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Ark devs distance themselves from AI-generated trailer_ 'we did not know that they were doing it'

Published on December 09, 2025

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The reaction to the clearly AI-generated trailer for Ark's upcoming underwater DLC Aquatica was divided, in the sense that . "This is disgusting and you should be ashamed of yourselves" is the first comment underneath the trailer on YouTube, and it comes from an Ark YouTuber with more than a million subscribers.

Now the developers at Snail Games are putting some space between them and [[link]] the trailer as well. As lead game designer Matt Kohl told , "The marketing department used still images of some [[link]] of our assets to create an AI-animated trailer. That was not part of the development team; we did not know that they were doing it."

With a voiceover that sounds like it comes direct from a brainrot video on TikTok and characters whose feet seem to become fins at random, it's not a great representation of what anyone was hoping for from Aquatica. The generic underwater scenes make it look like the Subnautica from Wish dot com, while the constant smearing [[link]] and sudden octopus are hard to take seriously.

Kohl also explained that Snail Games has not used AI tools in Aquatica's development, and that the finished DLC won't resemble the trailer. Which rather makes you wonder what the point of the trailer actually was.

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