ARK: Survival of the Fittest, formerly a free standalone game, will now be brought back to be part of the main ARK: Survival Evolved game.
In a post on Steam this week, the developer did make clear that players who have played the game so far will continue to be able to do so without having to own ARK: Survival Evolved.
Going forward however, you will have to own the main game in order to play the additional content.
One of the reasons behind this is the release of the game's Development Kit. The kit allows modders to take content from Survival Evolved and create new content for Survival of the Fittest, which raises problems when it comes to licensing.
Wildcard says bringing back Survival of the Fittest as an internal project is a way of releasing the dev kit "without any restrictions on content and licensing, allowing SotF modders to freely take all the content from Survival Evolved as they wish."
In addition, Wildcard believes it would have had to put a lot of resources in learning how to monetize a free game like Survival of the Fittest. "We just aren't cut out for free to play mechanics," the developer wrote.
This all means bad news for console players, as development of SotF on PS4 and Xbox One has been put on hold to see how the changes pan out in the long term.
ARK: Survival of the Fittest is described as a "multiplayer online survival arena," which began life as a total conversion mod for Survival Evolved.
Matt Porter is a freelance writer based in London. Make sure to visit what he thinks is the best website in the world, but is actually just his Twitter page
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