So would buying the season pass currently be worth it?

[Xalderin]

I have the base game with all the free content, but I've never bought the expansion passes that come with the season pass. Is it worth it even, know that Official Servers are Poofing on out? I don't typically play on them anyways, or mostly any server for that part. Got too much of my own salt to be getting rocked and constantly starting over again. lol xD

[x0Z3ro0x]

The season passes have nothing to do with official servers. That said even after the servers close, unofficial and single player will still be around.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by Xalderin:

I have the base game with all the free content, but I've never bought the expansion passes that come with the season pass. Is it worth it even, know that Official Servers are Poofing on out? I don't typically play on them anyways, or mostly any server for that part. Got too much of my own salt to be getting rocked and constantly starting over again. lol xD

DLC are maps. If you wish to follow the story canon content of the game then the 5 dlc's such as those would be of merit for you.

As far as official servers though are concerned, it has no relevance unless you play on those 1800ish official servers. Only a minority of the player base play them now anyway as the majority instead play on the 70,000+ unofficial servers out there around the world. In those unofficial server cases, they may be using some or all of those maps in their clusters so if you wanted to play their clusters it may too be advantageous.

In other words, its your choice or choosing instead to pay 60 for the Ascended UE5 version of the game when it comes out in August and getting all the dlcs that way may be something you want to do, though personally I would recommend holding off until you actually see how Ascended goes. The DLC's we have now with Ark 1 are to be staggered over a year and a half(potentially longer since there's info coming out that Ark 2 isn't actually releasing at the end of 2024 but Spring of 2025(info coming from a 3rd party studio doing work on Ark 2...).

You have choices and there's basically no need to feel a sense of urgency in any case.

[Armitage Shanks]

Wait for ASA, the purchase price includes all DLC.

[larpo71]

This is an impossible question to answer with the base game about to lose support in a few months and studio wildcard not being very forth coming about anything. I would say wait and play the free DLC until August, and if you like it buy the new version, I don't trust studio wildcard not to poison patch the older version if the UE5 version doesn't sell. I know that's a bleak thing to say, but they seem to have very little regard for there players and you could be left with an unplayable game if you buy it all, sorry.

[unhinged takes]

Originally posted by x0Z3ro0x:

The season passes have nothing to do with official servers. That said even after the servers close, unofficial and single player will still be around.

if it keeps people buying asa or ark 2 bet your butt its gonna get ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up some how.

[william_es]

Originally posted by larpo71:

with the base game about to lose support in a few months and studio wildcard not being very forth coming about anything.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

go read the announcements. Ark survival evolved will still have critical bug fixes provided as needed. Ark survival evolved is just "finished". Done. They're not adding any more expansions.

But there's ALREADY a ton of content out for the game. 8 years of content just waiting to be played. Telling people not to buy the game now, is like telling people not to buy/play The Witcher 1, 2 & 3, because CD Projekt Red announces they're not ever making a Witcher 4. Doesn't mean the previous games will dry up and blow away on the wind, or that those games are not phenomenally good.

And from all the hyperbole and melodrama I see in the forums right now, it's pretty clear a huge chunk of people have no plans to buy ark survival ascended when it's released, so they're all going to keep playing on unofficial servers (as the MASSSIVE % of the player base was already doing. 1800 official servers versus 80,000 unofficial servers).