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

@dlCHIEF58: I'm saying it is Sony PR, nothing more. Take a title/strategy adopted by MS and say "we're better than that" despite doing similar things on their own console.

@fedor: No surprise from you friend.

@ipm31: So it's fine for a company to accept money from people on the basis of making a PS4 game without having the intentions of actually releasing it for the PS4, but Sony giving the middle finger to this game is cool? Kind of a double standard there.

@Barighm: The announcement of Sony's funding was AFTER the kickstarter raised $2 mill. Besides, if they wanted to gauge interest, just ask people...Would you like a new Shenmue game? There, done.

@fedor: Hitman isn't finished either. They're releasing it stage by stage...simple as that

@skiggy34: games like destiny should be banned aswell it had alot of content cut,at what point is a game finished is the problem games dont seem complete anymore microtransactions/cut content etc the console manufactures should protect there consoles/brands,as for ark it does seem to be a good game and it seems complete from what ive seen,read except for frame rate

@jerjef: the money to help the dev is good,ark seems like a good game but there are alot of games that dont feel complete ark seems alot more complete than say the new hitman so improving standards overall is important

@alightningboldt: That's what free betas are for.

@alightningboldt: so we pay to do their jobs. thanks

@ultracowgaming: Then it's a good thing Sony put their foot down here.

@BlackDiamond81 Oh im very familiar with the process. Learn from their mistakes? Capcom clearly learned nothing after what they got caught trying to pull with Street Fighter X Tekken. At least even without the on disc content locked behind a paywall they lied about, the game still felt complete. Street Fighter 5 took things a massive leap back. Sure it doesn't have on disc content locked behind a pay wall, but that is because none of the content was ready. To add insult to injury, their taking a new approach to the whole pay wall thing. They purposely make the majority of the content so tedious to get that they want you to break down and buy their season pass. Then there's the content that you can't even access without shelling out some real cash to buy.

As for me being upset about this, I sure am. Street Fighter is one of my favorite game series ever. I've been a huge fan of it since SF2 hit arcades in the early 90s. Ultra SF4 was the height of the series and 5 had a lot to live up to. I would have let it pass if the game wasn't in the mess it is. It just seems the more they try and fix it, the less appealing it is. The cinimatic story mode comes to mind. Sure its interesting seeing the story unfold. But after awhile it starts to fall apart. The fighting itself in it seems to be more of an afterthought. Single round matches with some of the worst AI i've ever seen. They haven't even fixed the rage quitting in ranked matches. In every other fighter I can think of, if you quit a ranked match, you get the loss and the other person gets the win. In SFV, you lose league points. Even then you need to have an extremely high disconnect rate. So if you want to quit half the time, its ok and you won't get penalized at all.

Sony is just as much to blame as Capcom. They not only funded it (either partially, or fully im not sure) to keep it exclusive, but they gave the final greenlight for it to get released on their system. Then there's the part most people are in full denial about but is painfully obvious. Nearly all big name gaming media gave the game high scores and completely downplayed the games countless flaws. Sony has a track record of pressuring companies to give stuff higher review scores. They've been caught doing it in their movies division, and their games division. Gamespot itself was in the middle of this when they fired Jeff Gertsmann years back. The story got major attention and most people thought it was only because of his Kane and Lynch review. If you look further into it and read some of his interviews you'll see it went much further back then that and he talked about how Sony was unhappy with him only giving one of the Ratchet and Clank games a 7.5. The big media outlets need preview/review copies, and advertisement to keep running. So if a big name publisher cuts off those things, they lose a lot of money.

So yeah, im very familiar with the whole process and know this goes way beyond simple mistakes. Sony and Capcom needed this game out before EVO to try and make it relevant. Sure it did well there, but they should have realized the people involved in that are a very small minority and not nearly enough to support a big name title like this. Now the big middle finger they gave the majority has come back to bite them.

@BlackDiamond81: SFV was a "finished" working game. sure it was missing usual content but it was a down game. if the game didn't meet your expectations, thats on you.

@BlackDiamond81: If Sony really learned from their mistake they would of put the foot down on an unfinished full priced AAA game to make a big statement. Not push over only the smaller indies.