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Ark: Survival Evolved has been in early access for a couple of years now but the journey out is now set, with the game getting its ‘full release' on the 8th of August. In preparation for this, Studio Wildcard has boosted the game's price, bumping it up from $29.99/£24.99 to $59.99/£54.99 on Steam.
The idea behind this price bump is to “ensure retail parity” at launch, which seems odd for a game that has been on sale for less than £10 before, according to the Steam Database. This move may have caught some by surprise but it was documented on the game's Steam page ahead of time, with the developers warning that “the game will be lower priced through Early Access, relative to its final full-version retail price”.
Aside from the base game, there is already an expansion for Ark ready to go too, the £14.99 Scorched Earth DLC, which grants access to a whole new game world. Those who already own Ark won't need to worry about the price increase but if you were holding out for the full version, then you will have to make peace with the new higher price.
KitGuru Says: Ark: Survival Evolved is a popular game but I do wonder how many people are going to be willing to pay full price for it at this point. If anything, I could see this pushing people to grey market key sellers, where the game will likely be less than half of the new price. How many of you already own or play Ark? Would you have paid full price for it?
See i thought it wasn’t quite worth it’s early access price, £54.99 is the sort of price point i’d expect from a half finished EA game. This will just make people pirate it to be honest.
Good thing I bought it for $23. It’s nice playing with friends 🙂 And I can already bump all the settings to high. Optimization is getting better, however at $60, I wouldn’t recommend it. In fact, a rule for PC Gamers is NOT to buy games at $60 at all…
How does pirating a game make one honest?
I’ve had this for a while and with everything on high this game can be damned well gorgeous, especially the water and foliage but you are going to need a pretty powerful PC to appreciate it. At 1440p even my GTX1080 Gaming X plus gets a workout.
As for the game itself, it’s a pile of s**t lol, it’s absolute bollocks. No it depends really, if you want to go on the official servers with player killing turned off you are screwed, unless you were there on day one you missed the boat, every square metre has been occupied and you cant build on anything that is already owned, people even log on every fourth or fifth day just to walk around their patch of territory to plant poles to refresh their claim on the land. If you are extra lucky you might find a small patch on a beach that isn’t inside an overlap to put down a sleeping bag. Hopefully on official launch day all the servers will be reset but you better be there on day one because it’ll all start all over again.
As for the player kill servers it’s the usual run around in your underpants, pick up rock, pick up grass, craft hat, craft spear, see man wearing fallout 4 power armour on Mecha-T-rex, wave ‘don’t shoot I’m new and friendly’, boom laser bolt eyes, wake up on beach in underpants.
This game is still a thing? I thought it was done a long time ago. With that said this was a fun game I played it for a while even had a T-Rex as a pet. The game looked great cranked up also. I uninstalled it a long time ago mind you I got bored with it after about 2 weeks.
i love this game!, still to this day, although it was a cracked game, it was the dogs nuts! getting killed by a shark was exilerating and watching the dinosaurs fight eachother on a rendered image was unreal!