Chronicle of an end foretold: Battleborn goes Free-To-Play

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Well, we all saw this one coming. The question is, why the fuck they didin't do ths sooner?

Wew

The question is, who the fuck cares? sage

Oh god, I'll admit I kinda want to see what horrors lie in this game.

Because Randy is too arrogant.

Any bets gentlemen?

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if it went free to play sooner I think they'd have to buy back all of the unsold copies for more.

Fuck off Randy.

It will get a surge of new players like who will drop it after 1 week at most.

Wew.

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I wouldn't play this garbage even it they paid me to do it.

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The fuck is that logo even supposed to be?

Holla Forums FR*CKING BTFO

Also can someone get caps from Randy's tweeter, there's bound to be some hilarous shit there because of this

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That Jack Frost avatarfag who played over 300 hours must be ecstatic right now, not knowing it's going to plummet down in about a week or so.

Reminder that the average number of people playing this shit in May was 82.

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A "fuck you" to the audience maybe?

>Still can't.

What happened?

The game went free to play literally an hour ago nigger.

Even if they get 20 more players it's bound to become evolve 2.0

afaik it was 90% off or something and they had a small reddit community event(unofficial)

POST YFW YOU ARE NOT RANDY PITCHFORD, GEARBOX, OR ANTHONY BURCH

I'm sorry Randy, but you can't.

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I think they put it at a huge discount and put out an update that added a character and changed a shitton of miscellaneous stuff like not having to unlock characters anymore. Which for the record, why the flaming fuck did you have to unlock characters before, what purpose does it serve.

To be honest it's not even funny to laugh at, just sad to see.

TINY HANDS RUSSIAN PUPPET DRUMF XD

DURPLE TURPF

TWO SCOOPS

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So Burch, Pitchford or Jake Rapp?

I'm glad I'm neither

It's funny to shit on the game and all, but it's been free to play quite literally for 1 or 2 hours. Anyone mildly interested hasn't even had the time to find or download it.

Where is the Rule 34 that Randy promised

Someone post a pic of Randy's face. I have a plan.

Didn't Burch have (I'm sorry) on his twitter name a while ago, and also "said something like I wrote x, please don't hate it". Randy might be a faggot but on twitter he still argues for himself, he still isn't as pathetic as burch

Also we don't have as many you're not randy threads as Burch ones

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Fuck Jake, marry Burch, kill Randy

Found one. Did an edit.

Battleborn had like 500 players last i checked, half are devs?
I admire that they are still trying to save it after all this time.

ZUZ

They had barely 200

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Why did that retard even take that pic? Who takes pictures of themselves in a toilet stall?

autism

Battleborn is so shitty that if you used its box art covers as wallpaper, burglars would leave after breaking in because they would realize there's nothing worth stealing.

attentionwhores who think we need to see their dumb ass on the toilet

Also I wrote this in a lol thread but it got deleted, apparently Battleborn was 3 cents on PSN in my country a whiile ago

I guess he finally found a way of stopping people from playing his game.

I guess he found a way

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He's ugly but jeez he can do better than a pile of lard

Someone send him this

battleborn has decent gameplay mechanic wise just ass characters/story/studio.
better then paladins has anyhow right under overwatch.
main issue is there is a lot of bloat to everything retards would get overwhelm with items/character specs and everyone abilities etc.
between battleborn beta and overwatch beta I played for almost 2 days straight battleborn wise unlocking stuff which was pretty nice. but in the end overwatch one cause it is a lot simpler to play and everyone jumped onto that over high cost battleborn and dlc pack and shit paladins.

So it finally happened?
Why exactly do they think this is smart when Paladins already grabbed the f2p market?

good one

THE SHEER BADASSNESS!

Well, that's twice the players there was 60 minutes ago.

It's likely they were contractually obligated to give it one year as a normal retail game before trying the F2P model.


The higher it goes the better. We want the fanboys and Randy himself to get their hopes up before it crashes. Like with Evolve, Star Citizen and lots of other games, they are people who've "invested" a lot of time and money into it as well as countless posts defending it. Most people just abandon a game that isn't fun and just accept they wasted time or money on it but fanboys are in it for the long haul.


He's a gay magician. Gay men like him often get an obese wife as a "beard". She is probably physically incapable of sex due to her extreme size and so it's nice and safe for Randy. She gets the status of having a non-obese husband and hopes most people don't realise she's nothing but a beard.

Holy shit, HiRez is sending people here now? They must be getting that desperate.

LMAO.

Actually shit's worse now, they are at 100 players most of the time

Wow, fellow user who doesn't work at HiRez, you sure showed me.

Stay triggered, Pozcatcher.

Despite not being a virgin - I walk the virgin walk in every way, minus listening to music.

Those are completely different numbers. Blizzard counts people who logged in in a month(that's what they did with WoW numbers, not really sure about Overwatch), steamcharts counts people who logged in an hour

"30 million players" is meaningless if at most 20k are online most of the time. Every MMO there is claims there are 10m users or whatever but usually there's under 1000 users online at all times. Dota 2 is probably the second most popular game next to League of Legends, and that game has 13 million players a month and over 900,000 players online according to very easily trackable numbers at all times. If I had to guess, that's just the number of people who own the game.


It went F2P an hour or two ago, give it a day, it'll probably peak at 1000 tomorrow if I had to give a rough figure.


Wow loser, do you also virgin sit?

what are you trying to show me its no where near 30 million copies of overwatch.

Those are concurrent players you dumb faggot, right at that moment when he took that picture, there were 37,000 players playing Paladins on Steam. Blizzard doesn't show numbers like that, only shit like copies sold. Paladins has 10,000,000 claimed "licenses" (someone clicked "Play Game" on steam, adding the game to their library) on PC alone.

But how can he lift?

You don't understand brah, only fellow Chads do.

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just means 9,960,000 people don't like paladins

Do you actually think that 30,000,000 players are playing Overwatch right at this moment? Players in the last two weeks is over 1,300,000.
Overwatch players are fucking brain damaged I swear. Why the fuck does this shit even matter? We're discussing which shitty normalfag game has more players.

no, it's the number of separate PC's from which all Battlenet accounts have been accessed to play the game.

So it's just that, the number of people who own the game. Overwatch is on console as well FYI.

If i bought a single OW unit and installed it at four separate pc's, work, uni, home, gradma's house, does that mean i own four OW games or that i simply used four different pc's to play a single game?
Dumb cunt.

Blunderborn game night when tbh :^)

Meanwhile…

Didn't that game got fucked over by some retarded corporate shenanigans?

ok look at it this way if paladins had 10 million people click on it played it and stop playing it and the only avg 20-30k avg a day that is a huge Drop off point for players wanting to stay.

Fuck off Overwatch defender.

get use to overwatch its gonna be around for quite some time

There's something really wrong with overwatch players. It's like sonic, it attracts the worst of the worst

my sweet, summer child…


Sonic fandom are good, passionate lads, don't compare to this shitpile.

Ha HA! Get fucked Pitchford.

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It works both ways faggot. The number of people who OWN the game is not the same as the number of people who REGULARLY PLAY the game and number of players active at any time does not correlate with how many people in total play regularly.
I used to think that any game should be allowed to discuss but with people like you, I get the "cancer magnet" thing, you don't even bother starting your sentence with a capital letter. I expect some form of quality posting from an imageboard.

This, we should all go and play Paladins instead.
Maybe that will teach Randy a thing or two.

The worse part and most jewish feature of overwatch is that it keeps a good population still subbed to WoW, not because those people still play WoW but because you can buy WoW tokens using gold then use those fucking things to give your self blizzard spacebucks to whale in Overwatch giving blizzard an extra 5 bucks for every transaction. Inflates WoW sub numbers, while making raking in mad profits. This is ultimate Jewry, yet Overwatch players still act smug as if they're some fucking hot shit while this occurs under their noses.

Anyways I still can't understand the appeal of these games, shooters haven't added anything innovating in years, they're all basically the same especially these MOBA shooters. Titanfall is the only game where I saw something new and interesting and yet I never bothered touching it since I dislike having Origin installed. Destiny 2 is gonna be the same uninnovating shit as it was before, Warframe actually looks decent and fun if it wasn't a f2p cashshop game.

Also, Pitchford is fucking stupid if he thinks he can get away with adding a cashshop and get money. If he hasn't added one already.

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They are cattle.
Paladins is super fun and has a lot of soul.

#triggered

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Having one of the characters scream 'feminism is awesome' is actually a really effective way of stopping certain groups from playing the game

Inb4 someone claims the comment was meant to be mocking feminism. That doesnt make marketting sense and is almost certainly damage control by the company

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The joke is that Oscar Mike kills a female character multiple times, and because of feminism and them being equal, they can kill each other.

The feminism comment occurs when you kill certain female character several times in a row, it's not character proclaiming his love for feminism as much as it is saying that "equal rights, equal lefts".
It's actually quite witty and funny.
Don't be a lemming like OW cattle itt.

That doesnt make marketing sense and is almost certainly damage control by the company.

Both of you are cancer to the fps and general gaming community.

All you need to do is play the game and see for yourself.
It's free now, after all.

LMFAO!

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Who is this semen demon?

Inuyasha's mom.

I'm downboating it to see the disaster through my own eyes. Wish me luck lads.

Once the redditors and normalfags find a new FotM, Kaplan's next.

Is the singleplayer coop fun?

Jokes on you, I know that Inuyasha is a half-demon born from a human mother.

Human's don't have horns!

Quoted for truth!

Just a pic I found, on one of the sites on this thread's OP, >>>/late/5684 . Not sure which one though.

That actually looks like a comfy board.

heh ok so f2p mode is pretty garbage to say the least.
you get the first story mission and versus against bots only.
so save yourself the download there is no point unless you buy the game or wait till they further unlock the game cause no one bought the game

Just play Paladins instead.
You get everything for free there.

Fix the goddamned hitboxes!

It's a feature not a bug.
Ow's are several magnitude worse.

I'd rather fucking kill myself then play paladins

Thanks for proving all CRAPCUNTS players are Redditors.

It's a really neat game and the community is nice, you should give it a chance.
It's also poz free compared to Overwatch.

I'm not a redditor, I've been here for three years.

m8 now that Essence has been implemented making a new account is a fucking nightmare regarding the grind. They did all this to fuck up the 0.01% whales who were sitting on mountains of money who complained on leddit.

I've played two of its alphas its beta, its release, and three weeks ago. early alphas where ok the closer it got to release thou its basically a knock off of battleborn and overwatch and does both parts poorly

If you got the skill, you don't need the cards, besides, it's your fault for not playing the game since it first came out, you would have 150000+ essence right now.
git gud.

That game tried to push dx10 when it was vista only in a market that was still 95% xp.

And here we see a Pozwatcher in his natural modus operandi.

ok scratch that early post you need to reach rank 3 before you can battle other players

Cool optimization though.

nah fuck overwatch
forcing you to play a game a day to keep your Rank. least 7 games a week i think
Matches revolve around who gets the game thrower/cancer.
forced meta levels of asspain players who throw games if you aren't play what they like.
why would I play overwatch when ffxiv is getting stormblood in a week

Actually nope, OW are slightly better, don't kid yourself.

SHIT! you need to get a bigger HDD or at least cleanup a little.

Hi-Rez has been ass fucking Paladins to be worst every patch since OB43 (CB 32 if you wanna be that guy), so it will likely get some players. Hell only reason I'm check this trash out is to see how it plays. Just going through some training and a vs AI so far. Its.. Interesting

Maybe this release will make HiRez stop trying to turn the game into tribes 2.0

It hurts every time, user.
We will never go fast again until Midair goes to open beta in November.

Source?

Alright
Hmm. Seems like you'd rather have cancer than aids then.

Don'r worry, Hi-Rez boys wont fuck this one up.

Overwatch is also way fucking slower. I don't even want to think about fighting a good evie with an accurate hitbox.

Does it still run like shit?

The game would be terrible if it had 1:1 hitbox, as would OW.

Surprisingly not that bad, I can run it fine where OW is a struggle even on lowest possible settings.

I am not asking for 1:1 hitboxes, but something that resembles a model hitbox instead of a huge cube.

Would an oval satisfy you or something? In practice paladins is about what you would expect, in low-med ping games the hit boxes are rarely weird. None of that "shoot around the corner and kill people hiding " bullshit.

oh man, what a fucking surprise! who would have guessed?

it's almost as if this kind of game is made for children and retards

How long until Goybox start paying people to play it?

I don't like overwatch. I find it boring
BUT STOP WITH THIS FUCKING PERPETUATION OF "ANITA SKIN" AND GET SOME FUCKING /fa/ IN YOU

I want to fuck maeve while she does her accent tell me you have porn user


hitboxes are not the problem, projectiles are. Namely, the arrows/ crossbow bolts

There's nonita to be upset.

at first I thought, who would put a giant blue pillow on an orange couch. and then reality set in

Paladins is a thinking mans hero shooter.

I have Overwatch and it's no better than Paladins. (Unless you count the Valve tier changes to the maps as deep lore.)

I do like the mushroom wizard though. He should be a generic enemy in a much better game.

Does anyone have webm of Randy singing about bigots? I tried webming it but it's way too fucking slow

Well, there is your problem. It's the porn that really matters.

Did you buy it too only to maintain a connection with childhood friends because you live on the other side of the country due to your job and they genuinely believe OW is a good game?

The game isn't really that bad, but it's really like Evolve: kinda nice basic ideas, some good design but it falls flat by fucking up bunch of basic core stuff. Evolve did the whole "platform for DLC + esports bullshit", Battleborn did poor performance while aesthetics looked technically mediocre and being tonally a clusterfuck. They couldn't sell it, there wasn't a gameplay hook or a clear story for the players to latch onto.

DUNFNAFNL DUDNFGH

I actually agree with this. The game could have been good, but they somehow fucked EVERYTHING up.
What audience where they going for to being with? One half of the game is esports bait multiplayer for the now Overwatch crowd, the other half was this awful PvE mode that was supposed to get Borderlands fans to like the game, I guess?
The singleplayermode was required to get certain items that you had to grind for, so if you only wanted to play multiplayer you're fucked.
And on the multiplayer side everything was fucked. The ASSFAGGOTS like mode that had these spider sentries that acted as turrets and the sniper guy could just snipe that turret down from you own base and the enemy team could do nothing about it. You could also hide behind a ledge, still shoot over it but be hidden behind the ledge for anyone from the other side, so you could shoot them and they couldn't shoot back at all.
Performance was fucking awful, I really don't understand who approved the artstyle they chose, the writing is bad and the game was the most unbalanced multiplayer game I've ever played.
Everything about this game was fucking awful.

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Alright so in the spirit of objectivity i downloaded this F2P game and to no ones surprise it's complete shit.
Without paying you gain access to: the prologue of campaign mode
Novice Bot Games
(Starting at account level 3) PVP
To access operations you need to purchase them from the store page and campaign is only available if you pay out 30 bucks for the UPGRADE package.
The currency to pay for characters has a low drop rate it seems, you get about 400 currency a game while a new character cost upwards from 35,000, bot matches finish

I dunno, I played most of my matches as the rocket eagle and it was pretty fun. I liked the mobility and the challenge of leading your slow ass rockets effectively. Games like these seem to depend massively on what kind of characters you play. The big buffy dude with minigun was boring as fuck.

OH SHIT RANDY WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU

Seriously they have no self awareness, that's called discrimination. I don't think they really grasp what that means.

Christopher Sabat does the voice of the edgelord, still sounds exactly like Vegeta.

Heh.

Is there a full pic?

What compelled you to give Randy the benefit of the doubt? Do you gas a Jew or do you gas a Jew?

That's the Joss Whedon school of writing though, and every leftist cocksucker this side of the galaxy seems fascinated with the putrid pile of shit for whatever reason.

I just wish Gearbox would die for good already.

I felt that if I could get it for free without having to torrent and then tinker withI might as well do so, it's the same reason I installed Evolve before it was abandoned by 2K, I wanted to see it for myself to form my own conclusion.

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I can't stand the art style. It looks incoherent, like if a bunch of concepts from cancelled projects were slapped together. None of the characters or the maps feel like they belong into the same universe.

The thing with the characters, factions and maps all come down to each of them having their own planet.

That's not a fair comparison. The game's playerbase has risen from 100 to 1500 in one day, give it a few more and it's probably going to have 2-5k.

Randy Pitchford probably has too big of an ego to have wanted to do this sooner. After all, "Free-to-Play" carries a dogma of being generally lame, microtransaction-filled shit. The only exception to this is the game that arguably made the F2P model popular, TF2.

Of course Blunderborn looks fairly appropriate as a generally lame F2P shovelware title. After all, they couldn't even fucking sell it brand new for 10 dollars on a discount rack

That rise in playerbase is most likely do to people trying it out who were curios to see just how shit it is. After the initial f2p hype dies down so will the numbers again

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Jesus fuck. Randy even looks like he has a JUST cut. That's not shooped is it?

How much work on Battleborn did Burch do? Because if it was less than any, I may actually try the game.

Burch already did too much work on this game for it to be worth it

Marry Jake, fuck Burch, kill Pitchford

you misspelled "cuck", dubsman

He is deteriorating quickly.

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Most likely contractual obligations. It's also likely 2K's decision and not Gearbox's. They did something similar with Evolve a year later.

It did have 1-2 good waifus though

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these are hilarious

what is rockabilly

Have you people never seen a movie that's set in the 1950s?

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It's amazing how little bait it takes with each passing day

MY AUTISM
IT HUNGERS

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Woops
Selvedge line*

IS IT THAT HARD TO BUY PROPER PANTS FOR A PHOTOSHOOT

REEE

We're reaching critical autism levels here.

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Apparently there's still a tiny glimmer of humanity left somewhere deep within a sea of jadedness because this video simply makes me feel sorry for the guy.

Did he actually ever do anything malicious or is he just an autistic dumbass?

What the hell is wrong with her proportions? Something about her legs are really offputting.

You're as cucked as Randy, don't you worry

I'd say he's an autistic jackass who is also malicious for various other reasons.

wow, look at the new kid trying to be edgy and cool, trying to fit in
too cool, bro. way to set an example.

Birch, go back to bad dragon warehouse.

*forgot sage
and to mention overpaladins also shit

Portuguese poster is that you?
I've been gone from Holla Forums so long I have no idea if you're still around.

I like you, autistic silly boy.
We need more correctness in this world.

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p. cute but I like my men uncropped

contract would make sense, since they did it a year after. if they could jump to free to play right away the physical distributors would be mad.

I gave this game three hours.

If there is one thing I could praise, its that it runs really well.

That's a new thing. In beta and during release didn't play the release, so not 100% sure if it was fixed, but I don't think so the game ran like shit. I barely got 60 fps on a [email protected]/* */ and a gtx 970.

Sometimes suggestion is better than explicit presentation.

jesus fucking christ


discrimination is fine as long as they discriminate against people that don't agree with them HUWITE MAAAELS

Have you not played a modern game in recent years? Like Grand Theft Auto 5 is like 49 GB

lack of compression is a good way to filter players out. i've skipped buying and pirating a couple games just because i have a slow connection and they didn't seem worth the bother.
needless to say i'm not going to bother trying this.

True. nuDoom is like 80 gigs or something and doesn't even have that much dialogue, unique animations or cutscenes.

That said, it does decrease the likelihood that it's going to stay on people's hard drives. I haven't played Paladins in a while, but I allowed it to remain because it took something like 6 gigs.

There's less of an incentive to invest heavily into compression since most people have really big hard drives on both PC and on console. In the past you had to fit the entire game on a single disk on console so that limited how big you could make the game/how pretty and you had to compress it. Now that's less of a factor due to digital sales and people are now used to installing games on console which unpack the game a lot more onto the hard drive.

Playing a modern game? I hardly have the time to play the older games.
In fact the biggest games I've had on my drive in recent years were probably Ark: dinofucking evolved and Arma 3, of which I deleted because I play neither.


We're getting to the point where it will be more economically feasible to buy the game already on 256GB SD cards than to keep investing in more hard drive space. We're coming full circle.

Why not just say "equal rights, equal lefts?" Is it because Randy is unfunny?

Deleting shit is for fags.

Holy power consumption Batman, do you use all of those?

Randy, pls.

Made me chuckle, the power needed to play 10 minutes of playing Nier Automata on my r9 390 can probably power these hard drives for weeks

Randy has a toilet fetish.

Its like pottery !

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RAID sounds nice and all, but the more drives you have in parity, the less you have for redundancy, and the larger the parity is, the longer it takes to rebuild when a drive DOES fail, the longer it takes to rebuild the higher the likelihood of losing all data while it's rebuilding because there's a corrupt sector.

Sure but some redundancy is better than none at all