

This point is more of a question to you readers because I've seen comments that still point to the game's optimisation as being terrible right now and some people saying the game has improved on that front. I was hoping to get some nice screenshots of dinosaurs and habitats but the tradeoffs I needed to make so it would run with anything approaching playability make the game so fugly. I did actually try Ark at a few points during the last couple of years and the performance was wretched. $59.99/£54.99/€69.99 is a lot of money and I flat out won't pay that much for any game (unless it tricks me over a long period of time with microtransactions and an underwater-themed map).ģ. We should take a moment to appreciate just how eye-watering that euro number is and that it has actually more than doubled the cost of the game in that currency.Ģ. I assume that's because the pre-ordering for the game is now live so they're trying to funnel people towards that instead of everyone just saying "no thanks, I'll pick it up cheaper on Steam".ġ. Thing is, the game is still actually in early access at this point despite now sporting what would seem to be a full release version price tag of $59.99/£54.99/€69.99. "the game will be lower priced through Early Access, relative to its final full-version retail price." The game was being sold at a lower price through the early access period ($29.99/£22.99/€27.99 with some sales taking it far lower) and the early access blurb acknowledges that the price would increase when the game reached its release form: The developers say that the price hike is "to ensure retail parity for the upcoming launch" which is on 8 August.

Studio Wildcard have doubled the price of their dino-infested survival game Ark: Survival Evolved on Steam.
