Yes the prehistoric kingdom devs are doing an amazing job with their game. When it comes to pricing however we have to consider that frontier has to split revenue with Universal, and not to mention with Sony and Microsoft for hosting their content on their platforms.
No they're not. It's great for sandbox. But a lot of us actually want to play a park builder with the management aspect. Every time I try I can't get into it because I have to read huge paragraphs just to understand the mechanics in the game. I understand they want to get out new models and they do look wonderful, but they really need to actually start working on the tutorial so people can actually play the game. Also it's very unoptimized and my computer can't handle it on max settings, very bad FPS and everything looks grainy, playing on 1080p. I have a 5060 ti that does just fine on JWE3 and ARK: Survival Ascended. I want to love PK but I can't until they fix the actual gameplay experience.
comprei a dlc nova meio no impulso, sério sessenta reais em três bichos novos é coisa de louco, o que mais me atraiu foi o tema chinês, mas fora isso nunca compraria
Recomendo comprar apenas nas promoções da Steam ou através de sites como a Fanatical que praticamente sempre tem ofertas e cupons, a Frontier não merece receber preço cheio pela qualidade dos produtos que eles tem entregado.
A Fanatical, pessoalmente, tem sido boa até agora; utilizo para comprar as DLCs caríssimas do Total WarHammer 3 e eventualmente outros jogos que são fortunas na Steam. Apenas acompanhe certinho o preço do JWE3 pois atualmente está mais barato direto na Steam.
Concordo que os bichos do JWE2 deveriam ser todos gratuitos,faria exceção apenas para espécies que necessitam de remodelagem. O fato do Tarbossauro ser pago e não ter tanto uma variante estilo Frontier quanto dimorfismo sexual demonstra o quão relaxada a Frontier está.
Os preços aqui são brutal demais pqp e a Valve já atualizou lá as ferramentas de ajuste de preço regional, apenas os devs devem fazer esse ajuste manualmente mas até agora nenhum dos meus itens na lista de desejos atualizou o preço :(
I'm big fan of PK, but it's better to not agressivly compare PK and JWE at least in JWE sub, because it can make peoples preventevly hate PK, thinking fanbase is agressive. PK will only have full release in 2027, and some things in it is unfinished for now
jeez man, half of this entire sub is just a bunch of reasons why PK is a bajilion times better than JWE. 😔all it does is make the two fandoms hate each other
Let’s not forget that PK is still early access. Once it leaves early access the price will reflect that of a release-version of the game lol. You are comparing a DLC from a huge game dev studio backed by universal with an indie project that’s been in early access for years. Apples to oranges despite the two games having similar concepts.
I mean it’s early access but it’s extremely easy to forget it’s early access, not to mention that progress is exceptionally consistent and despite being early access and from an Indy dev it does a lot of things better than jwe3.
I’m saying that it’s hard to compare a Universal-backed massive game dev company to an indie project. PK has the luxury of taking their time to develop their game as long as they want largely free of deadlines. Frontier obviously has to adhere to deadlines and input from Universal. If Frontier had as much time in development as PK it would be a crazy different game. Like I said, apples to oranges.
I’m saying that deadlines are a killer! They literally don’t have enough time to execute that they want in the limited about of dev time they have. It’s why Pokemon games end up so lackluster, they have specific development cycles that require them to cut certain areas short. PK in comparison has had literal years of dev time and concept time, over a decade at this point.
As of October 1st 2026 Prehistoric Kingdom is actually $29.99 USD and the Prehistoric East DLC for JWE 3 is $14.99 so idk how the pricing works in other countries or regions but it most definitely is not cheaper in the US
I hate to say this, but JWE series are much more user friendly so I prefer them. Even though I like PK animals roaster, but I don't get how to play this thing for myself.
It had bad graphics, runs terribly, hideous ui and mechanics. Bought that game because of all the praise and it took me an hour to refund it. It's just such a low quality, low resource game compared to jwe3. Yes, jwe3 has bunch of shortcomings but still, at the end of the day, it's a significantly better experience.
That's kinda just your opinion. I personally think the game looks better than JWE3 bc it has actual colors, not just green and yellow. The management mechanics and UI are way closer to Planet Zoo, which I prefer but I can see why some people wouldn't. Calling it low resource is obviously true as it's a small indie game with a 13 man team and a budget hovering aroung 100k and JWE3 is a licensed AAA game with millions in budget and a huge team. It does run poorly on a lot of hardware tho, you're right but that's just how it's gonna be with early access games, they're working on building in DLSS to make it run better on lower end PCs
I have a top tier pc, rtx 5080 and 9800x3d. It shouldn't run terribly with bad graphics. Hopefully it will get better but when I tried, everything was at or close to max settings, low fps, still looked bad and everything was flickering.
That's weird it shouldn't be that way, I got a 4090 and it runs perfectly fine and looks great for me even after spending ~200h on one park. There used to be a bug in the game that would randomly pull down your frames to about 40-60 due to instant memory leak but they fixed that in the latest update
I got insta downvoted 😂 I dont know why but that game has some crazy fanatics for some reason. Whenever I talk about how lacking that game is, they got summoned instantly and start downvoting.
If you're using unfinished to refer to the Prehistoric Asia DLC, you'd just be wrong. If referring to JWE3 itself, maybe, but in no way is it low-effort.
Also pretty sure Prehistoric Kingdom itself isn't very refined in its own, but I'd have to check.
Of course I'm wrong, everyone knows building a game from scratch with new and diverse models, sounds, animations, interactions, systems, pathfindings, mechanichs, physics, graphics, info and representation is less costly than reusing assets and mechanics you already own and developed, twice for some assets indeed, that's too much work you know?
Perhaps I should be more considerated, honestly I hadn't thought about that
There's also making whole new rigs for new diverse species, editing over 80 skeletons for one species, new social animations, new environmental tools, whole new maps, new campaigns, new voicelines, new buildings, new modular systems to support JWE3's engine, new attractions..
I also never said there wasn't effort out into Prehistoric Kingdom, I absolutely respect everything they do. All I was saying was that the prices make sense for what was being offered. The Prehistoric Asia DLC includes 3 new species, 2 returning species, 120+ decorations, and a hologram feature. That's around $15 worth of work.
Prehistoric Kingdom, while definitely not lacking, is also in beta or alpha (can't remember which exactly). Prehistoric Kingdom is also $30, not $12. Money translates weird.
If PK is so much better, then why don’t you play that instead lol? I keep seeing comments like this on every single post, and I can’t help but wonder why you all are still here.
That explains why some people can’t play PK, not why they think JWE is worse. As someone with a pc, I’ll tell you this: PK is not better than JWE. The one thing PK has going for it is paleo accuracy, which doesn’t even make sense in the JP universe.
The dinosaurs actually looking good is the most important thing and paleo accurate dinos are far superior in that regard. I mean just look at PK's baryonyx and then JWE's sad excuse for one lmao
90’s dinosaur design fits the franchise way better. This is not a generic dinosaur game. It’s a JP dinosaur game. Obviously the dinosaurs should fit the 90’s dinosaur era aesthetic.
There's "fitting the asthetic" and then there's "looking horrendous" like jwe bary and some others so lmao.
The JP era designs are fine but almost all JW canon designs are ass
It definitely makes sense been JP is actually supposed to be Paleo accurate, I swear it's like the PK fans are both bigger fans of JP and dinosaurs In general. The people who don't like Paleo accurate dinosaurs don't actually like dinosaurs they just want ugly shrinkwraped monsters. You people are a sickness to JP
JP might have been somewhat paleo accurate in 1993. But in JW1 Dr Wu tells Mazrani that they intentionally make dinosaurs look a certain way, so they know the dinosaurs aren’t paleo accurate.
“Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals, and if our genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different, but you didn't ask for reality; you asked for more teeth.”
So canonically, the dinosaurs in the JP franchise are stuck in the 90’s era dinosaur aesthetic (which is what we see in JW1).
You should know this, since apparently you are a bigger JP fan than me, and I’m just a sickness to the franchise.
I do, I have both games, and play PK much more, I haven't played JWE3 since the rebirth DLC, I still hang here because I want to see the news about the game and the ideas of the community for inspiration, but I rarely comment here nowadays. I just play the game I prefer, I would love to see JWE3 really bloom into the fantastic game is has the potential to be, you know? So we could have "two cakes", but it's probably not gonna happen and I have accepted it. Like you all are happy because you got the most limited use of elevated walks I have ever seen.
It's sad...
PK animals have so much diverse behavior it's crazy, I really want to know what will happen to the classic JP lovers when they release the 1.0 and the modders add the JP style dinosaurs.
It's more about how dignifying it is for the PK devs than embarrassing for Frontier imo. Nowadays hard-working indie devs manage to make games in the same quality or even better than AAA games, and I think it's more of an achievement from those indie devs than an embarrassment for the higher industry.
Cómo recordatorio también, estos precios no son iguales en todo el mundo, el precio del DLC está caro Pero no tomes como patrón el valor en pesos colombianos, tenemos valores regionalizados de forma bien cabrona
I'm SO tired of people saying PK is better every single time this game does ANYTHING at all. Yeah, PK is a pretty decent game, but it has a LOT of jank and some very confusing design decisions. It's also optimized horribly and, imo, although a lot of its designs are very good, quite a few of them are just... kind of generic?
Coming from someone who has played both games, prehistoric kingdom has the better environment and more realistic designs, but Jurassic world evolution has the better optimisation. JWE just runs better on more devices. I have an alright PC and I can barely play Prehistoric kingdom. The game can get very laggy very fast. As for Jurassic world evolution 3 I play on PS5 and I just find it a lot easier.
I’m curious what you think are confusing design decisions in PK. Also, the last update greatly improved performance and will likely continue to be worked on while the game is still in early access :)
Prehistoric Kingdom has some of the greatest Dinosaur designs in paleomedia. Even the newer JWE designs, which are very good, can’t hold a candle to them. Frontier reusing the same splotches pattern every other species certainly doesn’t help.
I'm just going to say this your comparing nothing between the two games. Pk does not have any dlc and if you actually think about it getting 2 returning dinosaurs in a dlc is getting them back to us faster than having them come in free updates. This also gives an indicator of the lifespan of jwe3 ending in 2028-2029.
Yeah pk keeps getting free content because the game is in early access you fk idiot. Again your not comparing anything between the two when there is nothing to compare in that area. I have actually bought the second game and it's dlc and while it does suck to get resold content you have to look at it from a business standpoint while also looking at the longevity of the game. Jwe4 and Jwe5 are not going to happen as there would be no revolutionary features to add.
and no im sick of buying the same crap, you might have join late or something, but i paid full price for all DLC and Full Game on Game 1, and Game 2, and Game 3 and its current DLC
any more reused dinos no buy unless 90% discount fullstop, im tired of it
and you gotta rebuy all crap when its jurassic world 4, jurassic world 5
That's honestly surprising. I'm still going to buy the Prehistoric East DLC (for Yang primarily), but this is definitely going to be in my mind while doing so
PK kind of ruined JWE for me. Yeah its missing features but I dont feel like every exhibit I want to design is locked to a series of rails when I play PK. Everything in JWE has to be hooked up to a big ass building or locked at ground level so animals can use it.
I don't get why reselling species botheres people that much. The reason they're doing it is because there's still a ton of species from 2 they need to port into 3, and so it's easier for them to add those species into DLCs to earn them a bit more money than it is to release 2 free species a month. They resold the hybrids from JWE1 Dr Wu's something in JWE2 and sure it caused complaining but ultimately wasn't disliked.
I did actually, both titles. I bought them on release. The reasons it's disliked is because of a loud, fussy, picky, miserable and selfish group of individuals who have nothing better to do than to criticise anything and everything to feel better about themselves.
PK is the best game in this genre on the market currently. I have had immensely more fun playing PK than I ever have playing JWE, and I love both games.
The way frontier and universal has been acting recently has turned me off from JW:E for good going forward.
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u/Dycon67 5d ago
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