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I've just completed all of the achievements in the free starter pack for TSW5, and I've purchased the TSW6 Deluxe Edition. (Love that these games are play anywhere by the way - would be great if they could bring that to older versions earlier than TSW5 at same point)

Now, I wouldn't mind purchasing the DLCs for TSW5 and getting some more of the achievements. Have noticed some of the older DLCs are on sale on Xbox for TSW6. From what I can gather, purchasing the TSW6 version, I wouldn't be able to use it in TSW5 also.

There's a huge price difference in the older and newer version of the same DLC. Why wouldn't they both go on sale for the same price? If I want to complete TSW5, it's going to cost me probably double what it'd cost me to buy the TSW6 versions, which with them not being backwards compatible, have no achievements tied to them at all.

If it was the same price, players would still be able to play the TSW5 version on TSW6, so surely it's no loss to Dovetail to put the older versions of the DLC on sale at the same price at the same time?

 

This is on of the greatest deal-breakers for me. If I don't get the content in previous versions of the game any longer I need all the version discounted. This is such a disappointment that DTG is delivering this on every platform except Xbox. Yet another shortest straw for the fans on the platform. Huge disappointment.

 

At least it’s not just me that feels this way. I’d seen people question why people would want to play the old games when the newer ones come out, but as somebody who likes to get all of the achievements, I’d like to ultimately go back and play each of the older games and get those achievements. Currently seems unlikely they’ll even discount the older version of the DLC.

 

Yes, this is hugely frustrating for those of us for whom chasing the TSW achievements is a big part of the fun. I did message support to ask if they’d be willing to give me access to the older versions when I purchased TSW6 DLC but they predictably weren’t having it. I also suggested a sale of pre-TSW5 and older DLC but since then all the DLC sales have been TSW6 branded and not BC so no luck.

Removing backwards compatibility has lost DTG a number of DLC sales from me already, and presumably others like me, but that’s their choice and other than message support with suggestions the only thing I can do is vote with my wallet.

 

Pretty much the same for me. I'm not going to part ways with £30+ for 8-10 hours of play time. Once I've got the achievements, I'm not likely to play the DLC much, unless I can get use of it working towards another achievement.

I'm guessing TW5 DLCs are not on sale because they want to boost the number of TSW6 sales, even if it is for an older TSW6 compatible DLC. I've just bought TSW2020 on Steam and there's plenty of achievements there, so I'll be sticking with that until the older DLCs are on sale. If that never happens, then I guess I'll never get the rest of the achievements for TSW5 lol.

 

I don't think they can boost sales of anything this way. It makes zero sense, the way they approach Xbox sales. TSW5 is in Game Pass, they could easily push more content to people who play the game and would like to grab TSW5 versions of older content. They just showed these people a middle finger for some reason, no one playing through game pass will be picking up anything.

A part of me wants to think that it's a deliberate business decision due to contractual obligations or maybe some bad actor is just trying really hard to make Xbox platform performance look abysmal to prove some internal point or whatever, but after looking at Dovetail for a few years now I am more inclined to think they don't really don't care/they are just that incompetent. This issue was brought up by me in every sale since they pulled the "FU dear players" on backwards compatible content, because one could say that it wasn't really an issue until they stopped giving previous editions of products. We know that these were promised to be taken up the chain by the community managers (candacedtg ). Of course, nothing ever came of it. Probably nothing ever will. And then DTG Harry will come by and say that they are not at liberty to discuss these things.

Been there. Done that. Oh well, you are being told you are a valued customer on Xbox, yet it is really hard to believe this cr*p when you look at situations like these. But what are you going to do, huh? They are in a position of power, so they stick it to ya however they want.

 

I suspect that DTG just don't 'get' XBOX Achievements (nor presumably PS Trophies). This might explain some of the decisions regarding the lack of backwards compatibility and the refusal to discount anything but TSW6-branded DLC - maybe DTG just don't understand why console users would want anything else. As a result we've ended up with the current lose-lose situation where DTG are turning down easy revenue on old product, and some console customers are unhappy.

*EDIT* I forgot to agree with you regarding the related issue of DTG not ever discounting TSW5 DLC even though TSW5 is on Game Pass. On the surface this seems like a whole new level of bizarre.