If you release a new SKU that contains the exact same contents as the previous SKU, but only give an upgrade path to owners of the new SKU, you fucked up.
Stop defending shitty business practices
You're seriously defending waiting until everyone had bought the season pass to then announce an identical version that has next gen support for free? Are you even understanding the issue here?
Persons would still be complaining if they made an Ultimate Edition available for next gen only and current gen owners would only get a 1:1 experience via backwords compatibility.
No matter what persons would feel obligated to get a free upgrade patch for next gen.
PS3 to PS4 had a $9.99usd upgrade for games like Black Flag that came out around the PS4 launch window. Control came out a year ago and persons are still looking for hand outs. Some of you bought the game and DLC and got what you paid for; as PS4/One game.
Others haven't paid for anything and are complaining anyway bcause they can't get upgraded for free after they buy older versions of the game for "peanuts" on sale.
If they said $9.99 for a Control PS5 update, people would still be complaing. Why? Because they want things for free. Who care about the work involved.
Put your minds at ease by just thinking of the Ultimate Edition as a next gen Remaster/Definitive/Whatever edition that so many people clearly like to buy anyway.
I bought an album at release and now a year later I have to buy the deluxe album to hear a remix. I should get it for free damn it.
No, they don't. They're paid by the publisher of the project based on contractual obligations that have been negotiated between the two our outlined by the publisher's requirements. In this case 505 or whoever has probably specified that they want work done on a next gen version and they only want Ultimate owners to be privvy to it. Remedy's wages are getting paid one way or another if the call is coming from 505. 505 are the ones who decide how to most efficiently reap monetary benefits from corporate decisions, not Remedy, as 505 is the license holder of Control.
Nobody is working for free.
I love that you replied ^_^
My thing is, clearly they don't work for free. So I don't get why trying to get returns on that spending brings out so much anger. Clearly they're trying to a) Do what any business does, try to make money. b) Incentivise first time buyers who may otherwise just buy a heavily discounted/used old version the game.
The game didn't sell like hot bread. So free isn't a great option in a busines sense. Especially when coding a next gen patch isn't as simple as flipping a switch.
