How do we get other DLCs WITHOUT Buying those ****** Season pass Bundles...

[Ebby]

Been trying to get Scorched Earth, Aberration and Extinction but Steam doesn't show a price or any single purchase options. I neither need a season pass nor do I want all those other items in the bundle... Just offer me the DLC and be done with it. You guys are a for profit business right? or are ya just here to waist our time and money?

[The_Kuervito]

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/21151/ARK_Survival_Evolved_Season_Pass/
Cant choose the map in thia page?

[Ebby]

been searching only found one available but can't get a secured connection to their site.... Steam has it in their bundles but i really do not want the rest of the garbage that comes in their bundle. My theory is this "Why pay for all those other items that I know I will not use... EVER!!!" I already have it from Microsoft but I want it for Steam along with Aberration and Extinction.

[g0rml3ss]

Originally posted by Ebby:

been searching only found one available but can't get a secured connection to their site.... Steam has it in their bundles but i really do not want the rest of the garbage that comes in their bundle. My theory is this "Why pay for all those other items that I know I will not use... EVER!!!" I already have it from Microsoft but I want it for Steam along with Aberration and Extinction.

Your theory is not wrong and all DLC's at one point were individual purchases, I can only * suggest* why they went into a bundle but I wont :D

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Ebby:

been searching only found one available but can't get a secured connection to their site.... Steam has it in their bundles but i really do not want the rest of the garbage that comes in their bundle. My theory is this "Why pay for all those other items that I know I will not use... EVER!!!" I already have it from Microsoft but I want it for Steam along with Aberration and Extinction.

If you're wanting Ab and Extinction, you're basically just wanting to skip scorched earth. However, due to the sketchiness of 3rd party sellers I dont recommend the suggestion to use such above.

That said, the "season's pass" bundle is se/ab/ex so you're literally quibbling over 5 and a half bucks per the current sale of the pass since you want 2 of the 3 in the pack.

If your complaint is "why pay for all those other items(1 map) that I know I will not use..."

Then you 100% categorically do not need to buy -any- dlc. Since you can get everything via modded content and alternative maps OR use of admin commands.

When you buy the DLC's you're only:

1. Getting access to the maps. (which means access to servers using those maps which can be important in cross server play)
2. Access to the story cannon way of progression(you can circumvent that with what I said above).
3. Lore/Explorer notes in story canon context (which again can be circumvented with things above that I mentioned)
4. Achievements in story canon context (again above... there's even a mod that lets you craft a potion to consume that gives you all achievements).

Literally everything else you already get for free with the base game as each dlc's assets are already given to you to access via admin commands modded content etc. Otherwise if you were playing on the island in a cross server cluster and someone pvp'd you with a wyvern, you'd see nothing. Game has to render for all and so you get it for free and can use even admin codes in single player to spawn anything you wish.


So again, if you're wanting to quibble over all of less than 6 bucks that's your choice but keep in mind many folks got the dlc's when they were more than 20 bucks per map so 16 bucks or so now for 3 on sale is nothing.

[Ebby]

or more so the servers I am running and not having access to to monitor them because I don't have the Maps...

Well the gave me a bundle for the 3 i needed without all the other garbage to down load like music and ....

still have to do the season pass though ack!

i quibble over a Dime if I don't see a need to waist it. not frugal just sensible as to what I spend my money on.

as for the Mods I rarely use them seeing that I don't really know who made them and what else they included in their mods.

I do like Scorched Earth but to be honest for a desert it has a huge amount of water and too easy to survive in it. so i built a server for it to adjust the game style of play but cant get in to see if it works cause I didn't have Steam's Scorched Earth to match up with my ASM server.... MickySoft won't connect to it (and I have all the maps from MS to play on but like Wildcard they too have their bug issues, yes their Regular and Primitive+ switch back and forth in a second unlike Wild Card's but can't fully use the Primitive+ on all their maps. But on Wildcard's ARK I can.

So yeah there is a good reason for needing their maps... (22 Private Servers and still building).

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Ebby:

or more so the servers I am running and not having access to to monitor them because I don't have the Maps...

Well the gave me a bundle for the 3 i needed without all the other garbage to down load like music and ....

still have to do the season pass though ack!

i quibble over a Dime if I don't see a need to waist it. not frugal just sensible as to what I spend my money on.

as for the Mods I rarely use them seeing that I don't really know who made them and what else they included in their mods.

I do like Scorched Earth but to be honest for a desert it has a huge amount of water and too easy to survive in it. so i built a server for it to adjust the game style of play but cant get in to see if it works cause I didn't have Steam's Scorched Earth to match up with my ASM server.... MickySoft won't connect to it (and I have all the maps from MS to play on but like Wildcard they too have their bug issues, yes their Regular and Primitive+ switch back and forth in a second unlike Wild Card's but can't fully use the Primitive+ on all their maps. But on Wildcard's ARK I can.

So yeah there is a good reason for needing their maps... (22 Private Servers and still building).

Thus all in all this is a user end issue.

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Ebby:

Been trying to get Scorched Earth, Aberration and Extinction but Steam doesn't show a price or any single purchase options. I neither need a season pass nor do I want all those other items in the bundle... Just offer me the DLC and be done with it. You guys are a for profit business right? or are ya just here to waist our time and money?

Of course they are. What other purpose could they have? Don't get me wrong - I've been playing video games since Pong was first released as a standalone device, and have been a gaming addict ever since.

But I've always understood that video games are a waste of time and money. Although there are a few exceptions, Ark isn't one of them.

[Ebby]

I hear ya Liralen, and welcome to the Old Gamers Society... lol but Games are not truly a waist. one its therapeutic (if nothing else stress release), social helps (though unnecessary drama doesn't cut it) but In my case I'm working to developing my own gaming company.

My father used to well have not so nice words for my elder brother about his comic book reading until my older brother turned it into a profession (he started translating comics into other languages) but then I pointed out to my father that he does comics too.. he said no he doesn't... I said in a form you do... you create Comic characters for Hanna Barbara Productions... He stopped complaining about my older brother (Sadly both have passed on since then)

But hey, its just a game... or is it?

[Ebby]

kinda not a user end issue because the company has the product but aren't forth coming, when they can. its like this is it an end user issue if i have to wait an hour to convert from standard to primitive+? no, its the Wildcard Studio's issue... one it lowers sales for them but mostly they haven't bothered to upgrade their software knowing they have an issue to be corrected. on Microsoft Store's version its been fixed for a long time now... to change from standard to primitive+ takes 3 seconds or less and the game load time is better. (I'm using both platforms)

[Liralen]

Originally posted by Ebby:

I hear ya Liralen, and welcome to the Old Gamers Society... lol but Games are not truly a waist. one its therapeutic (if nothing else stress release), social helps (though unnecessary drama doesn't cut it) but In my case I'm working to developing my own gaming company.

My father used to well have not so nice words for my elder brother about his comic book reading until my older brother turned it into a profession (he started translating comics into other languages) but then I pointed out to my father that he does comics too.. he said no he doesn't... I said in a form you do... you create Comic characters for Hanna Barbara Productions... He stopped complaining about my older brother (Sadly both have passed on since then)

But hey, its just a game... or is it?

Yes, it's just a game, for those of us playing. For content creators, of course it's a business.

For those of us only using that content, it's important for us to recognize that for content creators, it's a business, who gain more revenues the more time and money we spend on their content.

But from Everquest, I learned to just say "No" and do something else when a game causes more pain than fun.

I'm not done with playing Ark yet, and will likely play Ark 2. However, the OP seems to be under some delusion that content creators ultimately have some other goal than waste our time and money. "Entertain" is usually the method.

Edited Note: And Steam isn't even a content creator, but rather a distributor of content.

[Ebby]

Yup that is correct but it seems the content creators don't publish their info as much as they should. just a simple by line would be good. I do appreciate their efforts but it would kinda be nice to know who I can applaud.