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General discussionRelease: Scorn: Deluxe Edition is coming back to our catalog!(16 posts)(16 posts)
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Posted January 17, 2023
If you enjoyed Scorn and its eerie, nightmarish atmosphere, we have good news for you – Scorn: Deluxe Edition is coming back to our catalog, and you can now get Scorn: Digital Artbook separately, too!

Scorn: Deluxe Edition is a first-person horror adventure game, set in a dream-like, non-linear world. Each location has its own theme, sprinkled with puzzles and uncanny characters, all adding up to the oddity of the story.

Don’t let it scare you, now on GOG!
Posted January 17, 2023
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25 eur for an art book that's just a pdf? holy shit.
Posted January 17, 2023
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Dohi64: 25 eur for an art book that's just a pdf? holy shit.
That's the inability to upgrade (at fair price) to deluxe edition with most games on gog for you. Seems like we either have to buy deluxe editions from get go, or live with the standard edition. Buying those dlcs separately is more expensive in general, to the point that it tends to get cheaper to just buy the whole deluxe edition on sale instead.
Posted January 17, 2023
Back?!
Posted January 17, 2023
Good to see all licensing issues have been solved, so the artbook could return to store.
But indeed 25 € is a very though price tag for just an artbook pdf.
Posted January 18, 2023
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mr_dito: Good to see all licensing issues have been solved, so the artbook could return to store.
But indeed 25 € is a very though price tag for just an artbook pdf.
I am surprised there´s no OST.
Post edited January 18, 2023 by Tarhiel
Posted January 18, 2023
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Zoidberg: Back?!
https://www.gog.com/forum/scorn/what_happened_to_the_deluxe_edition_why_was_it_taken_down
Posted January 18, 2023
any reason as to why it was removed? cuz that caused an uproar some time back
Posted January 19, 2023
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And, as expected, it did not return whole.

We used to have a 280MB pdf artbook, which then got taken down, but the owners still had access.
It has now been "returned", yet the file name got changed from scorn_the_art_of_the_game.zip to scorn_the_art_of_the_game2.zip and contains a 33MB epub and a 69MB mobi.

This replaces the convenient pdf for everyone, regardless of when it was bought. The books are way smaller and also formatted as single page. Unfortunately the art book contains many drawings spanning two pages, all of which are cut in half. This was not the case with the PDF.

Also, I cannot for the life of me find a way to zoom. It just makes the text bigger, eventually overlapping it, while the artwork remains the same.

I'm sure the developers / publishers are mainly to blame for this nonsense, but why doesn't GOG protect our libraries? If you wanna give a crappier book to new purchases - fine, but keep the original intact for original purchasers!

Thankfully I downloaded it on the launch day, but GOG has proven to be just like Steam. Neither give a single poo about protecting user libraries.

I suggest everyone buy a hard drive and start downloading everything. The only library we can trust is on our hard drives.

[Update 01]
I also noticed that they have somehow locked down these ebooks that makes saving/extracting images impossible. I have other ebooks and I can zoom and extract images. I wonder if this lockdown is what's preventing zooming as well.
Again, the old PDF allowed both zooming and extracting.

[Update 02]
The epub can be extracted with 7zip by the looks of it, but the images have white space baked in and the art chopped in half, remains chopped in half.

The original PDF actually allows selecting the whole intact image and saving it, regardless of whether it spans one page or two.

Puts on a tinfoil hat
You know, when this was first taken down, I though Giger estate had something to do with it. Now I think that they probably never intended to give us the pdf version. It was probably intended for some physical book printing publisher, but someone accidentally packaged it for buyers, then got told off by the management and the book was pulled for months, until they could prepare a lesser version for buyers.
Removes tinfoil hat

[Update 03]
I compared the resolutions of the extracted images between new books and the old pdf. I used large images that span two pages in their entirety (no white space).
As mentioned before, the new books have cut all the two-page-spanning images in half, so the resolution on the new books is 987x1303 twice, so 1974x1303. The same intact image on the original PDF is 3591x2371. Quite a significant reduction.

This is consistent on all images that do not have white space/frames baked in.
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Dohi64: 25 eur for an art book that's just a pdf? holy shit.
It's not even a pdf any more.
Post edited January 20, 2023 by SargonAelther
Posted January 19, 2023
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SargonAelther: And, as expected, it did not return whole.

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I'm sure the developers / publishers are mainly to blame for this nonsense, but why doesn't GOG protect our libraries? If you wanna give a crappier book to new purchases - fine, but keep the original intact for original purchasers!

Thankfully I downloaded it on the launch day, but GOG has proven to be just like Steam. Neither give a single poo about protecting user libraries.

I suggest everyone buy a hard drive and start downloading everything. The only library we can trust is on our hard drives.
Thanks for filling us in.

Don't even get me started on Bandcamp ... entire albums may just go missing from one's "collection"!
Posted January 19, 2023
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SargonAelther: Puts on a tinfoil hat
You know, when this was first taken down, I though Giger estate had something to do with it. Now I think that they probably never intended to give us the pdf version. It was probably intended for some physical book printing publisher, but someone accidentally packaged it for buyers, then got told off by the management and the book was pulled for months, until they could prepare a lesser version for buyers.
Removes tinfoil hat
Thanks for the warning. Removed the game from my wishlist completely.

The game is much too expensive, too short, extras removed and too expensive...
Post edited January 19, 2023 by Anime-BlackWolf
Posted January 19, 2023
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SargonAelther: I'm sure the developers / publishers are mainly to blame for this nonsense, but why doesn't GOG protect our libraries? If you wanna give a crappier book to new purchases - fine, but keep the original intact for original purchasers!

Thankfully I downloaded it on the launch day, but GOG has proven to be just like Steam. Neither give a single poo about protecting user libraries.
Keep saying this for a good while, but gog is more about catchphrases which resonates with the folk here than actual actions, at least lately. I wonder whether all those experienced and skilled employees from a couple of years ago are no longer at gog and now it's just full of interns, because it seems like gog no longer has any clout nor teeth in this game, let alone the will to protect the users or at least the integrity of their original purchase. Respecting one's ownership and making games last forever is looking rather funny in light of censorship, watered down assets, cut down bonuses, some lame game versions forced to main branch, etc.

I suspect that on steam you can actually still roll back to the original 274MB Scorn The Art Of The Game.pdf artbook. It wouldn't surprise me at all, despite it being an "evil" Steam. Forget it on gog though, they defend their relationship with publisher way more than a couple of users who actually care on any higher than superficial mainstream level.
Post edited January 19, 2023 by Spectrum_Legacy
Posted January 19, 2023
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SargonAelther: [Update 02]
The epub can be extracted with 7zip by the looks of it, but the images have white space baked in and the art chopped in half, remains chopped in half.

The original PDF actually allows selecting the whole intact image and saving it, regardless of whether it spans one page or two.
I'd also take a look at the format of the extracted images.
If they're JPG, then they're compressed on top of being chopped in half - which would only make the $25 price tag even more not worth it.
Posted January 19, 2023
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Anime-BlackWolf: Thanks for the warning. Removed the game from my wishlist completely.

The game is much too expensive, too short, extras removed and too expensive...
Same here.
Posted January 19, 2023
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Catventurer: I'd also take a look at the format of the extracted images.
If they're JPG, then they're compressed on top of being chopped in half - which would only make the $25 price tag even more not worth it.
They are indeed jpg. They are also smaller in resolution, compared to the original pdf.
I compared a few images that span two pages in their entirety (no white space) and they were 987x1303x2, so 1974x1303.
The same image on the original PDF is 3591x2371
Post edited January 20, 2023 by SargonAelther
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