...So I shouldn't have bough the DLCs as they came out since they're now free to all owners of the base game? I saw huge potential in this game, though it was very unpolished on release, and I was waiting for it ti "finish" to go back and play it more...

All the DLCs have been removed from Steam more than a week ago, presumably to prevent people from needlessly buying them.

Yeah.. This is what happens when games get older... The developer eventually comes out with a 'game of the year' or 'anniversary' version that includes the DLCs. Be pissed all you want about how 'unfinished' it was which is valid, but if your an avid gamer, you shouldn't be surprised.

Dear developers . Let me ruin your celebration . The game already costs me $23.80 .

Many have noted that preordering and day-one purchasing is paying the most for the most incomplete version of games. I believe TB had a great quote on it.

And it can be applied to early adopters of technology as well as games.

It can still be worth it if you are excited enough and enthusiastic enough about the product and/or developer. It is up to the individual to decide on when the value becomes worthy of their money/effort.

I tend towards frugality and am patient. So, opportunities like this are more in line with my buying habits. I do appreciate the "free upgrade" and added content the developers are offering.

In an ideal world, all small DLC would be included in updates (along with any day-one DLC), and a released game would be extremely functional. The current game marketplace does not seem to work that way, and some devs have funding issues that the DLC and GOTY editions help to remedy. I am certainly not saying it is right or can't be fixed, but I do understand that it is the environment that developers currently have to navigate.

Changing how we buy games could help steer towards more fully finished products on release, but could also drive out less well-funded developers (or cause them to find new sources of funds?). I don't have the answers, but I will still complain. :)

Sorry for the long post. Have an excellent day everyone!


*Edit: I got a code to get this for $10 U.S., based on the reviews, I don't know that it is worth full price at the state it is in. Although it sounds like it has promise if the developers stick with it, or if the Anniversary edition has everything fixed. I like the idea of the game, but I'll still wait for the reviews of the anniversary edition to see how it is in execution. Unless I find out it has an amazing soundtrack that is included. I am a sucker for soundtracks.

Among those tons of improvements - is there Linux port perhaps?
The game supports all main OSes on Steam. Any particular reason GOG version ignores Linux users? With Talos Principle released recently - is that some kind of new tradition to don't bother adding existing Linux ports here?

To be honest, I didn't know this game existed, but it looks amazing. This looks like a sim that would be a lot of fun for me to stream. I wish I had known about sooner.

Liked the game, but there was way too much jank, so things like 'improved pathfinding' sound amazing!

The trailer is amazing btw. :P

So, when the game was first announced here, it included Linux support. That was then very swiftly yanked as the initial tidal wave of bug reports came in.
Since then, there's been no word whatsoever about it returning. Any chance of that finally being remedied?

Customers have been complaining for the full year about pathfinding and similar bugs making the game nearly unplayable, so yay, I guess, for that finally being improved (sad, though, that this is only mentioned on Steam, and not here), but the lack of communication about it from the past year (while DLC were being churned out at speed) isn't exactly inspiring me with confidence that the game will actually become fully playable in one fell swoop with this update. :/

It is on GOG too:
https://www.gog.com/news/the_anniversary_edition_of_crossroads_inn_is_coming_soon

Oh, huh, I always thought that the full news post makes it to the forum.
And of course, the JS errors currently plaguing the homepage means I had no way to navigate to that news post.

Still, my bad!

Usually the full post does indeed make it to the forum, but if you look at the OP, you can see that something's wrong, as it ends with a colon "Check out the official trailer:". My guess is that the forum post is created by someone manually copy-pasting from the news post and that someone is probably already used to the trailer being the last thing in the news post, so no need to copy past it.

Still, GOG's bad!

Does anyone know if it will have the same requirements as the current version? I would not like to buy it and then the game doesn´t work on my notebook.

Watched the trailer; wouldn't be surprised by naked folks walking the streets. (Bath & Beauty DLC?)
BTW, they say nude-ness/ity wasn't taboo in Mid Ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nudity#Europe