Watch this video; it puts forth most of the reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ZcRi5Y8-M


TL:DR Contrast was awsome; it was short and fun.
Gearbox is untrustrustworthy and have influenced We happy Few to be overpriced and generally crap in the other associated areas.

Hey Manywhelps,

first, thank you for being active here and for taking your time to respond to even negative posts.

I'm too at the no-buy camp, at until I find out if the game's worth MY money (broke ass student here) and I didn't want to jump on board with 30 bucks just because a price increase was announce.

I would like to know why exactly the price was increased? In your Weekly Journal you said: "For the first people [with many questions), if you could please read our blog post, it answers a huge number of your questions". Unfortunately it doesn't answered this question.

When are going to elaborate on this?

Well since Gearbox doesn't really support GOG I'm wondering if the game will be pulled from the store.

Still feel you've made a big mistake on raising the PC price to match that of consoles.

While on any given platform the Digital price must match its physical release, price between platforms does not have to be the same.

Historically PC games on the whole were sold cheaper that their console counterparts, simply because of the additional costs incurred for selling on console. Though after reading up on the current situation some publishers have started to sell PC games at a higher margin to counter the lower sales volume of their PC versions.

Given the PS4 release is a recent development, the PC was originally your primary audience?

Here you can see that still most multiplatform releases are still cheaper on PC, though a few are the same or even more expensive on PC. More confusing is your are priced higher than major AAA releases such as Call of Duty: WWII and Wolfenstein 2.

http://www.game.co.uk/en/games/coming-soon/?contentOnly=&inStockOnly=false&listerOnly=true&pageSize=48&sortBy=NAME_ASC&pageNumber=1

I have to be 100% honest, I wouldn't pay £60 for ANY game on the PC and on a console it would be a very considered purchase. Had I not seen this game until now (and thus not bought via In Dev) I would not be buying it until there was a hefty sale.

The thing is your course is set now, all I can do is wish you luck.

Okay, thanks! I haven't read this in particular as an answer until now. Yes, that's the reason why I never ever bought any console game for 69,99 or even 59,99. I always waited for a used copy that cost 40 bucks tops. As for PC games—good old times with 44,99 or 49,99 tops for a new game—I bought them for full price more often. I wouldn't dare to buy a PC game for 59,99 because I don't see any value, over past games that cost 49,99, that would justify the general price increase.

If there was one thing in the world that was stable in price over decades it was video games. Even after my country got a new currency in 2001, the converted price was still the same.

Furthermore the rapid increase in sale discounts, sale frequencies and market price scimming of the industry doesn't help the fact many will just wait for a sale. To be fair, publishers and developers have the numbers. If they make a good cut this way and if they actually benefit from this price policy in long term, I guess everyone's fine. Many will buy for (the higher) full price, many at a hefty discount—mabye that walk on a tightrope works out.

The other notable thing with physical media, other than a viable second hand market, is depreciation. In 6 months after release you will pick up a new console copy for £40, while it will still be £60 on PC (except for 2 weeks when its on sale)

Here's some food for thought.

There is a very good reason that console digital and Any PC game that is bound to a distribution system (such as Steam or GoG) should be significantly cheaper than physical console.

If you spend $60 on a physical console game it still has a value, outside of your enjoyment of the game, after purchase. Buy a $60 game, get it home its worth $50, take the shrink wrap off and its worth $40. A few weeks later after you've completed the game its worth $30. 6 months later its worth $20. And so on.

If you spend $60 on any kind of digital game it has zero value, outside of your enjoyment of the game, after purchase. Buy a $60 and the second its bound to your GoG, Steam, Xboxe Live or PSN account it is worthless. You can't resell it. It is why XBox players fought and beat MS over their initial plans to bind games to accounts, it is why digital purchases on consoles still remain the minority.

Digital ownership, is a huge issue for me.
Commercial and consumer software work differently, with consumers being unfairly restricted. If business were forced to use their software via a steam like service, said service would have been sued into oblivion. Imaging not being able to use MS Word while the guy next to you uses Photoshop, just because the software was bought via the same business account. Imagine having to re-buy thousands of dollars of software when you buy or merge with another company because you can't transfer the licenses.

I left Steam because of their insanely unfair usage policies. Why on earth can't my daughter play CIV5 while I play a completely different game.

While GoG does not and cannot force such restrictions of usage, I still have no digital ownership.
I still can't transfer ownership my PC games. I get hit by the proverbial Bus tomorrow and my next of kin have absolutely no right to the thousands of pounds worth of games in my GoG library.

Let me stop you there. This game as of yet has moderate quality and a fairly narrow scope. You have PROMISED more, but please don't act like you've delivered. have bought this game twice (and refunded once already) based on the promises. But not a lot has been delivered. Fair enough, you're In Dev (or Early Access) but I hate when people sell on what they want a game to be rather than what it is. For example, Daggerfall was one of the biggest, most in-depth games ever, and it was a fraction of what the devs wanted it to be in the end.

I don't dislike you guys, I just can't fathom why the price increased with so little to show for it overall. Yes, the game has come a long way. It's almost worth the $30 you were charging for it. You'll have a hard time convincing me that this game will be of sufficient breadth/scope/quality to justify this whole situation. Once you complained about being compared to the Witcher 3. Well, you've got a AAA game now. It's only fair to compare it to excellent AAA releases like Call of Duty, Skyrim, and Witcher 3. You want to wear the big boy pants, you place yourself in the big boy league. Now your game will be compared to the likes of Resident Evil VII for quality and story telling, or the Witcher for the open world. Where as before people would compare your title to the similar "Don't Starve" now they'll compare it to far bigger and more expensive projects that have AAA budgets. Or they'll compare it to indy titles like Hellblade and laugh at you for charging twice as much for your game (unless your game delivers on your hype.... Can it?)

So thank you for taking our abuse. We do it because we want to see this project succeed. We love the idea of the game. I WANT to like it. But at the current pricepoint, you'll have to deliver a LOT more than promises.