Check your steam library ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
https://steamdb.info/app/462780/
New version - Darksiders Warmastered Edition in steam store - Contains both Darksiders and Darksiders Warmastered Edition;
Old version - Darksiders™ in steam store - purchase disabled

https://www.thqnordic.com/article/darksiders-warmastered-edition-out-now-pc

free upgrade for owners of the original Darksiders
Darksiders Warmastered Edition now available for PC. Owners of the original Darksiders will get the Warmastered Edition for free on all major ESD platforms (Steam, GoG, etc.).

http://steamcommunity.com/app/462780/discussions/0/154642321537938902/

Dear followers of War,
we are happy to announce that Darksiders Warmastered Edition is now available on Steam.
All owners of any Steam copy of Darksiders 1 will automatically see the Warmastered Edition as part of their library - please just restart your Steam client!
Enjoy and stay tuned!
Your THQ Nordic Team

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8 years ago*

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Awesome, wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the heads-up! :)

8 years ago
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Hope its an improvement over the original, unlike what they did to the sequel. Had a difficult time getting the original Darksiders II after they pulled it from Steam in favor of the much more poorly optimized 'Deathinitive Edition'.

8 years ago
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great new guys , 1st was Bioshock 1 and 2 , now Darksiders 1 . Wonder If Bulletstorm HD will do the same

8 years ago
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Way less likely, simply due to fact that different publisher between original and HD.

8 years ago
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So is this. Both Darksiders titles were originally published by THQ, whilst the remasters were published by Nordic.

8 years ago
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THQ hasn't existed for years.

Nordic bought most of THQ's assets and effectively THQ & Nordic are now the same company. Thus renamed to THQ Nordic.

But EA still has rights to publish and controls sales of original Bulletstorm and may not be interested in handing it's control of it. (But Epic owns IP)

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The existence of THQ is irrelevant, especially in consideration of Deathinitive Edition as Nordic didn't re-brand to THQ Nordic till almost a year after it's release and even then only because THQ was a significantly more recognizable brand.

So whilst THQ Nordic may now publish both versions of both games it doesn't change the fact that THQ as their original publisher were a separate entity. Nordic (THQ or otherwise) didn't see any money from sales of the franchise before they acquired it. Remasters are a relatively cheap/easy way for a company to see a return on investment before investing significantly more time/money into a full game.Nordic have additionally stated that these remasters are a way to gauge interest before a new game.

Another example would be Adam's Venture. The individual episodes were published by Iceberg Interactive. Soedesco Publishing then acquired the franchise, pulled the individual episodes and released Chronicles, a remaster that combined the three together. Eventually owners of the episodes received a free upgrade to Chronicles. They then further released a remake, Origins.

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It's relevant, because It's not just about whatever they want to give free copy, but it's something that EA also would've to agree to, and they might not want to.

One could argue it could be lost sale for EA, as in they might skip EAs latest FPS shooter, because they got Bulletstorm HD for free to play.

And while THQ got money from initial sales, they also paid for development too. Nordic just bought assets and has sold game as theirs since.

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You stated change in publisher meant a given remaster being free for existing owners was less likely and whilst that's ultimately true I've shown it isn't always the case.

As far as Bulletstorm goes the remaster is being published by Gearbox and not EA so they aren't getting any sales anyway.

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less likely mean it's possible.

Yes, EA won't likely get anything out of Bulletstorm HD sales, means it's their direct competitor (or it can be perceived as one), which makes it less likely for EA to help.

It doesn't mean it's impossible, but there's more work to do.

Hell, It isn't even out of question that EA would try to prevent re-release, depending on contracts.

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is bulletstorm hd even confirmed?

8 years ago
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It's not officially announced.

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I hope this means the game will no longer crash at launch for me. P

8 years ago
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maybe it will crash at the ending (?

8 years ago
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Hey, thanks for that heads up. I didnt evens see this one there.

8 years ago
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This one will crash that much like the previous version, and it will get bugged and you wont get the achievements like the first one? T.T

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I had 0 issues with first one (finished 2 times, one on easy and one on apocalyptic), and so far this one runs just fine, even more fluently and looking damn good...

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I alt-tab a lot while playing, and games that doesnt allows the window mode tends to crash a lot... the thing is that i didnt know that if the game crash, you have to restart steam, because if you get some achievement it wont show it... http://steamcommunity.com/id/EsEsama/stats/Darksiders/?tab=achievements I cleared the game but i miss some achievements, like killing Stigian o.o

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Nordic rep said that achievements are fixed and old saves work too. Sadly achievements won't be retroactively granted :(

8 years ago
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Cool, maybe i give it a try someday :p Thanks

8 years ago
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Yeeaah, I need to play them both again, they're great games.

8 years ago
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free cards drop :)

8 years ago
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You actually getting cards? I'm not seeing anything in the badge page.

8 years ago
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Hmm... Well hopefully it resolves itself on my account so I can get em.

8 years ago
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Isn't popping up in idlemaster for me either.

8 years ago
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Should be working now, give it a shot.

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Launching a remastered edition for a game, the previous owners get it for free, and for the non-owners the price continues the same as the base game.
This is how you do it Bethesda (and such).
Unfortunately I can't buy it atm but for the next sale I sure hope i'm getting it

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warning to people with amd cards there is multiple reports of it running really badly and not using the cards fully. i run an rx 480 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=809065079 this is what msi tells me while im playing

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same here, in the place where you get control of your character for the first time I get 19 fps :D (I have a RX480 too)

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all amd users from what im seeing is having issues so hopefully a fix really soon

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Thanks Nordic, appreciated.

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awesome!

8 years ago
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Thanks for the heads up!

8 years ago
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Nice to know,i didn't really play the old one because i bought it on a sale and the controls were very.....shitty.
Will definitely install now.

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cool :)

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THQ Nordic is really nice lately xD
Kinda wish their games are a bit more popular

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Cool!

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Hallelujah!
They added an FOV option in the game after all the complaining we did.

8 years ago
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This Darksiders remaster is novideo (nvidia) optimized, I get 19 fps on my i5-4690K and RX480, meanwhile a shit 950 can run it at 60

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Thanks for the heads up.

8 years ago
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Awesome! I just received this as a gift, perfect timing!

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Closed 7 years ago by Mihey3Z.