Whelp... I did the same, and it looks like by not actually installing and PLAYING the game, I don't get any of the Founders' Perks. None at all. Basically wasted that money. Battleborn is just the game that keeps on giving :/
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Battleborn multiplayer becomes Free Trial......... 2P
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Whelp... I did the same, and it looks like by not actually installing and PLAYING the game, I don't get any of the Founders' Perks. None at all. Basically wasted that money. Battleborn is just the game that keeps on giving :/
-Added practice mode
-Added Bot matches for incursion
-Added 5 new characters
-The base characters are now unlocked from the start, the 5 new characters unlock with in game currency
-Game runs in 60 FPS all modes, even split screen
These are more or less the most important changes.
Turin Turambar
Member
I think the name is a mistake, 'free trial' sounds like a time limited demo or something like that. Doing what they are avoiding, calling it "Free to play!" would attract more people.
Gamesgbkiller
Member
Yes!
Can't wait for Jim's new video!
Can't wait for Jim's new video!
MrS
Banned
Randy refusing to hold the L with grace. Sad and not a good look. Getting in to public spats with journalists is some Trump-level fuckery.
Yes!
Psychoward
Banned
it would but it'd bruise randy's ego
dugdug
Banned
Is this for real? Do you expect them to just magically know you bought the game and give you the perks?
show me your skeleton
Member
i have this and barely played it due to the low player count. does this still require players for the main campaign?
I would expect that, yes.
The F2P version should absolutely​ be able to convert his license/cdkey into a bonus.
dugdug
Banned
Ah OK, I wasn't thinking in terms of PC. I was thinking on console, how can Gearbox know they didn't walk into Gamestop and pick up a used copy today. My bad.
Samuraicop
Member
I will be checking my sub box for it
Psychoward
Banned
Lmao it's 39 gb on ps4
can we stop with these ignorant ass comments?
Battleborn plays nothing like overwatch, OW is a class based shooter, BB is a MOBA with minions, creeps and "towers" and all that shit.
Not a single mode in BB is even remotely close to anything in OW, trust me, i play both games regularly.
I bet you don't even play paladins like you claim.
No, but it's incredibly hard to do it solo.
Gravy Boat
Member
Out of everything surrounding this game to laugh at, you pick this?
JigglesBunny
Banned
Feelings on the studio aside, Battleborn's problem was never its price, it was its quality. The game is just plain poor.
prickishness.
Randy continues to impress me with his unapologeticlol. Just take the L, Randy.
prickishness.
Psychoward
Banned
There's a lot to laugh at, sorry. I didn't expect a mp "demo" with poor graphics to take up almost an eighth of the base ps4's available space.
Hamster Plugin
Member
- Calling a F2P game a "free trial/demo"
- Pricing Bulletstorm remaster at full price
- Making a marketing deal with G2A
What the hell is going on in Gearbox and how are they fucking up this spectacularly?
It's the opposite of what Sony did with Uncharted 3 MP when they made it "free to play" but the free play had a level limit. It was dumb but calling it free to play probably made more people download it than if they called it a free trial that it really was.
- Pricing Bulletstorm remaster at full price
- Making a marketing deal with G2A
What the hell is going on in Gearbox and how are they fucking up this spectacularly?
It's the opposite of what Sony did with Uncharted 3 MP when they made it "free to play" but the free play had a level limit. It was dumb but calling it free to play probably made more people download it than if they called it a free trial that it really was.
digitalrelic
Banned
DoctorDake
Neo Member
I actually kind of enjoyed Battleborn
You don't know what youre talking about.
Questionable art direction? Totally, but calling it poor graphics that's just trying to start shit.
why are you dedicating your time to a thread of a game you don't like, don't play and for some mind numbing reason you just want to antagonize?
Come on, lets go back to OW threads, you seemed friendlier there.
Psyrgery ES
Member
Ouch
Psychoward
Banned
Huh, that was my only post about the game, most of my negativity in here is due to Randy being a scummy bone head. And I'm just surprised since I just downloaded kf2 today and that was less than half of this and a full mp game at that, I'm wondering if the sp is included in the download too.
show me your skeleton
Member
gaddamn, that's pretty much what i assumed. this change don't help that either, hmm.
Im assuming it does, DL prolly is the entire thing with a prompt that lets you pay to unlock the SP and characters.
Can't remember what the full game DL was back when i download it.
Machinehead
Member
Yep =/ my sub is gonna lapse and I'm not re subscribing. I was hoping I could play it after that.
Goddamnit Randy. Just call it F2P for fuck sake. You have the opportunity to give the game a good second chance and yet you completely fuck it up by calling it a trial. A 'trial' for a game you can get so cheap and yet noone wants to fuckin buy it anyway. What makes you think by labelling it a trial you'll get people to try it ? Embrace the F2P, embrace it *waves hands*
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
It is becoming like Evolve? I hope the characters and skins' prices won't increase suddenly like for the latter and I hope it won't die soon and that enough players will keep playing it. Evolve F2P was even supposed to be released for consoles...
Doug Heffernan
Member
It will be nice having some beginners to play against instead of getting destroyed each match.
Psychoward
Banned
Wait wait wait, one of the reasons Evolve bombed is because of the outrageous DLC model and they had the gall to increase character and skin prices after it became F2P? lol
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
Yeah. First they were selling characters and skins at reasonable prices after going F2P. Then they made week-ends events to get like x2, x4 and even x10 keys. Since the x10 key event, players gained so much keys to get anything they wanted and the devs deemed that it was so much especially when they just added the paid method to buy stuff so they changed the prices of everything and multiplied them which angered many players. They later made 50% discounts but they never reached the original prices.
Now barely anyone play this game even after becoming F2P. Even the devs left it and don't update it anymore.
I hope Battleborn won't follow the same path, thus the same fate.
IgotElbows
Member
How about half of 1000?
Number will probably rise later. But I don't think Battleborn will even have the success Evolve had when it went F2P.(Had 16k players when it went F2P)
Evolve had a second chance but fucked it up.
Battleborn probably won't even get the chance to fuck it up.
If they went on steam before Paladins, they've might have had a chance.
But Paladins fills the 'Overwatch' f2p hole already.
EDIT: player count is 531 now. I guess it will take awhile for people to download the game. Will probably be at least 2k or so by the middle of the day?
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Just make Borderlands 3 and let this shit go.
MrS
Banned
Is that you, Randy?
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
Just as bad as the game's title.
OttoSporteman
Member
Randy's meltdown is so funny!
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/872136751715930112
Also, it's a shame that such a good franchise (Borderlands) is on Randy's management. After they hit home run with Borderlands 2, every release by Gearbox was meh (Borderlands The Pre Sequel, Duke Nuken Forever, Aliens Colonial Marines, Battleborn and even publisher endeavors like Bulletstorm Remaster)
https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/872136751715930112
Also, it's a shame that such a good franchise (Borderlands) is on Randy's management. After they hit home run with Borderlands 2, every release by Gearbox was meh (Borderlands The Pre Sequel, Duke Nuken Forever, Aliens Colonial Marines, Battleborn and even publisher endeavors like Bulletstorm Remaster)
Good thing Battleborn doesn't play like overwatch at all.
I don't think that matters to a significant degree.
If people cared about that Battleborn wouldn't be going F2P today.
Ploid 3.0
Member
I guess Valve don't care what Randy thinks or labels it.
But Overwatch fatigue may have set in by now and people might be more willing to give it a chance now. People seemed interested in the game, but iirc Overwatch was close to it's release. I shall give this a shot later today perhaps.
But Overwatch fatigue may have set in by now and people might be more willing to give it a chance now. People seemed interested in the game, but iirc Overwatch was close to it's release. I shall give this a shot later today perhaps.
C.Olimar788
Member
The "full game upgrade" is $30 when the disk is like $15 at most retailers. Good job, guys.