Tobias Palm commented directly to assuage people of their fears that the platinum trophy for Life is Strange: Before the Storm would only be available to Deluxe Edition owners.
"Hi everyone!
Official Community Manager for Life is Strange and self-professed platinum hunter here. :)
This was a mistake on our side and it is not our intention to gate the Platinum trophy via the optional Bonus Episode in the deluxe sku. We've already started speaking to the first parties about rectifying this."
Just to note: Confirmed this is the real person, not a fake.
Kind of surprised this even passed compliance testing if they didn't intend to release the bonus episode as an actual episode.
If it was a mistake which it sounds like it was, then that makes me think that the bonus episode was originally going to be a part of the base game and they seperated it later so they had content for a deluxe edition.
Damn right it's a mistake.
Good, glad they're gonna fix this