What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.
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Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Owns Rockstar Games, Zynga and 2K. So if that's all their games, it includes at least these: Bioshock series, Borderlands series, Civilization series, Grand Theft Auto series, Mafia series, Max Payne series, NBA 2K series, PGA Tour 2K series, Red Dead series, WWE 2K series and XCOM series.
Amazing stuff!
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Its a bit more than that:
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 02:25 last edited by lemjukes@lemm.ee 6 Jun 2025, 13:02A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.
I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?
Still no actual answers from anyone on how this is ‘more’ than what I described in my op. Sure it’s a more detailed list, but it’s really not the “gotcha” everyone seems to think it is. That is, if youve been paying attention.
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Piracy never gave me up, never let me down
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 02:39 last edited byThey would never turn around and desert me
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A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.
I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?
Still no actual answers from anyone on how this is ‘more’ than what I described in my op. Sure it’s a more detailed list, but it’s really not the “gotcha” everyone seems to think it is. That is, if youve been paying attention.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 03:10 last edited byLet's ride the wave. Turn this into a huge controversy known industry-wide. Then, next game that comes out with EULA like this, we say "THIS GAME HAS A BORDERLANDS-STYLE EULA". Pretend it's new to exploit the shock value and get the gamers riled up. Then, the industry gets better.
Tell the frog that the pot wasn't always this hot.
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A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.
I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?
Still no actual answers from anyone on how this is ‘more’ than what I described in my op. Sure it’s a more detailed list, but it’s really not the “gotcha” everyone seems to think it is. That is, if youve been paying attention.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:20 last edited byWhat point are you trying to make? You say you're "all for calling this kind of fuckery out" but then you're criticizing people for calling it out? And who cares what other EULAs might say? The point is that the license agreement for this game and others owned by this company didn't say this shit before, and now they do. The company is actively making their user agreement more hostile to the users which is what people are pissed about.
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Due to Steam's tos updates a few months ago, isn't take-two opening itself up to a massive lawsuit?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:28 last edited byNo idea, but I think it would be funny, so I'm all for it and hope you are right.
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Is this because Embracer sold Borderlands to Take-Two last year?
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A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.
I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?
Still no actual answers from anyone on how this is ‘more’ than what I described in my op. Sure it’s a more detailed list, but it’s really not the “gotcha” everyone seems to think it is. That is, if youve been paying attention.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:40 last edited by don_alforno@feddit.org 6 Jun 2025, 00:41Some people will always find an excuse to change nothing.
It doesn't matter how many similar EULA's people have already accepted. The best moment to not eat it anymore would have been the first time it happened, the second best time is right now.
Also, retroactively amending an EULA is a different quality, since people have already paid for the game and would be locked out after the fact if they didn't accept.
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They would never turn around and desert me
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:41 last edited byMight maroon me for fucking up the FOSS though.
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A bit more than what, not really sure what your point here is? All of those bullet points are similar if not identical to terms in other EULAs half the people in this thread have already clicked thru.
I’ll say it again, if you think this is anything new you haven’t been paying attention. I’m all for calling this fuckery out and pushing for something better. But like where yall been?
Still no actual answers from anyone on how this is ‘more’ than what I described in my op. Sure it’s a more detailed list, but it’s really not the “gotcha” everyone seems to think it is. That is, if youve been paying attention.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:44 last edited byIf more folks are waking up and shaking a stick at it or doing something but blindly click through (thus legally unenforceable) EULAs I'm all for it.
Better late than never.
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- Did the EULA change?
- Were all Take Two games automatically updated in secret and now hijack your machine with root access to spy on everything you do?
- Do Take Two games contain code to report telemetry and user information(including application/system activity) to a home server?
- Is this EULA change extraordinary and particularly egregious in comparison to others that most people have probably already agreed to? (IMO)
- Are people riled up because e a YouTube video went a little viral and now they’re all playing telephone to the point where it’s now gotten to the point of random dumdums are review booming a 13 year old game claiming it’s turned into literal spyware? (again, IMO)
- Should you be surprised by any of this if you’ve been even remotely paying attention for any period of the last 30-40 years?
- Do we need more than just angry idiots in the battle against corpatocracy?
We should be done coddling the late comers at this point. Yes welcome them and accept them, but at a certain point your level of ignorance became a detriment to your community and you should be made aware of that fact.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 04:45 last edited bySo...if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see...really?
- Did the EULA change?
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Is it not fully compatible with newer versions of Linux? All the gameplay and comparison videos I've seen look identical to the Windows version. I'd test it myself but I'm pretty sure my computer doesn't have the hardware to run it even on low settings.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:10 last edited byI played it sometime toward the end of last year using proton. I'll have to try it again.
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I apparently love downvotes but here goes: All the Borderlands games (annoying childish cell-shaded skinner-box) and everything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit. The CEO is a garbage person, and thier dealings with Epic is Capitalist-Oink-Piggy shite! ""FUCK YOU 2K & GEARBOX, AND FUCK YOU BORDERLANDS!"
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:20 last edited byeverything Gearbox is and has ever created it utter shit
OpFor was good, Blue Shift was alright too.
Everything since they stole the whole idea of Borderlands has been bad though.
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Hyper Localized Advertising. Welcome to the future
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:29 last edited byI just saw an advertisement for a custom T-shirt:
"That's right, I'm a December dad, who lives at 62a, with size 10 feet and prescription glasses..."/S
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So...if Steam is running in a Flatpak, and Borderlands is launched from Steam, how much can they even see...really?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:45 last edited byThey know I use Linux and that means they know too much
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Precise location information? Wtf for?
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:46 last edited by outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 Jun 2025, 02:47Oh honey, what's any of it for?
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Unless you use Linux, your OS knows a ton about you. On top of that, with root access to your computer they can do whatever they want and if their system gets hacked you become a member of a bot farm or crypto mine.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:48 last edited byWell I use Linux, but not on my gaming pc. I would switch to it because its all amd, but I don't want to because it lacks the driver suite for my gpu (adrenaline) and I don't want to install a bunch of small applications to gain a small fraction of options it offers.
It's a pitty. Because I realy want to ditch windows since its newest iteration.
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What are you arguing with? I don't see your comment as contradictory to theirs at all.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 06:51 last edited by red@sopuli.xyz 6 Jun 2025, 02:53I guess his premise, that it's for edgy teens. Heck, half the pop references were ancient on launch.
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The first felt really fresh at the time. FPS was dominated by various milsim shooters and Halo, and the irreverence and clever cell shading style worked well.
Two dialed things up in scope and scale and added some nice environmental variety.
But the rest? The presequel? The 3rd? I just couldn’t. It was more of the same, tired, repetitive, the jokes started really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I had fun early on, but I’m out.
wrote on 6 Jun 2025, 07:06 last edited by mrscottytay@sh.itjust.works 6 Jun 2025, 03:07I loved the gameplay of pre sequel. But the writing for that was constantly throwing me for a loop on how any of it was greenlit. I didn't mind the writing in 1 and 2, I got a few chuckles out of that. Pre sequel just made me groan, moan and yawn.
