Guess I’m not a real fan. Fuck you Randy. He’s such a cunt.
$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"
Submitted 20 hours ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Oh I’ll find a way alright.
obelix@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Aw, he’s telling people to pirate it. What a thoughtful guy.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
You wouldn’t download a shit to give.
LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s legitimately how I read what he was saying at first.
3migo@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
put it on my wish list
buy it for $15 in a year
yawn
technomad@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
I feel like if it drops that much in one year, it’s probably a pretty shit game anyway right?
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
If it being Borderlands 4 wasn’t enough of a tip considering the stellar writing we had on pre-sequel and 3.
EarWorm@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
TIL real Borderlands fans are pirates.
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They become pirates if necessary.
alexaralvarado@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
I’ve found a way to play every Borderlands game, 2 is my fave, and not pay more than 12 usd, for the 3rd one which I didn’t even get halfway through 'cause it’s boring AF - I love Steam sales and don’t have FOMO
damdy@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
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.
ne0n@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Randy actually needs to see this. It’s reality.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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 19 hours 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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Or get it second-hand off G2A or CDKeys.
I’m never paying $80 for a video game.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I wouldn’t advise using those services, myself. Lots of sketchy stuff. Legit copies of digital games go on sale often enough.
yamper@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
piracy is preferable over buying a key off of greymarket sites like this tbh
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Borderlands 3 is in a free giveaway after a year or so on Epic Games. The sales must be abysmal to give a flagship franchise away for free, because of Randy being a bitch and insist exclusive is good. This will hopefully bite them back like last time.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I honestly think it will sell a lot because most gamers won’t be able to control themselves.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
What does a 12 year old care about $80? They ain’t spending that. Their parents are.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Or perhaps even find it to be worth the price.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
I got Borderlands 3 about a year after release for less than 5€, I can wait.
Exusia@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Randy pitchford?
THAT Randy Pitchford? The Randy Pitchford that, because he loves magic tricks, downloaded himself some squirt porn (sfw youtube link to moistcritical) and then left it at a Midieval 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” “lost” 10 million dollars of Segas money causing Colonial marines to bomb.
Fuck that guy.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 hours ago
No, no, you don’t understand, the girl was doing a magic trick! He only consumed that just barely legal content with professional interest in mind.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 17 hours ago
If Randy Pitchford was a real CEO he would find a way to make $60 games
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
He’s too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 hours ago
Give us guaranteed emploment of the staff that built it, and you get guaranteed pre orders?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Wait, how do you guarantee employment to a team after their work and contract is complete?
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 13 minutes ago
Game development should not be a gig economy. It is often treated as such so studio execs can pocket more money by dropping staff at release to pad their own wallets. There are plenty of game companies, and millions of companies in other sectors, that reinvest that capital into the company.
theneverfox@pawb.social 42 minutes ago
You say what project they’ll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Hi Randy, fuck off lol
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
You’d think he’d be better media trained by now. But no, here goes the foot in the mouth.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
He got the horrible Hand, Foot in Mouth Disease.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 11 hours ago
Nothing has stopped him so far, including assaulting the VA of their most well known character
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Yeah, I’ll fucking pirate it LMAO
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I’m absolutely ready to pay 80$ 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.
Delphia@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
This has always been my counterpoint for the Nintendo haters when they complain about price. (Although they are a shit company in several other ways) Because when my daughter wants a new switch game if its a top tier Nintendo title its going to be a finished game with zero bugs and zero concern about problematic content for me.
leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
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…
WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
Yeah I’m really starting to feel like we’re gonna see a lot of these companies shift from doing big AAA games to instead publishing small indie games. Almost all of these big companies have indie publishing arms now and as they start to see good profits from those without having to take on the cost of paying devs themselves I wouldn’t be surprised if they start cutting back on their own dev teams and shifting to that.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Honestly, in my opinion, there’s too many games to justify buying it at all. I enjoyed one and two when I was a kid, and there wasn’t competition for the genre. Three I think was free on Epic or something, so I played and it was fine, but not great. I don’t expect much from four, and there’s companies I’d actually like to support instead.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
I can make it happen? Okeydokey! 🏴☠️
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I got bored with Borderlands 3 in one hour. Copy pasta gameplay and I’m tired of the art style and humor. I only paid a fiver but I wish I had bought a burger instead.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I thought Borderlands was lots of fun, but not four games (for now) and a movie (for now) worth of fun. Even two games was pushing it a bit. You can only stretch things out so much.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Guess I’m not a real fan 🤷♂️
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 11 hours 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.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I found a way already, it’s called patience. Works well for basically any non nintendo game.
smeg@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
You can still (for the moment) be patient with Nintendo games if you’re OK buying second hand
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Or just pirate and emulate Nintendo games. They’re such scumbags that they make piracy morally correct
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I solved that by moving to pc and forgetting about Nintendo’s existence.
Almacca@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
Borderlands isn’t that good, Randy.
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Real fans “Find a Way” Yarr.
C1pher@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Well, new Doom is 90€ I aint buying that garbage.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Weeps in Canadian
I’ve been paying $80 the whole time! Now I have to pay even more!
Either way I won’t be buying Borderlands 4 for like $100 I can tell you that much.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s like they don’t understand how piracy works.
eronth@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I’ll just leave this skull and bones flag right here FOR NO REAL REASON!!!
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
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. Image
Yermaw@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
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.
Graphy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m a Loot Goblin that spacebars through the story too, but Borderlands hasn’t been able to scratch that itch in a long time.
The last one I played was Tina’s Wonderland and everything about it was a slog. I didn’t care about any of the loot or any of the fights and I definitely didn’t care about the story.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 19 hours ago
I’ll add Factorio to the list of games that deserve the $80 tag. $40 for base, $40 for Space Age expansion. Or don’t get Space Age and go with the mod that spawned Space Age (although not exactly the same).
I get it’s a bit of a niche genre, though. The factory thing the way Factorio does it isn’t for everybody.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I personally prefer mindustry
jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.
Feel free to roast me in the process.
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Yakuza 0, kiwami, kiwami 2, Yakuza 3, 4, 5, 6, then 7, then Gaiden, then 8.
Then play Jusgement and Lost Judgement. Not part of Yakuza’s core canon. But adjacent.
Ulrich@feddit.org 19 hours ago
I honestly don’t know how people play this game. Every 12 seconds coming across new gear. Can’t do it.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and aren’t a fan I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It didn’t used to be like that and they actually mentioned in the deep dive that they’re getting back to the way it was before. Like the point of the game is loot goblining, but they’ve promised not to inundate the player with legendary weapons every twelve seconds so that you actually have time to savor the weapons you get between good drops.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 59 minutes ago
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