Is anyone really excited for borderlands anymore? Feel like 2 of the last 3 were pretty mid.
I’ll enjoy buying it in 5 years during a Steam sale.
There’s an overabundance of games out there. I can wait.
But is it any good? Just because the budget is higher doesn’t mean it’s good. I didn’t like the story and writing of 3 but the rest of the game I enjoyed. I’m kinda expecting the same, hopefully. Every AAA release somehow gets worse every year tho
I could look past the story and enjoy the gameplay. But the game itself still sucked and was very empty. A few months after launch they did an event where each week a different planet had a lot event and you could target items. 3 of the planets only had one or two areas to even farm decent numbers. Most of the game is empty.
Combine that with my own personal issue with Gearbox removing the official forums, (which had years of builds and information going back to BL1) and a certain YouTuber stealing content and using modded weapons and then denying it. I have no interest in BL4.
The old gearbox is dead. Even watching the video it just looks like reused skills. Oh look another character that puts enemies into floating balls, how original.
Ok…… then do borderlands 1. That’s fine.
“Initial sales fall short of predictions”
At this point i appreciate the heads up from all the studios. Makes not buying the games much easier if you don’t even get on the hype train.
I feel like we keep seeing this headline. “AAA studio says current prices can’t support current budgets”
I almost never buy games at $60. I buy everything on sale, and there are constantly sales and way more games than I can play. They can charge whatever they want, I personally will be paying less.
Will the market bear $80 games? Maybe. I feel like a better strategy would be to reign in scope and budget and sell games at prices most people can afford. But who knows?
Yeah, and half the time I prefer the games that were originally $20-$40 MSRP that I bought 50% off.
Yeah, I joke with my friends that game quality is inversely correlated with install size. 100GB+ open world or multiplayer game? Probably mid. 50MB indie game? Probably stays installed for the next 10 years.
Have any large developers ever made small high quality games? Or is that just not sustainable? I suppose the games would have to be repayable.
I’ve been buying $80 for years thanks to being Canadian!
So $89.99 then.
Special edition with a 6" plastic Temu tat figurine and 1000 FREE BorderBucks will be $249.99.
If it might be 80$, it might be the only borderlands game I don’t buy.
Don’t get it twisted, I’ll still play it. But I sure as shit won’t be buying it.
I bought Borderlands for like $30.
I bought BL2 for $20.
I got BL3 for free. (Which in kinda glad. The story was so ass.)
Then I got Tiny Tina’s for like $5 from a bundle.
Borderlands series hasn’t earned the $80 price tag.
Sure, it might be $80,why not? Also I might skip it. Or wait for sensible sale like $5 in a bundle. Backlog keeps expanding anyway and I doubt this will be even worth half the rrlease asking price…
Nintendo really is the Apple of gaming.
Got it, so wait for it in humble bundle or buy it once it sinks to $5.
With all the dlc.
But of course.
That’s a sensible way to buy all video games
$80 I can wait.
I mean. Of course vidya games’ gonna get hit with inflation from time to time… just like every other product…
every link in the chain, from producer to consumer needs to have an ever growing increase in profit for capitalism to work
It’s not worth $80 to me, and that’s also the way prices work. Things are worth what people are willing to pay. I’ve purchased so many games for $20 and less that have given me more enjoyment than any borderlands game.
And that’s completely fair as well, but there will be compromises… because 100DKK is not worth the same 100DKK as for 10 years ago, so as time goes by - the games you’ll be able to buy for 100DKK, will have reduced effort equally to the reduction in value of your currency
ok whats your point besides outing as a shill
I don’t think I’m shilling for everything… I’ve been sailing the seas for as long as I can remember… I just don’t understand why people keep getting surprised at games increasing in price - have you guys forgotten how capitalism works?
Like do you go to your local grocery store and see that cheese has yet again shrunk in size, and increased in price, and then think “this’ll never happen to my precious videogames”?
If so, then I guess I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news
just because its common doesnt mean its justified.
i see youre pirating ok. doesnt make your pro-opinion of increase due to “link from producer to customer” any more true…
the only blatant justification for n-letter company is exploitation. literally
I’m not justifying it anymore than justifying the increase in price of cheese.
But instead of spending your time being angry or annoyed at individual companies. Spend your time being angry with the system that requires the companies to have an ever increasing profit.
And stop being surprised by it, accept that this is a symptom of the capitalism, and if you want change… well, then… it will not happen by itself, and it will not start in the gaming industry.
I’ve paid money like that when I could see the effort and love thwt went into the game. I kinda saw that in BL2, but nothing in the series since comes even close.
the thing while yes, inflation will make things more expensive, the more expensive things become the less folks will just spend on random entertainment. they will have to use their money more deliberately and frugally.
and the problem with games are that there are many free and cheaper alternatives. if you wanna game you can just spend less and still game and have fun.
if you wanna go to the cinema it pretty much costs what it costs so you might go less often or buy less popcorn but you won’t skip one movie because it’s more expensive than another.
you can just skip full price AAA games. buy them on sales, play games you already have, play free to play games, emulate retro games, play indie games.
Exactly. Also it’s way costlier to set up a hone theatre at home compared to buying a cheap gaming laptop and play indie oe competitive fps games.
