Is Battleborn Dying?

[Kaleidodemon (Creator of the Battleborn Discord)]

I’ll just drop this here. Don’t mind me.

[goobergaming]

Wouldn’t “perusing the forums, and responding to threads” be considered “Looking back?”. If you haven’t “Looked back”, why are you bothering with the forums of the game you’re not “looking back” at?

[Ganjamira (Rick is my Spirit Animal)]

Was just about to post that topic too - ninjad^^

Can only recommend to everyone to visit this mentioned above, very informative.

[flatliner99]

Actually I never came across a post/source from GBX/2K that a map/story-DLC was supposed to be released with Alani. I see complaints like this often and I never found a real source backing this up…

Though there is no GBX post, we assumed the each new hero character would be released with the Battleborn Season Pass Packs that promise new co-op maps, taunts and skins. I mean after all we got the unlock key because of being a season pass holder so for all we know it’s GBX plan to release one of the many things offered to pass holders one at a time? (cause i remember tier 2 and 3 skins are always supposedly coming but what if they are put into the season packs now?) Sure this is the communities fault for assuming but you cant really blame us because its not like GBX says a lot about their release schedule and content (although sometimes if you come through the developer’s talk tab you can spot some things coming but that’s a bit of work). To me it feels like a lack clear and focused communications on their goals and content, I am still waiting for my promised PS4 unlock key on day one for buying the digital deluxe edition, i think developers said they are in a discussion with Sony to figure out that discrepancy…i dunno i lost track of that long thread.

[flatliner99]

But selling the Digital Deluxe edition for $35? Isn’t that rude to the people that paid the full $75? Felt like a slap in the face to me. It felt like Gearbox told me “Thanks for the $75. Our game isn’t selling as much as we want so we’re going to cut deep into the price and not give back to the people that went above and beyond to pay full price”

I agree with this statement, i understand why they did it because of above mentioned problems and reasons but it doesn’t exactly sit well with me, GBX decided the value of the game was worth $35 dollars send a lot of mixed messages. It was a slap in the face to people who bought it for $75 and to consumers it may look like a desperate money grab because maybe GBX thinks the game isn’t doing well. I never thought this post would get as much attention as it did when i initially made it, what goes to show this games future is a real concern for a lot of people and how we see GBX act can shows more then what they say.

[Ganjamira (Rick is my Spirit Animal)]

I never ment to blame anybody here I just said that GBX never made a statement, so yes most dissappointment here grows from people who made an early assumption. Who is fault or not seems not to matter that much, at least not to me.

because its not like GBX says a lot about their release schedule and content

Not true. I can only link this informative topic again:

Let's talk dev feedback and future content UPDATED: 7/1/16

_update: 7/1/16The devs have done a great job opening up about future plans the past 2 weeks. So I cant actually update this though as it’s being super buggy trying to handle this much text lol. I’m open to alternative ideas for how to manage this thread. nonetheless I think my point has been made that the devs are being very responsive. Remember everyone, the dev tracker is a fantastic tool _ Hello all, I want to preface this post with why I’m putting this as news. I am going to post a LO…

its a great collection of Dev posts, input, statements and a HUGE list of fixes and patches that were done. It will be updated by its OP regulary and its now a pinned topic so you guys can check what is done and talked about.

Also I recommend to use the “Dev Tracker” on the topbar regulary to check all Devs posts and reactions.
http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/groups/Inside_The_Box
You just need to scroll through and you´ll see that they are here, they listen and they respond.

[flatliner99]

Sorry i updated my post cause i did want to mention the Dev Tracker and the link you posted and i do not know if you saw it. In which my reply is i own Battleborn for the PS4, most people only notice content updates through patch notes that it shows you in game. So for those tools to be useful i have to get on a computer and search through posts to find important content that could of been posted days earlier and now hard to track down. Sure its there but you make me work for it GBX and it could be easier. Like how do i get answers for the suppose day one unlock key for ps4 digital deluxe editions? When are new tier 2 &3 skins coming out and are they going to be included in the season pass packs? When can we roughly expect the first season pass pack to come out? I know developers have probably answered these questions but i don’t know the answer to them and i check the forums more then probably half the people who play this game. Do i have to look through a cheat sheet post of developer posts to do so (where most of the replies are not exactly important content updates) and also have to keep logging in to check the forums content every day to keep on the ball about relevant information to my questions.

[Hattie (Sloth in the time of corona)]

People would be complaining if they had to wade through a deluge of technical notes information every time they open the game. There are more arduous kinds of research (trust me) and Gearbox are fairly transparent when it comes to their development process… we’re not talking about Half Life 3 here.

The steam page is glowing with some negative reviews about it and the topic is still on target because pretty much everything that people discuss here is affecting the game. But some people are trying to hard to ignore the state of the game and pretend that the community is the one that needs to fix the game and advertise it for gbx.

II respect everyone’s right to their own opinion, even if they think the game is dead. I don’t think it, and I will say. To imply that anyone praising the game here is doing it as some sort of slavish advertisement to Gearbox, or trying to pretend that Gearbox isn’t responsible for the game’s problems is… well, let’s just say it’s not true. Tbh I’m strapped for cash so if Gearbox were to offer me incitement to post glowing homages to this game I’d jump on the chance, but sad to say I’m still poor and it’s all coming from the heart.

[HipHobbes (HHob)]

The next week might be important. There are indicators that game attendance for PC might be close to stabilizing on a low level. 600 to 1400 concurrent players is nothing to be proud of but is a population which just might be enough for players to find games within a reasonable amount of time. This could be the nucleus of players the game needs when the Steam summer sale might attract a few new people to the game.
The game on PC is on life support but it’s a bit too early to write an obituary.

[xzachd]

I don’t know of it’s dying but I do the matchmaking times are absurdly long for a Friday night. Like 30 mins a match for me.

[wisecarver]

Over 340 hours into public Story mode, definitely not dying.
Just got High Commander badge, Defender of the week.

[chaosolis]

I know geearbox well enough to say that tbattleborn shall never go FTP even if the playerbase is extremely low. Borderlands wasn’t a hit at first, And battleborn may take a while to pick up in pacee, but i belieeve people will get bored of FPS angry bird (overwatch) and will maybe try out battleeborn. I love the gameplay SO MUCH, honestly, i think its the best gameplay ive ever played, ever. I will stay with this game ive waited a few y3ears for now until the ashes have blown away, or the sequel burns three times as bright as the first.

[Cody2Hottie]

So much bashing on OW on these forums lol. I mean come on even the OW forums aren’t bashing other FPS titles, at most probably they bash CoD but come on everyone bashes on CoD.

I’m a OW player but I bought this first on release. It was just dull for me (imo) if others enjoy it, that’s fine lol. But really, bashing on other popular titles isn’t doing this community any good. Even considering the fact their both VERY different games.

So do this game a favor and stop feeding this Overwatch VS Battleborn fight. Cause from what I’ve seen… a lot of Battleborn fans seem very whiny about the topic. While on the Overwatch side, some are arrogant I’ll admit but alot of them just don’t care about the whole thing and just doing what people on both sides SHOULD do… and just enjoy the game.

[auditionko]

I see a lot of hate for OW here really while nobody mentions BB anymore in ow forum(They move on to bigger games like tf2 and csgo).Mostly i see a couple of arguments like overwatch has no content or no depth.The first one is pretty stupid since it’s an arena shooter with 3 modes and 12 maps.Me and thousands of people have been playing mirage,dust 2 and inferno on a single mode for years.The latter is kinda impression you get from most arena shooters by watching them.I wont go on about that here ,but there should be a reason that right now ow is overtaking LOL in korea already(People there take gaming very srsly).

[gab4lex (Mountain Gabe)]

The point of this thread as far as I understand was to see if the game is dying , thats not the same to the game is dead topic or some doomsday topic as a lot of people caLl anyone that is talking about the issues of the game.

So when people react to a thread that is not forced to enter trying to overshadow all the issues with the game that’s beyond defensive and add anything to the problem at least from the pc community perspective
That has some of the player base concerned as it is the low population.

Sadly I think that this forum is useless since gbx has no intention of communicate his patchs and updates in the long term and what is left of the forum is the reassurance group trying to cover all the flaws that peoples post .
So personally I’m moving to another game and since is too late to ask for a refund I’m going to save myself to buy another game that has a gbx or 2k label on it,unless it’s on a steam sale at 5$ or less. See ya folks around

[boop (Beep)]

I see plenty of OW fans bashing BB on social media, especially on BB’s own facebook pages. It would be nice if both sides could just be civil, but that is apparently asking too much.

We’re all gamers in the end, regardless of console, game choice, or skill.

[Cody2Hottie]

This

Like I said, I know a whole few are bad eggs on OW side, MUCH MUCH so on the facebook pages… In my experience I haven’t seen a lot of that on it’s Reddit and it’s own forum page. I will admit they can be arrogant about it’s success.

It’s all silly though, as you said… we’re all gamers in the end. PC or Console…PS4 to XBOX. We’re all playing to do one thing, to have fun!

[Hattie (Sloth in the time of corona)]

Just nobody say the word ‘devour’… and if I’m the only one who knows why, that’s probably a good thing.

[Elaura (Ninja Truffle)]

I’m still waiting for my paycheck from GBX for being a member of their reassurance group. You don’t suppose the pronouncements of gloom and doom are being devoured by logical discussion, do you?

[Corrsk (Benedict Informant)]

Borderlands wasn’t a hit at first, And battleborn may take a while to pick up in pacee

You can’t really compare Borderlands and Battleborn: You need other players to play Battleborn.