Relayer, however, both with Arx and now Divinity has presented a stance that he is being screwed by the developers.
I was never as aggressive in my comments as to imply being SCREWED. You're putting sentiments in my mouth.
I understand the standpoint - any fix that is made available in any form should be made available universally. I agree - and by that token Win7 should be free to compensate for many of us who bought the worst OS release in modern history.
Win7 is a brand new product - poor comparison there (in addition to me not having asked for a patch for DD as any type of "compensation"). You're also talking about thousands of man-hours of work vs. what? A a couple hundred, maybe?
But for a game that is *8 YEARS OLD* and wasn't a huge seller to begin with, where does the money come from? This re-release certainly took resources, and they are recouping that through the $5 price - of which they only get ~70% at best due to publisher and distribution takes.
So this is how we now support game companies? By buying their titles twice?
I never said I didn't support the re-release. I've said it in every post: it was a great idea, this makes the game available to a larger audience. With many gamers now buying titles from Good Old Games, many who never considered this game will probably download it, the price is definitely right. THIS IS GOOD, I'm not disputing it.
But I already have this game so why couldn't they just offer me (us) a patch? If it
had some new additional content then I'd probably buy it. But it doesn't. It's just a few fixes.
If you object - don't buy it. Divine Divinity is one of the best games of the decade, IMO, and if you can't manage $5 to support these guys, then … well, I already mentioned what I thought about that.
I can manage $5, my commute to work each day in NYC is more and it's a hell of a lot less entertaining than DD.
I'm not disputing the price of a RE-RELEASE. I think $5 or $6 is quite a bargain. They could have charged $10 and I think it's still a fair price for an excellent game.
I will happily recommend it to anyone remotely interested in RPGs (and I have - but I guess that's not me supporting Larian, right?).
But I think most will agree with me that those few fixes could have been a patch in addition to a re-release. Heck, for those of us who have no trouble running the game currently, the fixes to the skills, free of charge, would have been very welcome.