Why ATLAS Died

[@robokast]

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[@HazyJ28]

Nah. It didn't appeal to me, as I never even liked ARK.

[@zoomziller]

Atlas is a fun game, and it has unofficial community servers, it's concept is very unique and cool, but unfortunately, development was not good

[@disabled_ksi]

great video man can you make a titanfall 2 game it makes my blood boil thinking about what happend to it

[@FelisImpurrator]

The description of it as an even more PVP-focused Sea of Thieves just killed any interest I could possibly have had, because... Seriously? Blech. Gating cool features behind some kind of MMO grindwall and PVP that privileges the earliest players in... What's the point? Who likes this? I just want a single player pirate game. Maybe Salt 2 will eventually deliver.

[@zoomziller]

@FelisImpurrator it did have pve

[@MadeUpNoun]

8:50 Atlas didn't just randomly inherit arks taming system, Atlas is just a modified version of Ark. on launch there was a glitch which allowed players to go all the way to Ark's main menu, you couldn't play Ark but the entire main menu was there and Atlas was even marked as a DLC they later patched it out so you can't get to the menu anymore

[@davdev793]

Same thing with dark and light. A total conversion sold as complete new game.

[@Exerosp]

that's just normal with same engine games, you could access the shout system from Skyrim in fallout4/76 for example lmao

[@godw1ll99]

inheriting a system from ark and being a modified version of ark is the same thing... all of the hate surrounding atlas being "modified ark" is unbelievably idiotic. Its literally common practice in game development since the beginning of game development. obviously being able to access that menu is more so just proof to wildcards shoddy development but being mad about the idea that a game company reused assets or used a developed game as a platform for a new one is, like i sad, idiotic.

[@davdev793]

Its normal but how that's easly exposable shows the lack of care and efort on making a good product. The fallout examples shows a bias on bad products. lol

[@jcnunez25]

It died because that company is the most irresponsable ever. They lie to their players, don't do what they promised, and more. Look what happened to Ark.

[@filidhdeklend893]

This is the entire crux of it. Anyone who bought Ascended who think they're getting Ark 2 when(really if) it comes out are gonna be in for a bitter shock when it gets renamed to something like "Ark Generations" or something else technically not Ark 2.

[@Jorendo]

@@filidhdeklend893 Heck, seeing their track record, even if Ark 2 ever comes out, it will likely be another abandonware project were they release a massively bugged game and then don't do a thing about it to actually fix the issues. They are also owned by Snail Games USA, a notorious publishers who been pushing for more Ark clones and they got abandoned too like "Dark and Light". I will never support Studio Wildcard again, bought Ark and Atlas and been disappointed in how they handle things and how they see the player base. I wasn't aware of the scandals that lead up to how Wildcard came to be, but it does explain a lot, that guy is just a A'hole first class at the sounds of it.

[@yumyum96969]

wow. nothing about the game being a repackaged dlc mentioned. the only reason this game was released was because they wanted to make money from people who already bought the season pass. At one point, you could pull up ark’s menu in the game if you knew how.

[@johnxina1681]

the channel is just bad and lazy

[@kennyevilmonkey]

Yup, I found that glitch day 1 after finally managing to get in through server issues and the long wait times. I laughed at it, got killed by a boar or a giraffe or some other animal, tried making a raft, and then quit after my guy starved to death. Uninstalled right after.

[@IAmThatGuy0]

I was surprised this wasn't mentioned at all it was just an ark dlc repackaged as it's own game for a cash grab. Also, if I remember correctly, soon after it released, the Chinese took over many of the servers using ghost ships. Making it unplayable for most new players

[@crimhammerlock8963]

@@johnxina1681 hateful and for why

[@sarnem5330]

I remember this fact when all this went down. Surprised it wasn’t in the video. It’s pretty prominent in the whole Atlas debacle

[@FelisImpurrator]

The most amazing thing about Ark's devs is how long they've gone without learning how to compress their goddamn game files. I mean seriously. And evidently Atlas is no different...

[@Big-box2489]

I mean cod devs still haven't figured that out and Thier team is way bigger

[@FelisImpurrator]

@Big-box2489 On the other hand, Ark models are a lot shittier.

[@Xazamas]

Reason for having uncompressed textures is that uncompressing them on the fly would eat up performance budget. Can still be a shitty practice. COD has been pushing diminishing results for years now at the expense of your disc space (there's even a theory that Activision considers huge install size feature, not a bug - they assume people will install COD anyway and then have less pace for other games.) Meanwhile Ark seems to just use it as a crutch to make their game simply run.

[@Big-box2489]

@@FelisImpurrator bro? What type of thing you smoking ark models look way better and they have 3× less budget

[@FelisImpurrator]

@Xazamas I'm not sure it's the textures. Like, I think it might have been the world files or something just being unnecessarily large, last I looked it up. More of a YanSim toothbrush issue than a Skyrim ultra high res texture pack one. Although if they're also using some 4k/8k bullshit by default, they should stop it, get some help, and go back down to reasonable texture sizes with an optional free DLC like everyone else. I want shorter games with worse graphics made on smaller budgets, unironically. Palworld is pretty good and content dense for a fraction of the space.

[@AnkleMuncher]

Atlas was actually fixed for one year, most people don't know this. It was one of the best games I have played, but next update it was destoyed again and never came back. Graphics broken, crafting broken and just about everything broken.

[@mainetheoutspoken]

Atlas is still to me the best game ever made. I have thousands of hours in this game and most of the videos on my channel are of Atlas. It would have been a better game than Ark had the devs actually finished it.

[@stephenmiller1417]

Same, love the ship building, the ocean moves, command your crew, the ghost ships, but wish it was Spaniards, chinese and British ships be more fun, and the treasure map hunt was really fun, some was very hard to get to but fun. The mythical creatures were good and hard. Gordans was a blast popping them in the head, cyclops was fun and challenging, but the fire dude was broken and hard to defeat and one shots you even in the most powerful armor.

[@LoadedKaiser]

It's a great game that was abandoned, I still play it

[@TheCateon]

While to me No Man's Sky holds the greatest game ever made title, had ATLAS been continuously supported it would have 100% been close to one of my favorite games of all time.

[@primedentremoval]

^^^

[@michaelweber4895]

95% of players did not abandon atlas. They were banned from atlas and just told they violated the term and conditions of the games but not told what they did that cased the ban.

[@ecomancer007]

Why atlas died. Crappy dev's, constant bugs and character loss, Groups using exploitations over and over, getting banned / removed for only a season and allowed back or those that were permeant would purchase a new copy and repeat using exploitations again and again. Will never forget seeing people putting multiple cannons per cannon port by trying to spam place at same time until they had a boat which should only have 12 guns running 60 guns. Or the Large walls stacking exploit where you could put a table on top of the wall and a wall on top of the table, repeat until you were so high you could glide bomb anywhere in grid or even the next grid over. Lets not forget the fact that you could be captured, held hostage and kept for weeks / months in a cage unable to play the game because every time you log in, your knocked out, force fed food, and held until you log back out. (ya, i did my share of guard duty)

[@squiddeon9164]

>the pitch sounded great >created by the minds responsible for ark survival evolved okay

[@robokast]

good point

[@drabent99]

😅😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlisteirCrowley]

I think one of the problems as well with the game was that megatribes went straight over to it so it was not casual friendly the way Ark was at the beginning. I remember us having our own Atlas group in the Discord, where we could pull up with several hundred people if we needed to.

[@AtomicEy]

from someone who played Ark survival solo you lost me at 40,000 players

[@aaronhuff2813]

This game broke my heart. I loved it and they killed it.

[@cromofury]

When Atlas was released, some friends and I bought it, installed it, and tried to play as soon as it launched. We couldn’t get into any servers because they were completely overwhelmed. We were watching other streamers (Spanish ones) trying to play as well, and one of them, Knekro, was attempting to play with a controller or so I recall. By accident, he opened what was literally an Ark menu within the game. It looked as if it were a DLC for Ark labeled "Ocean." I've never played Ark, but he explained what he knew from playing it, and we were left speechless. Didn’t take long for the company to notice. Shortly afterward, they rolled out an forced update. We ended up renting a private server, which took a day to set up since we weren’t the only ones who did the same due to being unable to play otherwise. A few days later, we tried joining the official servers and ended up just wandering the seas since we couldn’t claim any land. Even so, we managed to log around 300 hours in the game. It was great overall, but it was still a total mess.

[@headshot531]

robo PLZ definitely do worlds adrift sometime. it feels like a fever dream that game. like it was so popular then just dropped dead.

[@Jamerific]

Actually ATLAS was originally going to be an expansion to ARK, but they had so many new ideas, they made it it's own thing.

[@godw1ll99]

this is the truth of it. people saying its just ark dlc being sold as its own game are being ridiculous. it started off as an expansion but like you said they decided that it should be bigger and its own thing. in itself this isnt a bad thing and its common practice in the gaming industry. that is the part that makes me dislike the people hating on wildcard for this specifically because they are showing how ignorant they are. we can have the same call of duty game remade year after year without such complaints, and countless other examples, but wildcard makes an entirely new game that has gameplay that is very different from ark being labelled as "ark dlc"...

[@buttergolem8584]

Because it was like Ark minus Dinos and way too small islands. Every island was already taken by like 5 players and you couldn't build anymore there. Playing local or on an own server? Better have 64Gigs or your tile size will be small and you only have a few islands on it.

[@LunarDefect]

I feel like a lawsuits for unfinished games would make developers think twice about abandoning games that they make people pay for

[@voidicgamer7838]

I would 110% play this if they actually kept up.

[@Naviss]

Having 600 hours in Atlas, I miss it. Was a horrible experience but gave me features I always wanted. Building my own ships the way I wanted. And building a homestead like I was used to in Ark SE (3,200 hours), it was the best of both worlds for me. I spent many hours sailing between grids exploring new lands and was a blast. Joined a guild, help build a galleon together and sailed with them for days! That was probably the most fun I ever had. The game was far from perfect. Hardly a game at all with so much broken, but even so it still stands as one of my favorite games despite how much I was cursing at it and pissed from lost progress. It's a shame the game couldn't have had better management and seen the vision through. It would have been amazing.

[@redneck13265]

i played atlas right around when it first came out and i left within a day or two because it felt more like a copy and paste of ark at the start. i knew it was a sinking ship from the start so i never went back to it but couldnt refund it as i already played 2 hours of the game.

[@Simply_Pip]

You should do "Starlink: battle for atlas" next!! It is a planet exploration game that had a similar gimmick to skylanders! It is also really unpopular/unknown to many people. I've never even heard of it before picking up a physical copy (Playstation 4 disk only) at a thrift store lol (The physical toys being incorporated into the game)

[@kristiannicholson5893]

I still really appreciate the NPC crew mechanic for sailing, having them control the sails while my friends did the fun stuff like shoot cannons.

[@redgear1732]

Every time I take time to listen to Wildcard controversies I learn of some new unthinkable sin they've committed. I've played ARK since its console launch and only recently acquired a copy of atlas, during the sale that had the official servers go down. I had assumed they had been down for years, like ARK Park's. The problem is that wildcard has successfully made a game that will have a audience so long as it is consistently updated. It allows them to make really bad choices and then not suffer the consequences. They won't learn.

[@Dabois267]

8:32 bro just described rust

[@Warpath1985]

Atlas was a ark conversion mod 1st and you never mentioned their other title Dark and Light that got abandoned

[@Cardinal8427]

I know it might be a bit too niche but I'd love a video like this about Worlds Adrift! Another MMO that ultimately shut down in July of 2019.

[@headshot531]

DUDE GUCK YES. holy shit im not the only one that remembers that rough gem. i used to watch indiegames or whatever play it. really awesome survival exploration game that got horribly mismanaged . its so disappointing it had potential.

[@sinixynta]

omg please do it, Robokast 🤧

[@sinixynta]

the 'peace' i felt in that game just sailing through the clouds was unmatched, not even Minecraft can top it. some articles touted it as "the Minecraft of the Next-Generation", but alas, it didn't work out too well for Bossa 🥲

[@CrinklesContent]

I'm glad to see people still remember it

[@FelisImpurrator]

Serious feedback: I think your editing thing of having certain sentences flash across the screen doesn't work. That and too many effects and transitions. It looks way too engagement-baity and doesn't really add much to the video. The ones with sentences flashing one word at a time are worse than the big text scrolls and blocks. It's like having a sign saying "Here, this is where you should feel... Something!" And more than that, it's just kind of messy to read. The content is great, but this over-editing really isn't very pleasant to watch.

[@arktetos9138]

Atlas is a game that makes me very sad, I've done so much for this game, I've worked hard for years to create cool content for the game, I still have a million ideas for content for this game, but there is a low number of players, I don't know if I should work for a few more long months to bring new content to Atlas so it won't be used because it has so few players, I want to get back into the swing of things with Atlas mods, but for that I would need to dedicate long months to making content for some people, this makes me very sad, I just wish I had the opportunity to create vanilla content.

[@dagreatproductions]

I loved Atlas I spent 9k hrs on it was banned and still played I miss this game so much there is nothing like it the potential was enormous I played in multiple megastar and was easily one of the best on Xbox everyone knows who D.B. Cooper is I wish this game blew up the defending and taking land is not like anything out and the company it self could easily be your success or downfall I've met 100s of ppl that I still have friendships with and it was honestly the most fun I ever had on the game I played from season 3 to the end if someone with money could take this over it would easily become one of the greatest games out it had things and scenarios you don't get from other games it's honestly amazing

[@badmanners-TV]

Atlas Devs Bent Us Over And Shafted Us Dry When They Jumped Ship

[@godw1ll99]

wild card are certainly not the "good guys" and much of their problems are through mistakes of their own but at the same time what do you expect from a game that received an overwhelming amount of hatred not just towards the game but towards the developers as well? and lets be hones there, a lot of that hate was very much unjustified and extreme.

[@AFpaleoCon]

How people even play Ark is beyond me. Its the most amateurish game I’ve seen. It’s been terrible since launch and all i can chaulk it up to is that there are basically no other games with dinosaurs.

[@Red-qv4nb]

I got the game when I was 13 for Christmas along with a ps4, got Ark and Rocket League. I put probably 200 hours in that game, I thought it was really cool at the time especially since I could mess around with the sliders and console commands

[@OpoOnTheGo]

There are very few games that let you press a button and poop out a perfect sphere, though. It's kind of innovative when you really think about it!

[@squiddeon9164]

That's pretty much it

[@weewoo8108]

It is a bit like that, basically. I've tried other survival sandbox games, PvE and PvP alike, and there's just nothing with the same dynamic and gameplay loop which is very addicting. If there was a game that was the premise of Ark but it ran without problems, had more regular content updates, honest devs and was a much more stable experience? It would likely steal Arks players, but there isn't, so Ark is all we have right now

[@LeifEriccson43]

Mods. Mods is the only way to play it.

[@NeonXpreZz]

I remember being so hyped about this game because I was a huge fan of ARK. ARK was already a mess, but somehow Atlas managed to be worse! There are so many small things to be annoyed about, and the developers barely address them. Like ARK, the game is riddled with bugs, performance issues, and poorly designed or unpolished mechanics. Instead of fixing existing problems, they just keep adding more unpolished content. Even with ARK: Survival Ascended, they only fixed some issues before moving on to new features, leaving many problems unresolved. Atlas had the potential to be something truly special, and ARK could have been so much better. It's disappointing that this is all we got. From what I've heard, Snail Games played a significant role in how these games turned out, and if that's true, I mostly blame them. very slim chance but hope that ARK 2 will turn out good.

[@Masterho310]

Is this the one that was supposed to be a DLC for Arc but they tried to release as a standalone product for full price?

[@godw1ll99]

not exactly. it started off as being an expansion for ark but then they made it much bigger and in to its own game. so no, they didnt just release ark dlc as a standalone game. and it wasnt also for full price. if i remember it was $30.

[@gunship4741]

ever played on a RP server called darkside its not bad its servers like that keeps atlas alive Roleplay servers

[@ExAzrael]

I love Atlas on a private server with friends. A long time ago: lost all of my stuff, ships, items, everything, on a “server reset.”… on a private server. Left the game for a while. Came back. Played for a long time. Stopped for a bit. Cane back- all of my tames are gone. I’ve been done.

[@theotreso5366]

This was done on purpose for short term profits for Snailgames and Wildcard and nothing else.

[@no-oneyou-know1558]

Studio Wildcard is everything thats wrong with a game studio, and this isnt even their only failed mmo cashgrab

[@mist3rtrixt3r]

I loved Atlas! I really do wish they would just let some of us mod creators for Atlas and Ark, take over the game, and bring it back to glory.

[@ramy9450]

You should look into Another game that was made by Wildcard & Snail games and was abandoned just like Atlas, an MMO named Dark and Light, which made the same mistake like promising 1000+ players on a server, when in reality it was capped to 60 upon Early Access. The game is, like Atlas, basically ARK but with magic and fantasy instead of pirates. Its still on steam, been abandoned for years.

[@johnwayne4911]

getting mauled by overpowered predators was peak gaming

[@Crazy_Sue]

I STILL have PTSD from the god damn Lions on the Powerstone Islands!

[@NickyByloo]

I played it a launch, and it had so much potential. My guess is the game was far too ambitious with the while clustered servers for the large map size that people couldn't even host their own servers without the same massive clustered server host overhead. I also think the devs were spread thin between Ark and Atlas ultimately. What I did play of it was fun.

[@TroaBarton]

I really liked the game despite the issues, I adored the ship building. It’s a shame the devs abandoned it, it has a ton of potential.

[@Don-ds3dy]

Ironic considering how popular it is to play as a pirate in Ark.

[@Tazz2418]

Robo could you do a video on the Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare series and how it died?

[@BoozyBeggar]

*Stieglitz* Every. Single. Time. Brother, it is EVERY SINGLE TIME.

[@Kybiosu]

4:11 for post-Sponsor content.

[@cheeseistaken]

thank you i have sponsorblock addon but comments like these are still so nice to see

[@MaxFlood84]

I bought Atlas on launch. It was rocky, to say the least. I decided to run the game on my own server. So i bought another copy and created a 9X9 server that had all the quests and everything. At best, we had 50ish players and had ZERO issues. The game ran flawlessly for us. However, i did the same rhing with Atlas and had the same experience. These games only play well that way it seems, and with mods.

[@P1DZz]

Ark is the best game ever made. I've played thousands of hours in so many games over the years (WoW,FF,DayZ,rust, destiny etc) . I always go back to Ark... Atlas sucked real bad on launch and most players went back to Ark 😂

[@ChristopherRoady]

There are currently rumors going around that the Atlas servers were taken down because they are finally releasing the game on unreal engine 5. Wildcard shut all ASE servers down a few months before ASA was released, so hopefully this is true 🤞🤞

[@whyismynametaken123]

Atlas never had the player count to keep it running. It's not anymore complicated than that.

[@adamosgood]

I had so much fun playing Atlas. Wish someone would remake it. It’s too bad what happened to it

[@comicstripgamer1591]

Your video misses out on final bit of research. As an xbox player, we noticed that in April 24, we lost the ability to connect online. We had a massive clan playing on hosted server cluster. Enjoying our own role play. Anyway on the servers and PC players could still play, but we could not. Months went by, emails, tickets, and support were not answered. Grapecard 😂 refused our requests. In effect, we were ghosted. They shut and didn't renew access and Microsoft lease. We lost the ability to play and our years of building, ships, and resources. It also made some PC players very happy as there was often a stigma that us laggy console players reduced their building capacity. More importantly, the hosts lost their money as they paid nitrado months in advance. Paying for a server we could not play.

[@canyoujump]

Try Zombie Ultima Hardcore 144x XP. Brand new skill tree, new enemies, mostly on foot survival challange. I would love to get some new players in.

[@poppamasta5135]

War thunder loves this dude 😭😭

[@BardLinos]

ATLAS was originally advertised as a dlc for ark. When it released as a stand alone game it was fine then they added bought ships and stupid settings instead of letting players customize their boats. I stopped playing after 2 years. In short they mismanaged and ruined what made it great to start with.

[@Don-ds3dy]

"pirates instead of dinosaurs" As a guy with thousands of hours wasted in ark, I can recognize that almost 90% of the creatures in Atlas are reskined from ark. To me reskinning isn't that big a deal, like there's no reason to create new animations for a fish ...but the triceratops!?!?! How does that fit in a pirate game???

[@joey2drunk2play58]

honestly, i'd play it again if they took out the prefab ships and where you have to pay gold for ships you build yourself (season 4) I had fun building boat after boat. I was dead terrible at pvp but I was good at sailing and manouvering to the point my seasoned teammates actually trusted me to sail their boats.

[@joey2drunk2play58]

I also perfer the ark taming system as the atlas one was too complicated for my tiny little brain lol

[@LoadedKaiser]

Its sad because this game can really be fun at times. The bugs really make it unplayable 50% of the time. I still play it here and there

[@andrewholm6341]

I played some PvE on it 2 years ago which was really fun but hindered by the fact there was like no available land to build on since it was all claimed and hundreds of massive ships popping in made it pretty choppy and would crash when switching zones, starting playing it single player this month and it's been nearly flawless with zero crashes lol and is quite fun if you like sailing and still having the ships if the damned to fight and run from , I do like the fact you can just build on your ship and tinker around while sailing

[@andrewholm6341]

And you can still hunt for treasure and fight the skeletons

[@piazzadriver]

This was one of the few games that I actually did everything and beat everything. CuzThere was an grest discord, where people would get together and do everything together.. you can beat that whole game and do everything in 3 months. And this was back when the map was a lot bigger.

[@BANISHERSTEEZY]

“In 3 months”

[@joey2drunk2play58]

also they shouldn't have added past season 4, if they were going to add anything it should have been more quests(didn't have to be overly complex), i did like the bandit option for single player, even though i spent majority of it on official server.

[@BrentTomlonovic]

I jumped in from the start but only played it solo. That is also how I play Ark. I really enjoyed the game when it was just my wife and I playing together. The ship building and customization was fun. The game had lots of bugs but nothing that completely ruined the experience for us. Then they overhauled the map and all of our progress went away which was frustrating as we did not play on official severs so losing all our stuff was frustrating to say the least. In addition, the changes to ship building took away one of the best parts of the game. I was hopeful when they released a dedicated single player map but that was a complete dud. The last time I played the game was in 2022 and I was incredibly disappointed with the state of the game. Such a shame.

[@sniperlemming]

i was one of the Dungeon Defender Pre-orderers. It looked like a cool game and i was totally right. It ended up being the first game i ever played over 2000 hours.

[@invaderjoshua6280]

Offline raids killed Ark Rust and similar games for me.

[@godw1ll99]

offline raids is why the game consumed my life... the fear of losing everything only got worse as you progressed coercing you to spend as much time as possible online.

[@garyblubaugh2517]

I believe that they made Dark and Light between Ark and Atlas a fantasy mmo with taming as well

[@OldGamerzNeverDie]

Yep.. and its abandon ware too.. but.. also still on sail in an unfinished state on Steam... as is their (WC) zombie game... that was also a train wreck. So much potential for Atlas and Dark and light.. but Snail Games just bled them out.

[@Dial8Transmition]

Died? Atlas never even lived, come on...

[@DawnChatman]

I've never minded bugs in a game as long they were tolerable (we never had a way to patch/fix our games until the birth of the internet and even then it took a while for studios to decide to even fix and release patches) but the streams I watched of Atlas were ridiculously buggy, like how were the dev's not embarrassed. That was like pre-alpha bad...

[@markradick72]

no way it was 40 million. she said '40' from what you showed, has to be 40 thousand.

[@onlynexg301]

You should make a video about why Darwin Project failed, it was genuinely a good game and i loved it, a pretty good alternative to the endless sea of typical battle royales at the time

[@shaterlemming2549]

lol totally forgot they announced Ark 2 with a CGI trailer with Vin Diesel

[@jerryorned]

I remember playing this. It was okay but didn’t like the you’re character age increases that killed it for me. I did like the ship building that was fun.

[@OHTGames]

Holy hell, i actualy forget about this one! Some friends and i were hyped for this one. Even had olans to hist a servers for our subs on twitch back in the day lol

[@fallout2638]

great edit, smooth animations....can you teach how you edit your videos ?

[@cavalr1002]

I really really wanted to love Atlas. It had everything I ever wanted. But it was just delivered so terribly.

[@grimjaker7967]

My friends and I had tons of fun when Atlas first released. I hosted many private servers over the years and still thoroughly enjoy most of what it has to offer. My problem with it today is how the devs just up and quit. No warning of any sort. Just left and let all of the die hard fans out to dry. There was so much potential for this game. Some small part of me believes that the devs wanted to make it a great game but because Wildcard kept stealing employees in favor of Ark, they just couldn't deliver. The mess was too big to begin with and then their manpower was taken away. It was doomed to fail from the start. If another truly independent company had developed this game, it would probably still be alive today.

[@Grumpbeardtv]

I played Atlas on a modded server "Radioactive Atlas" that are a fantastic and pretty chill PVE community, with more ship type features and even magic and sorcery in the game, but alas i couldn't stick around Atlas ona. Fundamental level is just such as terrible naussiating experience it makes skull and bones look like elden ring

[@MrAlliancepwner]

Atlas didn’t die, it was murdered by the devs

[@delsin1126]

I’m surprised the game managed to be in early access for 6 years. I remember how much of a mess it was

[@Ripdinklson]

Ngl even from the start i sorta knew this game was not gonna be good idk how to say how but just a gut feeling

[@Saqux]

i remember opening the game when it came out, seeing how damn laggy it was, and never playing it again.

[@AmalgamaniacGaming]

Personally, I still like playing the game on SP from time to time with mods 🤣 The only reason - as a modder - that I don't really mod creatures for Atlas is because, while basically a reskinned Ark, setting up new creature spawns in the Dev Kit is NOT user friendly; Well... mainly the ocean spawns were being a pain... which is a bit ironic for this game, for obvious reasons. As someone who's modded for ASE and now ASA, if the "base game" gets you bored, mixing and matching with mods can always spice things up. With Atlas, sure there's mods you can play with... but there's noticeably a severe lack of creature mods, and that's a big reason why. Now, we're all just modding Atlas creatures into ASA 🤣

[@ArmageddonAceVP]

Oh I know why it died, Because snailgames for one, An dumb choices to manage build spam. I told them 1 million times the claim towers was key to the game but there so dumb. They had the way to manage build spam... Then they kept changing stuff messing up the graphics making it worse and worse even after After the latest gen consoles came out and still reduced the graphics to the dirt to where nintendo games looked better. A nautical with out a visually working compass... I played Atlas start till the down fall.. It annoys me because it was my favorite game out. Also when it game out the graphics was amazing for the size of it all.. You dont know hat your talking about. It had its flaws but I played it just fine day one. An on xbox.

[@JeY_k]

I wanted to love this game, but I encountered so many tedious and game-breaking bugs that just made it miserable to play. It got to a point where I just couldn't deal with it anymore. I still think about this game and its potential all the time. I wonder if all of the updates made since when I played in 2020 fixed the main bugs I had. I can tolerate jank here and there. I also wonder if it's even worth finding out.

[@K-W1]

1. You failed to mention that Wildcard was bought out by Snail Games 6 months after Ark Evolved hit steam's early access(Dec 2015). Lawsuit by Trendy was filed just after that(ie money leveraging). Not saying Steiglitz was innocent (as he wasnt) but Augy saw an opportunity and went for it(also there were lots of sour grapes. After Trendy got the settlement, their studio went to hell with far worse turn over, work place issues and more to the point it even rebranded and still hasn't been much of consequence 8+ years later. People often then blame Snail but WC et al with Steiglitz AND Snail top to bottom and bottom up are to blame. 2. Grapeshot, while in name was a different studio, it literally was in the same Gainesville, Florida office for Wildcard with devs from Ark dividing work time between both ark and atlas. 3. Nooblets did a video over a year ago that outlined the complete nonsense that occurred with the squandering of the revenue from Ark(which was accounting for 85%+ of the revenue of Snail Games/WC by the ceo Shi Hai with investing in an EV car start up that went bankrupt in Oct'23 also. 4. You also failed to mention that WC(and basically members from Grape) had a layoff last May. Rest that remained now are all on Ark.(Many were actually from Ark to begin with and just simply returned to it). 5. Never ever trust Wildcard/Snail when it comes to what they say but follow only what they do. Ark Ascended since its release last year is with the same kited issues that plagued both Evolved AND Atlas. They do enough to get by and that's it. And now due to their continuing financial troubles, Ascended is just a vehicle for selling mtx through split of revenue on mods between WC/Snail, the mod makers and Curseforge. 6. At least now though Snail/WC will have a tougher time of pulling these sorts of stunts on customers because of Steam's changes to dlc and season passes(if you didnt know and should look up).

[@Sock_Water]

Yeah I honestly feel like he didn’t get into how much of a role snail games had. I know you mentioned it as well along with the promise Stieglitz had and let’s be honest it was a big role but it still felt relatively glossed over.

[@mogshot]

made by those who made ARK. Ark was a broken af game and at the time they didn't listen to the users about the issues that needed to be fixed at the time. rubberbanding...dino pop max on servers... hackers. so many.

[@mogshot]

regular servers. spending 8+ real hours to tame that trike only for someone to offline you and kill your dinos.

[@BraniyaKz]

I've played ATLAS since it's launch day... I ended up waiting until their Singleplayer update, and have been occasionally playing it ever since. The game is far too unstable to play Multiplayer, not to mention the need to rent multiple (potentially expensive) servers in order to get a full map up and running (because blackwood was left unfinished, and was never updated to be in-line with the game's newer content). All-in-all, ATLAS has content and mechanics that I kinda' wish ARK had (more fleshed-out farming and cooking, ability to hire NPC's to man various stations, treasure hunting, ships, a proper leveling system, etc.), and ATLAS makes a fantastic Singleplayer game that's actually fun to play, particularly with mods, for longer periods, but Multiplayer/Server play? No-siree. ATLAS pushed updates that hurt Singleplayer quite badly when they were trying to balance out MP, such as no longer being able to dig for gold or harvest metal at freeports/spawn zones, so you can no longer set sail from the freeport with a decent ship or at least some crew and tools, further extending early-game unnecessarily, and I understand why, but I always felt that they could've approached that better, too. Lest we not forget, I still have a screenie of the list of all of the systems, dinos, mechanics, and fixes they still have yet to add to ARK SE (because it's STILL unfinished!), and now they never will because they added quite a few of them to ASA. Nevertheless, I am still happy with ATLAS and ASE, especially thanks to mods (Such as the Kanda mods/The Hunted for ARK), so as long as I get to play each of them, I'm happy, I just wish they'd come back and actually fix/finish the game someday, maybe make trading actually useful in SP like i suggested to the dev's years ago. Make us singleplayer folk happy for once... They should've done it backwards, they should've released singleplayer first then turned it into an MMO later, would've been more successful that way, and probably would've fleshed out all of the map issues that they clearly never had time to work on.

[@dancingchaos168]

Last I checked you still couldn’t play single player your docks and other buildings disappear between logins

[@nocturnall7430]

im playing single player on pc now with no issues

[@dancingchaos168]

@ did they finally fix that not going to lie that was when I gave up one it like 3 ish years ago

[@nocturnall7430]

@@dancingchaos168 idk but im playing currently hope it stays stable tbf i havent built anywhere off freeport yet i kept pirate enemies in so im leveling a mythical ramming galley before i take an island but the stuff i have in the game has been there for multiple days now

[@Starduxyz]

I played with my community for about 5 years. It was a buggy game but very enjoyable. The dev team were pretty obnoxious. Overall, great visual gameplay where the immersion was complete. I missed the version where you could fully customize boats. We had alot of fun and the hate towards other communitys where real and lasted forever. Overall, i keep good memory of Atlas. #piratelaw

[@redeveer6647]

Atlas? You mean the ark DLC that was released as a stand alone game?

[@PVWallace]

Atlas was amazing at first not gonna lie. Some great memories that first month of not sleeping lol

[@mamrdevpraze]

WE call this asset flip. They tried to sell same game for different price.

[@NuclearWarlock-lj8qk]

I remember playing atlas on Xbox when it came out I had this really good solo world I would grind even though the game crashed a ton of times I would still play it but this one time it wouldn’t just let me load in my world and keep crashing the game and it made me sad and I gave up on the game I really loved what it was and what it was doing I loved the taming of animals and the pirate npc I could raid I really hoped it would make a comeback

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

I could only get single player to work, and since I wanted to play online with friends I didn't bother

[@DigitalM_M]

Key players were removed early to work on that mess ark. Poor communication and outright ignoring the players complaints about bugs, the loop etc. I really enjoyed v1, minus the bugs/stability issues.

[@godw1ll99]

there is a ton of stupidity in regards to hatred towards atlas but im glad this video focused more on the actual problems and left irrational emotions out.

[@aithemed]

so this game is what Ubisoft pirate game wanted to be, skull and bones?

[@Henrikstips]

I played this game a lot and had tons of fun in it! It was for sure extremely buggy but still had fun! I got 350 hours in the game :) When the lagg stopped it was really fun!

[@Krazyman1999]

Grapeshot never fixed the problems, instead... adding more. Single Player... Offline... Problems... - Broken Map ... just a black square - Terrible taming - Ugly Characters - The Shovel Mini-Game - Vitamins ... mods add Vitamin Tablets to fix problem - No way to stop overheating, even swimming didn't stop it - Paying Gold to build your Galleon or other ships, on a Desert Island. Who are you paying... - Gliders nerfed, they nerfed out the fun, reducing the gliding distance - Ship Sinking... you lose everything, with no way to re-float your ship - Ships of the Damned are ugly, there is a good enemy ship. Ships of the Damned should have been normal Pirate Ship models - Too many Ships of the Damned, 10 of them in every direction you sail. Modded them to remove them, and made the game much better Ark Survival Ascended by Wildcard, is going the same route, not fixing base game problems. Their store being heavily geared towards paid content...

[@cihangirgul8190]

Aha...i go grind my Tank Destroyers ..thanks for the Video.