While Obsidian Entertainment had previously announced that owners of The Outer Worlds would be getting a free upgrade to The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, PS4 and Xbox One players have been criticizing the company for being unable to get the upgrade without spending money on the game’s two expansions. Pointing to an official forum post by the studio, a Reddit user has now noted that the conditions for the upgrade have been seemingly changed.
“About three weeks ago, Obsidian clearly announced that if you have bought the original Outer Worlds before May 27, you will get the Spacer’s Edition for free on May 27,” wrote the Reddit user. “However, they just announced that this is now not the case and you need to buy both DLC as well.”
It is worth noting that Obsidian had mentioned the fact that the expansions would need to be bought manually by PS4 and Xbox One players to get the upgrade. However, the phrasing used by the company had indicated that this would only be the case after May 27th, with those who already owned the base game getting automatic free upgrades to the Spacer’s Choice Edition.
Obsidian Entertainment has acknowledged the issue and, with a social media post, has apologized to fans of The Outer Worlds. The company has also noted that this issue comes down to “unforeseen platform limitations” that only affect the PS4 and Xbox One.
“Apologies for the confusion,” wrote Obsidian. “Due to unforeseen platform limitations, Xbox One and PS4 digital owners will need to own both DLCs to be eligible for the upgrade.”
Obsidian Entertainment had announced the upgrade to The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition at the beginning of the month, noting that it has more in store for the 2019 sci-fi RPG. The announcement was accompanied by an update that helped the studio set up its development pipelines for further updates, as well as a few bug fixes.
Among the planned improvements coming to The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition are the larger fixes for aspects like performance, gameplay, and quests, and even the addition of new content, like grenades, which were curiously missing from The Outer Worlds on launch.
The upgrade has had its fair share of side effects, however, with the chief one being that the base edition of The Outer Worlds has been delisted from Steam, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. As of now, the only way to get your hands on the RPG if you didn’t already own it is to buy the Spacer’s Choice Edition.
The Outer Worlds was originally released on PC, PS4, and Xbox One, and was generally seen as a mixed bag. In our review, we gave it a score of 6 out of 10 due to a variety of issues, ranging from mediocre gunplay to the choices and consequences system not quite working well, to even the main character progression system being weird. We did, however, praise it for its art style, world design, and companion progression systems, among other things.
In the meantime, Obsidian Entertainment has also released The Outer Worlds 2. For more on that, take a look at our review.