The store set the price, not Gearbox. And unless the store where you bought the game dropped the price within the next 2 weeks of your purchase, you don’t get refund. That’s for everything, not just Gearbox games…
Many companies have policies that allow you a refund if your product went on sale within a certain time frame. Usually 1 day or some to 30 days. Fry’s does this. Bought a computer for $800 and it went on sale for $600 after two days so we got a refund for the difference.
It was insulting that the game dropped so drastically the first time. It’s common for games to cut off $1-5 soon after release but any big cuts are months later, at least one month and even then I’ve never seen a price slash of more than $10 off a $60 game 6 months after launch.
Battleborn may be different because it’s an online game and they need money for their server upkeep but they shouldve considered that being paid by the game sales. Microtransactions should be pure profit for a buy to play game compared to a free to play game that gets a portion of profit and another for server upkeep.
To see it on sale yet again is disheartening. Whether it’s the store or Gearbox/2K to blame is irrelevant becasue the store lowered the price because its not selling and it’s not selling because of the game which would make both the store and Gearbox/2K at fault.
Instead of dropping the price so much after launch they shouldve done a free to play weekend or done some more marketing for it plus a small price cut, but no more than $5 off the full price. Gamers notice price cuts and in all of our experiences we know that a massive change in price means a game isn’t being enjoyed by a majority.
Now I don’t read reviews to decide if I want to watch a movie or buy a game, I do research on the game and its gameplay or watch trailers/clips. However, many people base all of their gaming purchases on big name reviewers alone. Which is where Blizzard excels because they’re massively popular and more profitable, they have an infinite amount of financial support, they have a reputation for allegedly buying out reviews, and have many fans whom buy whatever they push out. Blizzard wanted to knock Gearbox out of the ring and they did.
I think Battleborn would’ve done better if they pushed their release to after Overwatch. This would have given them more time to balance the game, work on polishing everything, work out bugs, etc… Successful games get pushed back all the time. The only reason Gearbox/2K kept their release date is because they didn’t want everyone saying they’re scared of Blizzard. I think this was a lousy business decision. I like that they thought their game was good enough to stand up to Overwatch but their credibility for pride in their work was shattered upon a 50% price cut after release.
Best advice I ever got…
From a crusty old Sergeant Major who’d been around…
“Lieutenant…Life ain’t fair”
You guys are forgetting simple capitalism is at work here…and the very simple law of supply and demand.
It has nothing to do with what GB wanted to do…or should do in the future.
It has EVERTHING to do with what GB HAS to do in order to make a profit from a venture such as this and given little facts like the genre is filled right now with good and viable alternatives.
We who paid more also possessed the game earlier and longer. And early adopters ALWAYS pay a premium price.
It’s that “law of supply and demand” thingy again.
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GBX should probably refund everyone who payed extra for the deluxe edition or season pass because it does not include all of the content in the game.
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They never said that season pass give you all the content.
That’s what a season pass IS.
If you read the description of the season pass before buy it, you’ll see that it give you 5 DLC packs with 1 story mission each pack and related skins and taunts related with this missions.
OK so they lied about it being a season pass then.
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I agree. It’s what a season pass normally means. You get everything released during this “season”.
This whole fiasco is why I will never buy another season pass again 
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They didn’t lied, they give the info about the season pass before the release and in the description of the season pass too.
Borderlands season pass doesn’t give you all the content too, only the 4 campaigns DLC.
Really should not call them season passes then. It’s misleading at best.
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Now Arkham knight, that was a season pass. Paid for the game and season pass. got all the DLC, story missions, skins, challenge modes & extras.
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The price is $9,990.00? Oh boy.
don’t mind me, just a wee bit hyper and couldn’t help myself
That some companies give you all the content with the season pass doesn’t mean that all do the same.
As examples about what I said, CoD doesn’t give you all DLC buying the season pass and ACM (not completely sure about it) only give you 4 DLC packs.
There’s alot of companies that give you everything they come out with in the season pass but more often than not they don’t give everything, they give most things not all…they probably should’ve either waited on the first dlc pack to do the MTs but with all of us begging for new skins they decided to go ahead and do it. Besides the season pass is half the price of most other ones I’ve bought in the past
Like a lot of other people have mentioned, individual stores often have latitude in what they charge for a product.
This store happened to buy more copies of Battleborn than they were selling, so they decided to mark it down in order to move inventory.
It’s entirely possible (though not guaranteed) that GBX is finding out about this sale at around the same time we are.
What I will say is that clearly either BB didn’t sell too well in that store, or their sales projections were way off and they ordered too much inventory.
Storm in a teacup.
As for Season Passes, there was a time (probably 3-4 years ago, don’t quote me) that they meant you would receive all the DLC for the lifetime of the product.
However, in recent history, especially for Live Games that release content on a continual basis – this hasn’t always been the case.
While I understand how it could be misinterpreted, as someone else pointed out, every piece of marketing material available tells you exactly what the Season Pass contains. It’s not like they were hiding anything.
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Its misleading that you didnt read what you were buying?
Season pass does not mean all content it tells you what it offers if you didnt read it its your own fault.
Just that it isn’t only this store…it is every store, just that this one is the most extreme of them all. In 90% of the stores I see new copies being sold for 25€ or less, the rest are very small private stores, which still sell it for 60 to 70€.
And of course gbx/2K don’t have direct influence on the stores, but they sparked & started the devaluation with the way too early digital sales and the stores just adapted to these prices.
On another note: I can’t understand the ranting about the season pass. The meaning of everything post launch released in it is now way longer obsolete, than it was true.
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Including platinum I’ve now spent about $160 on this game…
I need help.
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Hehe… We bough our XB1 and our new TV just for BB…plus the 75€ for the game…and a second controller…and two headsets… but hey, its our only “vacation” in 2 years^^
Compared to that you seem perfectly sane! lol
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