Is The Fire Fades Edition going to be a different game from Dark Souls III?

[Hecatonchires]

It may be mentioned somewhere but I didn't find it, so just to be clear:

Is the upcoming Fire Fades Edition going to be a different game from the original Dark Souls III like how The Scholar of the First Sin was different from DS II? Can the owners of DS III play multiplayer with Fire Fades Edition players?

[Zeshald the Betrayed]

The Fire Fades Edition of Dark Souls III is a game bundle that includes the original game and all released DLC.

[Hecatonchires]

Scholar was also basically a game bundle, but it also featured changes that made it impossible to have crossplay between the original game + dlcs and Scholar version. I just want to know if The Fire Fades Edition is going to divide the playerbase the same way or not.

[Aryend]

Scholar was not a game bundle per se, Sotfs was a straight up remaster of the original game. Afaik the Fire Fades edition is just Ds3 + the dlcs in a pack (basically the same as the current Deluxe Edition), no sepparate servers, no playerbase split.

[The Everlasting Stillness ☯]

Originally posted by Aryend:

Scholar was not a game bundle per se, Sotfs was a straight up remaster of the original game. Afaik the Fire Fades edition is just Ds3 + the dlcs in a pack (basically the same as the current Deluxe Edition), no sepparate servers, no playerbase split.

Scholar being a "separate game" was one of the most despicably greedy, asinine, and idiotic decisions I've ever seen when it comes to games.

Let's hope they learned. Though, if "The Fire Fades" edition is the same as the Deluxe edition, what's the point of it existing?

[Aryend]

Originally posted by Aedd Gynvael:

Originally posted by Aryend:

Scholar was not a game bundle per se, Sotfs was a straight up remaster of the original game. Afaik the Fire Fades edition is just Ds3 + the dlcs in a pack (basically the same as the current Deluxe Edition), no sepparate servers, no playerbase split.

Scholar being a "separate game" was one of the most despicably greedy, asinine, and idiotic decisions I've ever seen when it comes to games.

Let's hope they learned. Though, if "The Fire Fades" edition is the same as the Deluxe edition, what's the point of it existing?

Guess mostly the price reduction and re-marketing of the package.

[devSin]

Originally posted by Aedd Gynvael:

Scholar being a "separate game" was one of the most despicably greedy, asinine, and idiotic decisions I've ever seen when it comes to games.

No. It was a re-release for the new consoles. That's the only reason it existed.

Because so much of the content changed, there was no compatibility with existing saves. So it couldn't happen in an update for PC (and the visual updates fell outside spec for PS360).

You can ask why you had to pay to upgrade, but they did offer discounts for existing owners. And the original version is still better anyway.

Originally posted by Aedd Gynvael:

Let's hope they learned. Though, if "The Fire Fades" edition is the same as the Deluxe edition, what's the point of it existing?

The same reason as every GotY package: they get to sell a new product at retail.

[Aryend]

Originally posted by devSin:

You can ask why you had to pay to upgrade, but they did offer discounts for existing owners. And the original version is still better anyway.

Strongly disagree there, the only area that was actually better in the original was Drangleic Castle imo.
As for the rest of your post, spot on, it was indeed basically just a re-release for new generation consoles and the reasons why they have sepparate playerbase are clear... Whether it was ok or not to charge us PC users again is debatable, I personally found it quite annoying and am still a little pissed, but I bit the bullet... At least we got a decent discount.