“Hype Man Randy” did make some noise about OW being compared to BB and how they were flattered to be considered competition though. Was on reddit i think.
Except that blizzard never said they considered bb competition.
It was all on gearbox.
And 100k was like a overestimate. The real numbers likely dont pierce 50k.
For an online game intended to be esports worthy thats death
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I’m just gonna say it.
I don’t think Activision/Blizzard ever thinks of anyone as competition. They just brush it off as “nobody is in our league” and this from a guy who does enjoy Diablo and has played em all. Great company but they don;t listen to their fans, don;t even communicate with em proper - check their forums it;s full of people pleading for info and they get crap- and generally strike me a the sort of folks who assume they know everything and can’t possibly do any wrong. Just from how they respond to fans on their own forums.
Say what you will but at least GBX communicates with us openly.
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Well technically TF1 did… 
Back when Medic healed people by hacking them with an axe.
No they don’t. I can’t believe anyone would even say that after the key debacle.
It took far too long to get a response. Blizzard is known for engaging with the community on a regular basis. Gearbox its like pulling teeth.
Just don’t know what you are talking about.
The only thing blizz did was CONGRATULATE gearbox on launch day, and gearbox replied by being a jackass. Then pitchford goes off and makes it seem like they are competing with overwatch.
All of this creates a misleading line of marketing.
The games are not in the same genre. Thats not opinion. Its a factual statement, one I am rather sick of repeating.
The marketing team needed to get a better handle of what employees are saying on their social media. Then on top of it, we have the utter nonsense they called an ad campaign. It tells you nothing about what the game actually is. It’s bad marketing. The response you want from an ad campaign is “Damn, I want that”, not “what the ■■■■ did I just watch”?
Because of it the masses have the wrong idea about what Battleborn actually is.
That cost us a thriving population. Depending on how badly Overwatch cuts into the playerbase, it may have also cost us a future.
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I joined the forum to get more info about fixes/patches, I cant find this, apart from the battleplan which is some bullet points. Are their threads they do respond to? I want to know what they are goign to fix,
http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/groups/Inside_The_Box
^Dev tracker. You can find who has posted in what thread all in the one spot
Yeah I looked there, is a dedicated link at top of home page.
I see lots of feedback on homeworld from devs, but all i really see for BB is people being told off by mods. will go through the whole thing, but really this is best place for info on what they are fixing in patch?
Specifically patch fixes? Outside if the dev tracker and weekly Battleplan? Nope, you won’t find any more or more specific information as far as I know
Well i guess some idea of what they agree is a bug, or what needs balancing, what they are doing to fix it etc
I have played quite a lot of EA stuff sinced it became a thing, so maybe i am used to more info than is the norm for a full release, but some sort of issue log/bug board or whatever.
They don’t see to have communication set as a priority.
Seems there are still quite a few devs that feel they can get away with it, but I think once you start making games like this you need to start being more transparent
out of curiosity, where did blizzard congratulate gearbox
do you have a link or screenshot?
Why are the posters who swear by OW and arguing it to hell and back even here? Legit question
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There will be no Battleborn 2. There is no chance the sales will now pick up, it dropped to sales rank 40 ps4, vanished xbox1 in the PAL charts this week. This is not a slow burn game, word of mouth will not sell it now. This game will never reach the sales of Borderlands 1.
So after the financially successful Borderlands 3 (Lets say late 2018/early2019 at best). Gearbox then ask themselves what should they create for the new XBOX2 and Playstation 5. Which may be graphically capable of 2k/60fps or 4k/30fps.
(A) Create a Battleborn Two, even though sales were abysmal and this type of genre has passed it’s sell-by-date.
(B) Create a new buzz with a new game.
A few sales this year will help to sell more copies. But a second Battleborn would be beyond insane.
Where did you get this information?
For the UK, it’s dropped to:
20th PS4 chart https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110042
17th XBox One chart https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110041
20th PC chart https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110022
21st All format chart (full price) https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110016
27th All format chart (all prices) https://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110015
That was for PAL
Not that it matters, those UK figures you linked are not good in any way shape or form.
Look at the division for console in comparison, when was that released? 3 months ago?
wich is a bummer, Because I really love every single Battleborn character, it’s a shame to think they’ll not live on.
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Obvious hater/troll thread is obvious. This whole thing really needs to get deleted, It has no place in BB forums.
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Somehow, this whole debate was interesting the first time, has been the second time, and is really starting to get tedious by now.
Should someone sacrifice themselves and make a bunch of insults just to get it closed ? Not that it will prevent a new post on the same topic tomorrow when OW is actally released, but really having this thread hanging on top of the forums is now kinda annoying.
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