Did you know? Battle Pass & Bazaar items are already on your hard drive!

[Phnx]

It has been common practice in the games industry for a long time that any time a patch is rolled out for a game that has micro transactions content this content is put on your hard drive, whether you use it or not. So it is a fact that you have data on your hard drive that you are not allowed to use in-game unless you pay extra for it.

You can check for yourself. Go to your CE install directory and go to "Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Content\Paks". There you will find a file called "DLC_Special.pak". This contains all the assets for the Battle Pass and Bazaar content. If you have the CE DevKit installed you can even unpack this file with "ConanExilesDevKit\Engine\Binaries\Win64\UnrealPak.exe".

I just wanted to put this out there and raise awareness for something that is common practice in the games industry. You can form your own opinion...

[Jaq]

Dude, it's a cosmetic item in a multiplayer game. If it isn't downloaded to your computer in advance, that means they'll have to stream the data to you every single time you encounter another player using that cosmetic item, harming performance both on your end and the server's end. And it'll still be on your computer, just in your memory instead of your hard drive.

[Xevyr]

We know.... I'm failing to see the point though...
Also.. you are technically using it.. every time someone walks up to your face in multiplayer wearing a battle pass armor your game needs to have that in order to render it for you...

[Noxsa]

he's hinting at modders to grab the assets and add them for free... witch is possible BUT will be detected and then set modder & mod will be banned from the platform.
btw, as modder when i get banned on the forum for some reason, i can't access my mod on steam, can't upload or edit (witch is really annoying BUT i'v learned to temper my self because of it too =D)

[Xevyr]

Haha, don't get banned :) I just found out the other day that I was banned back in 2017 for like a day twice lol... Both of them are absolutely hilarious nonsensical reasons as if someone was testing the system :D
But it's on my permanent record!!!

[FDR'sThinkTank]

This game allows people to make community mods. You can enjoy the game anyway you like single player, but if you go multiplayer, you can either play the base game or play with a group that uses the same mods you do.

There is no reason to get your account banned trying to hack the game. Find a group of like minded enthusiasts if it's that important to you. Funcom is generously allowing people to do their own communities with their own custom mods. That's AWESOME and lays the foundation for this game having a deep and long lasting fanbase.

Everything else is all a moral calculation for how much fun you think the game is and how much you want Funcom to keep developing it. It's not Funcom's fault some of us have Consumer brains, wired to crave what we don't have. They cannot be expected to dance around that merely to avoid offending people... they have already danced as far a company can without forgoing reliable revenue.

If this game was made by a one man super chad like Derek Smart, maybe it could get away without reliable income... but Funcom has employees and investors. It either abandons the project for something more profitable or it makes this game continue to have revenue sources.

Maybe one day, the video game market will be ruled by people like Derek Smart, but for now, big studios are required to make games like Conan Exiles and sustain new content and servers for it.