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[–] 142 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?

Maybe, or maybe I'll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    When $40 is half price, I will generally pass as if it were $80. There is a glut of amazing content out there for $40 or less, and much of it is truly inspired indie work. When your half-price game is competing with great full-price indie titles, I will continue to ignore your overpriced corporate muck.

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    [–] 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Aw, he’s telling people to pirate it. What a thoughtful guy.

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    [–] 83 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If Randy Pitchford was a real CEO he would find a way to make $60 games

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Randy pitchford?

    THAT Randy Pitchford? The Randy Pitchford that, because he loves magic tricks, downloaded himself some squirt porn (sfw youtube link to moistcritical) on the same thumb drive as company secrets, and then left it at a Medieval Times? The same Randy that grabbed the Claptrap VA by the junk because he was tired of voicing Claptrap for free and had the audacity to ask to be paid so Pitchford tried to intimidate him? The same Randy Pitchford that somehow "lost" millions dollars of Segas money causing Colonial marines to bomb so that they could fund Borderlands 2 and Duke Nukem Forever He's also not above putting journalists who bad mouth him in his games as petty revenge.

    Fuck that guy. Fuck anything he says.

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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago

    Hi Randy, fuck off lol

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Too much games to play on the market to justify the urgency to buy it at release for 80 bucks. they now compete with free to play, gamepass, Indy games, piracy, and tons of past games with lower cost.

    The fomo of newly released games is low when most games are released in shitty state and need 1/2 months of patches/fixes and that's not even taking in consideration that the best experience is when all the dlcs are released and make the game finally complete.

    The AAA industry is fucked. In a world where quality games are released each weeks they are often but even the best way to have fun with our limited time, like tepid Ubisoft games...

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I found a way already, it's called patience. Works well for basically any non nintendo game.

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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    I can make it happen? Okeydokey! 🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Guess I'm not a real fan. Fuck you Randy. He's such a cunt.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    While working on Borderlands 3, the team was severely underpaid. People started quitting, so Randy promised them an “unprecedented company profit-sharing bonus model.” That never got paid—he blamed “higher-than-anticipated development costs and sales not meeting projections.” Borderlands 3 went GOTY, a few dozens millions copies sold. Randy secured a $12M executive bonus for himself. When staff expressed dissatisfaction, Pitchford told them they were free to quit. This was in the middle of the pandemic, and the job market was absolute crap.

    https://mcvuk.com/business-news/borderlands-3-developer-gearbox-accused-of-reneging-on-staff-bonuses/

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    Oh I'll find a way alright.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't wait to play it...in 2035 summer sale. Maybe I'll even get bored in under 2 hours and get the instant refund.

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    [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You'd think he'd be better media trained by now. But no, here goes the foot in the mouth.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    put it on my wish list

    buy it for $15 in a year

    yawn

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Find a way?

    Piracy is a way. Thanks for the tip.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    TIL real Borderlands fans are pirates.

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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago*

    TIL a lot of people aren’t real fans.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Real fans "Find a Way" Yarr.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I knew Randy would fuck up the game somehow.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I'm not a huge fan of Borderlands. I like the stories. But I don't like the loot goblining. Constant hunt for ever higher damage numbers.

    There's only 1 company I'll pay $80 for a new game. And that is Ryu Ga Gotoku. Cuz they don't miss. No bad half finished launches. No bad games. Every game is a masterclass in Peak.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm the opposite, I don't give a monkeys about the story but I like the loot goblining.

    That said a borderlands came on the gamepass the other week and I was so excited to lure my boy into co-op with me for the first time in ages. It wouldn't stop crashing. I googled it to see if they were aware and all I could find was the company sucking it's own dick about having already released the final patch to stop it crashing so many times. I wouldn't say I'm thrilled about the idea of dropping $80 on a day one release.

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, the way to make it happen is adding it to my wishlist and waiting for the price to drop to at least $40.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago*

    Borderlands isn't that good, Randy. Is anyone that much of a fan of a genetic shooter who's only distinguishing feature was the art style and the number of guns? (which I found got tiresome pretty quickly.) I played and enjoyed the first one, but from what I've played of 2 and the Pre-sequel, it was just more of the same so I haven't bothered since.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Randy's a twat. I'll pick that shit up for $20 next Christmas

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I've been a big Borderlands fan for 10+ years. I played through the first one multiple times and loved it. My wife and I bonded over BL1 when we first started dating.

    Was super excited for BL2, and have played it many times throughout the years.

    But the pre-sequel was a let down, and BL3 felt soulless and lacked the same spark as BL2.

    Tiny Tina Wonderlands was great, and felt like a return to what made BL2 so fun.

    All that to say, I don't have high hopes for BL4, nor will I be paying $80 for it. It just feels like they're coasting off the brand name at this point and trying to exploit longtime BL players like myself.

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    [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looks like fitgirl will be getting my business instead

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, I'll fucking pirate it LMAO

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (8 children)
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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Not a fan. Borderlands 3 made it happen.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Guess I'm not a real fan 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Real fan?

    Bitch please. We've put up with your crap for so long and we still play it....

    Get out of here with that horse shit. Get fucked. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. At best, I'll wait for a sale, at worst, I'm never playing your goddamned franchise again because you've run it into the ground with enshittification.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    I'm OK with not being a "real fan".

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?

    Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.

    Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience and hype of a new launch...

    I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn't care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.

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    Well guess I ain’t a massive fan then. Shame

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And my way is, wait a few years for the deluxe edition to come out on sale.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Or we'll boycott you shit ass companies

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Lmao guess I’m not a real fan then!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I guess me and my several thousand borderlands hours are not a real fan then? The games weren't worth $80 even when they came with goodies. They're not worth $80 without the goodies. I'll just wait for a sale.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm absolutely ready to pay 80$ for a game. But then I don't want to see scummy shit like lootboxes or advanced access in it. If I pay 80$ I expect to see a game release that isn't half-baked and has to get fixed with hotfixes and patches over the next two months but that just works out of the box and that doesn't try to get me to spend even more money on it. That also includes no content that they've already produced being held back for DLCs.

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