Not. My. Problem

Not. My. Problem.

Weird Al is getting a cameo in the next game?

this shit reminds me of "people will have a second job to own a ps3"
and then fucking boom the ps3 is 299 in 2009
vote with your wallet would work only if voting was allowed to 90+IQ people and whites only

How can poors afford $60 games but $80 breaks their backs?

Borderlands fell off after the 2nd game. No nvidia physx effects, no sexy sirens, no handsome jack-tier villains. Just mid.

Real Borderlands fans stopped playing after 2, and we know Borderlands 1 was the best of them all.

You aren't a REAL fan if you don't want to pay exorbitant prices for things

Hmm, reminds me of the anime industry and their need to gouge people for DVDs. How did that go again? People didn't pay for shit, pirated, waited for episodes to be aired on TV, recorded and shared with friends? Man, who could have imagined. Can't wait for the industry to crash and burn. They can't even look at the other examples of this happening and try to do something about it, its always "It could never happen to US". Everyone called it too, when they were obviously starting to do shit to prevent game sharing, third party sales and other bullshit, people knew they were going to raise prices. They can get fucked. Current day Indie games are better then the slop they put out and for much cheaper.

It’s all Nintendo’s fault

Serious question, do you people not have jobs? $80 is nothing.

It is, but not in THAT way. The industry was already moving towards trying to increase the prices for games and hardware long before Nintendo finally folded and did it. It was just that Nintendo doing it and it being "accepted" let the rest of the industry know they were making the "right" decision and could get away with it. It won't take long before the industry has a massive shrink though. Even if people are willing to pay 80 bucks for games and 100 dollars for controllers and shit, it just means less money is spread around evenly. You'll get one company getting all of the sales and everyone else gets jack shit. The effect of costs increasing is that people spend less, always. The fact that companies don't understand this, even after hundreds of years of history to look at is laughable. We are at the start of the second great crash of the industry. Many devs are going to be declaring bankruptcy within the next ten years if they can't supplement their income. Some of them are at least this smart, since many are already saying they need to have 50 dollar games coming out in between the 80 dollar ones.

Doom Dark Ages fucked up first

i hate his hair so much holy shit

And it’s good they did it, because it’s accelerationism that will kill off more AAA studios quicker as normalfags are priced out of the hobby.

He’s right. I bought the 80 Stellar Blade version.
However I think hes in for a rude awakening. Haven’t the last few BLs been misses. Although this is a numbered game.

Why pay inflated prices for trash sequels with Day one planned DLC when there are so many better, cheaper games out there? You children and your FOMO…

look at this dude lmao the movie bombing did a number on him

At least 30% of the people that play games have no stable income and another 20% on top of that are living pay check to pay check. Even if they can afford multiple $80 games in 3 months time, they typically won't, unless they want to live off nothing but bread and water for that time. Even myself, who typically would buy 6 games in 6 months, stopped buying games for years even before the rumblings of possible price hikes began. There really is no reason to spend more then 40 on a game.

Borderlands 3 is an extremely fun game and Borderlands 4 probably will be too.

If Randy stopped trying to make people who think he's a stupid retard suddenly start liking him, the next game wouldn't have the dogshit story and characters it'll probably have.

20 dollar straw

Please don't make the game $80

I-if you're a real fan, you'll find a way to pay me!

Well then, guess I'm not a real fan. Oh well. I'll snag it when it hits 75% off like 3 and Wonderlands.
I'll only grab it day-1 if it's $60.

all the borderlands games (not the tales of, unless you like those games, in which case the first one is pretty good) are good games. it's just that Borderlands 3 the story and characters are steaming dogshit.

people might think it's overstated or exaggerated, but the BL3 story is an absolute mess from start to finish. it's clumsy and clunky, somehow both overwhelming and lackluster, and so many of the characters are fucking annoying. people played it though, because it's a really, really fun game.

BL4 looking like more of that, but seems to be at least fixing loot tables.

I'm a fat fuck and I sweat a lot which makes me uncomfortable in public spaces. That's why I don't go out much or like dancing. The sweating I had my whole life, it's not because I'm fat.

Always make me laugh when people tell me video games are expensive, the very same people will go out at a weekend and spend basically the same amount on drinks and a takeaway and not bat an eyelid.

I'm poor
that is like half a day of work
videogames are not worth that

My body is ready to pay $80 for video games. I want it so fucking bad.

I totally forgot there even was a movie.

Borderlands 3 is an extremely fun game

Fuck off retardshill

Several months of entertainment isn't worth working half a day?
Not him, your argument just sounds retarded.

Post yfw you aren't a real fan

I might've been willing to pay $80 in the past, but the quality of today's games makes them not even worth playing for free.

what do you mean you won't buy these chips for $50? what are you poor?

Oh, I'll make it happen. In a few years when the complete edition with all DLC bundled is like $20 or less on sale. Same as every other game I buy.

several months of entertainment

There is not a single $80 game that gives you several months of entertainment

I think he means in normal fag hours

I do in fact mean in normalfag hours.

The economy got worse as a whole. Food, rent and gas went up.

The balls in this guy. Borderlands 3 is on sale for like 90% off in perpetuity and its for a reason.

Borderlands 3 is an extremely fun game

do i need to remind you people of ava again?

This. I switched jobs to get a $90k pay raise.
I feel like I've moved nowhere economically and now work 3x as much as I did before.

Apparently social security checks are failing to go out now. Buckle up. If only you knew how bad things are going to get.

it's called inflation retard, it's normal
maybe try getting a job

Thank God I'm not a "real fan" of Bordershit. These games appeal to the same obnoxious brainlets that think Deadpool is the peak of comedy.

Ok? So buy 3 games instead of 4

The problem is that they're ramping the prices up too fast. Games just started being 70 bucks on average and they've barely given people time to adjust and now they're already jumping to 80 and Nintendo is already trying to float 90 for physical games. If they keep this shit up everyone is gonna start pirating, even normies without a clue will figure it out through necessity.

It's wild seeing just how much gamers kick and scream when reacting to basic fucking inflation.
They're smart enough to realize something isn't right, but still too retarded to put the pieces together and figure out that there's more to this than just "MUH VIDEO GAMES".

Shut the fuck up Trump, you fat orange faggot

This guys looks like such a retard faggot loser, i would love to see a BCS style tv show about him or somebody equally pathetic

How the fuck is Randy still employed? Dude must have some serious dirt on some other execs

Keep crying poor

The funny part about price inflation of DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION GAMES is that they're practically a magic money printer.
The only real issue is that AAA titles (and some AA titles) put the overwhelming majority of their budget into marketing when oftentimes, they could cut more than half of said budget and do just as well.

I interpreted this as him saying we should pirate it. I'm serious.

Isnt randy the guy that liked to get pissed on in womens bathrooms?

Didn't video game prices just barely increase to 70$ like a year ago? Why is it already 80$?

Genuine question: how are fans supposed to "make it happen"? Like what is this fag asking fans to do exactly?

thanks donny 2 dolls

I'm happy the prices are going up.

First, more expensive games means less black people in my matches. Tyrone is definitely not going to blow his Madden money on a similarly priced game. Second, it means people will actually think before they just throw cash at games that are obviously shit, but brand loyalty makes them pay anyway. Developers and publishers will actually have to make good games that entice people to spend that kind of money.

Kill themselves

Anon can you give us a brief of what terrible things this guy has done? I see people genuinely hate him everywhere

Thanks got confirming
Here's your karma plus reddit gold for communicating the issue

it is fun. the gunplay and vehicle combat improves massively on 2, just like 2 did on 1.
nope, see the gameplay of all 3 games is really good.

No, its that they are raising prices while offering less. If they had raised prices while showing that games were having more content, packed in DLC or just having more polish in general (games that don't have characters falling through the floor anymore, just because they walked up some stairs). Then people would be happy to pay. However, its been shown time and again that not only do games have LESS content, but they also have less polish and every single time someone on a dev team opens their mouth, they say how much they HATE the consumer. Why the fuck should I pay these bastards a single red cent when all they do is bad mouth me for asking that their absolute shit work run on my god damn super computer at 60 fps?

that's what you burgers get for voting Trump, if they're fucking over minorities then they're fucking you over too

Is randy jewish, he has a rather large nose.

I thought 3's gameplay kinda sucked because I was usually overpowered. I can't remember it ever getting challenging, even on higher mayhems.

How can you not afford $80 games? Like it’s only a little bit more money to spend on $100 games. Can’t you spare $120 for games? $140 isn’t asking for much!

How the fuck is Randy still employed?

He's the founder and CEO of the company. It's pretty hard to remove somebody who founded the company if they don't want to leave.

nothing too bad iirc. he got caught with porn on a usb at work once.

he's just seen as a big industry-head that was extremely cringe but who insisted that he was cool. stuck forever in 2010 media and humour, so naturally people bullied him

My food and gas went down, rent stayed the same. Try not living in an exploitative leftoid shit hole.

Unironically, this. The price increase was inevitable, although I genuinely believe that if Nintendo hadn't folded so quickly, we'd still have had another year of $60 games. Everyone knows that if EA, Ubisoft, or some shitty-ass company folded, nobody would be willing to increase the prices. But a bastion like Nintendo folding so quickly essentially opened up the floodgates and declared that, yes, you can increase the prices with no shame whatsoever.

Anyway, fuck Nintendo Japs for folding so quickly. Japanese jews are a lot scarier than the common jew.

Obviously by paying him more money by cutting it out of their food budgets.

Eventually the common man will get sick of millionaires telling him to just "make it work"

you'll find a way to make it happen

He's literally telling you to pirate and fuck the suits who decided that price tag ("not my call"). Unfathomably (without fathom) based.

Spotted the Nazi.

I'm still buying it from a shady russian grey market reseller.

he is consistently the most embarrassing part of the Borderlands brand and that's fucking saying something if you've ever heard any of the writing in those games

Randy unironically drifting back to based territory; he said that balance is for fags and fun matters most, then had to be corrected by suits to assure everyone that any OP guns will be nerfed.

Being OP isn't fun though, walking around instantly killing everything gets old fast.

lmfao thats really cringe

This.
Having something strong can be fun, but having something so bullshit good that it annihilates everything with no effort really isn't after a few hours.

yeah but you swap guns every hour or so in BL; an OP gun at one level is useless 2 levels later

lmao about the worse thing you could say, Greaselord does it again.

at least the new writers seem to want to move away from the le reddit chungus writing that was in the last game and claim to be writing in a more "grounded tone" for 4

At least 30% of the people that play games have no stable income and another 20% on top of that are living pay check to pay check.

Source?

So it's a game designed for fans of the series?

Seriously, we know every fucking company is raising the price of gaming nowadays. Just shut your whore mouth and don’t say it

That was only in BL2. BL3's balance during the campaign is so fucked that any legendary you find (which drop like they're going out of style) will last you at least 10 levels, if not more.

it's worldwide economy 3rd world retard

Can you disprove him?

Aye, they're going back to a more similar system to BL2

Well yeah he's right doe it's not his call and fans will buy them anyway.

This is only true in 3 because there's nothing to do once you reach max level and you get so many legendaries you just swap the old ones for the exact same ones 3 level ups later. 2 had massive postgame content that justified grinding some max level equipment because you would keep using it and in 1 the weapon effects were more broken so a good legendary could carry you for half the NG+

I am plenty well off, I just use (happiness/money) plus a factor on how much I want to support the devs.
6 happiness units for 80 bucks plus tip isn't worth it.

Packs not found: Survivor

Impressive.

So long as that system doesn't involve bullet sponge enemies with aggressive hp regen that requires one specific way to kill them in reasonable times, I'd be fine with that.

They way to make ot happen is wait for it to be 90% off with all dlc

He is not wrong. Sales always happen and lots of people buy goypass or PS+ subscriptions which give free games from time to time. Also piracy always happens too.

If it's nothing why don't you paypal me 80 bucks? Oh right because it's not nothing and you're a poser.

Inflation raised prices of everything they actually need 2-3x while wages stayed stagnat or they were laid off for pajeets.

Just buy less games. It's a simple solution really.

desu you could find keys 20% off for bl3 and wonderlands literally day 1

This is hilarious considering how much normie people throw away on gachi, Uber, plastic headphones and the latest phones. However his statement to the actual fans of the game could have been handle better.

Because you're a clueless hater

yeah I'm not sure why people think Randy should be fired.
BL2 sold 30m copies and BL3 22m...
Shit makes so much money.

Randy trying to create PR nightmares for himself before launch

Classic

Whi the fuck is a fan if Borderlands? lmao

What was on the flash drive, Randy?

How does Gearbox still exist every story I hear about them is how they’re bleeding money

At this point I'm convinced Borderlands is the only thing keeping the lights on. Which is saying something given how they treat the series.

This shit better be on game pass or no one is playing it

It unironically had an atmosphere and tone the sequels didn't. There were jokes but it wasn't constant memes. The gameplay is a little stiff and dated now but I still consider it far better than the others after it.

If you ever play any borderlands you're an idiot. A cretin even.

He is CEO and face of the company.
Take 2 got deep pockets and Randy is smart with money laundering.

This post is really baffling. The reason nobody sends you $80 is because you're worth less. I know it sounds insulting but it's the truth. If someone did something for me (like drive me somewhere), I would gladly give them $80. You haven't done anything to be given the money.

Didn't have the constant memes

I hate to break it to you, but the reddit level of humor was present in BL1 and probably started with Knoxx. Gameplay wise, I think BL2 fine tuned a lot of the ideas from 1, including the manufacturers having more than just passive statistical differences and actual gameplay differences to them as well as visually unique designs. The level packs kind of fucked up the balance though, no denying that part.

Child porn btw if the rumours are to be believed. He's a lying scumbag but you had better believe he's protected by the powers that be.

I wouldn't believe that myself.

I think he's a shitty attention seeking retard that's totally unwilling to pass the baton to people far smarter and more likeable than him, but not a nonce.

It legitimately isn't in his control. I say this as someone who has actually worked with Randy Pitchford and hates him down to his fucking bones. That shit is Take-Two's call.

Though if you want to hate him for something, it is his fault that it's not his call. He did choose to sell out his company to the Embracer Group (who then sold it to Take-Two) for a payday and a ton of longtime employees lost their jobs from that.

So if I were to post a picture of my big toe would you give me 80 doll hairs?

He's starting to look like Harvey Weinstein.

No... I've never given even $1 to anyone on Anon Babble. Don't bother replying to me because I'm leaving the thread. I need to find another thread full of idiots. Oh, look, they're all like that.

Don't bother replying to me because I'm leaving the thread

Go ahead, creep away at the first sign of adversity. The hypothetical proves you're a coward and $80 isn't just $80.

2k didn't own them until recently? I always thought they were part of 2k since Borderlands 1

Not until last year.

It's not about money. Everyone has disposable income and can afford an $80 game. It's about principles. No game will ever be worth $80

Why? Some one night sport matches can go up to thousands, why aren't games what you can play for hundreds of hours worth 80?

I'd pay more than $80 for a lot of great games, if we were fine paying $50 bucks 30 years ago, inflation alone accounts for more than that. However, I'm not paying it for AAA slop though. Certainly not paying it in a landscape where companies are double monetizing their products with cosmetics, battle passes, and loot boxes.

this
I'd pay $80 for a game if I knew it were a finished product and I wouldn't have to spend another $40 on DLC just to play the rest of the game

I say this as someone who has actually worked with Randy Pitchford and hates him down to his fucking bones

Tell us a story about working with him. Is he just as cringey and out of touch in real life as he is in interviews/on stage?

This whole website is just poorfag brown people bragging about money that they’ll never have. It’s pathetic.

ngl this was a pretty bad ass thing to say

What?

the main issue is that as games become more expensive they've generally gotten worse, not better. And it's rare to spend full price for a game and have that be the complete product. There's always dlc or microtransactions.
There are exceptions of course but as a whole the AAA landscape is pretty grim. I'm not poor by any means but the amount of games I've bought has nosedived in recent years.

I'll just get it on gamepass, or some insane bundle 2 years after release because these games are ass without all their DLCs. There's no rush to play a borderlands game, they are genuinely normiecore. They need 0 active playerbase since I exclusively play them with friends anyway.

Not at full price they didn't lmao. They were also given away for free on epic.

This but unironically.

A few years ago a lot of dirty stuff came out about Randy, photos too. He likes water sports.

it isn't his call desu. he's probably giga cucked by his publisher.

Epitome of goyslop
Anyone who plays these shit games deserves to get ripped off
Didn't think I would say this but....based randy

Because as the price goes up people will start to question what they are looking at and if its worth the money. Same type of shit that makes them price games at $59.99 because it's just how consumer brains work.

b-but what about my tacos? and muh vidya? these are the things that matter people! money
money is the only thing that matters to me
I will sell my soul for it
I need it
I must have it
Give it to me
N O W

rent stayed the same

no one believes you.

honest question Anon Babble; how bad will it be?

Doesn't matter the price, I won't be buying or playing this garbage anyway. I hope this bombs and finally kills this pathetic faggot's company and career.

I'm not a real fan though so I'll just not even bother at all or what?

gameplay will be better than 3, will probably improve in most areas.

story could be anywhere from dogshit to "acceptable, I guess."

$80 for borderlands is offensive.

Randy revved you up.

People got smarter with spending when their wallet got lighter from everything else being crazy expensive.

WELL FOOD GOT MORE EXPENSIVE SO UHHHH ITS FINE IF VIDEO GAME PRICES WENT FROM 60 TO 80€ IN JUST 4 YEARS OKAY WELL BECAUSE IT JUST KEEP CONSUMING STOP KVETCHING ARGHTDFG

why do all leftoids willfully ignore the slippery slope in every context

Knoxx definitely started the redditisms, but the base game had none of that. Most humor was either tongue-in-cheek dryness (Norm MacDonald humor), jokes in quest text (and only quest text), a single character whose sanity had permanently cracked under pressure and was blatantly using personalized humor to keep herself from becoming a psycho (that most just conveniently forget is a fucking tragedy and not le quirky chungus), achievement puns, and fun references via red text on guns.

There is a massive, massive difference between "funny text you blink and miss after the first time because there's enemies to kill" and "makes you stand around for 5 fucking minutes as the voice actor waxes reddit without fucking end thinking they're genuinely hilarious when they aren't".

For starters, Claptrap was actually endearing in the first game.

Appealing to emotion with "REAL FANS"
Only retarded secondaries and normalfags buys shit like Borderlands at full price

He's the bane of this board and always has been. Borderlands 1 was the first game that was marketed here, by the way, so he started this site down the path of being spammed with shill threads for various garbage like Disney movies and Ubisoft games.

It’s the same question as asking how bad is doom/AC would be.

doom/AC

so giga bad?

Theres only a small amount of games that people are willing to pay high prices for. you know the games, stuff like mario and zelda and borderlands and gta and fifa and cod. Super turbo normie stuff. Its not going to work for other games.

He is a pioneer of revving you up.

real fan

lmao, there are no Borderlands fans anymore. Borderlands 3 literally bombed, not to mention the movie being one of the biggest flops in Hollywood history.

literally bombed

sold 15 million copies

Are you retarded.

No he was the guy that left a usb full of child porn at a medieval times

I've always compared borderlands to saints row. The first was okay, second was okay but afterwards it's just a fall off that ever new one somehow reaches shit levels not thought possible

bombed

most profitable entry in the series to date

????

Good. Stop buying shit games you fucking stupid golems.

It didn't sell that many, it literally bombed. They took the Epic bribe and spread lies about their sales you dumb niggers

do you genuinely think it's people from Anon Babble buying games at full price? Anon Babble? Anon Babble at all for that matter? A literal haven for piracy and open shittalking of all videogames?

Mindbroken.

Devs that think their games are worth the same amount as GTAVI and Mario in a normalfag's brain are in for a rude awakening.

That's not what you're getting. What you're getting is the satisfaction of not pirating a game. That's not worth half a days work. Maybe worth an hour, not even two

Gameplay wise, I think BL2 fine tuned a lot of the ideas from 1

Even if you avoided NG+ completely and thus didn't see the disastrous effects of exponential damage scaling, exponential underleveled debuff, one-shot protection, and slag, BL2 still had a lot of small downgrades compared to 1 (like enemies no longer wielding the weapon they will drop if killed).

the manufacturers having more than just passive statistical difference

Right, now Hyperion guns are straight up unusable half of the time (and have broken interactions with recoil perks) instead of being oddly accurate, very cool.
And they threw out the entire gun class system of BL1 in the process only to bring back a few of those modifiers back as legendaries, what a shitshow.

90

Try 115. 90 is why the world is the way it is now.

No, that was literally a response to Nintendo. And it's bombing so it's safe to say the industry is finished if they stay this course.

Cope. Take two is always reporting their numbers because GTA V is selling like crazy

Considering Anon Babble is obviously full of subhuman retards given all the eceleb, wojak, frog, triple a steamcharts, console war, twitter screenshot, and woke obsession threads, yeah. You people are not buying the indie titles which deserve our money.

I already played all of them.

TONOIGHT ON BO'OM GEAR

JAMES BAR AND GIN GOES UNDER AND HE HAS TO LARP AS RANDY PITCHFORD TO PAY FOR HIS DACIA

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Epic guaranteed them 80 million in sales and they recouped that payment in 2 weeks after release anon. I don't think you respect how retarded huge these games are with normies. They unironically do call of duty numbers, or at least just short.

Borderlands 1 was the only semi-decent one, everything else was trash that flanderised it, doubling down on the annoying shit. Anyway, I'll not even bother pirating 4, waste of energy

Everyone knows modern games cost 100+ USD because of how they force DLC on you to see the complete product. This entire argument is for brainlets who ignore the bigger issue.

omg look i'm saving gaming!!

drops 40 dollars on a season pass without thinking

Try 115. 90 is why the world is the way it is now.

I agree but that would exclude me from voting (I'm a midwit and I feel I'm of lower than average intelligence all things considered and I'm autistic also)

based randy dabbing on the plebs

If you can't afford an extra $20, you can't afford to play vidya.
Get another job or go back to school.
We need to price retards out of the premium market.
Let them play F2P slop.

What if you just... didn't buy it
what if the whole world suddenly decided "i'll skip this one, got enough on my plate right now"

Price goes up

Quality goes down

Take one for the team. Sit the voting out.

he's not lying, he doesn't pay rent to his parents, so it did stay same. I find it hard to believe tendies and frozen pizzas went down though

Okay
And now it's going to be 100 base plus those passes.

people forget games used to cost more. n64 games were like 80 bucks in 1998

People in general just have quite a bit less spending money right now

Negative perception of AAA industry has hit normalfags at this point pretty heavily

Shit comes up soulless, unfinished, or some combination of various bullshit

They want to charge even more AGAIN

You know, this really seems like the perfect storm to really stomp the current AAA industry into the fucking grave for good. I can only hope.

people can see 60 for a shit product but up that by much more and people are not going to budge

And then what happened?

All this crying is probably coming from turd & second worldies who didn't have video games at all back then

the market got flooded with cheaply produced ps1 games

And why were they cheap?

Charge what you want, I'm not buying a turd

I would pay 100 for a leap in both gameplay and graphics like we had in 96 with sm64 and quake but devs forgot how to actually make me spend money

how much did groceries and a house cost back then?

So why wasn't there a constant outcry for overpriced "season pass" DLC all these years? Why are you braindead retards spamming about a 20 dollar hike when games haven't been 60 dollars in 10+ years?

games go up to 80

people become more selective over purchases

wahhh why aren't we selling as much

because they were extremely low quality and cheap to produce
games are amazing now. you're just privileged

So why wasn't there a constant outcry for overpriced "season pass" DLC all these years?

Are you intentionally acting stupid to get a reaction?

Because you dont need a season pass to just get the game
It's "Neccessary", but it was still optional on paper.

games are amazing now. you're just privileged

Amazing games come out, but the high budget industry has become a fucking mockery of its former self with very few exceptions. We have never, ever seen the likes of these massive, high budget failures like the last few years.

Because the absolute retards went with carts, then PS1 came in and stole their marbles by using cheap to produce and press CDs and they had to sit there and lower the price on them in order to even have a fighting chance against the Playstation

we dont want americans to buy our game

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paying $80 for a Borderlands game

Is anyone actually this insane? Does anyone actually enjoy Borderlands after 2?

this is calculated by including money laundering 20 million dollar apartments into the average for housing costs btw

It's not about th tacos, Anon. It's about farmers going bankrupt because they don't have cheap labour anymore. And if they don't go bankrupt, your grocery prices are going to skyrocket soon, if they haven't already.

shows nintendo game

people are eager to pay even 90$ for games

makes sense

if you're living paycheck to paycheck, you probably can't afford a 60$ game either

Poors get classes out of video gaming

Return to quality over appealing to the dumbest apes on earth

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It seems obvious the industry is moving towards only targeting rich people.

If Borderlands 4 actually flops because of this, what are the chances GearBox shutdown?

Borderlands 2 was one of the first to have a heavily marketed and aggressive pass system. The base game + season pass was was $110. With even more DLC that WASN'T a part of the pass.

the problem is investors expect massive ROI now. no one wants to finance small projects with limited return opportunity anymore

As intended, capitalism will eventually destroy us.

Basic costs of living

Includes luxury shit previous generations never had

This is the last time I'm responding to any retard that can't see through this lie. Borderlands 3 did NOT sell well. It was a financial failure for Gearbox and only Epic's money kept it afloat.

Hey dipshit, that article isn't about video games.

It's like Randy Bobandy is constantly looking for new ways to look like a greasy creep.

Just trust me bro

Even ignoring that, what would it even matter? If Epic basically subsidized the production of the game 10x over, who cares if it sold nothing? They are presumably going to do the exact same thing again? By no metric could it ever be considered unprofitable to make a borderlands game.

on the plus side, a catastrophic industry crash might return us back to a 90s standard of low budget, small teams, and pc dominance

Anon Babbleiral r*ddit game

As if he needed anymore after the flash drive debacle and seeing that his wife degrades him. Reading between the lines, it's pretty obvious he likes being piss and shit on as much as Diddy.

Everything else has also increased in price while wages have still been stagnant.

For most of the world yes. In America I'm guessing 20-30 years after the rebuild.

this. desktops were expensive as fuck too. only reason games are cheap is because of all the asset flipping slop and easy to use dev engines.

If everything in up then you should be able to make more money by selling.

WAGES

Lmao you're a slave you aren't supposed to be gaming

I meant visually, but yeah that too.

The world you exist in depends upon that persons labor.

spoken like a goyslop consoomer

Rich folk really are out of touch with how rough it is for the rest of us right now.

make it happen

or else

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4 will be kino just like Dark Ages and the seethe will be immense as usual.
Cope and seethe.

if you're a real fan, you'll

Is this how you expand a playerbase these days?

Several months of entertainment

I've never put more than 1000 hours into a game.

Doesn't Anon Babble always complain about this? Randy is Gatekeeping his franchise. People here should be happy.

CEO of the company

Not my call

What?

ultimately covid democrat policies brought us to this point. it sucks, but it is what it is.

Board of Directors

Freemasons

Illuminati

Trump tariffs

Even a CEO must bow before them

I make just under six figs, which I know isn't saying much these days, but I still don't just piss away money like it's nothing. Especially on shitty DEI inspired games.

Gatekeeping

Is he actually? I feel like the writing and overall vibe of the franchise has changed considerably after Borderlands 2, as if it were made for a different demographic.

laughing at wages

while working on a salary and forced to do 80 hour work weeks for nothing extra

I demanded a wage and not a salary.

This retard just can’t help himself can he? I mean retard literally by the way. There actually must be something wrong mentally with this guy.

Holy fuck randy looks like shit

Can't wait to see the day a loaf of bread costs 20 bucks and you dumbshits will still defend it.

What value does Mario kart 16 at 80$ have over mario cart 15 at 50$?

If you're a real fan you'll find a way to mike it happen

I hope they fail and fuck up big time

it's new. never underestimate the value of fomo. not to mention nintendo games have low depreciation rates

They paid $100 for 2-days early access for Doom: The Dark Ages and we 3 million players playing it. It seems players are fine with $100 games.

Argentina

one of the only countries in South America where the population is 70% unmixed Europeans (Italian, German and Spanish) is coincidentally one of the only countries in SA with a decent IQ

followed by Uruguay, another country with a majority European population

Can't make this shit up.

To be honest, that's an OK response from Randy.
I mean look at that fucking midlife crisis hair. He's got enough problems of his own right now.

Don't you go around projecting your own fantasies on some video game faggot.

Once the rising of prices starts there is no stopping it until it hits the next pain point. $99.90 within 3 years!

Child porn btw

People who watch CP should get the death penalty. False accuses should get the same crime the accused would have gotten.
You deserve death. QED

The new doom looks a lot worse than I would have expected. Things aren't as easy as you make them seem.

kind of a miracle really.
I'm pretty sure he was accused of having CP on a usb and 100% looks like the kind of person who would lol.

borderlands games are good games

Nah

do you people not have phones?

At $80, it better be completely bug-free and with zero DLC. Oh wait.

Because most people would prefer to spend money on emergencies than on digital toys. I spent over $500 this week after my dog got really sick. So I can afford the new switch or $80 games. But I need that money for stuff I actually care about.

Very subtle bait.

Have the rest of Gearbox ever tried telling Randy to please shut the fuck up? I swear that guy is so bad at PR and optics.

I bet the extra pay only goes to the higher ups too but I doubt devs would complain alongside gamers in fear of their jobs

videogames are not worth $80 LOL what kind of a retard do you have to be to buy a fucking boring ass game you already played 3 times including the dlc and pre-sequal LMAO i cant believe people post shit like this guy wow man thats realyl something else HAHA what a absoulte weiner you must be bro like go spend your money on more toys you already own man HEHE fucking crazy man but seriously have a good time with your new boarderlands game it looks pretty cool

only the whales buy at release.

yeah, im totally ready to drop 80 bucks for Marathon

It's on me to make it happen? Cool! [does nothing, refuses to purchase game or pirate it, or even play it]
Success! I didn't pay $80 for this piece of shit!

I’m not poor because of video games. I’ve had a series of crazy life events that ended up in me being homeless. I’m not trying to be that guy that “le game saved me” but video games have never been fucking cheap.

It's a shame those analysts never get fired when their predictions prove out wrong.

80 coins

not an open world

no character creator

no mods

why would i even

it's only okay when they do

The game you say are shit aren't shit though.

How is this guy so confident then the last Borderland games were recieved to be mediocre with very cringy characters?
Why is every western dev acting so smug when studio's die left and right?

I mean, it's not, and it only might even become his problem. Retards dumb enough to finance a fuckin door dash order exist. So I can't imagine it's a stretch for dipshits to just start making 12 payments of 6 fiddy for the newest video game releases. Actually intelligent people already don't buy 99.9999% of games for $60, so the price hike doesn't really change anything for that demographic.

because BL3 sold well
just don't bring up how well the spin off game sold

no one believes you.

just move back to your parents, thats what i did and everything is fine

I'm Jewish.

we JUST saw games jump up to $70 last year after they were $60 forever, and now suddenly it's $80. they will be $100 after GTA6 comes out.

Believe it or not, each country as its own economy. 80 bucks to them can be the equivalent of 300 for you.

Ironically the people who say shit like him are usually the poorest morons drowning in debt or just shills.

its more like i dont think these games are worth $80 to me. I can afford it but they dont deserve it.

They can though.

Because it's a precursor to games eventually going even higher when 70 was already pushing it.

When did he troon out?

Hey if that's true for you. It's your money, go for it. But that metric is highly subjective, so a lot of people won't come to that same conclusion

majority of games already aren't worth 60 dollars so 80 just drains the pool of worthwhile games even further

I call it a net positive, more and more people will end up being forced to look at the quality of the games they buy as the prices keep rising. While all the people who don't have clinical levels of fomo will remain largely unaffected and just wait for sales as usual.

Main thing is people just have to actually start voting with their wallets, as long as people buy the games the price increase has a justification. That's all these companies are looking for, the breaking point for the majority.

Food, rent and gas went up.

I didn't even feel it because my skills have actual market value and I don't spend like a retard.
The economy isn't that much worse, you're all just retard niggers spending hundreds of dollars a month on doordash instead of learning to cook. You buy precooked microwave food and chips instead of canned veggies, rice, and beans. You get fast food for lunch instead of meal prepping. You think a single person should own a house and fill it with furniture and luxurious knicknacks on the salary of a warehouse worker.
You aren't poor, you just haven't shaken the bad habits and misconceptions your parents and grandparents taught you. You don't have money to piss away but you live like you do because boomers and GenX did.

3 was the only bad game and it was still massively received with norm faggots. I like borderlands so I guess that makes me a bad person as well, just not borderlands 3. Don’t have to play with anyone and can just shoot things

I don't spend more than 20-25 for most games, which I buy on sale. IF it's a really promising looking game which I know I will like upon release, then I can theoretically part with 35 or 40 bucks for a game. That hasn't happened now in nearly 10 years. Most vidya are honestly not worth more than 30 bucks max. Parasite MBA business niggers can go and overprice cheapshit goyslop elsewhere.

If it is nothing, it won't hurt you not getting them :)

Bought Borderlands one at release because my clan bros hyped it up.

We all try to play multiplayer, and we can't cause it doesn't fucking work.

When it finally does start working, it's a buggy, shitty, laggy mess.

We play 2 multiplayer sessions before each going off and just grinding out single player

Game is boring and repetitive as fuck.

I never buy another BL game, take advice from my clan bros, or buy a game at release ever again.

didn't buy anything by gearbox after 2, so I assume the answer will be the same.

nooo you can't say that
everything wrong with my life is some one else's fault and someone else's responsibility to fix

Here's a question for you:

What makes this game that hasn't even come out yet worth $80?

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Based but also a little mean.
t. 35 bucks an hour wagie who lives comfortably in a coastal city and cooks all his own meals. (Stop wasting money on delivery services and shit food. I swear most people's money problems would be better if they just meal prepped properly.)

literally on his wikipedia page

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If you can afford $60 you can afford $80, is his point. And he's not wrong.
Whether games are worth that much money is another topic entirely. (They aren't)

So then it's okay to make everything that's 10 to 20? 20 to 30? 30 to 40?

Isn't that the guy who fucked up Aliens: Colonial Marines?

is that midget riding a skag?

SKAGGY JOCKEEEEEY

you know its gonna happen

stop abusing your mom's credit card and get a job

$60? What do you mean, $80? It's going on sale for $100! It used to be $125! And it cost over $2,000,000 to make!! So you should be grateful it's not being sold for $425 WITHOUT any DLC!!!!!
FUCKING SCUM!!!!!
IF YOU'RE A REAL FAN
YOU WOULD PAY ME EVERYTHING YOU OWN
!!!!

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Every day we get closer to a dystopian Neo-Feudalism-based society and absolutely NO one cares.

it's just some horse armor for $5 bro, nothing to worry about, what are you, le poor????

I will simply buy it on a steam sale 2 years after it comes out with all the DLC added for a smooth 40 bucks like god intended

The amount of games I've played that reuse assets and animations from the previous game dont justify it being $80. What are they adding?

anon doesn't know how breakpoints work

you'll never be white paco

If you're a real game dev, you'll find a way to make it cost $50

Randy unironically drifting back to based territory

Nah, he's forever cringe
youtu.be/4Ywa3MpxVyg

You'll find a way

Yeah. If I want to play it (I don't), I'll pirate it.

they need someone to be mean to them
no amount of patience and understanding will fix people's poor habits
they need to suffer and feel an ocean of shame or they will stay that way

Gearbox is privately owned, as long as they remain making enough money to keep the lights on Pitchford will remain employed.

Worse game play to date with part swaping.
Story will be same old trash.
Replay ability will be nothing but grind now they are locking up legendary and pearls to minimal.
The only good thing will be the drop in and drop out with level scaling similar to 3.

Literally a 33% increase, for what exactly?

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Borderlands fell off after the 2nd game

More like Boredlands sucked from the get-go. I'll never understand how it's as popular as it is.

Literally the first three minutes

First "boss" in the game

"Nine-Toes (also has three balls!)

Alt+F4, Uninstall.exe

EVEN IGNORING the cringe "comedy," the gameplay loop is atrociously bad.

Do you want Diablo in First Person?

Here is all this loot

Too bad all of it sucks shit compared to this gun you got 20 hours ago!

Why don't you read the text on the picture you just posted, you faggot.

$80 standard + tip

mandatory day 1 DLC

additional microtrans to support [BRAND] further

$100 will be the new price point by the end of the decade

Trust the plan

So why wasn't there a constant outcry for overpriced "season pass" DLC all these years?

Just wanted to stop and laugh at you for being this painfully new.

80 bucks

probably another 80 for dlc

and untold amounts of MTX

Why would anyone pay these prices when you could just play older, better games? Not to mention Randy "Magic Trick" Pitchford's shitty game will probably be 75% off in a year or two

Nothing. You get nothing added, you just lose more.

just keep bending over for the shekel meister, retard

buy game for 70$

isnt even the complete game deluxe edition is 100%

DLC for 20$

smaller DLC for 5$

preorder content

buggy at release

digital only

80 dollar games made in USA sales either underperforms or just mid

somehow it's the customer's fault

games made outside of America san Japan will cost 50 to 70 bucks

people buy those games instead

corpos cry to Trump to tariff those countries

Oh boy I can't wait for that incoming shitshow

It’s 80$ for a trash series because it sold well once

the economy isn't that much worse

you just dont have the resources boomers or genX did

??????

Not my call

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>you just dont have the resources boomers or genX did

Let me tell you a secret.
Unlimited prosperity to the point where even people with a mediocre job can spend money without even thinking is not the norm. It is temporary and unsustainable. Having to track your money and spend wisely during your daily life is how the entire western world has worked since the birth of the modern middle class save for very brief periods.
You are not entitled to comfort for simply breathing.

Theres a point caricatures just stop being even recognizeable or funny.

if you’re a real fan, you’ll find a way to make it happen

Randy’s giving us permission to firebomb Gearbox offices?
Uhh based?

2026

do you people not have jobs? $85 is nothing.

2027

do you people not have jobs? $90 is nothing.

2028

do you people not have jobs? $100 is nothing.

2029

do you people not have jobs? $120 is nothing.

2030

do you people not have jobs? $150 is nothing.

DLCs and other shit will also increase.
DLCs will start being at $50 at least. Special editions will be $100+

I bet you complain when your favorite hamburger goes up by 10-50 cents

same mindset, except on an actually impactful scale.
A prudent guy can live a week or more with just 20 dollars.
It's a lot of money for someone who has little..

I'm gonna push back on some of this as replaying BL1 it still does feel like a proof of concept. Plenty of missions are barebones "go to area, find gun parts, and bring them back for a gun" or just "go here and kill X mobs" on top of the system where no one really knew what the elemental modifiers did nor to what extent. Even the passive gun skills effectively meant every weapon you picked up that wasn't already supported by the class you were playing as meant it wasn't just less beneficial to pick up but could be actively worse then a weapon a class was intended to use. Being forced to grind up a separate xp bar to not have a gun have shit reload or shit handling from the start isn't exactly better, and the vaulthunters having less strict weapon preferences meant each one could use a wider variety of weapons. I won't defend some of the poor balance decisions Gearbox introduced with UVHM and the dependence on slag. That's just bad in general and reduced build variety by forcing every build have some manner of slagging to just play the game at all.

That's a lotta words to dodge the fact you're retarded and the economy is in fact that much worse.
In-fact youve reconfirmed it twice now.

Damn that's a lot of words for no agrument

That's great logic anon
for an autistic because its bad

He has a good lawyer.
I mean, after the whole SEGA and Aliens fiasco, I dunno why he didn't ate a bigger sue

I accept your concession.

Good talk.

If your business model depends on slave labor then it deserves to fail. We literally fought a war over this already

You had no argument

durr durr you don't know anything I don't have any way to explain this but trust me bro

Explain how I was wrong. You won't, because you can't.

you could apply this same line of thinking to anything. like where do you stop? 100 bucks? 200 bucks? 500 bucks?

Because they deemed it so. It's Economics 101.

games are considered a luxury good, i.e. the more the consumer's income falls the less games they'll buy, to buy necessity goods instead

economy goes to shit -> less income -> people would rather buy food and toilet paper than videogames

each consumer defines their own utility level for a good, or in this case how much satisfaction a single videogame brings them, and the marginal utility (utility per unit of a good) decreases the more units a consumer has

utility is subjective

consumers tend towards equalizing the marginal-utility-to-price ratio for all the different goods they buy, to maximize their total satisfaction for a given income

after decades they collectively decided that $60 was the right price for one AAA videogame in relation to their income and everything else in their basket of goods

games get shittier -> consumer perceives this drop in quality -> utility of AAA videogames goes down -> consumers would rather have prices go down to compensate this utility drop

publishers raise price from $60 to $80 instead -> consumers are displeased ->??? -> PROFIT

The fact that they're resorting to raising their prices by a whooping 33 fucking percent instead of going even more khazarian on the thir microtransactions and DLC makes me think of three possibities

they know how unsustainable their production systems are

they know the cattle can't take any more MTX/DLC

shareholder want line go up, but line no go up anymore

Pic related, I'd totally pay $80 for Omega Boost HD

Lol tone deaf af.
Borderlands has always been a terrible franchise, but that response might have actually turned off the pathetic losers that actually liked this game.

but doesnt 2k own them? couldnt they just boot him out?

I have the exact story, but with Borderlands 2. We got a rental from redbox and we were pissed that co-op sucked ass. I even played single player and turned it off almost immediately.
This entire series should have never gotten popular. It's so bad.

I mean yes I would spend 80 bucks on some games but Borderlands is not one of them. Games I would spend 80 bucks on:
Mainline Resident Evil games and remakes
Metal Gear solid 6
Mainline 3D Zelda games (not spin offs or 2d games, only stuff like OOT, MM, WW, TP, SS, BOTW and TOTK)
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3
Metroid Prime 4
From software's next single player game ( I don't care about Nightreign or the Switch 2 game as they are online focused boring shit)
Elder Scrolls 6

Thats about it really. Maybe 1 or 2 more. Any other game I'm only willing to pay up to around 50 or 60.

Making a new game 33% more expensive from previous titles begs the consumer to ask themselves if that game is 33% better. The onus is not on the customer to make the price feel fair and justified, simple as.

60 dollar game:

wow, I can get 2 games for barely more than 100 dollars

80 dollar game

gross, just this one game is almost 100 dollars

still beholden to shareholders

what's that? the market has expanded as much as it possibly can? I don't care, number MUST go up!

I will happily pay more than $80 for a video game

b-but it's too expensive!!!11

Shut the FUCK up and get a job

I became a VP of a major corporation and now i'm swimming in money. Do something with your lives already. Jesus

Yes.

I simply won't be playing it on launch. Everyone knows the game will be on sale a few months later.

It's not like the game is going anywhere. It's not like anyone has a shortage of things to play while waiting for the price to drop.

The only people who 'need' to play things at launch are streamers and obsessive trendy clout-chasers. But the people running the industry are braindead and think streamers are like your average consumer instead of just a parasitic byproduct of consumerist culture.

you wont spend 80 dollarydoos? are you poor?

not pissing away 80 bucks on a trash game is exactly why I'm not poor niggerfaggot.

Not my job to play debate club with you. All I did was point out you're retarded and contradicted yourself. Cope.

Not my job to play debate club

I accept YOUR concession
If you can't explain your ideas in plain English then you don't understand them well enough.

So funny that the game will just be 70 bucks like everything else, but randy is defending it like it's 80, while not actually knowing the price. He's doing ANTI marketing, letting misinfo spread that it WILL be 80 and being a smug bitch about it. Someone at T2 needs to muzzle him.

This is my guess as well. Let everyone believe it's 80 so the inevitable 70 feels like a win.

he replied to a Anon Babble post in 2 minutes

Lil bro you need to relax

How can poors afford $60 games but $80 breaks their backs?

How can poors afford $80 games but $100 breaks their backs?

How can poors afford $100 games but $1000 breaks their backs?

slippery slope you fucking moron.

lol

I've been posting this on Anon Babble for 15 years now.

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fucking indie games are $25 now

Even indiefaggots are kikes.

you'll find a way to make it happen

So he just greenlit torrenting it right?