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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 143 points 2 weeks 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

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Kaldo@fedia.io 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean 50% off and still being $40 still sounds like a terrible deal

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[–] obelix@lemmy.world 104 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

You wouldn't download a shit to give.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

He's too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.

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[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 77 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 weeks ago

Hi Randy, fuck off lol

[–] leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 weeks 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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[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
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[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 40 points 2 weeks ago

I can make it happen? Okeydokey! 🏴‍☠️

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] xiii@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] damdy@lemm.ee 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I'll find a way alright.

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks 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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[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago

Find a way?

Piracy is a way. Thanks for the tip.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

put it on my wish list

buy it for $15 in a year

yawn

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[–] EarWorm@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL real Borderlands fans are pirates.

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[–] CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

TIL a lot of people aren’t real fans.

[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I knew Randy would fuck up the game somehow.

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[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Yermaw@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago

Real fans "Find a Way" Yarr.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like fitgirl will be getting my business instead

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[–] 3migo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Jaeger86@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)
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[–] scbasteve7@lemm.ee 17 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I'll fucking pirate it LMAO

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn’t pay anywhere near $80 for Borderlands 1-3+ all the DLC…. So um. No. I’m in no hurry.

This isn’t all the games but it goes on for like another 2 screens worth for all the DLC…

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[–] detun3d@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago

Not a fan. Borderlands 3 made it happen.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Guess I'm not a real fan 🤷‍♂️

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck you, I'm not paying $80 for a game so an executive can get a new Porsche.

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks 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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[–] eronth@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Or we'll boycott you shit ass companies

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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