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Posted October 28, 2021
Discover a dark fantasy reimagining of the Wild West where lawmen and gunslingers share the frontier with fantastical creatures. Weird West is now available for pre-order on GOG.COM!

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Posted March 31, 2022
Sad to hear about the delay, I dont mind that much though, still have games to play, a month ain't that much, hopefully the delay was due to technical/QA problems and not publisher BS, afaik devolver is pretty cool with GOG.
Posted March 31, 2022
Yup, looks like another case of a dumbo publisher (or shareholders, it's all the same) that doesn't want their game to be DRM-free on release, as if that was gonna stop the steam copy from getting cracked in record time lol.

That, or good old GOG messing up due to bad communication, one way or another, the drought of any exciting release continues!
Posted March 31, 2022
As I feared then... Devolver has always been bad with its support on GOG, but at least it used to release their games on day one, now it's gotten worse at that too.

I hope that GOG think of a way to give the possibility to receive the bonus pre-orer for those who couldn't pre-order the game, because technically there was still time but they prevented it blocking the pre-orders in advance.
Posted March 31, 2022
Interesting, I wasn't even aware that the game couldn't be pre-ordered anymore.

According to GOGDB, pre-orders were disabled on 28 March 2022 - on Monday this week. That suggests GOG must've known that they wouldn't be releasing the game on global release day here, but it took them until today (release day) to send out the e-mail to notify people who had already pre-ordered.

Honestly, at this point, all I want is an explanation for what happened here.



EDIT: On the Weird West Discord, Julien Roby (Exec Producer) was asked about the release date yesterday and he said this:

"Same time and day for all platforms (except GoG which is later in April cause... its not done yet :P)"

So they're keeping quiet about the exact reasons for this delay as well.
Post edited March 31, 2022 by Exsurgent
Posted March 31, 2022
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Exsurgent: "Same time and day for all platforms (except GoG which is later in April cause... its not done yet :P)"
LOL. As much as we all love GOG, we have to accept that Steam makes up such a vast majority of sales that we don't even rate bothering to get it ready the same day.
Posted March 31, 2022
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kai2: Love Western games, but...

... just not feeling this one.

Would have more interest in turn-based Hard West 2.
The game might be fine but I would rather have more straight westerns rather than weird/horror/steampunk/etc.-westerns.
Posted March 31, 2022
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Seems like the game is pretty bad. Pretty much everybody comments how badly written and disjointed the overall plot is, how the game isn't creative and just follows the same old gameplay elements tons of other such games have, the stealth is too basic and boring, too many mines and underground lairs that pretty much all look the same and of course a massive load of woke.

Disappointing to say the least but that it would be a boring and uncreative was probably obvious from the get go. "Weird West" - couldn't they have come up with a better title?
Posted April 01, 2022
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ShadowAngel.207: Seems like the game is pretty bad. Pretty much everybody comments how badly written and disjointed the overall plot is, how the game isn't creative and just follows the same old gameplay elements tons of other such games have, the stealth is too basic and boring, too many mines and underground lairs that pretty much all look the same and of course a massive load of woke.

Disappointing to say the least but that it would be a boring and uncreative was probably obvious from the get go. "Weird West" - couldn't they have come up with a better title?
The majority of reviews are north of positive, also I love the game
Posted April 01, 2022
Good reviews made me curious for this game ... the gog-exclusive delay without explanation will certainly erase that curiousity... other publisher will surely know better how to get my money ;)
Post edited April 01, 2022 by Schlaumayr
Posted April 01, 2022
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So GOG signed a contract to sell preorders that allowed Devolver to pull out at the last minute?
Posted April 02, 2022
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Can't wait for Monday to roll around so GOG can explain how this happened, and why they haven't said anything about it.

Any bets on whether GOG refunds the preorders immediately, or makes people ask, and then wait for 2 or 3 months?
Posted April 02, 2022
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richlind33: Can't wait for Monday to roll around so GOG can explain how this happened, and why they haven't said anything about it.

Any bets on whether GOG refunds the preorders immediately, or makes people ask, and then wait for 2 or 3 months?
Ironic if thats the case given while I don't use Steam-except for games that odds are won't show up here do to specific companies views on drm-free factors- Is the fact Steam dealt with a similar problem when expic game store started basically swooping in last minute to get devs and studio's to iether not release a game on steam or do it after a huge delay .. Which had got dealt with after afew too many pulling that by apparently having new contract agreement terms made to handle that problem.. which if devs/studio's start doing something sorta similar.. in pulling out on game releases even after having pre-orders done it will show Gog doesn't learn from examples elsewhere to made more firm contracts to prevent pulling out on game releases.. Atleast if pre-orders are offered that is
Post edited April 02, 2022 by BanditKeith2
Posted April 02, 2022
I get why some people might get upset about the GOG build being delayed, but isn't that the case for a lot of other titles that eventually end up on GOG a fair amount of time after their initial release on other platforms anyway?

As for the reason of the delay - I couldn't care less. What's the benefit of knowing that it was delayed because the publisher or the developer got cold feet at the last minute, fearing that a DRM-free release would hurt sales in the first couple weeks (and despite the fact that cracked scene-releases hit the high waters at more or less the exact time of the official release) or if it was delayed for purely technical complications/reasons.
All of that is nothing new or unprecedented and, as I was saying happens all the time with other titles as well.

I've got it pre-ordered too and don't have any intentions of cancelling just because the release here on GOG has been delayed by a couple of weeks, for whatever reason. Didn't even need to throw in the keys for the Desperados games or the Weird West soundtrack for free, as far as I'm concerned, especially not as an apology for something that as it looks was beyond GOG's control and is entirely on Devolver/WolfEye Studios.
Posted April 02, 2022
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CMiq: I get why some people might get upset about the GOG build being delayed, but isn't that the case for a lot of other titles that eventually end up on GOG a fair amount of time after their initial release on other platforms anyway?

As for the reason of the delay - I couldn't care less. What's the benefit of knowing that it was delayed because the publisher or the developer got cold feet at the last minute, fearing that a DRM-free release would hurt sales in the first couple weeks (and despite the fact that cracked scene-releases hit the high waters at more or less the exact time of the official release) or if it was delayed for purely technical complications/reasons.
All of that is nothing new or unprecedented and, as I was saying happens all the time with other titles as well.

I've got it pre-ordered too and don't have any intentions of cancelling just because the release here on GOG has been delayed by a couple of weeks, for whatever reason. Didn't even need to throw in the keys for the Desperados games or the Weird West soundtrack for free, as far as I'm concerned, especially not as an apology for something that as it looks was beyond GOG's control and is entirely on Devolver/WolfEye Studios.
I didn't pre-order it(I very rarely break my no pre-order rule last time was destory all humans 1 remake pre-order and that was just because of a old thought dead rp returning wanting it to get good enough sales to be revibed truly) but you seem to be missing the bigger picture here .. Its the principle of the concept and worse Devolver has now done this twice once with shadow warriors 3 albeit the Deluxe version and again with this game it shows iether they no longer actually care about Gog orquality control BS

Plus if this is allowed to keep up we might end up in a similar Steam BS scenerio like what happened afew years ago till contracts was redone in agreements to not pull such BS pre-ordering or lack of a better term'' Advertising for another platform'' thing till the last minute so whichever way one looks at it.. this is a bad look
Posted April 02, 2022
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CMiq: I get why some people might get upset about the GOG build being delayed, but isn't that the case for a lot of other titles that eventually end up on GOG a fair amount of time after their initial release on other platforms anyway?

As for the reason of the delay - I couldn't care less. What's the benefit of knowing that it was delayed because the publisher or the developer got cold feet at the last minute, fearing that a DRM-free release would hurt sales in the first couple weeks (and despite the fact that cracked scene-releases hit the high waters at more or less the exact time of the official release) or if it was delayed for purely technical complications/reasons.
All of that is nothing new or unprecedented and, as I was saying happens all the time with other titles as well.

I've got it pre-ordered too and don't have any intentions of cancelling just because the release here on GOG has been delayed by a couple of weeks, for whatever reason. Didn't even need to throw in the keys for the Desperados games or the Weird West soundtrack for free, as far as I'm concerned, especially not as an apology for something that as it looks was beyond GOG's control and is entirely on Devolver/WolfEye Studios.
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