Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam

• Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They are objectively less popular with the newer stuff.

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  • Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And with their new ELUA a lot of people are planning to boycott.

    I hope so, but i was expecting more people to boycott Nintendo, and yet the switch 2 was the fastest selling console of all time. I wouldn’t be surprised if everyone does the old “I’m sure it’s fine if I get a copy”

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think people on the internet vastly overestimate the support these boycott movements actually have. For every person here or wherever else saying they’re not buying a switch, there’s 10,000 parents buying one for their kids, or people that just wanna play mario kart with their friends.

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      • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        And typically the boycotters weren’t even the sort of people who were buying a switch 2 to begin with. Maybe there’s a subsection of them that will result in some loss of sales but it would be in the fraction of a percent. There’s no surprise to me when gamer boycotts fail.

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      • ysjet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There’s also just a substantial number of people that were just astroturfers, I think.

        There’s been a LOT of crazy attacks on the switch 2 to try to ‘justify’ a boycott. I think my two favorite was that the gamechat button noise when you hit is actually saying saying a slur, or maybe that the rumble turns off after a while not to protect your hands from the rumble (which has been found to be bad for you), but because Nintendo cheaped out on a rumble motor that overheated too easily.

        The switch 2 joycons don’t have a rumble motor. Like, it’s a whole thing they’re super proud of, because it’s so precise they just use the rumble really fast to play music instead of having a speaker.

        Honestly, the whole idea of trying to boycott nintendo has pretty much always been over astroturfed bullshit.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tiny Tina is a spin-off, and I doubt the EULA changes will result in much more than the Modern Warfare 2 boycott. Borderlands 3 still sold multiple millions of copies before it even had its first discount, and over 15 million copies total. It was still in high enough demand after an Epic exclusivity period to get hundreds of thousands of concurrent players when it eventually launched on Steam. It’s one of very few multi-billion dollar franchises in video games.

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also Tiny Tina was actually a fuckin blast to play through. It doesn’t drag like some of the main games do, the humor is actually fun because you’re basically playing a game within a game and it works as far as D&D stuff goes imo.

      Also I actually liked being able to customize my character for once. I don’t know about the other voices, but I actually really liked the douchey/cocky voice I ended up going with. There are some fun lines for different quests and such.

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      • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah, not just being diffent colors of the same hero was a really nice change.

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    • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a fair call on Tiny Tina, but with it and the movie kinda tarnishing the name it seems like a bit of an uphill battle.

      3 did well, but the game before and after it didn’t. Add in people having less money to throw at this stuff and it being “a real fans” price, possible exclusive deals, etc. I just think it’s putting up it’s own road blocks constantly. The franchise isn’t hot and it’s fresh off the Borderlands movie joke.

      IMO They should fire this wide and fast, keep the price low and sell it everywhere, earn back that trust and good will. Make people fall in love with BL again.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fresh off the Borderlands movie, they sold tons of their Pandora collection, and concurrent players shot up. It may not have been the movie they wanted it to be, but it mostly achieved the same goal.

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  • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The writing in two was really good. I didn’t and still don’t care who got the writer’s WiiU, I just cared that the story was fun.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      the writer’s WiiU

      I’m assuming this is an autocorrect, but I can’t figure out what the word is supposed to be.

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      • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No, it’s a sad tale that would be amusing if it wasn’t real people, and has occupied a lot of brain time at 4chan and among gamergate-involved persons. If you want to know more, knowyourmeme has a reasonably objective article.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Borderlands 3 sold over 20 million, that’s pretty significant even if it is less than 2. The overall quality has certain gone downhill, but sales is all the companies care about. In my experience boycotts by people who know what’s going on behind the scenes never amount to anything - it’s always the potential buyers who don’t know or care about that stuff that ultimately determine whether a game’s successful or not.

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just not as popular as Randy seems to think.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which games?

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