For the umpteenth time. First you finish the game, THEN you release it.

Would be 'funny' to try this douchebag approach in another industry. "I bought some trousers from you last year, any idea when the 2nd leg will be done? Not yet, but in a year or two we'll be installing zippers. Naturally it will cost you, but you want zippers, right? Or buttons?"

Games content and price fit togther well as it stands... but it sounds like some great stuff is coming that warrants an increase... that said I'm super excited and can't wait to see whats next for We Happy Few... As dev's you guys have always been upfront and honest and never pulled a punch. Thank you for that, and please don't let the forum goers get to you, they are a small subset of your fans and others that will purchase the game.

Again thank you for being so transparent and giving us all a heads up!

With "stunt" I meant you increasing the price a lot with telling the reason of it the day it already has increased. I also said that "stunt" might not be the correct word for it.

I thought I made quite clear that this is not the case. Your demanded $51 is less than I paid for a Kickstarter and I don't even know when this game will be released at all. However THEY were ALWAYS transparent telling us WHY something happened and why not. Maybe I am spoiled because of those devs - don't know.

Listen to yourself for a moment. "There are so many good reasons ... but unfortunately I cannot tell you". You think this is helpful in any way? I already said that - I am quite unemotional here even though some things I write might suggest otherwise. But the people you are talking to are the ones you want to have on your side so why not just tell what's the reason behind all this. Because you are forbidden to do so? How can I trust a person who cannot do what he/she wants?

No, the reason is NOT the price increase (even though I think it's too high) the reason simply is the way that people don't give an explanation as to why the game will get this much more expensive. If you cannot or are not allowed to talk to your potential buyers freely that is something that I really don't want to support. That is all. I like free devs with free minds doing what THEY want and being able to keep their community in the loop always. Like I said I might be spoiled with my experiences with the other devs (Stuck In Attic) because they are doing exactly that.

Personally if you want to complain about the price increase, wait until the 16th when you get the explanation.

Accept for now that you can't always get what you want in terms of open answers and judge the answer you do get when you get it.

When I first heard about this price increase, I was against it. I didn't think it was "greedy" as some have said, and I don't have an issue with price increases in general. My problem with it was that, for me, based on what little information I had about the game $30 already seemed like a bit much. To increase that to $51 sounded ridiculous, because it was adding a good 66% to a price that was already asking too much for me. It doesn't help that, from our perspective, nothing is happening to add $21 worth of value to the game. If something is happening to do that, you won't tell us until the 16th when the price goes up.

Buying games is normally a gamble, and in the modern day there's little reason to take such a risk on something until it's deeply discounted. If I know I'll love a game, usually meaning that it's a sequel to something I've enjoyed, I'll generally have no problem buying it for whatever its base price is. With We Happy Few, I didn't know much about it, and if it weren't for GOG's In-Development system guaranteeing me a refund, I would have never dropped $30 on it. $51 would have been outrageous.

Now that I have spent some time playing the current version of the game, I'm unsure about the price increase. I can see how $30 is a more reasonable base price than I previously expected. There's more to the game than I would have thought, and I think that the upcoming story mode could be a big deal when the game is finally finished. If the story mode turns out really well, then maybe $51 (though I really feel like that extra $1 comes across poorly) is justified. But if the story mode turns out to be disappointing and/or if the game turns out to lack depth in general, then $51 is going to feel like too much.

So in summary, my personal issue with it is basically that I don't find most games to be worth $30, and there are fewer still worth $50+. What I've played in the current version hasn't quite sold me on the idea of $30 being worth it for the finished product, but I can see how it could get there. Unless the story mode (not coming out until release, for those interested) turns out to be really special in addition to the other modes having good depth and replay value, I doubt I would ever want to spend $51 on it.

Best of luck with whatever happens. I don't have anything against the developers for increasing the price, but I do think it's probably asking too much for the game.

I agree your doing the better option, much better to tell people upfront.

Personally not knowing the surprise, I can't make an informed decision on whether the game will be worth $50. And there lies the problem.

Given I've already paid, I'm not loosing out.

What about the game gets finished THEN you buy it? :P

Just wanted to congratulate you, it takes courage to come down here in the pit and subject yourself to angry people, some being hopeless clueless trolls.

So khudos for you on that.

I'm not interested in WHF (at least for now) but I command you on the "stunt" you've gone through to warn players BEFORE the change happens.

To the guy(s) who had the idea of that price increase: bad idea. That is if the scope is the same. If it's a early access politics then the final full price should have been displayed with a sale price active until full release (like some other guy wrote earlier).

But if it's not that, it means only one logical thing: scope increase.

The game is no more indie, it's triple A.

Speaking of fairness -- people who buy the game right now pay 30 bucks, people who buy it a week or two later have to pay 50, even though they all ultimately receive the same product for their money. That's not really fair either, is it? I can see how this makes sense during an early crowd-funding phase, when the game is still in early stages of development, and the people who help get things started receive a better deal in return. But that's not really the case here, when there's such a short amount of time between the two different price points. And you keep emphasizing that this move is not about cashflow, so the people who hurry to buy the game now don't play a significant role in keeping the development going, no more so than the people who will buy it a week or a month from now. So why do they deserve a much better deal?

I can see how handling these transitions from "Early Access" to "Final Version" pricing is tricky, so maybe this is the best you guys could do in the current situation, but I'm not sure it makes much sense to keep talking about "fairness".

Anyhow, people here are mostly repeating themselves at this point. There's probably not much to add, until we all officially know more about the game and its future on the 16th.

Not for all. The problem is not a price increase on its own. The problem is a price increase WITH the release of an unfinished game. Not even the UI is finished couple of days before release. I mean..FFS!

If the game is not finished, how are you going to release it on the 16th? Don't you, as a developer, as this is your own product, your child if you wish, feel at all at least embarrassment for asking people to pay you for a full game while you are giving them an incomplete game? I would say the same if the price remained at 30.

I don't know, perhaps it's just me, but I would never have the nerve to ask for a full price (not to mention an increased price) for a job I did not do. "here, take half the video, give me all the money, and over the next months or years you will get the rest"
THIS is why I (and perhaps others) are upset. NOT the price increase on its own. Please don't just say everyone is upset over the price just to make it appear like we are the douches in this that don't want to pay a normal (the increased) price for a game with lots of content. Content which is NOT out and is not going to be out on the day of release!

Maybe he's a mortician? :-)