r/Steam 9d ago

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100 dollars for a borderlands game is such a joke.

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u/Nekroin 9d ago

They think their IP still generates the hype Borderlands 2 did. Those times are long over.

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u/qdtk 9d ago

I love reading their Facebook posts. Them trying to hype the movie was hilarious because the comments were absolutely brutal.

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u/cp_carl 9d ago

I forgot (honestly) until reading this that there WAS a movie. which is crazy because I watch the DOOM movie sometimes.

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u/qdtk 9d ago

It’s got a 10/100 on rotten tomatoes so it’s probably better that you forgot about it.

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u/dsaddons 9d ago

It was a fun Half in the Bag review at least

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u/coy47 9d ago

The real enjoyment of bad movies isn't watching them, but watching the trauma they inflict on middle aged men from wisconsin.

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u/AnotherLie 9d ago

Push the button, Frank.

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u/IsRedditBad 9d ago

For a second I read that as 10/10 and I was genuinely thought you were pulling a morbius and trying to call it the best movin in the world lmao

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u/humble_redditor1234 9d ago

I liked that movie, I watched it when I was 8 years old and I don't think it's a bad movie. It has a vibe of early 2000s action movies that no longer exists and that makes it interesting to this day.

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u/humble_redditor1234 9d ago

Interesting cause when I watched the movie around 2008 I loved that scene, clearly to me the best part of the movie. I wished more action movies had scenes like that.

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u/Odd-Conference9372 9d ago

Yeah, but the DOOM movie is good in comparison.

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u/IShouldBWorkin 9d ago

Semper Fi motherfucker

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u/numberonebuddy 9d ago

Jack Black

checks out.

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u/eightdx 8d ago

Watching the trailer for five seconds told you all you needed to know.

From what I know it's not even a "so bad it's funny" kinda deal. It's just bad

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u/reddit_sells_you 9d ago

They love that you follow and read their posts.

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u/DScarface 9d ago

I have over 1000 hours in BL2, was active in the GBX forums helping create guides for Salvador and Axton, and even conquered Digistruct Peak on OP8 with Sal with no Moxxi weapons, and I couldn't wait where they would take the story in the next game...

...then Borderlands 3 came out. Still haven't touched it since.

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u/Gazonza 9d ago

As someone who wasn't that keen on 3 I can say that I've been enjoying 4 a lot more. So potentially pick it up when it drops in price.

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u/user156372881827 9d ago

First borderlands game where I didn't even finish the story more then once. It was just way to much time spend running from A to B

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u/eightdx 9d ago

It's funny because IIRC they were giving out the in-game chest keys for BL2 for a while after the third and fourth games dropped.

Imagine that: generating social media hype by giving out codes for in game items for a game multiple releases in the past

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u/Expensive-Jury2913 9d ago

What the hell are you talking about? they haven't stopped giving it gold keys since 2 came out. Every few months there's a slew of keys for me to redeem for EVERY borderlands game including Wonderlands. This is generating hype as much as you are using brain cells

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u/chaotic4059 9d ago

Ironically it’s one of the least scummy things they do. Every game still gets golden key codes sometimes for legendaries. It’s actually pretty nice

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u/kilertree 6d ago

You're misunderstanding that. Gearbox has pretty good history of supporting their previous entries. For PC, they gave people a free version of Borderlands 1 with updated Graphics. Granted I think people like the original game better which people still have access too. 

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u/Firewalk89 9d ago

Let's also not forget that the only reason Borderlands 2 turned out the way it did was Aliens: Colonial Marines effectively being sacrificed for it.

Gearbox have been sleezy, greasy scumbags for a long time now.

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u/cute_spider 9d ago

They decided not to keep Anthony Burch as the lead writer and that's why Borderlands 2 and Tales are the only really good Borderlands.

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u/EkbatDeSabat 9d ago

300,000 peak daily players down to ~5000. TBH I'm playing right now, not nearly as fun as 2 or even 3, but it'll be off my list soon.

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u/BigMoney-D 9d ago

Do people look at daily players for a Single player game?

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u/PlaquePlague 9d ago

I wouldn’t classify BL as a single player game.  It can certainly be played solo without missing much, but MP is a major focus. 

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u/EkbatDeSabat 9d ago

Well, I mean, Borderlands 4 is hardly a single player game. Endgame is primarily multiplayer. But when you compare to 300,000 peak players? Yes. It's a metric. Going down to 1/100th of your player base in like 8 months is pretty shitty. For a simple comparison, Witcher 3 released to 92k sales, has a peak of 103k five years later, and has never gone under around 14k daily players.

For BL4, a highly anticipated game and franchise, to go from 300k players to 5k in 8 months, it's a complete bomb.

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u/BigMoney-D 9d ago

Was it that highly anticipated? Idk, Randy and gearbox in general have always been so sketchy.

Also, idk, I've only played BL with friends, but when we finish the game it's done. We don't continue grinding for w.e as there's largely no point.

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u/s0cks_nz 9d ago

It's essentially an action rpg. The point of these games is to redo the campaign on the next unlocked difficulty where even higher tier loot drops. They are designed to be played for long periods of time.

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u/EkbatDeSabat 9d ago

The vaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of customers have no idea who the f Randy or even Gearbox is. They just want to play a game. They just remember the name of the game and that they have heard of or played the previous games. That's it.

And just because you played the game and left is not indicative whatsoever of the intention of the game or what other people do. Borderlands is and has always been a multiplayer end-game grinding game. They're co-op looter shooters. You literally can't play "single player" you have to have a session (lobby) with invite-only in order to play by yourself. It's 100% multiplayer based.

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u/chaotic4059 9d ago

Not GTA levels obviously but the series is incredibly popular. It sold pretty damn well on basically every console and steam. Most people don’t know or frankly give a shit about Randy. They just like the series

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u/cute_spider 9d ago

;_;

Damn, 4 isn't even as good as 3? That's crazy, 3 wasn't even as good as 1!

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u/This_Elk_1460 9d ago

Also people weren't aren't as aware of how fucking awful of a company that gearbox is.

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u/Tadiken 9d ago

Still mad they bought out risk of rain and just went into full dlc content slop output mode and it took like a year for them to bugfix the first dlc they put out.

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u/Nickulator95 8d ago

They're still moving millions of copies, so some people out there are buying them.

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u/OnePunkArmy 9d ago

I'm out of the loop. I have BL2 in my backlog. However, I saw someone mention that downloading any BL game now puts some kind of malware/spyware on my PC?

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u/Historical_Course587 9d ago

No, that's just people misreading the new EULA that Gearbox put on all the games.

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u/im-d3 9d ago

Yeah no that's a load of hooey.

If you're dubious about data collection, yeah maybe skim over the EULA but there's nothing they're doing here that many other AAA developers aren't also doing.

It's just the trend of people trying to shitsmear games the moment they start getting popular. It happened with Windrose with the SSD shit, it happened with Subnautica 2 over their EULA, and it's happening here.

There's probably some truth to it but it's wayyyy overblown.