Ghorpm: But forcing new customers to pay double for a relatively old game with some questionable (I'm aware is subjective) additions left a bad taste in my mouth.
JMich: You do recall that the same thing happened with The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition, right? When Enhanced Edition released, the game went up in price. See
here.
Yes I do and I didn't like it neither. And it didn't matter for me that Witcher enhancement brought more meaningful changes, I just think it's not a way of doing business.
Ghorpm: Price of TWW was 10$ then they changed it to Special Edition and made it costs 20$ (now it's a bit different due to regional pricing). According to GOG page:
Exclusive content of the special edition includes an alternate ending, a tutorial, developers' commentary featuring Jan 'Poki' Müller-Michaelis and Marco Hüllen, as well as the in-game orchestral soundtrack, unlockable achievements, and re-polished graphics in some scenes.
For me it' hardly worth anything at all and definitely not 10$ but OK, I wouldn't complain at all if they made it as a optional DLC - if you want to get it and/or support Daedalic - buy it, otherwise you can still get the standard edition. Only in this case you can't, they don't sell the standard edition anymore. You have to buy the whole thing or get nothing.
Some people may also add that initially they wanted to charge existing owners of TWW to get an upgrade but after a huge uproar they decided to upgrade it for free. Personally I don't have any problems with this case because while yes, asking to pay for an upgrade was mistake, they dropped this idea, acknowledging it was a mistake. But forcing new customers to pay double for a relatively old game with some questionable (I'm aware is subjective) additions left a bad taste in my mouth. And since it was one of the many questionable choices they made I decided not to buy their games anymore.
vicklemos: I'm aware of the turmoil this decision created among players. Probably that's a move Daedalic won't ever do again.
But I say give Blackguards a deep go. For me, well, I'm not your average rpg guy, but Blackguards really changed that.
And some of their games are specially genuine, with great artwork, an impecable score, nice fluidity, memorable characters, and so on. Their 2015 catalogue (some say catalog, who cares :P), as I've said before, has some games I'm quite interested in. FIRE!, Dead Synchronicity, Devil's Men (judging by the artwork) and Decay: The Mare parts I, II and III.
I don't think I'll do it any time soon. I'm not saying "never ever" or anything like that but it's rather simple: I still have a bad taste in my mouth and I still have other games to play. No reason to buy Blackguards...