Highlights
- Ark: Survival Ascended confronted criticism for its optimization, leading to blended critiques on Steam, however that hasn’t affected its participant base.
- Regardless of the preliminary backlash, the sport has change into one among Steam’s prime ten hottest titles, with round 50,000 concurrent gamers.
- Ark: Survival Ascended additionally emerged because the best-selling recreation on Steam, surpassing different in style titles, and is ready to launch on consoles in November after a delay resulting from vital multiplayer points.
After months of delays and controversy, Ark: Survival Ascended lastly made its solution to Steam final week. Nevertheless, the Unreal Engine 5 remaster of Ark: Survival Advanced bought off to a rocky begin after gamers known as the sport’s optimization “trash”. With over 16,000 critiques already, Survival Ascended presently has a “blended” evaluation badge on Steam.
Nevertheless, this does not seem to have accomplished any injury to the sport’s participant base, as Survival Ascended broke by means of into Steam’s prime ten hottest titles yesterday (by way of ArkAscendedNews). On the time of writing this text, Survival Ascended has slipped right down to quantity 13 in Steam’s charts, however continues to be averaging round 50,000 concurrent gamers.
When it broke by means of into Steam’s prime ten video games by present gamers, Ark: Survival Ascended sat at a powerful 75,000 gamers and peaking at simply shy of 100,000. Different reside service video games, reminiscent of Rust and Crew Fortress 2, had been floating between 90,000 and 94,000 present gamers, respectively.
Ark: Survival Ascended was additionally Steam’s most-sold recreation between October twenty fourth and October thirty first, beating out the likes of Cities: Skylines 2, Soccer Supervisor 2024, EA Sports activities FC 24, Baldur’s Gate 3, and plenty of different massively in style titles. Regardless of the fairly lacklustre reception from followers, Survival Ascended is clearly off to a powerful begin.
At present solely out there for PC by way of Steam, Ark: Survival Ascended can also be set to hit PlayStation and Xbox platforms this November. In a current weblog put up on the official Ark web site, Studio Wildcard introduced the delay for Survival Ascended’s console launch, saying that the staff had “recognized some vital points within the multiplayer model of the sport that may have had main implications for the console variations of the sport.”
Studio Wildcard went on to say, “Sadly, resulting from these points, we’ve determined to delay the launch of the Xbox and PlayStation variations of the sport till November”. So, it may nonetheless be one other few weeks till Survival Ascended hits consoles, however PC gamers can leap into the fully recreated and redesigned world of Ark proper now.