And no Mr. Torque? WTF?
Butt Stallion skins.
What else is there to say? Day One purchase.
Hm, I really hope this doesn't imply paid boosts like in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
...unless they mean "mods" as in class mods?
Good lord. Is this the first bit of news that has essentially left Zenoth relatively speechless?
If you're referring to the Borderlands 2 DLC, then the natural order was to ignore the DLC in normal and complete all the DLC in 2.5 that way you bypassed the soft-cap on the weapon levels.
BL3 will release September 13 on the Epic Games Store, which will be the only place to buy it on PC until April 2020. After that six month exclusivity period, it'll release "on additional PC digital storefronts," according to a press release from 2K.
This has been my train of thinking for a little bit now. Company A has a 88/12 revenue share split in favor of the developer, company B is 70/30. If you think your product is going to sell regardless of platform, let alone a platform that boasts 10.8 million concurrent players of a game in your genre, why on earth would you pick company B. The problem isn't us as end users having to install another client, it's why are we supporting company B who isn't changing with the times and who isn't doing what needs to be done to bring the best products to their platform for us. The problem is Valve, not Epic.From PC Gamer…
It will probably work out in gamers favor in the long term if Steam has some competition but I despise exclusives. I am guessing there will be ways to play the game without purchasing through the Epic store or waiting for the exclusivity deal to expire. Hopefully, many gamers will avail themselves of those options.
-KeithP
This has been my train of thinking for a little bit now. Company A has a 88/12 revenue share split in favor of the developer, company B is 70/30. If you think your product is going to sell regardless of platform, let alone a platform that boasts 10.8 million concurrent players of a game in your genre, why on earth would you pick company B.
I have BL1&2 on Steam and I'd like to keep them all together. I can wait six months or more to buy it. I'll just wait till it goes on sale so I don't give that snake Pitchford too much money.
More money means more Borderlands. Period.But let's assume for a moment that Gearbox/2K make a lot more money because of the favorable revenue split of the Epic store, if you think that will ever produce any tangible benefits to the end users you are foolish beyond belief.
The choice is still "buy Borderlands 3" or "don't buy Borderlands 3" and has not changed. Pricing will be the same. Point of sale becomes a matter of convenience. If buying a product on the Epic store compared to Steam inconveniences you to the point where you simply won't buy a product you otherwise would have is a completely separate conversation. A conversation that has merit in being had, especially when it comes to desktop and app clutter.Making more or less on the same product depending where it is sold nothing new. It has been happening in retail B&M stores since there have been retail stores. Having exclusive deals limit consumer choice and raises prices and that is all they do as far as the consumer is concerned.
The best options for consumers would be to have Steam and Epic both have BL3. The people can decide based on the features of the service and/or price. Of course, Epic doesn't want that because right now their store sucks.
This isn't how you participate in constructive discourse.if you think that will ever produce any tangible benefits to the end users you are foolish beyond belief.
Dang, what did Pitchford do to you? He and Gearbox have no control over how this game is distributed.
And the accusations of underage porn.Aliens: Colonial Marines. He's a snake.
Accusations. Don't grab your pitchforks until the evidence is presented and the verdict is rendered.And the accusations of underage porn.
I quite explicitly did not grab any pitchforks by including the word 'accusations'.Accusations. Don't grab your pitchforks until the evidence is presented and the verdict is rendered.
Aliens: Colonial Marines. He's a snake.
And the accusations of underage porn.
Accusations. Don't grab your pitchforks until the evidence is presented and the verdict is rendered.
Also, does nobody remember the improved drop relic for pre-ordering Borderlands 2? 5%. That's all. When people smarter than me did the math, on the vast majority of weapons, that 5% meant absolutely nothing since it boiled down to less than .01% extra chance for most legendary drops. I'm definitely not paying $100 just so I can have another 5% increased chance for better loot. Sure it's going to be fun, but it seems with every new game that gets released, everyone simply forgets all about the day one patches, the massive amounts of bugs and glitches, and in some games (mostly console) the day one overloaded servers. I'm definitely going to wait six months to see this on Steam and I'm most likely going to be able to buy it and the season pass on sale (since Steam has a good habit of doing that with new games). Six months won't kill me and with the recent trend of the last 5-10 years of PC gaming, I'll get a streamlined experience whereas people trying to play on day one are going to run into crashes, bugs, glitches, hackers, and an array of other issues that run rampant with day one AAA games.
wait, what?
The very first boss was a blatant rip-off from BL2. After it was discussed (in my thread on the Gearbox forums), a few community managers for 2K said it was a homage to Borderlands 2 and they wanted to give the fans something to relate to. I could accept that if I hadn't progressed with the game and saw that most of the rest was just a lazy copy/paste from the first two games. They added the moon physics and ice elemental which were fun for a few minutes, but after a while they just felt gimmicky. I think my biggest complaint (other than the lazy Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V) was the classes to choose from felt too rounded. One of the community managers did touch on that and say they didn't want to restrict anyone to any class just because of their playstyle. They wanted all classes to be more or less viable for sniping, melee, tank, etc. which I think felt lazier than anything else. I put a solid 400 hours in the game and played through with most classes, but it just didn't feel like Borderlands to me.