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Welcome to our jolly dystopia.

We Happy Few, the stylish action/adventure about escaping a city of oppressive happiness, is now available for pre-order 15% off, DRM-free on GOG.com.

Did you take your happiness pill today? Please try not to skip on your regular doses, otherwise you might start hallucinating and seeing things that shouldn't be there. Like derelict houses dressed in colourful banners. People jumping off London Bridge with a smile painted on their faces. Violent acts against those who refuse to always look on the bright side of life.
You are not seeing any of that, are you? Because if so, you better run, hide, or quickly take your Joy with a nice cup of tea.
Fast.
Before we find you and feed it to you.

Note: Owners of the In Development version do not need to purchase the game again.
No thanks. At least, not until the game is knowably settled.

Also, not for 60 dollarydos.

I've played far better games for way less than that, and I follow the Monkey Island ideals, "Never purchase a computer game for more than 20 bucks."
Post edited June 13, 2018 by Darvond
78 AUD? I think I'll be passing on this until it's more reasonably priced at 1/4 or less of that thank you.
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gizmomelb: 78 AUD? I think I'll be passing on this until it's more reasonably priced at 1/4 or less of that thank you.
You may want to pick it up anyway.. given that it shouldn't be available for sale to Australians
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gizmomelb: 78 AUD? I think I'll be passing on this until it's more reasonably priced at 1/4 or less of that thank you.
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Bigs: You may want to pick it up anyway.. given that it shouldn't be available for sale to Australians
just because it's not for sale in AU isn't an excuse to spend #78 in my opinion.. I'm sure it'll be on discount at some stage in the future from one of the many online sellers, including GOG.
oh, Gearbox, you're doing it wrong. you should've provided your customers with their samples of Joy™ first and then make them glad with those delicious Good News about the price, not the other way round =/
Post edited June 12, 2018 by DedIago
No.
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pmcollectorboy: So is this a different game from before they pulled it from the stores?
No, it's the same game.

The Dev would have you believe that they have vastly increased the scope of the game in order to justify the price increase(s) and the delays.

I'll say this, Compulsion Games were the single best communicators of any Kickstarter that I've ever backed. They've always been very upfront with the fact that the in-dev / early access version of the game had very little game play - it was all about testing mechanics, not story. Even before the price increase and GearBox and Microsoft they said this. Only time will tell if the game is good enough though...
Post edited June 12, 2018 by hummer010
HOUSE BISCUIT
WE DO NOT PRE-ORDER
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gizmomelb: 78 AUD? I think I'll be passing on this until it's more reasonably priced at 1/4 or less of that thank you.
59.99 Euro ? listprice ? thats way too much , then again i have seen > then 59.99 EU
i think it was pillars or a similar looking game back then at 89.99 i have even seen digital only games at 119.99 EU or USD
that is ri di cu lous ....

The only games i paid that amount of money for were good game and retail ofcourse with a nice big box and big manual: ( no 3d and or remakes in 3d ofcourse)

I happily paid between 79 and 129 guilders ( thats about the games in EUros divide by 2 and a fraction)
good games i own :

Fallout 1 +2 and tactics 129,- 99,- and 59,-

Red Alert 1 + 2 ( 119,- ( Command & Conquer 59 bucks ) Yuris revenge 69 bucks ( hfl)
Age of Empires 1 (129 gulders)
Baldurs gate and the expansion
Commandos call of duty and behind enemy lines ( I paid only 5 for commandos 2 (thats the one with a change in game engine)

etc etc etc

no way i pay > 25 for a digital game even if i had a gazillion euros or dollars.

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Bigs: You may want to pick it up anyway.. given that it shouldn't be available for sale to Australians
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gizmomelb: just because it's not for sale in AU isn't an excuse to spend #78 in my opinion.. I'm sure it'll be on discount at some stage in the future from one of the many online sellers, including GOG.
is there a region block for AU?

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DedIago: oh, Gearbox, you're doing it wrong. you should've provided your customers with their samples of Joy™ first and then make them glad with those delicious Good News about the price, not the other way round =/
Exactly first offer it as a nice 39 bucks but announce that it will increase once bla bla bla .... and the game will be more bla bla bla ... then sheep will glady buy it

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AlienMind: HOUSE BISCUIT
WE DO NOT PRE-ORDER
we don't ?

i pre - ordered 2 cheap games : a wadjet eye game at 15 euros and i believe i preordered 2 other games also at 15 or 17 euros
never gonna preorder again i guess and never anything > 15 Eu.
Post edited June 13, 2018 by gamesfreak64
I just came in this thread to immaturely gloat about a minor thing:

Back when Compulsion got ready to announce the price hike and consequent reasons for it, some of us on these very same forums engaged in speculation, and I said they had probably struck a deal with a major publisher. As it turned out, I was right on that front. But people were quick to point out where I had been wrong, though: considering the initial support (and even exclusivity) Microsoft had given Compulsion Games, I said I thought that big publisher was... well, Microsoft. "How dare you?! Gearbox is evil, but Microsoft is way worse!"

Microsoft just bought Compulsion, they're now part of Microsoft Studios. Who's laughing, now?
Post edited June 12, 2018 by groze
high rated
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groze: I just came in this thread to immaturely gloat about a minor thing:

Back when Compulsion got ready to announce the price hike and consequent reasons for it, some of us on these very same forums engaged in speculation, and I said they had probably struck a deal with a major publisher. As it turned out, I was right on that front. But people were quick to point out where I had been wrong, though: considering the initial support (and even exclusivity) Microsoft had given Compulsion Games, I said I thought that big publisher was... well, Microsoft. "How dare you?! Gearbox is evil, but Microsoft is way worse!"

Microsoft just bought Compulsion, they're now part of Microsoft Studios. Who's laughing, now?
Well, I might be laughing. I backed this at $30CDN. It's now $59.99USD, so about $78CDN. If they live up to all the kickstarter promises, I'll have a Microsoft game that's both DRM free, and on Linux, for less than half price. That's something worth laughing about.
Post edited June 12, 2018 by hummer010
74 $ ? heh, at first I thought ppl where just fooling around.
$ 74.21 ? Is this price for real?
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hummer010: Well, I might be laughing. I backed this at $30CDN. It's now $59.99USD, so about $78CDN. If they live up to all the kickstarter promises, I'll have a Microsoft game that's both DRM free, and on Linux, for less than half price. That's something worth laughing about.
I guess it depends on what promises you're focusing on. The very initial ones, when they wanted We Happy Few to be just a survival/crafting game set in a dystopian mirror-universe '60s Britain? Or the ones after some people started making comparisons with Bioshock by watching early gameplay footage, making Compulsion go back to the drawing board, since the game had no story focus whatsoever? Which left them with a divided audience of those who want survival and those who want story. My guess is that one of the two is getting (at least) slightly sacrificed in favor of the other.

Plus, if you want both survival AND story, there's already a released game to cover your needs, The Long Dark, which you can get for €25 (€12.60 right now, due to the Summer Sale) or your local equivalent, instead of an absurd €60 (€51, with pre-order discount). For this price tag, they'd better release something on par with Witcher 3, which I highly doubt they will.

As for a Linux build, well, you know how that usually goes, right? Even if they deliver one, you'll probably have to wait a few months, with the highly chance it will end up being a crappy port, and you'll end up playing (or trying to play) the Windows version in WinE. And as for any future Compulsion titles, I hope you realize they'll all be XBox and Windows Store exclusives, with no Linux version at all.


[EDIT] Oh, and, for the record, you don't own a Microsoft game. You own a Gearbox-published game, made by some people who started out indie but decided to sold themselves out to be able to "increase the scope" of their game and "deliver the best possible game to their customers" (your customers wanted an indie game, my dudes). The acquisition by Microsoft is not retroactive, this is still a Gearbox title developed by pre-Microsoft-owned Compulsion.
Post edited June 12, 2018 by groze
While I'm interested of this game, I'm also not THAT interested of it.