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But why would you? Why would I? I don't care. I used my old 0.4 save and had a flawless time running through the new update. I wouldn't call that a "save game workaround". I guess it sucks for people who had never played it before, but then you might as well download 0.4 as well, play through that all the way, and then download 0.5 and import your save.
Also, I can forgive them a lot of things for having that amazing Lily walk render. It's so good.
Why would I? Because I thought it might be nice to see the outcomes of the other choices that you can make. Considering the game contains a branching storyline it would make sense that people might want to replay it. And I also wanted to check and see if they added any other new cool stuff to the earlier sections of the game. I actually ended up playing past the bugs using 0.4, saving, then going back to 0.5, and even that still broke the flow of things in 0.5 pretty badly at times.
Or like Hikkes said, you have people that's new to the game that's never played it before that might want to experience the whole game without having to play through 2 different versions just to get the full experience. Expecting people to use an older release to get up to date just so they can play the newer release is a bit backwards. That's like Microsoft releasing an update for Office 2016 that requires you to first use Office 2013 to create a document before you can have access to the updated features in 2016.
I'm probably taking this way too personal, but doing occasional software development at work myself I have a pet peeve when people don't do proper QA on their code. And don't get me started on people not knowing how to properly comment their code, but that's a whole different tale.
Don't get me wrong, I really like the game, it's probably my favorite RPGMaker game in development at the moment. I just find it disappointing that after the previous 3 releases that were pretty damn stable they would go and release 0.5 in it's current state. From my experience replaying 0.5 from the start it's pretty clear that when they did the QA on 0.5 they purely went with playing from a 0.4 save game, and didn't bother to play through the whole game again, otherwise they would have picked up on all the bugs they introduced.