Will the Dead Island Definitive Collection be a free update?

[Dark Light]

Will those who already own the game get the updated version for free? And if so do all owners of either game get the new mini game for free?

[Sirion Jadie]

It would be good, but my state of decay yose and metro experience, i doubt it. Even i doubt we have a discount.

The truth, I hope to be wrong.

[upcoast]

https://www.deepsilver.com/news/newsdetails/article/dead-island-definitive-collection-1/

News to me ^, it looks like there'll be a cost for sure.

I bought a base game originally but when I wanted the dlc it couldn't be bought anymore so I had to buy the GOTY complete game including dlc to get the dlc a 2nd time. More than likely I'll have to buy DI a 3rd time to get this re mastered version if I want it.

[Garwinski]

It looks like such an extensive upgrade that they will probably not give it for free I think. I hope that at least there will be something in place like it was with the Metro series, I think I got 50% off for the redux version because I owned the original Metro's. If Techland's attitude towards its customers of Dying Light is anything to go by, I think we can maybe expect something like this IMO, at least on pc.

[Dark Light]

But it is not a massive upgrade on the PC, I am mainly interested because I can't buy the final DLC.

[Garwinski]

Originally posted by Dark Light:

But it is not a massive upgrade on the PC, I am mainly interested because I can't buy the final DLC.

Physically based shading, lightning system etc, these systems were not yet in in the originals or am I wrong? Those things, and others, are not that easy to just add, they need to be tested etc. In any case, lets see if it will be free or we will get a price cut for owners of the original.

[Wakane]

Hoping it to be free would be a little too much, I think. Hoping it to have a discount for existing PC users would be slightly more likely.

[Dark Light]

Originally posted by Wakane:

Hoping it to be free would be a little too much, I think. Hoping it to have a discount for existing PC users would be slightly more likely.

But it is not a massive update on PC, on console it is, but on PC not so much.

[Garwinski]

Originally posted by Dark Light:

Originally posted by Wakane:

Hoping it to be free would be a little too much, I think. Hoping it to have a discount for existing PC users would be slightly more likely.

But it is not a massive update on PC, on console it is, but on PC not so much.

Again, it is not just a bump in resolution and fps, there are significant under the hood changes that the pc also did not have. Look at the list:

https://www.deepsilver.com/news/newsdetails/article/dead-island-definitive-collection-1/

These things where not available for pc owners on ultra setting or something. They retouched a lot of game assets and changed things like UI, reworked NPCs and character models etc. True, PC gamers had a better version than xbox360/ps3 owners, but these reworked/upgraded things in the Defenitive Editition were not available to us PC gamers before.

[DrearierSpider]

Originally posted by Garwinski:

If Techland's attitude towards its customers of Dying Light is anything to go by, I think we can maybe expect something like this IMO, at least on pc.

Techland has no say in this, the IP is owned by Deep Silver. Based on Metro Redux & Darksiders 2, there'll probably be a discount though but that's not 100% guaranteed.

[Dark Light]

There is now a sale, if it is not free they are going to piss a lot of people off who just got it.

[Slyjiin]

OFC not a free upgrade(like darksiders 2 death edition), if games are 80 % off this week end.

[DeathWantsMore]

Who said they will be releasing it on PC? Trailer only shows PS/XB tags.

[Machines Are Human]

Originally posted by DeathWantsMore:

Who said they will be releasing it on PC? Trailer only shows PS/XB tags.

The homepage
"All three titles, Dead Island Definitive Edition, Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition, plus the compilation Dead Island Definitive Collection are scheduled for release May 31st 2016 on Xbox One, PlayStation, and Windows PC."

[Dark Light]

We have our answer, you have to pay for the new version, although 85% off.

[Garwinski]

Originally posted by Dark Light:

We have our answer, you have to pay for the new version, although 85% off.

85% off?!!? Nice, a lot more then I expected. Source though?

EDIT: Just saw it on the store page. Thanks for the heads-up.