It's the eclipse, isn't it? :P

(I think I *do* know who was right, though. Probably not me, but let's wait until tomorrow).

Yeah. €68.49 to be precise. Given that VERY few AAA games release for this price on disc (most in Germany are €60), I hope Compulsion isn't hoping to get much in the way of sales there. If they do the same price on GOG & Steam, they can kiss goodbye to recouping development costs.

Bought it .

These are basically the speculations about the reasons that Manywhelps could be referring to:

It's not multiplayer, though, as much as mechmouse wanted it to be.

Also, someone in another thread mentioned a rumour about a movie tie-in, TV show, or whatever. Not particularly relevant, I guess, since Manywhelps specifically mentioned *this* thread.

I bought the game on Humble because it worked out cheaper as a monthly subscriber. It really needs the story added imo and then it could be worth the new price. At the moment it's a cool sandbox game and worth the current price but from exploring and absorbing the radio broadcasts/reading letters etc I've become interested in the setting and would like to experience it in more than snippets. It feels like being a civilian in a classic Doctor Who episode, specifically the Happiness Patrol, but there's no hero appearing to save the day.

Murphy's Law is everywhere.

So far:
Kona
The Long Dark
The Solus Project
...are all very good, released indev games.

I have high hopes for Ghost of a Tale and Exanima as well.

So I bought it (and I've only bought 5 other in-dev titles so far, which are each excellent, 3 released already) - I really hope it will be a nice surprise... :)

As you can see Im going to trust you (click the image below) you've been open and your activity on the forums and blogs and connection with the fans has earned that trust... I'm very happy at the moment to see whats next. ^_^

I've been lurking, watching let's plays following since day one, even getting live updates on steamspy... and tonight I am finally pulling the trigger, or maybe taking the pill?

Can't wait to see whats next. Again thank you for your transparency on this and the heads-up.

Dev now pre-empting shitstorm... this ought to be interesting....
(FYI bought into the concept when WHF was first released as in-dev... but tend to wait till release to play)

I just wanted to say 'thank you' for being here, even if the environment in these forums is hostile and unwelcoming -- something I am also to blame, at least in regards to this announcement. I won't keep repeating what I feel and think about all of this whole debacle, it stopped being constructive a long time ago. All I want to do is to wish you and your team the best of luck. I mean it. I believe in supporting developers that treat their customers with respect, and you have proven to all those of us who cared to see that Compulsion is an honest studio that just wants its game to be the best it can possibly be. And maybe some of us won't agree with the way you're trying to do that, but your heart is in the right place, even if your decisions end up putting some people off. Hopefully, it will also bring others along.

For what it's worth, I still think We Happy Few looks very interesting, it still has the potential to be a great game. I love the setting, the premise, the art direction is phenomenal and makes the game not looking "all that impressive" from a technical standpoint completely irrelevant -- this is proof of an awesome art team.

I hope you manage to get some much needed rest, tonight, to be all ready for tomorrow's announcement (it's today's announcement, to me :P ). Some people will be mad at you, others will probably just shrug at it, I can kind of predict all of this happening. But others might also react positively to the announcement, that's also likely to happen.

I sincerely apologize for the times I was a cynical, sardonic snob bent on being antagonistic and contrarian. My opinions and thoughts remain largely the same, mind you, but it's not fair being rude and exuding so much bile towards someone who always tried to engage people in civil conversation and who has always been as forthcoming and honest as they could, given the circumstances. I know that, at this point, it doesn't matter much, but I *am* sorry for the way I handled this.

Without a single drop of malice, I wish you all the best of luck for tomorrow; I believe you will need it.

Transparency? "We are gonig to raise the price for a very good reason, bu we can't tell you until after we've done it" is transparency? They need to show more than empty promises and a broken demo before they jack the price up to be more than The Witcher 3 GOTY. Let that sink in.

This game was successfully crowdfunded and has had some fairly good sales numbers on Steam (and possibly here, I can't check those numbers) and yet, they want more money, claiming that they've made updates to an Early Access title (In Dev) without raising the price. Kudos, they've continued proper development of their less than half-finished (already fully-funded) game that they have the nerve to charge people $30 to beta test for them and are wanting praise for not charging more for significant improvement, then using this as a partial justification of a price hike? This unfinished buggy mess will cost more than one of the best games ever made in its complete edition with all its DLCs (Witcher 3 GOTY). Given the choice of which to purchase, I can't see how anyone could choose We Happy Few over some of the absolute great games (Hellblade comes to mind) that release for less money.

Sounds like the dev team has been overdosing on their Joy.