Ark: Survival Developed writer Snail Video games launched a weird, poorly obtained trailer for a brand new enlargement, Ark: Aquatica, on Wednesday, drawing speedy ire from the Ark-playing group. Even unique Ark developer Studio Wildcard appeared to distance itself from the announcement trailer for Ark: Aquatica, clarifying on social media that it isn’t concerned within the undertaking.
The Ark: Aquatica backlash stems from the truth that the reveal trailer seems to have been nearly utterly AI-generated: each the video and the robotic voice narration that guarantees “an entire new world is ready” within the underwater setting for Ark: Survival Developed gamers.
The Aquatica trailer is filled with the type of uncanny generative-AI output that’s turn out to be the article of derision and scorn in recent times. The whole lot strikes in an unnatural method. Limbs and extremities mutate and twist. And there’s an general synthetic sheen to all the things rendered inside. Viewers pulled no punches of their response to the trailer.
“You might be so out of contact together with your viewers,” wrote one other fashionable Ark streamer, The AxeMan. “DO BETTER.”
In tandem with Snail Video games’ reveal for Ark: Aquatica, developer Studio Wildcard stated it had nothing to do with the enlargement for the sport. “ARK: Aquatica is being developed by [Snail Games] Colorado, please comply with them for extra updates,” stated a publish on Studio Wildcard’s X account. “ Studio Wildcard stays solely devoted to the manufacturing of ARK: Survival Ascended & ARK 2, and we’re excited to carry ARK: Misplaced Colony to you later this 12 months!”
Suffice it to say, response to Ark: Aquatica’s reveal could not have gone the way in which Snail Video games could have hoped, and it actually hasn’t painted the add-on in a optimistic gentle. The “non-canonical facet story to Ark” is coming in June, and guarantees a “family-friendly” start line for brand new gamers — not less than, gamers who don’t flip their noses up at generative AI.
