BATTLEBORN GETS MICROTRANSACTIONS

it at least used to have no microtransactions going for it. used to.

I've been checking their forums/sub even before release, a part of me takes pleasure from knowing that there's people out there more miserable than me.

It's the saddest most hilarious thing I've seen.

we must save stillborn! quick someone make lewds!

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Aren't cash shops a thing you put in when you have a huge userbase? You know, to trick the idiots that are playing your game? So idiot 1 buys a skin, idiot 2 sees the skin, buys a skin of his own, etc? It's not something you do when your game is steadily dying because you thought it was a good idea to release the same fucking game as Blizzard at the same time.

Could you post some screencaps?

Reason why GTA thrives on them, whereas most F2P games die with them

The constant theme really seems to be brand recognition. It's almost like no-name can't get away with the same business tactics as industry giants like Rockstar and Blizzard.

How much deader can a ded game get?

From what I've heard it's actually very different from Overwatch, but looking similar, releasing practically at the same time and Ubisoft doing nothing to present it as different is what did it in. Good riddance really.

Ubisoft? nothing of value was lost

Er, GearBox, my bad.

Visit their plebbit. They are mixed with sheer anger or sheer denial and it is fucking incredible.

EAT SHIT BITCHFORD.

F2P within the year

reddit.com/r/Battleborn/comments/4o7vko/so_after_a_day_of_thought_im_actually_pretty_upset/

THE SAME WILL HAPPEN TO OVERBOTCH, CAP THIS

Jesus fucking Christ, Pitchford, this isn't how you revive a game with an already-dead playerbase.

What a fucking surprise.

It already has them you monkey

didn't this fail miserably? Why in the world are they worried about microtransactions when nobody is even playing the game?

Leave.

Maybe they'll do what all failed/failing games do: Release their shit in Gookland because the Chinese gobble up every last bit of poop the West shits out anyway.

I don't think so with this one. The game is just bait. They don't have a solid foundation gameplay wise, most of the characters are extremely unappealing, the graphics are meh… really I can't really think of a single thing this game does right.

They need to work on rebalancing everything and making the game more enticing than focus on microtransactions at this point.

bait=bad*

Payday 2 / Overkill was pretty fucking no name and they "robbed" their playerbase blind. There was a shit ton of backlash but all those microtransactions still made money.

That and Stillborn takes up 50gb. Overwatch in comparison takes up 30gb and seems to have less intensive system requirements.

Honestly it's weird how Gearbox seems to be the equivalent of The Asylum or other chinese bootleg companies, where they release something lesser in closer proximity to what people actually want, like Borderlands released after Destiny, or now Stillborn compared to overwatch

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50 gigs!?!

Geez man, what in the world.

Well, you've got to gouge the money of the remaining customers that are still playing, even though Overwatch exists. Liquidation is a viable option.

That's what makes no sense, it doesn't even look better than TF2, and that came out almost 10 years ago. Even Overwatch doesn't really look that better.

My Overwatch installation only takes up 6 GB, not 30.

Battleborn is effectively Evolve 2.0 at this point.

Battleborn apparently has, in their own words, "more audio than Borderlands 1 and 2 combined". now whether that means more lines of dialogue or literally more gigs of it because it's uncompressed I don't know.

That makes it even worse at this point. I can't think of anyone who would download 50gbs just to play a multiplayer shooter unless it had some extras or a tacked on singleplayer.

Is that why it takes up so much space? Still, what a waste. Especially since it costs $20 more than overwach

Game's already ded, so they decided to get as much money out of the few whales as possible. Maybe they're transitioning to F2P to get back some return on this turd.

I really wish people wouldn't compare the two. Not only do I suspect that it's a meme pushed to smash fanboys together like it's console wars but the two are nothing alike aside from being cartoony FPS with character abilities. They play completely differently. One is a full-on CRAPCUNTS and the other is a TF2 ripoff with a couple ASSFAGGOTS elements sprinkled on.

Which character? The generic nigress, the donut steel clone of the generic nigress, or the mushroom thing?

yeah, how the fuck is this going to save it?

how about that 4 armed witch girl that ashley burch voices?

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The robot.

They are already broke. Might as well. Not like someone is going to sue them.

but her face makes her look old

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Beat me to it, user.

Meanwhile, Overwatch gets bigger by the day. I really don't know why GBX thought they could compete with it.

No matter how shit your life may get user, always remember that you'll never be Anthony Burch.

Not necessarily, user. A larger userbase certainly increases the chances you have of finding punters to drop cash in the game, but what a lot of these shops rely on (mobile games especially) are whales who either have too much disposable income and don't give a fuck or not enough common sense and spend hundreds a month or more on your shitty digital goods.

And deal with all of the odd censorship rules and millions of other Chinese games that already exist? If you think it's Stillborn over here, it'd die in the womb if they try to send it to China.

Christ, just slap it next to the Ogre Asari from ME:A and use them both to induce vomiting in a poison control ward.

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Am I the only one hoping this shit loses more people than it probably has thanks to the microtransaction update? After the shit Gearbox did with Dook and Ayyliens they have it coming.

What was Battleborn again?

A video game.

This is golden.

an attempt at a successor to super monday night combat
in a depressing sort of way they succeeded

Do it have 60tick as least?

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Does Overwatch already have microtransactions? Those loot boxes?

Tbh if it was F2P from the start i might have had an actual chance to compete against overwatch.

You buy or grind for lootboxes for purely cosmetic items. Mainwhile all new heroes, maps and gamemodes will be 100% free for everyone (no season passes or DLC)

If the only thing you've seen regarding either is the commercials, which didn't show gameplay for either, they'd almost might as well be the same game, even the titles are hard to keep straight. I know this is how I saw it when the tv ads were running, and I'd imagine the same goes for others. The only reason I know there's any difference now is that I looked into them simply out of curiosity whether two different developers really did make practically the same game at the same time, that would have been funny.

Still, they ended up similarly unappealing to me gameplay-wise, so in a way that just kinda made them the same game again. Ultimately, the biggest difference to me is that one went with more generic character designs but did them relatively better, and the other tried to be more creative but screwed them up one way or the other every time. For example, might have been cool without that ugly face and less weirdly proportioned stretched-out limbs.

This game has a fucking season pass
And none of the cash shop shit is included

Jesus christ I almost feel sorry for that guy that shits up the overwatch thread

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> No, it's a good game and YOU just don't get it!

holyfuckingshit that's something to behold.

Weren't Borderlands 1 and 2 successful? Why'd they make this game nobody asked for instead of Borderlands 3? I'd have actually been somewhat interested in that. Potentially very interested if they finally fixed a few things, I still think the basic Borderlands concept has the potential to be truly good.

Well whatever, if they don't want to finally make a good Borderlands then they might as well go out of business.

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they did make B3 and it was piss of shit
written by Cucktony "not even gay niggers want to fuck me" Cuckch too

and Shitbron is not bad because of mta its just bad overall, even effects is so badly done and overly bright that it's hard to look at that shit for a duration of a trailer

You might be laughing, but Overwatch being the big hit it is means just more shitty games for the low standard consumers.

None will survive
Same reason all the assfaggots clones and mmos died fast

None of this matters anyway because its just a genera of game that doesnt change whole markets

I never even saw a webm of this game, have no idea what its like.
Zero interest in these shitty cartoony FPS games for gay kids like TF2

It only gets funnier over time.