You could be right, it’s definitely abnormal. But Overwatch has been a looming shadow from the second it was announced. They launched an “open beta” (which was essentially a free demo of a completed game) on BattleBorn’s realease date, so 2K/GBX may be retaliating by dropping the price and pushing out a new character on Overwatch’s release date.
To bad I paid $75 for mine. Kinda disappointed about that
I mainly bought this game for pve. Ive tried a bit of incursion and meltdown when I first started, but I think I’m almost level 60 now strictly from pve I’d say worth $40 for the amount of enjoyment I’ve had. This is what a paid for the original game due to a previous credit balance on my psn act from gift card.
You still paid $60 man. Just BC it was spread out over time doesn’t change it was 60.
it was from a gift card I got from someone.
Ha, well, still someone elses money. That was basically a 20 gift card. But yea, you only paid 40
I pre-ordered the game too before launch, recorded about 100 hours of play time. Yes I am abit fizzled seeing 2K is having sales now but we as the community need to understand that by pre-ordering the game we are supporting them during launch after all the hard work they’d put in to develop Battleborn, and ofcourse bear the risks we have to take in the future.
Some say they might want to compete with Overwatch launch or some might say GBX wants to bring in more new players. How is that a problem? The double xp event/Alani release week was one of my happiest time in Battleborn because I did not have to wait for more than 15 mins match-making for any of the PVP map. For f*** sakes I didnt even care if I had 4 players with level 10
Command rank vs 5 players level 60-90. All I had was fun!
I, too had to save my money to buy this game. But I think it’s kinda worth it if more and more players are playing. I think Battleborn has more improvements to be made here and there but I’m definitely having fun.
And please stop comparing Battlerborn and Overwatch. It’s two different games with their own unique traits. It’s just like comparing Dota2 and League of Legends and it never leads to anywhere. So why don’t we chill and enjoy this game to the fullest.
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I’m surprised that people would be content with exclusive skins. I’ll be the bad guy I guess: ■■■■ exclusive skins and ■■■■ skins in general lol. Skins are just a lazy way of altering appearance slightly when new outfits would actually put some personality in characters that already are very cool. A skyrim similar galilea or MIB ghalt; damn something other than the same thing with different shades. Why would gearbox spend all this time developing characters and ripping off pop culture to not do this anyway?
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You have some points here I have to strongly agree with you especially about the skins. Yes, gbx put in so much time developing Battleborn while the skins does not change anything aesthetically except for the colour. If there’s anything I would want to improve would be skins that adds accesories or different clothes or even change in weapon aesthetically. Like skins in League of Legends or Dota2. This would definitely attract more people to Battleborn.
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$40 !?
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I paid in full 2 months in advance for $60 ( regular version ) and another $20 ( $19.99 ) afterwards for the season pass…
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Competition / marketing techniques or not, that’s very upsetting. =/
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22 days later?? 
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Yes…yes it does. Such practices will scare people away from buying your game on release. This is a fact. Its a horrible practice to put a game on such a sizeable sale not even a month after its released. Its a middle finger to everyone who bought it on release or preordered it.
Literally no one who is upset with this sale have said or think that games never go on sale. We’re upset that the game went on sale so soon after it was released. It effectively means we wasted money.
And what’s a surefire way to really anger someone? Cause them to waste money. And why is it bad to scare people away from buying your game on release? Because it means you won’t make money off your game.
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It happened to rainbow six. That’s a good game that got a abrupt price drop. Now I’m not sure if people were mad that purchased it but it actually scared me away from buying it for a while instead of coaxing me into taking the deal.
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This game is a big fail. 
Yet you’re here posting on it’s forums. Set sail for fail…
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Let’s all talk about the game and not each other, also remember to be constructive in our posting.
Really? The previous post was “constructive”?
Indeed. It actually makes it look like the game is on its death bed.
In all honesty it’s a predictable human response. If you see a brand new car going for half price three weeks after it came out people would be suspicious.
$80 or $40 if something looks iffy people will avoid it.
They tried the same thing with Brink and immediately slashed prices amid lagging sales. That did not bring it back from the brink. (Zing) I’m sure they are doing everything they can to keep the game afloat but this tactic doesn’t usually pan out.
Edit: I’ve said it before. If they were that concerned about Overwatch they should have just charged $40 from the start for everything, digital deluxe becomes the standard, make a big deal about what the player is getting for their money. PvP + PvE etc thus setting them apart. That would have undercut the competition, not alienated the day one players and made the game appear to be healthy. This was a bad move all around.
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That line was about the post previous to you.
If you have issues with moderation please bring them to PM rather than get off topic.
It was a bad move if it was planned. But in this situation, it might not be that bad. They are trying to adapt. The 24hour peak on steam is 2700. I don’t know what I would do, but it’s not exactly pleasant situation to be in. Maybe it’s the best move they can do - NOW, after the fact of bad marketing, presentation, going toe to toe with OW, labeling as hero shooter etc etc. We all know how it went, but if we are talking about now when it’s pretty much do or die, I can’t criticize this approach. Even if it backfires.