Will Battleborn Survive The Upcoming Holiday New Game Debut Season?

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#72

Well, that’s a flattering post! I’m almost too shy for words now… but your assumptions are right. Writing and reading are my usual creative hobbies, especially nowadays, when my workload gives me less relaxing time. I used to play a lot of RPGs and adventure games when I was young, though, and my reflexes are pretty good, so I never shied away from action games. But the older I get, the harder I seem to find it to embrace the stories and characters I encounter in games. I’ll have to take a look at the ones you mentioned. I played a lot of good games back in the day, but I’m not sure I’d even enjoy them then the same way now. Plus they make me feel old. :wink:

I really do want to stay positive about BB, but it’s so hard watching it go through this rough phase. And it has such a negative reputation online - it’s kinda heartbreaking. Right now, the game means very different things to different people. To me, it was a game that didn’t try to sell me a cast of slick supermodel heroes - and which didn’t presume anything about the player and person I am. And the presence of the mature Borderlands community gave it a unique playerbase (which I’m afraid is probably moved on - I sometimes wonder if a F2P playerbase would change the game in more ways than I bargained for.)

Thank you for your kind thoughts, regardless of what happens! The cabinet isn’t closed yet :smiley:

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#73

Coming from the PC perspective, my short answer is: No.

Competition for attention is so high on this platform that almost every game needs to catch my attention on the get go (or somehow I resonate with the idea on my own accord,) thus I have been so spoiled to the point that I will simply stop playing a game the moment I don’t feel entertained. I can stop with relative ease is because I have another one more than ready to take its place.

Yes, anything with a use to me is an asset and will be cast aside like garbage when they outlive their usefulness.

That’s what happens when you have 155 games on Steam and only played 60ish of them.

But then you go, “But Riv, you’re still playing Battleborn! I see you on it all the time, you stupid lunatic! Clearly the game has a chance to survive if we got such a diligent maniac on board!” I’m only on it to reap as many credits as possible (310K as of writing) for the lootpocalypse, and it’s really “hard work”. If I get most, or even all, the skins and taunts once Friday arrives, I don’t even think I would be playing the game in the fashion I’m playing it until October 13th. I don’t even know how long I could keep playing the DLC before I get everything I want out of it. I’m guessing 2 to 3 weeks at most if I consistently have my competent group of friends, who fortunately are returning when new content drops.

I have 4 other games that are battling for my time: Divinity: Original Sin 2, Cities: Skylines, Ultra Street Fighter 4, and Borderlands 2. The last one is because I got a few friends, latecomers, playing it and wanted to join them.

I also have 40 games on my wishlist, and if any one of them suddenly drops to a steep discount, you can bet that I would be more than willing to buy and play it immediately.

One other game I wasn’t expecting to catch my attention was Fallout 4. With all the DLCs released, the Game of the Year is on the horizon, probably by Christmas or Chinese New Year 2017. Am I Chinese? I guess I pretend that I am and don’t know any English whenever I’m in court. Well, that trick would’ve worked if I wasn’t reading a novel at the time…

I’ll still enjoy Battleborn and what the upcoming content has to offer, but I don’t think I can summon up a tremendous amount of enthusiasm (unless it really astounds me) nor much desperation (only if Gearbox/2K makes horrible decisions going forward.) I lost the energy and found some peace with it once I took a few steps back and observe the landscape. Truth be told, I anticipated this would happen, but I didn’t think it would arrive this quickly.

Now I have a few options: learn how to create a city where the citizens won’t get angry at me for not providing them with water and power, or spend more time reading and writing on my projects…

For those who didn’t read all that stuff above, Battleborn on every area needs to perform above and beyond in order to survive.

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#74

It’s a great game! Seriously. Really stellar. It’s was my GOTY for 2015 (X1).

Hope you enjoy! :slight_smile:

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#75

honestly, once Titanfall 2 comes out I’ll be on that. None of my friends have BB so I’m surprised it’s kept my attention this long.

#76

I do. I get about 2 games a year. I have so little time to play them.

#77

On that note…I have over 100 people in my PS4 friends list. When Battleborn first came out, about 4 or 5 played the game for a couple weeks. Since then, I’m the only one who still plays. I get messages from them on a regular basis that are basically “You play Battleborn? Seriously? How is it?”. And I always reply “It’ll be great when it’s finished!”.

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#78

If I was them I would reply to you the following. If the game is that bad, then why are you playing it? Do you enjoy playing “unfinished” games?

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#79

@RayLightning

Many people do not consider games, especially heavily online/multiplayer reliant games, finished until all their DLC/patches/tweaks have been released.

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#80

Really? That’s bizarre. Generally a game is consider “finished” as soon as it is released out of the open beta. DLC are just additional contents added to the finished game.

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#81

Not anymore. Now that Patchess are a thing

#82

I’m not much of a shooter person, honestly, so Titanfall/Battlefield/Etc aren’t on my radar. I’ve got a jillion games on Steam, and my attention is solely held by Battleborn first and foremost, Overwatch when I’ve got less time, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I’m a patient gamer, so the only game I’d pick up is the new Deus Ex down the road. I’ve got plenty of time, but I really do honestly enjoy Battleborn more than my other games at the moment.

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#83

You’ll have to point out where in my post that I said the game was “that bad”. I never did.

Parts of it are quite good, other parts obviously not. And the opinion that the game is unfinished is a pretty common one, as even the devs are working on making the new player experience better, fixing things up and ‘relaunching’ it at some point down the line.

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#85

Well my apologies. I probably misinterpreted the reply you send.

“It’ll be great when it’s finished!”.

Can be taken as if you are saying that the game is not great right now but it will be in the future. It can definitely prevent people from even trying the game at the moment if they misinterpreted it like I did.

Not sure how common that opinion is because it is my first time reading and hearing it. There has always been patches to games even before dlc were introduced. Can you direct me to a source where the devs stated they will “relaunch” the game? I would like to read it. Thank you!

It just doesn’t make sense to me. When a game is not finished, it is not released to the entire public. Instead only a specific group of people get to play it in order to test it for the finished released game (early access, preview, open and close beta)

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#86

I agree, it is finished when it comes out (unless it is like assasins creed unity) patches are for bugs and glitches to make it better not complete the game

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#87

While not officially announced yet, it’s pretty certain. Other than the fact that they are looking at ftp, working at adding a proper new player tutorial, fixing bugs, adding content and indicating that they want to make sure everything is actually ready before the next new big push/relaunch, such as indicated here responding to the suggestion of a relaunch:

“3 - I can’t say much here concretely other than…I agree. I think there’s a moment where something like this is right for another push. We’re working hard on taking care of some of the other issues in the game, and hopefully, if we get here, we’ll be able to attract and excite some new players.”

Here he mentions the need to bring in larger number of players…

They know everytime there is a big sale where player numbers increase, they plummet right back down as we’ve seen with the Humble Bundle. New players don’t continue to play, and there are several reasons for that, one being that the game is hard for new players to ‘get’ the game. Between that and other improvements/fixes they are working on, hopefully it will be ready for whatever push / move to ftp / relaunch or whatever it is they end up doing.

And you’ve never heard of unfinished games being released to market? Happens quite a bit unfortunately, due to market pressures and release dates that can’t be broken. Aliens Colonial Marines is a perfect example…it was a complete mess of a game that even patches couldn’t save.

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#88

Survive? Yeah sure why not. The game shouldn’t get any worse just because new games are coming out.

However, I don’t think it’ll benefit. The player base has to drop right? It just a matter of by how much. Personally I’m not very excited about any new releases but sort of thanks to battleborn I got pretty addicted to smite and they’re already hosting a big end of the year event that I’m excited about.

Even though I might not be super excited for them I’m probably still getting battlefield 1 and GoW4 and from my own perspective it’s unlikely I’ll leave newer games lying around so chances are although I still li- love, battleborn I won’t be playing it nearly as much.

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#89

Sun and moon look so cool. Can’t wait to play them

#90

If they try some re-branding or something they could benefit. We’ll see how much they care come christmas

#91

You just said you wont be playing battleborn as much because of new games… thats battleborn getting worse.

Fewer players means worse matching which results in more players potentially leaving.

#92

@pajama_dad Stay positive!