Worried the impending arrival of $80 games might price you out of your favourite hobby? Well if Borderlands 4 follows s…
  • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    7 minutes ago

    Dead Island 2 is free on Epic currently, and probably more fun than Borderlands 4; BL 3 wasn’t written well, and i assume the same for BL 4. A shame, BL2 is one of my most played FPS

  • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    35 minutes ago

    Since I didn’t enjoy the handsome collection I wouldn’t buy it at any price, but even for games I do enjoy I wait until they are on sale preferably with the DLCs included

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    The trailer for the new borderlands looked like the most soulless, boring cash grab. Anyone put much time into it yet?

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    6 hours 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 house 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.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Listen, I unironically love being woke. Accessibility for impairments? Human rights? Equity? Regulations standing in the way of greed? Overrepresentation of minority demographics? Fuck yes to all of that shit. Hell’s Yeah.

    But the direction of these games have been poor for a lot of reasons. It doesn’t feel woke, really, it feels like they want us to believe they aren’t Handsome Jack’s corporate studio goons like they are.

  • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    I can barely justify 50€ for a massive game like Baldur’s Gate 3. I’d never pay that much for any other game that is not on this scale. But 80 bucks? The fuck are they thinking?

    • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      They don’t have any dlc lined up yet so not being to sell you empty promises on top of a normal game price is really tugging at Randy’s purse strings.

      /s

  • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Yeah, Randy, I find a way to make it happen, it’s called Xbox sale. That’s how I bought Borderlands 3. Which I haven’t played yet. And don’t get me wrong, Randy, Borderlands 2 is one of the most fun games I’ve played, I’m definitely a real fan! I’m definitely a video game enthusiast, I have a ginormous backlog on both Xbox and Steam.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      11 hours ago

      Seriously, why do they let him talk? The man is a walking PR disaster.

      Then again, we should all be asking how the hell he’s not in jail for possession of child porn, so I guess this is a pretty minor thing in comparison.

  • Elkot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    I won’t be buying any game that costs $80 not when I have a mountain of games in my Steam Library, many of which are getting played thanks to the Steam Deck and if that’s not enough I have Game Pass too so why the hell would I even consider paying $80

  • simonced@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    12 hours ago

    Also, let’s not forget the new EULA regarding shift accountsAlso, he made his 'fans" wait while bl3 was only available on the epic store. Fuck this dude, I am done with the franchise.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      12 hours ago

      How is the game being available make people wait? Did PC get the release before consoles?

      • simonced@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        Steam customers are out of the loop. We could access the game through epic store, but it’s a separate account, and not everybody has/want one. Hence the wait to release on Steam.

      • Little8Lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        For small indies it makes sense to publish on the pc epic game store a year earlier to get fundet for simply releasing the game there earlier.
        A lot of smaller indies used that time as a kind of early access and got later super popular on steam, the main pc game store.

        But for a big studio to do something like this is scummy
        They already have a playerbase and a big budget
        I dont even know if payment was involved but there is no other reason i can think of that explains this

  • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    Remember how Randy Pitchford funneled money that was supposed to go to Aliens: Colonial Marines into Borderlands 2 (and Duke Nukem Forever lol)

    Callender’s suit alleges that Pitchford “breached his fiduciary duties by exploiting Gearbox employees and property to fund Pitchford’s private cravings,” and one portion of the suit makes two sensational accusations about Pitchford’s behavior: that he accidentally left a selection of “underage” pornography on a USB stick at a restaurant, and that he used his company’s money to host parties where “adult men have reportedly exposed themselves to minors, to the amusement of Pitchford.”

    How the fuck do you leave a USB stick full of child abuse material at a fucking Medieval Times and get away with it?

      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        11·
        7 hours ago

        Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?

        I think the more apt description would be that when you’re got something that makes other people money, then you will be protected. When that ends you’re fair game.

        I also agree that the more money you have the better defence you can get, but I don’t believe laws only apply to the poor. That’s hyperbole.