"Ark: Aquatica": Studio outrages fans with AI-generated trailer
They couldn't have gone to less trouble: A trailer for the game expansion "Ark: Aquatica" consists almost entirely of AI scenes.
(Image: Snail Games)
It begins with a few seconds of gameplay, and then: soulless, completely incoherent moving image mash that can only come from an AI generator. A trailer for the “Ark: Survival Evolved” expansion “Aquatica” leaves fans of the survival game dumbfounded.
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The fact that this video consists almost entirely of the hallucinations of an AI could hardly be more obvious: octopuses materialize out of nowhere, human feet morph into fleshy flippers. Above all, what is shown seems to have little to nothing to do with the actual content of the expansion – apart from the fact that “Aquatica” is somehow set underwater.
“Disgusting”, “ridiculous”, “sad”: the reactions in the community subreddit are predictably negative. On YouTube, the trailer received 450 likes to a whopping 17,000 dislikes, and even in the wider gaming community, the failed trailer is making AI-generated waves: “They might as well have linked a trailer to one of the Aquaman films,” writes one user in the games subreddit.
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Main developer seems to be distancing itself
Even “Ark” main developer Studio Wildcard seems to be distancing itself from the video: “Ark: Aquatica' is being developed by Snail Games USA Colorado,” Wildcard writes on the official X account. “Please follow them for further updates.” Wildcard developed the main game “Ark: Survival Evolved” and is now working on “Ark: Survival Ascended” and the new spin-off “Ark 2”.
Meanwhile, the development and apparently also the marketing of “Ark Aquatica” is being handled by partner Snail Games, on whose YouTube channel the AI-generated video was posted. The Chinese company Snail is behind the US publishing division of Snail Games. There is no release date yet for the “Ark Aquatica” expansion.
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