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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

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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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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    When has this series ever been that?
    
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    Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    … Changing outfits in BL has often, for a long time, in most costumes, just been color changes. Not real customizing.
    
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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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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