$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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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am not a reaI fan ?.I am ok with being a “hypothetical” fan and buying it later at a reasonable price

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• Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Guess we all know what we have to do

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  • madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Arr, matey

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• NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lmao guess I’m not a real fan then!

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• CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  TIL a lot of people aren’t true fans.

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• RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not a huge fan of Borderlands. I like the stories. But I don’t like the loot goblining. Constant hunt for ever higher damage numbers.

  There’s only 1 company I’ll pay $80 for a new game. And that is Ryu Ga Gotoku. Cuz they don’t miss. No bad half finished launches. No bad games. Every game is a masterclass in Peak. Image

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I honestly don’t know how people play this game. Every 12 seconds coming across new gear. Can’t do it.

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    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 aren’t a fan 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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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It didn’t used to be like that and they actually mentioned in the deep dive that they’re getting back to the way it was before. Like the point of the game is loot goblining, but they’ve promised not to inundate the player with legendary weapons every twelve seconds so that you actually have time to savor the weapons you get between good drops.

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  • madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll add Factorio to the list of games that deserve the $80 tag. $40 for base, $40 for Space Age expansion. Or don’t get Space Age and go with the mod that spawned Space Age (although not exactly the same).

    I get it’s a bit of a niche genre, though. The factory thing the way Factorio does it isn’t for everybody.

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    • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I personally prefer mindustry

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  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.

    Feel free to roast me in the process.

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    • RangerJosey@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yakuza 0, kiwami, kiwami 2, Yakuza 3, 4, 5, 6, then 7, then Gaiden, then 8.

      Then play Jusgement and Lost Judgement. Not part of Yakuza’s core canon. But adjacent.

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  • Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?

  Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Borderlands 3 is in a free giveaway after a year or so on Epic Games. The sales must be abysmal to give a flagship franchise away for free, because of Randy being a bitch and insist exclusive is good. This will hopefully bite them back like last time.

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  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got Borderlands 3 about a year after release for less than 5€, I can wait.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When $40 is half price, I will generally pass as if it were $80. There is a glut of amazing content out there for $40 or less, and much of it is truly inspired indie work. When your half-price game is competing with great full-price indie titles, I will continue to ignore your overpriced corporate muck.

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I honestly think it will sell a lot because most gamers won’t be able to control themselves.

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    • PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What does a 12 year old care about $80? They ain’t spending that. Their parents are.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or perhaps even find it to be worth the price.

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  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or get it second-hand off G2A or CDKeys.

    I’m never paying $80 for a video game.

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    • yamper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      piracy is preferable over buying a key off of greymarket sites like this tbh

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t advise using those services, myself. Lots of sketchy stuff. Legit copies of digital games go on sale often enough.

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