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$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"

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  • I inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    20 May 2025, 18:10
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    kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
    wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:19 last edited by
    #44

    If Randy Pitchford was a real CEO he would find a way to make $60 games

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    • I inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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      gerudo@lemm.ee
      wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:21 last edited by
      #45

      Looks like fitgirl will be getting my business instead

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      • S solorion@sh.itjust.works
        20 May 2025, 20:53

        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 dislike it 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.

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        ulrich@feddit.org
        wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:23 last edited by
        #46

        It's a combination of a huge variety of attributes and an endless supply. I just get anxiety about walking past a super powerful weapon or dropping it in exchange for something else without realizing it.

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        • I inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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          thehobbyist@lemmy.zip
          wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:24 last edited by
          #47

          The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?

          Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.

          Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience and hype of a new launch...

          I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn't care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.

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          • K kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
            20 May 2025, 21:19

            If Randy Pitchford was a real CEO he would find a way to make $60 games

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            newthrowaway20@lemmy.world
            wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:31 last edited by
            #48

            He's too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.

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            • I inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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              newthrowaway20@lemmy.world
              wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:32 last edited by
              #49

              Lol Randy actively taking the winds out of his own sails.

              I hope he rots in piss.

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              • K kaldo@fedia.io
                20 May 2025, 20:31

                I mean 50% off and still being $40 still sounds like a terrible deal

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                graphy@lemmy.world
                wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:38 last edited by
                #50

                Right? I didn’t realize how disinterested I was in Borderlands until I read that.

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                • U ulrich@feddit.org
                  20 May 2025, 21:23

                  It's a combination of a huge variety of attributes and an endless supply. I just get anxiety about walking past a super powerful weapon or dropping it in exchange for something else without realizing it.

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                  solorion@sh.itjust.works
                  wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:43 last edited by solorion@sh.itjust.works
                  #51

                  If it ain't a purple I can basically guarantee it's shit. Just keep the rarity order in mind, and you can generally assume anything that's less rare than what you have is also worse. One of the load screens in BL1 or BL2 said When Grandma Burps Patrick Obeys- White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange. Got absolutely burnt into my brain.

                  But hey, if it's stressful fair enough. I think they're fun games, but nothing is for everyone.

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                  • Y yermaw@lemm.ee
                    20 May 2025, 19:11

                    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.

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                    graphy@lemmy.world
                    wrote on 20 May 2025, 21:46 last edited by
                    #52

                    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.

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                    • G gerudo@lemm.ee
                      20 May 2025, 21:21

                      Looks like fitgirl will be getting my business instead

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                      modifier@lemmy.ca
                      wrote on 20 May 2025, 22:22 last edited by
                      #53

                      Found a way!

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                      • I inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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                        leavemealone@sh.itjust.works
                        wrote on 20 May 2025, 22:26 last edited by
                        #54

                        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...

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                        • L leavemealone@sh.itjust.works
                          20 May 2025, 22:26

                          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...

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                          warlordsdocy@lemm.ee
                          wrote on 20 May 2025, 22:51 last edited by
                          #55

                          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.

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                          • C crowairbrush@lemmy.world
                            20 May 2025, 20:33

                            I found a way already, it's called patience. Works well for basically any non nintendo game.

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                            smeg@feddit.uk
                            wrote on 20 May 2025, 23:13 last edited by
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                            You can still (for the moment) be patient with Nintendo games if you're OK buying second hand

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                              goretantath@lemm.ee
                              wrote on 20 May 2025, 23:19 last edited by
                              #57

                              I can make it happen? Okeydokey! 🏴‍☠️

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                                exusia@lemmy.world
                                wrote on 20 May 2025, 23:40 last edited by exusia@lemmy.world
                                #58

                                Randy pitchford?

                                THAT Randy Pitchford?
                                The Randy Pitchford that, because he loves magic tricks, downloaded himself some squirt porn (sfw youtube link to moistcritical) on the same thumb drive as company secrets, and then left it at a Medieval 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" millions dollars of Segas money causing Colonial marines to bomb so that they could fund Borderlands 2 and Duke Nukem Forever He's also not above putting journalists who bad mouth him in his games as petty revenge.

                                Fuck that guy. Fuck anything he says.

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                                  sturmblast@lemmy.world
                                  wrote on 20 May 2025, 23:52 last edited by
                                  #59

                                  Or we'll boycott you shit ass companies

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                                    isolox@lemmy.world
                                    wrote on 21 May 2025, 00:16 last edited by
                                    #60

                                    I'm a huge borderlands fan. I will not be buying this for $80 lol.

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                                      vlyn@lemmy.zip
                                      wrote on 21 May 2025, 00:18 last edited by
                                      #61

                                      I don't condone this, but we already had $60 games 10 years ago. If you simply add inflation you'd be at $81 today. That doesn't even take into account that modern games also have larger budgets compared to back then.

                                      Video games really are a cheap hobby comparatively speaking. I still wait for sales of course 🙂

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                                        nthavoc@lemmy.today
                                        wrote on 21 May 2025, 00:27 last edited by
                                        #62

                                        I can make it happen during a Steam summer sale 4 years later. Borderlands 3 wasn't that great when you compare it to 1 and 2. I can wait.

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                                        • S smeg@feddit.uk
                                          20 May 2025, 23:13

                                          You can still (for the moment) be patient with Nintendo games if you're OK buying second hand

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                                          crowairbrush@lemmy.world
                                          wrote on 21 May 2025, 01:00 last edited by
                                          #63

                                          I solved that by moving to pc and forgetting about Nintendo's existence.

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