just came across this and can't believe it,

Daedalic the Dev from The Whispered World has removed their game from the steam store, as you may know its broken at some points and to play through it to the end you may need some savegames which they hand out if you ask them on support just so you can continue the game.
Also many crashes are reported and overall many technical issues on the community hub.
Now there is this new entry http://store.steampowered.com/app/268540
It adds steamworks integration, trading cards, ingame achievements, soundtrack and a dev commentary hence it's called now a special edition.

For this few changes which is more like a little update they rerelease the game and previous buyers have to buy again.
Old entry is removed from store.

WTF


EDIT:
there will be a solution in the first three months to upgrade.
But you have to pay 5.00$/5.00€
click here for dev comment


EDIT2:
Devs listened and changed their mind, we now should all have gotten the new version added to our account.
That's good news.

10 years ago*

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Official update:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/268540/discussions/0/558754900044618016/

"All owners of the previous edition of The Whispered World will receive an automatic update to the new edition for free from their respective download portals. However, due to the new Visionaire version, old savegames won’t be compatible with the Special Edition."

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Clicky :)

10 years ago
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I have the new game in my games list, along with the old one.

They added the game to the old packages so everyone should have the new version now.

10 years ago
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I'm a happy panda now

10 years ago
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Check your libraries, and time to throw down the pitchforks!

10 years ago
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I am glad they changed their minds, paying for a fix would not be acceptable. Though I don't like how they phrased it as "confusion", they should have said it was a wrong decision and not act like we didn't understand them.

10 years ago
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This is false i own the old version and got the new version added to my library. Update yous post please.

10 years ago
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It wasn't 'false' when it was posted.

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Timestamp of first post was 3 days ago....

10 years ago
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thats cause they backpeadled when they got angry messages. Its like calling false on xbone's drm shenanigans

10 years ago
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Whoa, the new version is half the size! This reminds me of UFO: Afterlight which also got split into new and old version, with the new version being a gig smaller.

Old edition: 3488MB  
New edition: 1696MB
10 years ago
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They seem to be using a more efficient file format. Videos are now MKV instead of the previous proprietary format.

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very glad to find the special edition in my library. the normal edition is still there too, which i'll probably never play, but since the special edition is the one i want i'm just glad i have that. i expect to like daedalic since i enjoy a good adventure game (i've played a lot of wadjet eye games really liked all but one of them), but haven't actually played any of their games yet. i have some (like whispered world) through bundles, and if i like a game from an indie bundle i'm likely to buy sequels at full price. this happened with the penumbra series, amnesia a machine for pigs (oops, sort of not a sequel), and blackwell epiphany.

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Deus Ex and Strike Suit Zero now should follow Daedalic's step. =P

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good they backpedaled but bullshit they even tried it

(I'll probably still remember this next time I find myself on the fence about a game and see their name on it.
and the bugginess if I'm near the fence.)

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Yep, i got The Whispered World Special Edition in my library :D

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Closed 10 years ago by P4INKILL3R.