[FREE] [STEAM] Geneshift: Battle Royale Turbo (11/5 - 13/5)

Edit: Found the official post for the previous offer. [>>]

There's just nothing in the game's newsfeed or in google results about that, and the SG thread is a bit.. sparse.

Did find this in the game's newsfeed (at around the same time as the previous promotion)

You may notice that Geneshift now has a "Complete Edition DLC". This is in preparation for the full release sometime next year, but for now doesn't really change anything. Everyone who previously owned Geneshift gets this DLC for free. Anyone who buys the game during the sale this week also gets the DLC for free. Right now it's simply a way to separate the Battle Royale from the rest of the game.

and this

Ah, it's not the actual game, just the multiplayer mode that was previously available as a free demo.

in the SG thread (for the previous promotion), however.

So yeah, looks like the previous freebie version was just for the battle royale, to start with, and perhaps the remaining content was added in later on, or already shifted over to DLC during the previous promotion. From what I can tell, the current perma-free version of the game actually has more features than the free promotion version from before did (as I'm getting the impression that things like bots aren't exclusive to the DLC, just game progression boosts and the single-player campaign).

That said, the game's multiplayer is now perma-free (which I thought it was before, which is likely the reason I thought the CE content was free with the previous promotion), so does that mean this new promotion actually is for the Complete Edition? Because my interest is- and has always been- in the single player campaign, so.. might have to be keeping an eye out, in that case. ^.^

Well, I wasn't intending to associate the DLC itself but, rather, the DLC's content. My "I seem to recall the content of the Complete Edition having been part of the base game before this" comment can certainly be misleading in that regard, but give it a re-read and it should make sense to my intention. I recalled the promotion unlocking content, after all, but that was likely just the free mode (which wasn't actually perma-free yet, then, apparently).

Ultimately, I was correct, at least, in my "those of us who got it free back in 2018 got automatically downgraded to the new free edition" comment, though it wasn't that we got downgraded, but that the version itself got downgraded [to being $0 from $10].