PAID DLC for an EARLY ACCESS Game!?

That shouldn't be allowed to happen for early access games. No paid expansions until it is out of early access.

they should've released the DLC the day the base game is finished

So unfinished game got unfinished DLC that's funny.

i played this game for well over 200 hours but i had to stop after an update that unoptimized it somehow making combat with people or the dinos virtually impossible, this was months ago and the game is still running terribly on a pretty high end rig. i won't be buying this DLC till the game runs at something resembling a solid frame rate.

I need to buy Ashley's necklace for my best friend OwO That is too cute! I also kinda wish AH was dedicated to Ark to get to the levels of complexity seen in the footage here but I'm also thankful they're not. I like how things are~

i think this will defiantly lead more early access games putting out paid dlc before the base game is done. i think ark has done a great job with the early access since it launched. i havnt put much time into the game but a lot of people enjoy it. but paid dlc before the base game is done? every other developer will look at this a say , "hey thats a smart idea. lets make paid dlc before i our game is even done too!" early access games already have it hard enough as it is, and now it seems like developers will make it even more of a head case. i just hope that enough people dont buy into this but thats not going to happen

Steam should absolutely not allow early access games to release paid dlc until they move to official release. However, since Valve wont even do the slightest bit of quality control that's never going to happen. Also fuck the auto play it's really annoying.

If the DLC represents the polish players can expect with main game when it completed, why is the main game not to this level of polish yet

It seems shady that they said they were gonna release the DLC soon after the game launched but then they were like, nahhh, just give it to em now! I don't think they are ever gonna realese a full game, I bet they will just drop the early access thing from the name at some point and hope people don't notice lol

I've always had issues with early access because of general bullshit. Sadly, I even predicted this bullshit would be pulled eventually

"We've always planned to release it close to the launch of the game, so why sit on it?"

Why the fuck did you start it?

The whole early access, and by some extension crowdfunding, is a pie in the sky concept that is more often than not abused. Case in point, Stomping Lands. Unless there is actual mediation over the process, I will never see early access as a good thing

OwO Ashley's dragon draper necklace is beautiful~

I don't play Ark so I don't know what promised features are missing but I'm not particularly surprised or appalled by this. A bunch of games (like Destiny for example) are actively patched in order to provide extra polish or add new, non-DLC features even after they are "fully released." If Ark simply stopped calling itself "early access" This probably wouldn't even be news worthy.

That being said, if they promised certain features that haven't been released yet then they should definitely finish those first before working on new things to sell.