I’m going to be completely honest with you gearbox.
I Don’t believe your game will live to see Character 30 before you are the only ones playing it.
And frankly, if you can’t see that you might want to consult an optometrist.
The game itself is practically a closed beta with a $60 ticket, and lets face it, nobody wants that.
The intense amount of hate your game gets is extreme, and you still have not taken action on what seems to be really simple problems to solve.
Your game has gotten hit with wounded, because it’s slowly bleeding out in the form of playerbase.
HOWEVER.
There is a solution, a very easy solution, to solve your problem. YOU might be hurt, but WE, the playerbase, are around there to help you.
I do not want this game to die out, but unless you listen to the community on this it will.
And thus, I made a google forms. I showed it off in the Battleborn discord.
30% of the average PC player count have taken the survey. I have heard of some scientists who can’t get a control group this big.
(If you want to take the survey; https://goo.gl/forms/w0i3P9ePyVkssUTE3)
And a large chunk of them (me included) have similar opinions.
81% of all takers have said they like the game in it’s current state.
43% say that the game’s characters are balanced.
65% want a proper tutorial for each mode, perhaps even make you watch a match of that mode before you can queue for it, rather than having a competitive mode.
31% more people want more campaign missions instead of another mode, which totals up to 51% of all takers.
73% of all the surveyed players say that the worst problem with the game is matchmaking. I mean things like the basic system of it, “find 4 friends then an enemy team” instead of “Find 9 other players”.
73% say that out of their last 10 matches, 5 or less were fair for both teams.
84% believe that legendary gear should sell for more then 250 credits, with over 25% of the total takers wanting at least 500, closely followed by 1,000.
36% want more kinds of gear, such as offensive CC duration+, speed while firing+, shards gained from clusters+, and so on and so forth.
The Top 5 characters in need of a nerf, by the community.
1: Boldur
2: Benedict, Kleese
3: Pendles, Rath,
4: Galilea
5: Ghalt
The big thing the community Agrees on: By not advertising in the right places, you’ve hurt your game immensely.
53% of the survey’s takers want you to advertise instead of doing nothing, like you currently are.
So, what do you do?
Release a copy of a popular FPS gamemode so that Basic players will understand it (Payload, Team Deathmatch, Etc. But still modify it a little bit, such as letting the players upgrade the payload’s buffs or being able to res a teammate in TeamDM with shards)
and most importantly
A Fudgeload of advertising is required, and in the right places too.
Advertise on the places it matters. Put BB trailers on Youtube, as shown by the community saying that it should be as that option has more than 30% more votes to it then anything else. Some Content advice: Cut ISIC’s lines in the trailer on the steam page, use the 3-part comic series you released as advertising (only the first part though) or even just stick the intro for the campaign levels and then generic game advertisement ending card after it.
Your Faithful Miko player,
T_Gamer
I also am thinking of something else here in the corner called Project TBTT. It won’t be ready to show off until most likely Thursday if not Friday, so please wait. If anyone can guess what the acronym stands for I’ll get it out by tomorrow. I’ll also give you an imaginary cookie and eat an imaginary hat. There’s no point in not guessing, and I’m even going to give you a hint: _____ Back ___ ____. It will heavily involve the community assisting in it, plus the survey is always going to be going on. I’ll try to keep statistics current.
