Studio Wildcard immediately told a number of important news on the development of the ARK franchise. It was announced that ARK II will be released much later than players expected, but the developers plan to release a new project this year – ARK: Survival Ascended, which is a version of ARK: Survival Evolved for a new generation of consoles.
However, the developers have announced that the ARK: Survival Evolved servers will be closed after the launch of ARK: Survival Ascended:
With the launch of ARK: Survival Ascended at the end of August, we will close all official servers on Xbox, Playstation and PC for ARK: Survival Evolved. […] You will still be able to play on single player, non-dedicated, player-dedicated and unofficial servers.
At the moment, it has not been specified whether ARK: Survival Evolved will be removed from Game Pass this August with the shutdown of servers. Recall that last year there was information that posted ARK: Survival Evolved in Game Pass indefinitely.
