"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games
"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games
Borderlands 4 cost way more to make than Borderlands 3, says Randy Pitchford, but he can't say how much it will cost players
Who asked Gearbox to spend twice the budget on it? Also, many AAA games are way too long these days.
Who asked Gearbox to spend twice the budget on it?
Randy, obviously.
I wonder why the games lately have such bad sales. Could it be increasing the price while providing less and less non-filler content? Nah, probably just not enough lootboxes.
The fucking greediness of these people is amazing. Record profits are not enough, they gotta milk every last cent out of people.
And before someone comes at me with inflation, have you noticed that the user base is much larger than in the 80s? And that many of the companies are having record profits?
In a world where a lot of triple A games are not even worth $60, I'll wait for the reviews.
And the sales!
Maybe a cheap bundle
I recently reinstalled BL3 for a bit and I think I spent more time downloading it (like 100gb for unknown reasons) than I did playing it.
The pacing is bad. Too much walking around or listening to people talk, not enough doing stuff.
The itemization is kind of bad. Like yeah there's millions of guns but most of them are trash, and looking through a dozen to compare [damage, clip size, reload speed, etc] in that fucking awful UI is tedious.
The gameplay is kind of bad. Most things don't really react to being shot. It's just shield and HP sponges.
They haven't really changed much since like the first game launched in like 2009. That's like 15 years. Still basically the same game.
It'll probably sell a bunch of copies because of the brand, and a lot of people are low information, but I don't think it'll be good.
Gearbox is stepping into AAAA territory here. Gotta compete with Ubis*ft.
Such CEO bravery
Oof.. Sounds like it's gonna flop massively then.
In my opinion, the only good thing that's come out of that franchise was the Telltale games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WzX_bEUQRQWow, that's one of a take. I'm curious, what makes you think that way?
Which part? That Telltale made the best Borderlands game? Or that Borderlands 4 is going to flop?
I visited "Tales from the Borderlands" steam page 1½ hour ago, around the time I wrote that comment, and I saw some reviews that highlighted Gearbox horrible new EULA which is very privacy invasive. Combined with the franchise's recent flop, the movie, I'm not certain many people are willing to to pay $80 for practically spyware.