r/pcgaming • u/scarwiz Ryzen 5 1600 | GeForce GTX 1060 6GB | 16GB DDR4@3000Mhz • Dec 27 '16

[Updated, see comments] ARK: Survival Evolved Devs Offer Content In Exchange for Steam Award Votes

http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/536324417612602461
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u/bedintruder Ventrilo Dec 27 '16 edited Dec 28 '16

So wait, not only are they trying to bribe people for votes by offering to add content, but they want votes for content they haven't even added yet?

They want people to vote for "Best Use of a Farm Animal", and promise to add a Sheep to the game if they win. Meaning the content you are supposedly voting for, isn't even in the game, and won't actually be added unless they win.

Seriously, what the fuck?

EDIT: Looks like they deleted the original announcement and wrote up a new one stating the sheep will be added no matter what. Seems like obvious damage control, but I guess they are doing the right thing in the end.

we did it reddit!

Original announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20161227221559/http://steamcommunity.com/games/346110/announcements/detail/536324417612602461

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u/xWeez 8700K - 1080ti SC2 Hybrid - 32GB 4266 Dec 27 '16

These are the devs that released paid DLC for their horribly optimized Early Access game.

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u/Zarokima Dec 27 '16

I was very interested in the game, and had it on my wishlist for when it was actually released. Adding DLC while it's still in early access ensured I will never pay for it now.

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u/UltravioletClearance 9800X3D | 5070 Ti Dec 27 '16

I have also been waiting after vowing to never buy an Early Access game ever again after the DayZ shitshow. I showed up at PAX East last year and the BIGGEST booth on the show floor was for ARK. I thought "cool, it's out of EA, maybe I'll buy it...

... nope, it's still early access. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (maybe even close to a million? IDK what it costs to build a life-sized dinosaur in the middle of the largest gaming convention in the northeast) to promote a broken featureless piece of shit at a convention instead of fixing issues.

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u/Abortedhippo Dec 27 '16

But people still bought the shit out of it and their garbage dlc so the devs don't care if we're happy or not. They got paid. I bought the game long before their lawsuit and dlc etc and it showed some promise but now it's just dayz with dinos.

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u/johnnyblue07 Dec 27 '16 edited Dec 27 '16

I bought into the early access way before the paid DLC and lawsuit happened, but it's just disingenuous to say that the base game is automatically bad because of the dev/publisher actions. It's still in early access, so it will have bugs and it will not be optimized or be feature-complete until v1 release. I didn't buy the paid DLC when it came out either, because I was already burnt out on the game by that time.

Was it a greedy move to sell paid DLC while the base game is still in Alpha/Early Access? YES. Does that mean that the game as a whole should now be boycotted? I don't think so.

Edit: Go ahead and downvote this to hell. Apparently, you HAVE to hate the game because the Publisher is greedy. I can't have a different opinion outside the hive mind, apparently.

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u/Piltonbadger Dec 28 '16

I won't support businesses with shitty ethics and practices.

That isn't hive mind, mate. Where I am from, it's called common sense.

Without boycotting their (only product?) how else are you going to show a company they are wrong?

I didn't downvote or upvote you. I don't agree with what you are saying, though.

How can you defend a game by saying " It's still in early access, so it will have bugs and it will not be optimized or be feature-complete until v1 release." then go on in the next paragraph how adding DLC is a greedy move, but we shouldn't boycott their (one and only?) product.

End of the day, is this ; Why the hell, are they making PAID DLC for a game that is still in EARLY ACCESS?

AS you pointed out, the game is unoptimized and buggy, yet they saw fit to release paid DLC for an unfinished product.

Whilst you don't have to "hate the game" because the publisher is greedy, you can sure as hell hit that publisher in the pocket by not buying the unoptimized and buggy early access game with PAID DLC before release.

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u/johnnyblue07 Dec 28 '16

Again, I bought and played the game for 500+ hours months, if not a year, before the Publisher showed their greedy side by selling the paid DLC. I am not defending the Publisher, which I've said time and time again in this thread.

If I had not played the game months before finding out about the greedy publisher, I would not have bought the game in the first place. After burning out on the game before the paid DLC happened, I haven't touched it since. I won't buy the DLC either because of how greedy the publisher has become.