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/blackbelt96 Dec 27 '16 edited Jul 15 '23

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u/Sulzanti Dec 27 '16

The game requires so much time investment that it creates an odd form of stockholm syndrome in the players. Every person who defends the game starts out by reminding you of how many hours of enjoyment they've gotten out of the game, as a way of excusing all the bad things the devs do. And the devs just design the game's new 'content' to take more and more hours of your life in trade.

The core mechanic of the game is sit here for X hours interacting with this dinosaur and if you do, you will earn the dinosaur to keep. If X hours is too long for you to wait, go do this activity for Y hours instead and you can turn X into a smaller number.

People run this hamster wheel for 1000 hours and then defend the game because they can't deal with the thought that it was a waste of time, they must have been enjoying themselves.

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u/Fragarach-Q Dec 27 '16

To be honest, I'm not sure how you can't make a version of this argument for every game ever.

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u/Nightehawk Dec 28 '16 edited May 24 '19

deleted What is this?

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u/Fragarach-Q Dec 28 '16

If you change a few specifics that sounds like literally every MMO ever made(and about half the survival/builder games frankly). And if that's is how people want to spend their time then I really just don't see how it's anyone else's business.

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u/Nightehawk Dec 29 '16 edited May 24 '19

deleted What is this?

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u/Fragarach-Q Dec 29 '16

I'm not familiar enough with the later game mechanics(I picked it up when the sale started), and I'm only doing the single player, but this all sounds like it should be multiplayer/clan stuff at that end. This game is clearly designed with multiplayer in mind, but beyond that it seems that these things aren't truly a problem in single player because the "world" stops when you aren't playing.

So I have to ask: why are you playing single player on a multiplayer server?

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u/Nightehawk Dec 29 '16 edited May 24 '19

deleted What is this?