Gearbox concern thread

Why the price increase?

Why the price increase during Early Access?

Why DLC/Season Pass?

Why Gearbox?

Note: Updated questions and answers here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/320240/discussions/0/1496741765123851173/ Hi everyone,Since we made our announcement about increasing the scope of the game, coming to retail, and partnering with Gearbox, we’ve had a large number of people come into the forum to protest against Gearbox specifically. This is making it difficult to talk about the game itself with our community (to improve the game with feedback as we always do), so we are condensing all feedback into this single thread.From now on, we’ll be closing all Gearbox threads and redirecting people here. This will remain stickied and can be a centralised place to give your feedback. We’re also adding a bunch of questions and answers, as many people voicing their concern aren’t aware of the full story.In the meantime, please keep it civil and remember that everyone here (including people from Gearbox) is a human being.First, here is our announcement blog post. It answers everything, but we’ll summarise here for you as well. http://compulsiongames.com/en/news/138/we-are-coming-to-xbox-one-pc-and-ps4-on-april-13-2018! Because we reinvested in the game and in the studio. We decided to expand, to hire some of the best people in the industry, to bring the story to a new level of depth and sophistication. To make We Happy Few the best game it can be. You might be more comfortable paying this price for a Ubisoft game because of the name, but we’ve put a lot of work in our game over the past 3 years and we are proud of it. We have over 30,000 lines of dialogues, our animations are all hand made and the soundtrack is made by very cool bands specifically for the game.If you’re not sure it’s worth the price, please wait for reviews.We have no alternative. As the game is coming to retail, the price must be consistent across all platform. The Early Access is effectively a pre-order at this point, except that you can play the Early Access version of the game.If we were to close the Early Access then we wouldn’t be able to support our current players.We explain this more fully in the blog post, butDLC is a good way to keep working on a game after it is finished and to use our team efficiently. With that said:- Our team will not work on DLC until their work on the main game is complete.- DLC allows us to have some fun and create some wacky♥♥♥♥♥♥that is not canon to the main game, so expect a couple of surprises.You can see that none of the reasons above are Gearbox specific. Everything here is because of the increase in scope and move to retail.The folks at Gearbox Publishing are a new team created a year ago. They’ve brought Homeworld, the Bulletstorm remaster, and Fortnite (with Epic) to retail. Randy is not involved day to day with the publishing team.They’re a good team who care a lot about the game and our team. They’re doing their best. If you guys want to direct your anger and frustration with them, you can do it here. Please keep in mind that we (Compulsion Games) look after this forum, so if you’d prefer to complain to them directly, you’ll need to do that elsewhere.