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Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

it's incredible that pitchford is still allowed to talk. there should be a bot that auto-responds "shut the fuck up" to everything he says, tweets, or even thinks.

hey I'll let you price this 80 bucks if you fully refund me for the scam that was borderlands 1. fucking unfinished piece of shit, i can't believe i played that game for multiple hours hoping it would improve beyond the first.

and later i learned that i was completely right to quit that shit because the bullshit throwaway story of this "rpg" doesn't even conclude properly. it literally ends like Geraldo Rivera's fucking Al Capone vault.

fuck you pitchford. shut the fuck up and go back to "storing porn for the purposes of researching magic tricks" or whatever. literally never speak again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Guess I will wait for Dale then. I didn't even finish the last borderlands

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn. I honestly had no interest in Borderlands anymore, but this has inspired me to pirate Borderlands 4 just as a fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Borderlands 3 was fun but like a final piece to this genre. Many guns, amusing storyline, corny humor and great world design.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Here's really important thing that the likes of randy don't want to know. I would actually pay $80 for Baldur's Gate 3, because that product is actually worth it. You can actually see where your money is going what it's paying for.

But Borderlands, really? I was already not interested in this game, but why would anyone pay $80 for, at best, an AA game?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

They're really just milking what nostalgia still remains for a franchise that people have largely moved on from.

They could instead try to boldly reinvent it to grab new customers, but I'm not seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'd sooner spend it on a "AA" game than an AAA game, frankly

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

I bought borderlands 2 the other week and it's been a blast on my SteamDeck. Unfortunately it seems it's one of those games that loves to connect online all the time, like it'll kick me out of single player if it detects wifi and make me reload into... singleplayer, but online. with 0 differences.

I probably would've been better off pirating it tbh.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I haven't bought full price games in ages. Games are always released half finished now. Wait six months to a year until it goes on sale and they actually finish the game.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only game I paid full price in recent years was BG3, because it’s worth it, and the people who worked in the game were worth it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

yea, but BG3 didn't release in a complete state. With that said, Larian has delivered on their promise and that's really a good example of how a AA/AAA title can do early access in a good and healthy way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll gladly buy indies, breakout titles with huge reception (BG3, E33 etc), or games from well renowned studios that have yet to let me down. Anything else I'm fine waiting for a sale. With these $80 price tags I don't see myself buying a AAA title again for a LONG time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I felt that way about CyberPunk 2077 and CDPR.

CDPR hadn't let me down. Yet. Ultimately, they redeemed themselves, sure, but at launch.... whew, there were issues.

Game companies CAN redeem themselves. Business wise though? Its hard to recoup that kind of shaken faith in investors, board members, etc; let alone the people you're actually trying to sell to.

There are so MANY fucking games out there these days, that I'll look at something new, and decide I don't like certain elements of the gameplay, and just move on.

If a feature looks more frustrating than fun? I'm good, thanks.

I've played hard games on the hardest setting for the challenge. I've also played "easy" just to get drunk and enjoy a story.

If it isn't fun though? Then what am I doing here?

I already spend 8+ hours a day on the computer and hate it, but at least they pay me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I honestly can't remember the last time I paid full price for a game. Between free amazon prime games, epic games, gog, and steam demos/freebies: I hardly have time to invest in new games.

I used to buy Madden/NBA2k every year up until 2008 or so, now I grab one every five years at $10. Includes all the bugs from the previous version.

I have 1000s of games now and don't have any time to play them. BG3 is the only game I'm considering spending $40 for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Real fans would find a way to wait for the game to go on sale for $2.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Every Corporate asshole: "Give me all your money, you don't need to eat, sleep, or live. If you don't, you're not cool like me!"

So sick of dropping asshole companies because of idiots constantly pushing this garbage. Oh well.

"But I was trained in management school to think of people as nothing more than numbers! It's not my fault!" - corpo piece of shit.

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