ARK: Survival Evolved is currently in Early Access. However, the developers are already planning an expansion that is to be released as a DLC.
Only a few months of downtime
The dino game ARK: Survival Evolved is likely to go down in gaming history as the surprise title of 2015. Within just a few weeks, the game, which is still in Early Access, has already surpassed 1,000,000 players. Apparently, the revenue has been well invested for the future – because already now Jesse Rapczak, the Co-Creative Director of Studio Wildcard, is talking about future plans, which are quite concrete: Just a few months after its release in June 2016, they aim to have the first expansion completed!
It is supposed to include more hours of gameplay and expand the story.
Fewer updates towards the finish line
At the same time, it has been announced that the game is now in the home stretch of its completion. For this reason, the coming months will bring fewer innovations, and the overall frequency of patches will decrease – they would rather fix existing bugs and make final adjustments.
Like the main game, the expansion is also expected to be offered in Early Access, as they have had good experiences with it and want to keep the direct channel to the community open.
Just recently, a new update was released that introduced the Doedicurus dinosaur, which brought significantly more fun movement options to the game.
