 70,000 hours in the past… which implies if a participant has logged 35,202 hours in Ark, they’ve primarily been taking part in the dino-survival recreation for half its lifespan.
Not solely has one participant really carried out that, they simply gave Ark a destructive evaluate on Steam. After 35,202 hours. And amazingly, even bravely, maybe—they’re additionally demanding a refund.
“I’ve loved Ark for 35,000 hours, certainly one of my favourite video games to play with family and friends,” the reviewer stated on Steam. “I ran a ASM [Ark Server Manager] server w/mods for years till at present. NOTHING works anymore.”
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The difficulty seems to be the discharge of Ark Aquatica, a 10-year anniversary DLC for Ark: Survival Advanced. It is presently rated on Steam as “Overwhelmingly Unfavourable” with solely 12% of its evaluations optimistic ones. Not solely are customers reporting bugs and poor efficiency for the DLC, but in addition that it breaks mods, server settings, and configuration information throughout the complete recreation.
“Server would not match, mods do not work, and of all that is to pressure us to ASA [Ark: Survival Ascended, the remastered version of Ark],” the 35,000-hour participant continues of their evaluate. “I’ve that recreation as effectively, and it sucks. That’s the reason we went again to ASE [Ark: Survival Evolved] and now you could have managed to screw that additionally.
“You had one thing nice. Hope you do not choke in your GREED!!! How do I get a refund!!” they conclude.
35,202 hours, by the best way, is 4 years. I do not imply they have been taking part in Ark for 4 years, I imply these 35,202 hours add as much as a whole, strong 4 years of time. Even when that features the uptime of operating a server, that may be a massive Ark fan you’ve got pissed off. Perhaps the largest?
For the file, it seems writer Snail Video games is conscious of the problems. “Our prime precedence stays to repair a problem with the sport engine on the dwell model of ARK: Survival Advanced,” reads a publish on Ark’s Steam web page at present, including that the issue is “proving to be advanced” and that “an answer continues to be developed in an effort to tackle mods from immediately crashing and we stay up for posting an replace when doable.”
This is not the primary time we have seen a destructive evaluate from a participant with a whole bunch or 1000’s of hours in a recreation—Joshua lately tracked down somebody who had performed Battlezone 98 for 8,000 hours solely to depart a destructive evaluate. (Plus, Joshua wound up agreeing with him).
However this must be the largest one but, proper? 35,000 hours in a single recreation? I do not suppose I’ve ever seen that degree of dedication, particularly alongside that degree of disappointment. You recognize what? I hope they do get a refund.
It is value noting that even after writing their scathing indictment of Ark and demanding their a refund, the reviewer has performed, um, a further 32 hours up to now week. Does that imply one of many latest patches has improved the state of affairs? I’ve reached out to them for additional remark, and can replace this story if I hear again.
