Sony Won't Allow In-Development Ark: Survival Evolved on PS4, Dev Says

Conflicted on this. I'm not a fan of "early access" development games. But I know others who are and it should be their choice if they want to partake.

As far as Paragon, It's my understanding that this early acess is similar to when you get early acesss to NBA for pre-ordering. It's more of a headstart than having any actual impact on development.

It was given to users free as part of their PS+ membership in July and the open beta begins August 16th 2016.

Ark has been in development over a year and their projected full release was June 2016. It is now August 2016 and their store page is not updated. Maybe a little more polish and more of a concrete timeframe and Sony would have green lit the project.

"As for the PS4 Release of Ark: Survival Evolved, it is currently up to Sony," Studio Wildcard explained. "We've been informed that we can't release the game on this platform until it has been finished.

"We would like nothing more than to make Ark available on PS4 as soon as possible, as we already have an awesome PS4 version of the game running internally. If you would like to see it sooner, please let Sony know, as it's unfortunately not our decision."

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How nice that Sony's reluctance to turn THEIR platform into a new Steam client, doesn't light a fire under these people to FINISH their game. I guess they just haven't had all that much time, what with trying to throw out tournaments and e-sports competitions for an UNFINISHED GAME. Good on ya Wildgame....oops. I mean WildCARD Studios.

But Sony was absolutely ecstatic about having Street Fighter V exclusively on their console (discounting the PC) right?

Maybe Finish the game before you worry about getting the PS4 player base sales...

Perhaps it's time they knuckled down and actually got to finishing it.

I suppose they could just publish through Telltale games. That worked for 7 Days to Die, which is clearly still an alpha.

Most console owner's do not get to experience a game in its evolution

So with that my $30.00 was well spent!

this pile of shit doesnt even run properly on a high end pc

Early access games are usually broken and buggy and not even worth it anyway, this is a good move by Sony

sony is just looking out for the gamers, guys

Probably just mad it came to Xbox one first.

Finally someone standing up to this "Early Access" crap! Pissed me off when Steam started doing it, it's one of the MANY reasons that I continue to boycott XBone, so, to see Sony standing against it is really refreshing.

If you want to see the game on PS4, how about we get in touch with the developer, and make sure they are actually working towards finishing the game, as MANY "Early Access" developers never do.

So wait...why is Paragon on the PS Store then? It's early access too.

That makes no sense. I've been playing dungeon defenders 2 early access on the ps4. It barely resembles the game I initially bought after all of the updates it's received and they STILL aren't finished. So yeah, weird.

They don't want unfinished games on their console...but go out of their way to brag about getting Street Fighter V as a console exclusive. Ok there, Sony.

Good.

Sony won't let us put our unfinished game on their platform! What jerks!
All sarcasm aside, it didn't stop Street Fighter 5, or Destiny, or Rock Band 4. Just 'say' it's a finished product and offer the actual full version's features later as "free updates" and no one will be all the wiser.

They cant release the game on ps4 until its finished.

We should be calling out to guys to finish the game instead of calling out to sony to allow unfinished crap on their platform.

So stop playing the victim card. Take ownership and finished the f#$king game.

The game is clearly a trojan horse from microsoft, clearly.

I'm not really a fan of playing unfinished games or Early Access. But honestly I'm seeing a delay for Ark coming soon. I don't see why a developer would complain to the public about a corporate policy for early access if your said game releases in 3 1/2 months anyway. If they where so set on getting the game out to everyone like they say why wait until a few months before release?

F%ck early access. Its a ripoff betas are one thing. now early access games dont work and most die before release. How about the dev finishes the game then release it.