Dying Light Delay is Already Impacting its Financial Bottom Line

After Techland announced that the physical copies of it’s hotly anticipated parkour zombie-survival title Dying Light would be delayed in every region outside North America, its consumer base has responded exactly the way one would expect: they’re asking for their money back.

[Double_O_Revan]

Ouch! Not good.

[medman]

Not good at all.

[d4v0333]

Very Bad

[LackTrue4K]

"Muy malo"

[masterfox]

Espantoso

[geddesmond]

My take is let people who want to buy the game on release pay for an overpriced download version they can never trade in, so if the game is buggy or crap we get all there money. Thats what the publish might be thinking.

Its not Techlands fault. Just as well I've been planning on picking this up in a couple months anyway. Maybe the price will reduce online by then.

[jocomat9]

about your overpriced comment i actually buy digitally cause you get 2copies for the price of one. i share with my brother so i only pay 30bucks for my new releases. so if the game buggy or bad its just thirty bucks to me so o well.

[Lord_Sloth]

^ This. I share with my brother so we can game together.

[geddesmond]

@below

Yeah its actually 70 euros in Europe and thats good for you. Not everyone can game share or wants to.

[JonnyBigBoss]

It's difficult to hate on a delay when so many games are arriving well before they are ready.

[Lon3wolf]

Except the game is ready, the delay is for physical copies only in certain countries, it's also a month delay just about, not good really. I am just glad I have a digital copy pre-ordered which will release on the proper release date.

[LemyAtom]

The delay has nothing to do with whether or not the game is ready as it has already gone gold. The delay is a publisher issue and has nothing to do with Techland.

[Meltic]

the game it self is ready its just the disks.

[FullmetalRoyale]

So excited for Tuesday!

[Emrage]

Why are they doing this? Haven't they learned anything from last year.

[zielocz3k]

looks like my Premium Edition is ready ^^

[tigertron]

If this comes out at the same time as The Order 1886 then they can kiss a launch sale goodbye. I will get it when it hits the bargain bin or get it pre-owned.

[MilkMan]

Why is Warner doing this?
Look, im not one for pre-orders. But if you're a fan then don't abandon the devs. This hurts them. Meanwhile the publisher sits back and starts to point fingers at everyone but themselves.

Stick with them and let their hardwork speak for itself.

That being said FUQ A PRE-ORDER!

[SaveFerris]

I can see why some gamers are cancelling pre-orders and Techland have got to be worried. I suppose might be able to get compensation from the companies responsible for distribution, but they may never get the money back from some of those cancelling.

[DanielEndurance]

Still hate that this game is referred to as a PARKOUR zombie survival game... You climb up onto ledges and can roll when you hit the ground. If we're going to call that out as being PARKOUR then we need to refer to Assassin's Creed as a parkour assassin game from now on.

[fanboysmackdown]

Seems to be the order of the day........these days. I feel for Techland.

[fatboy03]

this game smells like a 3day old fish

[Julion0715]

Hold on so all physical copies are delayed or jus certain countries?

[Lon3wolf]

Everywhere but North America is delayed.

[Julion0715]

Thanks for the reply bro

[Dan_scruggs]

Sounds like a bunch of entitled gamer children to me. 10 day delay. IT MIGHT AS WELL NEVER EXIST THEN!

[Bathyj]

Such a 1st world problem. Its no wonder the mainstream still thinks games are just for kids when we keep acting like it.

As for me, I was excited for this game, and I still am. 10 days hasnt changed that. If anything I will have time to digest a few reviews.

[LamerTamer]

And this is why games are rushed out and broken. If a publisher should delay a game because it is a mess they won't as gamers will go mental and demand refunds.

While I know this is a different case, gamer impatience is partially to blame for glitchy junk being released. It just encourages them to release in whatever state it is in by the date, then finish later with loads of patches later.

[Zefros]

Well i got a solution: go cancel your pre order and buy the game digital instead like i did. Not only will i get the game on release, but i will get the game 3 days earlier than expected because i live in europe and the original date was january 30th, now i get it 27th!

[Madderz]

That's exactly what i did.

I don't buy digital but i've had my eye on this game for a while. I don't see this as a ploy to get more money or anything.Just a cock up by the publisher.

I wanna play the game when it releases so an extra £5 isn't that big a deal and i'll just buy the disk version for cheap to add to my collection.

We should be supporting and empathizing with Techland, i'm sure they didn't want this to happen!

Oh and just for the record the date on the store was the 27th but it has changed to the 28th (for me at least in the UK)

[DafunkyRebel]

Its because the game takes place in the Middle East and you end up killing zombie Muslims or something and because of what happened in France they don't want it to make things worst so they have to delay it

[Reefskye]

This was fabricated shit from Facebook, some Muslim toke two screenshots of a zombie in a headscarf and screamed american's trying brain wash people in to being ok with killing muslim women. The game is set in south America in a fictional city in Brazil, The city it's self has been inspired from a number of cities in the world, Istanbul, a polish city and somewhere else I cant think of right now. It has been delayed in France because of what happened there.

[Ashunderfire86]

They should at least release be the zombie DLC for free to all. It will calm down those upset gamers.

[PersonMan]

Good thing I'm in America!

[MetroidFREAK21]

I love having a collection as much as the next person, but this is why I went digital this generation of consoles. All 15 of my Xbox One games are digital. Because of something like this happened to any of my games, I'd still be able to play the games I want to play.

[LamerTamer]

Just hope your HDD never fails (how long would it take to re-download 15 or more full games? ouch!). Hope you never want to sell or trade a game, and hope the games remain on the servers forever so you are never locked out of your own stuff. While convienient sometimes, the idea of a third party having total control (DRM) of "my" game library and how, when and where I can use it is not worth it to me.

[ShottyGibs]

I can download to my hard drive faster than I can backup to USB 3. Thought I'd just brag about that.

[Maxor]

Sorry to say this but physical media is for peasants. I hate them. The entire purpose of owning a console is the ease of access to my games. When I have to swap disks like I'm living in 2003 then I no longer feel like I own a nextgen product. We're not playing offline in our PS2 anymore for fuck's sake. I have a friend list, and those friends who are online plays different games. So the need to swap disks when I play with them in Diablo 3, Battlefield 4, GTA, Dragon Age, and Farcry is a HUGE pain in the ass!!

I'm changing more disks per session now with my PS4 than I ever did with my PS2. Sometimes at the end of the day I could have 3-6 different disks laying on my coffee table. With that, I'm done with physical from here on out. If a game is online, I'm going digital.

[Madderz]

@Maxor

:O

Shame on you!!

Never leave your discs out of the boxes! That's console rules 101.

I actually die a little inside every time my little brother cba to find the case for the disc he took out so he just puts the wrong disc in the wrong case.

*shudder*

[MetroidFREAK21]

They are on an external hard drive... I just plug and play

[Hardcore_gamerxbox]

I thougt you won't get charged till your game get dispatch to you you still can get the digital version of the game

[JonnyBigBoss]

I want this game to be good. Please be good!