ARK: Survival evolved
Ark: survival evolved is a multiplayer online survival game described from the Ark: survival evolved wiki page which acts as a main websites for the game "use your skill and cunning to kill or tame and ride the Leviathan dinosaurs and other primal creatures roaming the land. Once, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements, while teaming up with or preying upon hundreds of other players to survive" Wikipedia:Ark: survival evolved (2015)
Ark: survival evolved has come out of the emergent survival game genre which over the past two years has become very popular in the PC community. With survival games proving very successful like the Dayz mod for Arma 2, The survival game the forest and the muiltplayer online game Rust. Ark tried to improve upon the survival game formula by introducing large dinosaur base animals into the game to offer player versus Everything aspects to the game more commonly known as PVE. As most of the other survival games have not implemented a PVE system this gives Ark an advantage over the other survival games on the market. with this new dynamic it offers players to just team up instead of fighting each other which is not very common in most of our games as they mostly consist of people fighting over people of this dynamic offers more to players if they don't feel that player versus player is for them.
The game was released "June 2, 2015" Wikipedia:Ark: survival evolved (2015) meaning the game at the time of me writing this is only five months old. It is already scheduled to be released on Xbox one and the Play station 4 under their daily access scheme program. In the first week of the games release on steam the co-founder of wildcard which are the developers, Jesse Rapczak claim that "over 400,000 units have already been sold at 25 apiece, yielding over $10 million in revenue" Gameindustry.biz: Ark: survival of old has already generated $10 million (2015).
Jesse also goes on to claim that the development costs of the game have already been paid for with this revenue "the revenue from sales has already paid for the $1.5 million cost of development over the past seven months" Gameindustry.biz: Ark: survival of old has already generated $10 million (2015). This means that even if the developers set aside an extra half a million dollars for marketing, extra development and bug fixing they still managed to gain $8 million in profits just from the first month of sales over.
Ark: survival evolved has come out of the emergent survival game genre which over the past two years has become very popular in the PC community. With survival games proving very successful like the Dayz mod for Arma 2, The survival game the forest and the muiltplayer online game Rust. Ark tried to improve upon the survival game formula by introducing large dinosaur base animals into the game to offer player versus Everything aspects to the game more commonly known as PVE. As most of the other survival games have not implemented a PVE system this gives Ark an advantage over the other survival games on the market. with this new dynamic it offers players to just team up instead of fighting each other which is not very common in most of our games as they mostly consist of people fighting over people of this dynamic offers more to players if they don't feel that player versus player is for them.
The game was released "June 2, 2015" Wikipedia:Ark: survival evolved (2015) meaning the game at the time of me writing this is only five months old. It is already scheduled to be released on Xbox one and the Play station 4 under their daily access scheme program. In the first week of the games release on steam the co-founder of wildcard which are the developers, Jesse Rapczak claim that "over 400,000 units have already been sold at 25 apiece, yielding over $10 million in revenue" Gameindustry.biz: Ark: survival of old has already generated $10 million (2015).
Jesse also goes on to claim that the development costs of the game have already been paid for with this revenue "the revenue from sales has already paid for the $1.5 million cost of development over the past seven months" Gameindustry.biz: Ark: survival of old has already generated $10 million (2015). This means that even if the developers set aside an extra half a million dollars for marketing, extra development and bug fixing they still managed to gain $8 million in profits just from the first month of sales over.
From the writing of this the game has reliably sold 1.3 million copies Steam spy: Wikipedia:Ark: survival evolved (2015) adding this all at $25 each this adds up to a total of $32.5 million taking off the cost of developments the game made $31 million in profits from its total sales. it's very sure to say that Ark: survival evolved is a financial success so looking towards the community has it received such similar success in its reputation.
According to reviews posted on steam from the community there is total of "40,000 reviews" Steam store: Ark: survival evolved (2015) and one in four of these reviews are negative which is quite an issue. Most of these issues center around the game being hacked by other players, poor optimization and the game not being stable. There are not many other official reviews out about the game because of its state of development and how long it has been released for. looking at the reviews from steam it shows the still are problems but in the game's defense it is only banal for a few months at the rate patches and new content is being moved into the game these issues could be cleaned up relatively fast from a developer such as wildcard.
Good points
Ark: survival evolved has some good points and has taken good ideas from similar games and improved upon them as a summary of some of those points.
.Intricate PVE (player versus environment): allowing players to customize the games are they only can fight creatures and the environment instead of each other which is not really been an option on all their survival games.
.Steam workshop: allows people to create mods and utilize the steam workshop giving people an easy way to download and implement these mods into their own lobbies.
.unreal engine 4 development: a feature has been implemented allowing players to use the user-friendly game engine unreal engine 4 to develop mods for Ark.
.Constant updates: with weekly updates of the game and also dedicated staff and helpful developers problems for the game quickly being removed due to this feedback.
Bad points
coming back to some of the bad points around this game and some of the issues raised by the community there are some of those points.
.Poor optimization: The game still has many issues regarding optimization as players are still having trouble running the game smoothly with the hardware recommended.
In summary Ark: survival evolved has been a massive financial success earning millions of dollars in profit but has run into issues regarding its current state which I'm pretty convinced will be removed given time and because of the attitude of the developers it seems that the scheme once finished could be one of the best in the survival game genre.
Bibliography
.Wikipedia (2015) Wikipedia: Ark: survival evolved [online] Available from:
http://ark.gamepedia.com/ARK:_Survival_Evolved_Wiki [Accessed 17th of October 2015]
.Gameindustry.biz (2015) Gameindustry.biz: Ark: survival evolved of old has already generated $10 million [online] Available from:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-06-09-ark-survival-evolved-has-already-generated-usd10-million
.Gameindustry.biz (2015) Gameindustry.biz: Ark: survival evolved of old has already generated $10 million [online] Available from:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-06-09-ark-survival-evolved-has-already-generated-usd10-million
.Gameindustry.biz (2015) Gameindustry.biz: Steam spy: Ark: survival evolved [online] Available from: http://steamspy.com/app/346110
.valve (2015) steam store websites: Ark: survival evolved [online] available from:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/
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