Sony paid $3.5 million to include ARK: Survival Evolved in the PS Plus in March 2022
This is stated in the documents that Snail provided to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The report also says that Microsoft paid the company $2.5 million so that ARK: Survival Evolved would be in the Game Pass for the entire first half of 2022. She gave another $2.3 million for the appearance of Ark 2 as part of a subscription immediately after the release of the game.