Man with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Developed provides it a damaging Steam assessment: 'How do I get a refund!!'
Ark: Survival Developed left early entry on August 27, 2017. That is practically 70,000 hours in the past… which suggests if a participant has logged 35,202 hours in Ark, they’ve basically been enjoying the dino-survival recreation for half its lifespan.
Not solely has one participant really executed that, they only gave Ark a damaging assessment 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, one in all my favourite video games to play with family and friends,” the reviewer mentioned on Steam. “I ran a ASM [Ark Server Manager] server w/mods for years till immediately. NOTHING works anymore.”
The problem seems to be the discharge of Ark Aquatica, a 10-year anniversary DLC for Ark: Survival Developed. It is at the moment rated on Steam as “Overwhelmingly Damaging” with solely 12% of its opinions 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 recordsdata throughout your complete recreation.
“Server does not match, mods do not work, and of all that is to power us to ASA [Ark: Survival Ascended, the remastered version of Ark],” the 35,000-hour participant continues of their assessment. “I’ve that recreation as properly, and it sucks. That’s the reason we went again to ASE [Ark: Survival Evolved] and now you’ve gotten 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 way in which, is 4 years. I do not imply they have been enjoying 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 could be a massive Ark fan you have pissed off. Perhaps the most important?
For the file, it seems writer Snail Video games is conscious of the problems. “Our high precedence stays to repair a difficulty with the sport engine on the stay model of ARK: Survival Developed,” reads a put up on Ark’s Steam web page immediately, including that the issue is “proving to be advanced” and that “an answer continues to be developed with a view to handle mods from immediately crashing and we stay up for posting an replace when potential.”
This is not the primary time we have seen a damaging assessment from a participant with lots of or 1000’s of hours in a recreation—Joshua just lately tracked down somebody who had performed Battlezone 98 for 8,000 hours solely to depart a damaging assessment. (Plus, Joshua wound up agreeing with him).
However this needs to be the most important 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 price noting that even after writing their scathing indictment of Ark and demanding their a reimbursement, the reviewer has performed, um, an extra 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.
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