Director's Cut vs Normal

[JeffMakesGames]

Right now, the only difference I see at the time of this post aftering watching YouTube play-through videos is.....

*drum roll*

Maybe a few visuals are displayed when you search things...? I honestly could not tell anything was different at all. At least, whatever the story mode game is.



Compare prices during the current summer sale:

Deadlight Director's Cut: $19.99 > $16.99 (15% off)
The base game, and has some new Survival Mode, behind the scenes extras and stuff it seems.

Deadlight: $14.99 > $2.99 (80% off)
Pretty much the base game.


Which begs the question... why couldn't this have just been $5-10 DLC for the normal game?
Why not just update the original game with the new features, like higher resolution or bug fixes, or what not.

[Smurky Turkey]

Because the new version has been released via a different publisher and thus they are going for a higher/high price to make a profit. The new publisher would not earn anything if it was an update for a game released by a different publisher. Making it a free update would mean that nobody would make extra money.

[Twitch]

Cause cash grab... You sucker.

[tomwithtime]

Originally posted by Smurky Turkey:

Because the new version has been released via a different publisher and thus they are going for a higher/high price to make a profit. The new publisher would not earn anything if it was an update for a game released by a different publisher. Making it a free update would mean that nobody would make extra money.

It's like when someone buys the right to manufacture a drug, but they spent so much money getting those rights that now they have to charge a ridiculous amount to break even.

At least video games aren't essential to life and cost $0 to distribute whether it's 1 copy or 1 billion. If this was more like the pharmaceutical industry, this game would be like $200 now.

[v00d00m4n]

Originally posted by Smurky Turkey:

Because the new version has been released via a different publisher and thus they are going for a higher/high price to make a profit. The new publisher would not earn anything if it was an update for a game released by a different publisher. Making it a free update would mean that nobody would make extra money.

this is bad excuse! Many games have seen publisher transitions, and this did not prevent new publisher from maintaining old versions of games.

I can tell even more - pretty same publisher that making this extortion, is a publisher of several game that was previously under different publisher, for example Saints Row 3. They changed publisher tag on steam store and thats it, they keep making profits instead of old publisher. Publishing rights retting transfered with any existing releases, so the only real reason we have no update for old version and no discount for existing users - publisher and devs are greedy ♥♥♥♥♥ and just wanted to make extra profit from people already owning a game.

[ArtoStyles]

I wanna buy the game its on an 80% sale so i'd be better with the Directors cut edition right ? since its newer and basically and improved original game ???

[α E-MAN-cipation Ω]

Originally posted by ArtoStyles:

I wanna buy the game its on an 80% sale so i'd be better with the Directors cut edition right ? since its newer and basically and improved original game ???

Question of the day. Looks like as mentioned earlier in this thread the new one is basicly more of a cashgrab.

[Green Skeleton]

Vanilla Deadlight comes with trading cards which you can sell and Steam Cloud

Avoid the Director's Cut.