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A trailer forAquatica , an upcoming DLC forArk : Survival Evolved(yes , Evolved ) , has been delist from YouTube after an overwhelmingly negative response . Revealed as part of GDC 2025 , the trailer showcases an underwater - themedArkexpansion , boast jumbo , subaquatic dinosaurs and glowing coral reefs . Curiously , the DLC is being developed forArk : Survival Evolved- notits enhanced remakeSurvival Ascended . It ’s currently scheduled for a June 2025 release .
Fans Accuse ASE’s New Aquatica Trailer Of Being AI-Generated
And The Controversy Keeps Getting Weirder
At midnight on March 18 , the officialArk : Survival AscendedX ( formerly Twitter ) account post an strange update . " Ark : Aquaticais being developed by @SnailGamesUSA Colorado , please follow them for more update . " The initial response was one of confusedness : Snail Games does n’t typically developArkDLC by itself , andStudio Wildcard had yet to annunciate anything by the name ofArk : Aquatica , lead some fans to believe the tweet was posted on the ill-timed day of the month by mistake .
Then , a few hour later , the prescribed trailer appeared . fan were flying to call outwhat they perceive as AI - generated vocalization and video recording , with one substance abuser , crimlinlin3414 , commenting , " when AI medicine play and AI feet rick into AI fin in AI water … actual gelidity . "
Of naturally , Snail Games has yet to comment on how it really produced theArk : Aquaticatrailer , but allthe distinctive hallmarks of reproductive AI use are present . Human limb move in non - human way , six - legged devilfish rise out of too - shallow water , schooltime of Pisces the Fishes appear seemingly out of the diethyl ether - and the whole thing is coat in the same unknown , weird sheen that all AI - generated TV content tend to have . It ’s also narrated by a text - to - speech voice that seem in many a TikTok , most splendidly in a series of " scariest stories " meme videos .
Aquatica Is A Strange Choice For Ark
ASE DLC In This Economy?
But no matter where the trailer comes from , why Snail Games is working on DLC , or how good or badAquaticaactually turns out to be , it ’s an odd choice forArk . Again , Aquaticais being released forSurvival Evolved , a game that ’s been functionally defunct since September 2023 , when all its official servers decease offline to pave the direction forSurvival Ascended . It has n’t even gotten any DLCsinceFjordurin 2022 , now almost three years ago .
The sudden , unprecedented discharge of this house trailer has left us with a lot of why s : why start expel DLC forASEagain ? Why turn a trailer with such obvious error ? Why Snail Games and not Studio Wildcard?It ’s a recipe for disasterforArk , whose report is already in dire straits .
Ark : Survival Ascended has gotten several DLC and updates since its release , with more still to come . Now that Astraeos is out , what ’s next for DLC ?
There ’s beenone arguing after another : paid beast , DLC delays , unrelenting bugs , and , funnily enough , until this trailer , calendar month withno tidings on the progress ofArk2 . TheAquaticatrailer only stokes the fire of scandalization - if you prompted an AI to derive up with the utter way to sound off long - sufferingArkfans while they ’re down , I doubt it could come in up with anything well .
At the very least , Snail Games seems to have heard the content . The originalAquaticatrailer remain unlisted on YouTube at the prison term of composition . Wildcard has washed its hands of the consequence , and quietly continues work onArk 2andSurvival AscendedDLC . At least for now , that ’s the last we ’ve heard aboutArk : Survival Evolved’sAquaticaDLC .
Sources : Syntac / YouTube , Ark : Survival Ascended / X , crimlinlin3414 / YouTube , Fire & Ice Gaming / YouTube
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