You're probably right. Unfortunately, the two week delay in releasing here certainly won't help the overall sales numbers on GOG. From what I've read it sold like hot cakes on Steam over the last two weeks. Likely a lot of potential GOG customers ended up buying there so they could get it earlier.
True enough. But I doubt this type of thing will ever stop.

Yes. Of course most of forumites accept it as better than not getting the game at all, I'm sure GOG will make an okay-to-decent profit off of it, and GOGgers get a release that has fewer bugs.

If I knew nothing of this game and read the headline for that first review I would never have bought this.

500k, not just 50.

It releases here on GOG two weeks after the all important day one sales and one week after the extremely important week one sales. It will not reach a single percent of the Steam sales, not by a long shot. The publisher has not given GOG the chance to provide good sales and therefore will be disappointed in GOG sales, thus prompting more shenannigans of the same kind. Vicious circle, self fulfilling prophecy. We can only hope and pray that other developers and publishers will never, ever look at Kingdom Come on GOG as an example for anything, ever, because if they do, we're completely fucked.


You're wasting your breath here, though thanks for those links. The first one was enough for me to see one of my central theories confirmed - a picture of the German Post/DHL delivery folks. Warhorse had planned and calculated the rewards to be printed in the Czech Republic, then got into contract with the German publisher, who couldn't at all produce the rewards in Germany at anywhere near the price Warhorse had calculated for the Kickstarter. You've been had by Koch Media, folks. Welcome to the club. And I'm sorry! I really am. Backers don't deserve to be treated that way, and if you really only found out about the nixed and diminished rewards when you had the cardboard remains in your hands, that's just despicable.

Cool story.

Very happy that the game is finally available here without any DRM whatsoever. Slightly disappointed with the arbitrary wait because of the publisher. Wish the boxed copies of the game were gog versions like it was with Witcher.

However it is bit of shame that OST is "just" mp3, would be nice for such a good music to have FLAC version. And I bit miss the old days when game soundtrack was not something sold separately anyway.

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Chill bro, it's just a headline, there's an entire review below that you know.

Plus the game has much more common with Dark Souls than "difficulty". If you played it, you'd know.

I meant 50k is 10% of 500k.

Are you parroting my "publishers will leave GOG, and GOG will die, and we'll all cry ourselves to sleep at night" shtick or are you serious? It will absolutely reach at least 1% percent of Steam sales. :P

Ohhh OK, sorry, I indeed misunderstood you there. Still, not a chance in hell. This game will sell again when it's 25% off, but not at full price two weeks after release. Not happenin'. :(

Yeah AAA certainly isn't living in a 1:1 ratio with "fun and worth buying/playing"

It just looks so beautiful! It's great to see a game launch here so soon after its initial release and GOG get proper treatment. Thank you! :D

About the action, Is it a third person game like The Witcher or is it a first person game?

It's strictly first-person/

It could be as you say, but no one forced them to make that contract with the publisher. And while doing so they have to abide by the agreement made during the kickstarter campaign, no publisher should have a say in it.
I am not luckly a backer of the physical edition. I feel for them as they find out in the post you mention, where it was announced that the reward has been shipped. Those changes are something that should have been planned at least month before, so informing the backers at that point was too late and without excuses. It's not a publisher issue, Warhorse is to blame there as they hold the communication with the backers and omitted those information on every updates before that. There are plenty of example. The didn't print the manual and expanded the one in game, this is clearly something that has been decided way before shipping. Scrapping the metal box is also a decision that has been made months before. One size t-shirt is laughable. They also neglected the signed poster. I don't think there are many excuses for this issue. But even in this case, kickstarter regulate things so that if you fail to deliver the rewards you have to somehow compensate the backers for what is missing or changed, a things that has not been done.

I personally have a issue with the lack of a drm-free version that was not impossible, just negated for other reasons.