Well lets see, you are coming out of one of the biggest tanks ever for the gaming movie franchise. The online mentions are far more jokes about your IP than any kind of nostalgia.
Sure, go exclusive! And make sure you code 60% of your next project with AI - the gamers will love it!
Exclusivity is bad. Unless it’s on the one platform where I’ve bought all my games.
I can promise you that Steam not being on Xbox or Playstation is not Valves fault
They’re not saying to put it only on steam. And steam doesn’t do exclusivity deals anyway afaik.
I mean, the majority chose the option that said exactly that.
Just put it on steam isn’t the same as saying exclusively put it on steam.
There were two options for “just put it on Steam”. You didn’t read the article, or you didn’t understand the difference between the two.
I long for the era when fans who were asked if they would swallow future exclusivity deals would stare blankly and say, Wat?
While deals weren’t really a part of it, exclusivity has been a feature of console gaming from the very beginning.
So has fire insurance on game company office buildings, but fans never cared about it or boycotted games over it, etc.
You went from apple and oranges to apples and bolt carrier groups.
Ok let me Sheldon it for you: Yes, deals existed “back in the day” as the saying goes, but fans were not aware of (or reactive to) the business aspects of gaming enough for the deals to be the subject of headlines or controversy.
I didn’t even touch this game when they were giving it away for free because of the privacy issues
I will wait for sale
I will wait for torrent, if at all
The ego on this guy is just unprecedented. It’s Borderlands, most people can take it or leave it.
My take is that Borderlands 1 was boring, Borderlands 2 had decent game play but was held up by excellent writing and characterization and every Borderlands game since has been trying to recapture the magic of the second game but just feels hollow. They aren’t terrible, but they aren’t amazing either.
I feel like borderlands 1 was boring but had some high points, but the dlc really started to capture what the series would become. The general Knox dlc is still one of my favorites.
Better if they don’t, as they don’t deserve people’s money.
Why are people taking this even remotely seriously? This is Pitchford doing marketing for BL4. BL3 already showed people don’t want Epic exclusivity and there’s no such thing as Steam exclusivity. They can choose to release exclusively on Steam but that’s just artificial exclusivity because nothing about Steam prevents them from releasing on Epic or GOG.
It’s a pointless poll made by Pitchford either to keep BL4 in the media cycle or to just shit stir, possibly both.
Any chance he’s putting the question on social media to convince other stakeholders above him?
It’s possible he was in a board meeting when some novice shareholder suggested “What if you take an exclusivity deal”? And he just didn’t have clear evidence on hand of that being vastly unpopular. Obviously that could be me being overgenerous to him.
Pitchford is a cunt when he wakes up, and when he goes to bed he reviews a checklist to make sure he still retains the appropriate level of cunt in his daily routine.
He’s not doing anything unless it makes Randy Pitchford more rich, or alternatively, makes sure he’s still a cunting waste of life.
There is a chance but what is he convincing them of? That they should take a non-existent exclusivity deal with Steam? They already have the data that exclusivity with Epic does not work and Steam doesn’t do exclusivity deals.
There are Steam exclusives, but it’s because the publisher chose it to be that way, not because of any incentive by Valve.
That’s what I mean by artificial exclusivity. There are games where the developer or publisher decided it’s the only platform they will release on but that kind of “exclusivity” is not at all the same as Epic paying developers or publishers to not release on Steam. Valve/Steam doesn’t prevent those games being released elsewhere, the developers/publishers themselves don’t want to.
I could understand smaller (I’m talking literal solo devs or studios with less than 10 people) choosing to be exclusively on Steam. Supporting other platforms can have huge overhead costs for them. But for a studio the size of Gearbox there’s no benefit to being exclusively on Steam. They have enough support staff to manage multiple stores. There maybe be suits wondering if it’s worth being exclusively on Epic but there are no suits sitting around wondering whether to be exclusively on Steam or not, the answer is obviously not.
How does that guy still have a job?
Boy, they really are pulling all the stops in trying to make the game shit, aren’t they?
Customers already told them this by not buying on Epic and waiting 6 months to a year to buy on Steam.
Fucking don’t. Put them on GoG.
Other than GOTY edition of the first game, this entire series has LAN (so far), which is commendable and stupidly rare! I hope the GOTY edition doesn’t show that they’re nixing this for BL4 as well.
Just don’t make exclusives. Steam, GoG, Epic, whatever.
Doesn’t matter if you wait a year or two to get it at the non-hype price with full content included
Borderlands games aren’t good enough for exclusivity deals. Nintendo’s aren’t, either but in their defense, you don’t have to try very hard to entertain an 8 year old.
Gatekeeping gaming brands, are we?
How dare I, a middle-aged person, enjoy Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, Donkey Kong etc.
If I were gatekeeping, I would’ve mentioned companies that don’t use shotty business practices and their profits for frivolous lawsuits as alternatives.
I was calling out dumb, impulsive consumers. You here for the convention?
I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!
If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.
And that website is a fucking eyesore.
