• @[email protected]
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      Unfortunately, the real appeal of the Borderlands series is multiplayer. The games are alright in single player mode, but multiplayer is where it really shines. And cracked copies likely won’t work with multiplayer, because they use game servers for matchmaking.

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        IIRC all of the past ones have worked over LAN, including over a private VPN if you so desire. I definitely played pirated copies of 1 and 2 with my mates. I had no real desire to get very deep into 3 because the campaign storyline was so stupid, but I don’t doubt you could.

        It’s only online matchmaking with randos that you’ll be blocked from, which if you ask me is not really that much of a detriment.

    • @[email protected]
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      Theseus’ ship? Borderlands 4 is just the projectfile of borderlands 2 with every part replaced? 😱

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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    I won’t be buying any game that costs $80 not when I have a mountain of games in my Steam Library, many of which are getting played thanks to the Steam Deck and if that’s not enough I have Game Pass too so why the hell would I even consider paying $80

  • @[email protected]
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    102 months ago

    Listen, I unironically love being woke. Accessibility for impairments? Human rights? Equity? Regulations standing in the way of greed? Overrepresentation of minority demographics? Fuck yes to all of that shit. Hell’s Yeah.

    But the direction of these games have been poor for a lot of reasons. It doesn’t feel woke, really, it feels like they want us to believe they aren’t Handsome Jack’s corporate studio goons like they are.

  • @[email protected]
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    92 months ago

    I can barely justify 50€ for a massive game like Baldur’s Gate 3. I’d never pay that much for any other game that is not on this scale. But 80 bucks? The fuck are they thinking?

    • Coskii
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      They don’t have any dlc lined up yet so not being to sell you empty promises on top of a normal game price is really tugging at Randy’s purse strings.

      /s

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?

        I think the more apt description would be that when you’re got something that makes other people money, then you will be protected. When that ends you’re fair game.

        I also agree that the more money you have the better defence you can get, but I don’t believe laws only apply to the poor. That’s hyperbole.

        • @[email protected]
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          Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?

          All three of those examples got away with it for literal decades.

          Both Weinstein and Diddy were known dangers in their industry.

          They took Epstein out because you know he had compromat on Trump. Best friends.

          Or - the Cosby shit was an open secret. No one cared until Hannibal Buress started pointing it out.

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            All three of those examples got away with it for literal decades.

            Literally what I’m saying. They got away with it because they had utility for other people and when they no longer did that’s when they get indicted, cause people stop running cover.

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          So the logic is…

          The laws only apply to the poor except for exceptions where rich are on their way to poor and can be used as examples of the exception .

          • @[email protected]
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            I don’t believe that’s what I said, or at least it wasn’t my intention. I was more trying to highlight that wealthy people (which are not in the way to being poor) will be protected by the people that stand to gain from that protection, not simply for being rich.

            I also explicitly said that the justice system does favour the rich, not in a malicious way but more because we have a system that means rich folk can afford more man hours which translates to a better defence.

            I want to be clear I’m not defending rich folk here, just being a pedant I guess.

            • @[email protected]
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              32 months ago

              Ah yeah we are all pedants here and such while I understand and mostly agree with your comment I now must include.

              Uhh, actually we don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system.

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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

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    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months 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.

    • technomad
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      I feel like if it drops that much in one year, it’s probably a pretty shit game anyway right?

      • @[email protected]
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        If it being Borderlands 4 wasn’t enough of a tip considering the stellar writing we had on pre-sequel and 3.

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    112 months ago

    Also, let’s not forget the new EULA regarding shift accountsAlso, he made his 'fans" wait while bl3 was only available on the epic store. Fuck this dude, I am done with the franchise.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      How is the game being available make people wait? Did PC get the release before consoles?

      • @[email protected]
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        Steam customers are out of the loop. We could access the game through epic store, but it’s a separate account, and not everybody has/want one. Hence the wait to release on Steam.

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        For small indies it makes sense to publish on the pc epic game store a year earlier to get fundet for simply releasing the game there earlier.
        A lot of smaller indies used that time as a kind of early access and got later super popular on steam, the main pc game store.

        But for a big studio to do something like this is scummy
        They already have a playerbase and a big budget
        I dont even know if payment was involved but there is no other reason i can think of that explains this

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    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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        Not OP but Tales from the Borderlands 1 us my favorite of the telltale game collection and has some of my favorite music videos ever and wears its emotions on its sleeve for you to empathize with its characters in clever real ways.

      • @[email protected]
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        I never played the Tales from Borderlands myself, but my wife did and she really enjoyed it. She said it added a lot to the story lore presented in BL2.

        I did enjoy the Walking Dead telltale game along with the Wolf Among Us, though.

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    Nope, just would play Tiny Tina’s Wonderland again honestly, which I got for around $10 when it was heavily on sale a year ago.

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    Give us guaranteed emploment of the staff that built it, and you get guaranteed pre orders?

    • @[email protected]
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      Wait, how do you guarantee employment to a team after their work and contract is complete?

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        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.

        But what about other forms of entertainment? Movies! Books! Music!

        Royalties. This would be another solution.

        Tagging @[email protected] because they might find the thought of royalties vs continued Dev interesting.

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          I do find it interesting…I don’t think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea

          Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with

          Let’s say it’s 2% of a game that made $100M - you’re looking at tens of thousands each when it’s all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it’s not financial security kind of money

          And then let’s say the game flops or gets cancelled… Well that’s not going to help much, so you can’t really rely on it

          So I think the idea is great, but it’s still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism

      • @[email protected]
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        You say what project they’ll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc