$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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Give us guaranteed emploment of the staff that built it, and you get guaranteed pre orders?
wrote on 21 May 2025, 11:42 last edited byWait, how do you guarantee employment to a team after their work and contract is complete?
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 21 May 2025, 11:46 last edited by
It's like they don't understand how piracy works.
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I feel like if it drops that much in one year, it's probably a pretty shit game anyway right?
wrote on 21 May 2025, 12:07 last edited byIf 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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TIL real Borderlands fans are pirates.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 12:14 last edited byThey become pirates if necessary.
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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.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 12:22 last edited byI 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'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
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Guess I'm not a real fan. Fuck you Randy. He's such a cunt.
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Wait, how do you guarantee employment to a team after their work and contract is complete?
wrote on 21 May 2025, 14:13 last edited byYou say what project they'll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc
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Wait, how do you guarantee employment to a team after their work and contract is complete?
wrote on 21 May 2025, 14:42 last edited byGame 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 @theneverfox@pawb.social because they might find the thought of royalties vs continued Dev interesting.
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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.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 15:00 last edited byExactly. That's why I buy Nintendo games near release and am patient for PC games.
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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.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 15:27 last edited by exusia@lemmy.worldI'm not gonna sit and tell a man he can't have a kink preference in his own home on his own time.
But Jesus fuck on the company thumb drive? Bro is a ceo and cant afford a "personal folder" usb. Here $12 for a 128Gb one on Amazon is not uncommon And then to be so distracted he forgot it.
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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.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 16:19 last edited byWhat's your take on the telltale game?
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Arrrrrr!
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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.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 19:58 last edited byI can't tell you exactly why, but as much as I played and replayed borderlands 1&2, the third one didn't interest me at all, I can see that the recipe used the same ingredients but it just didn't taste the same to contribute the metaphor. It just bored me and my wife during our coop campaign, and we didn't have any desire to continue our playthrough. I hope they get it back with four but I don't trust them enough anymore to buy it blindly anyway.
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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.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 20:03 last edited byHonestly I am all for if it means that we get original games again from big studios, I can't get hyped anymore for yet another sequel or remaster.
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I agree, but when you wouldn't let Aspyr do a Linux port for BL3, I stopped being a "real fan".
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BL2 had unique blues which were OP.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 21:18 last edited byAh, that's true! Anything with flavor text- red text in the description- is an exception to the normal rarities.
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Guess I'm not a real fan. Fuck you Randy. He's such a cunt.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 21:41 last edited byWhile working on Borderlands 3, the team was severely underpaid. People started quitting, so Randy promised them an “unprecedented company profit-sharing bonus model.” That never got paid—he blamed “higher-than-anticipated development costs and sales not meeting projections.”
Borderlands 3 went GOTY, a few dozens millions copies sold. Randy secured a $12M executive bonus for himself.
When staff expressed dissatisfaction, Pitchford told them they were free to quit. This was in the middle of the pandemic, and the job market was absolute crap. -
He's too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.
wrote on 21 May 2025, 22:51 last edited byUh, source? It seems like if this were true he'd be in cuffs.
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And my way is, wait a few years for the deluxe edition to come out on sale.