Compulsion Games has announced that the full release of We Happy Few has been delayed from April to Summer 2018. Furthermore, the team is now offering unconditional refunds to all players that were disappointed by the Early Access content of the game.
As Compulsion Games stated:
“We have also received feedback that some Steam players felt the new pre-purchase asking price didn’t mesh well with the game being categorized as Early Access. Given all the content we have yet to reveal to the public, we can see their point. That being said, we’ve done a huge amount of work and the scope of the game is substantially increasing over what’s there right now, which is a very unusual situation for Early Access games, especially as we have a retail release on the way. What you guys see right now is definitely not what we see internally.
So, we find ourselves caught between Early Access (where it’s important to have a price that reflects the current game) and the eventual release of the full game with increased scope (which we believe reflects a traditional retail game). We had anticipated that Steam players would be okay with pre-purchase still granting early access, but since we won’t be offering any additional early access updates beyond August’s “Life in Technicolour”, we think having this labeled Early Access and charging the price of a larger game caused more confusion than we had hoped.”
As such, the team is now offering refunds for all players who purchased on Steam, past and present, regardless of playtime. Moreover, the team will remove the “Buy” button from the game’s Steam store page.
“We don’t want new players to have the same frustration, so we’re temporarily disabling the option to buy on Steam, and will re-enable the buy button once we’re closer to launch when more info and materials on the game will have been released, giving players more clarity on what they can expect in the full version of We Happy Few.”
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
I have to be honest here, when I first saw this it really peaked my interest. But then I got to try it annnnd it’s a survival game…….. I’m really up to here (I got my hand raised way above my head…..I did…. scouts honor….. still figuring out which scout though…) with survival games.
In my view it feels like a real waste of amazing, promising talent. Lucky for them, my opinion has little to no impact in their game 😀
They need to cut the story out, make it an online competitive multiplayer shooter with a battle royale mode and add an extensive lootbox microtransaction system. Profit.
true PUBG sucks The only reason why its still popular its becasue streamers and asian market play it
how come a game like Super Mario Odyssey have less viewers than PUBG on twitch ….. beats the hell out of me.
Because Super Mario Odyssey doesn’t have a Battle Royale mode where you can viciously murder Goombas with an SMG. Nintendo needs to get with the times.
So all’s going predictably ‘well’ with this once promising game since Guillaume Provost reportedly helped sell the publishing rights to his friend Randy Pitchford at Gearbox Software!
Anyone who has been following their Steam page weekly updates, shouldn’t be surprised about the delay.
Anyone who has been following their Steam page weekly updates, shouldn’t be surprised about the delay.
Offering unconditional refunds? Super classy.
One needs to damn near have a lawyer send a letter to get a refund from that POS Chirs Roberts.
I have to be honest here, when I first saw this it really peaked my interest. But then I got to try it annnnd it’s a survival game…….. I’m really up to here (I got my hand raised way above my head…..I did…. scouts honor….. still figuring out which scout though…) with survival games. In my view it feels like a real waste of amazing, promising talent