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[PlayStaytion]

FREE DUKE NUKEM RANDY!

Randy! we want a new Duke Nukem game and that's an order.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Why do they keep making these.

Unfortunately people find the "humor" funny and keep buying them.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Does this include the spyware?

Also, did anyone else notice they were practically giving the old games away? Or probably still are

Nice little scheme there to collect your data ASAP.

Screw this company. Rather shave my balls with the wife's razor than entertain these jokers.

 

[Buggy Loop]

I swear Randy is retarded.

Why the fuck didn't he just confirm it's $70 and avoided any controversy?

Oh he considered it 100%

He just saw that he was becoming the target of the pushback and they calculated it would probably cost them more than what that $10 difference would bring in.

Easy shield when pulling back

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Randy is the only E3 cringe we have left. Bless this man!

 

[PleazureDome]

So if I'm reading this right, you don't get all the story DLC "Season Pass" stuff with the Deluxe Edition like in the past? So he is paywalling more story missions and a new vault hunter behind the Super deluxe Edition at $129?

Looks like story completionist will need to shell out top dollar for this privilege. Even Ubisoft with all their 'Special Editions' don't usually lock story stuff behind a 3rd top tier, just cosmetics.

Fuck Randy "Filthy Thumbdrive" Pitchford.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Seems more like a $50 game.

 

[havoc00]

 

[Sweden85]

90 dollars for standard edition in Scandinavia :-O

 

[bender]

Super Deluxe Edition ($129.99)

I'll wait a year or two when its 10 bucks

 

[whyman]

Lol. Nah I'm good. 59:99 would have been my breaking point. It is borderlands after all.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Why do they keep making these.

Because they sell incredibly well.

 

[Trogdor1123]

So that retard Randy kicked the hornet's nest for nothing LOL

Maybe… or the nest is why they changed

 

[schaft0620]

So if I'm reading this right, you don't get all the story DLC "Season Pass" stuff with the Deluxe Edition like in the past? So he is paywalling more story missions and a new vault hunter behind the Super deluxe Edition at $129?

Looks like story completionist will need to shell out top dollar for this privilege. Even Ubisoft with all their 'Special Editions' don't usually lock story stuff behind a 3rd top tier, just cosmetics.

Fuck Randy "Filthy Thumbdrive" Pitchford.

Every Borderlands has had a $30 DLC expansion pack with another 1/2 of a game, this is no different.

 

[IntentionalPun]

So if I'm reading this right, you don't get all the story DLC "Season Pass" stuff with the Deluxe Edition like in the past? So he is paywalling more story missions and a new vault hunter behind the Super deluxe Edition at $129?

Looks like story completionist will need to shell out top dollar for this privilege. Even Ubisoft with all their 'Special Editions' don't usually lock story stuff behind a 3rd top tier, just cosmetics.

Fuck Randy "Filthy Thumbdrive" Pitchford.

It's called DLC, it comes out later.

Base game is usually massive.

 

[DryvBy]

This is why complaining and voting with your wallet matters.

 

[mitch1971]

Super Deluxe Edition ($129.99)

I'll wait a year or two when its 10 bucks

i'll wait till year 3 when it's on plus. And the season pass is a fiver.

 

[hemo memo]

Deluxe and Super Deluxe? Isn't Deluxe by definition, well, Deluxe?

 

[ResilientBanana]

I just bought BL3 for $3. so. I can wait.

 

[Rush2112]

Still not buying

 

[Danny22]

Nooo, Game base prices should increase instead of these predatory deluxe editions and/or microtransactions. I'm guessing it was that 80 dollar comment and the studio probably wanted to avoid that kind of controversy for such a big game.

70 is still too much money for a videogame, especially when we consider that we don't even get the game, just a temporary license to play it.

Ok, enjoy live service and microtransactions and don't complain about them. Because they're much more financially rewarding than singleplayer games stuck at 60-70 for 2 decades now.

 

[phant0m]

Even if this was actually true I'd still rather pay $70 on Steam lol

 

[Moneal]

I wonder if the backlash to Randy's comments caused 2K to charge $70 and whether Randy accidentally did us a solid, because the original plan may have been $80

I said he was probably talking around the $80 thing to get people riled up so that when it comes out that its $70 people will be like oh ok thats good.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I think they know they gotta sell games and the backlash from the $80 price point was scary

 

[yogaflame]

Gamers win a

 

[Arachnid]

If Nintendo can charge 80 dollars for Mario Kart Rehash #69 and 10 dollars for a intro to the Switch 2, Gearbox can charge 70 for this.

That's the thing though? Both are ass. Why are you justifying Nintendo lmao

"If Ted Bundy can kill 30+ women, Dahmer can kill 15 men."

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

$120?! for skins?!

I remember getting mad when companies had "alpha" content of the DLC maps on the discs... If only I would have known it was going to get so so so much worse.

 

[Barakov]

I'm going to wait for a price drop simply because Pitchford and opened his mouth and said what he said.

 

[phant0m]

$120?! for skins?!

I remember getting mad when companies had "alpha" content of the DLC maps on the discs... If only I would have known it was going to get so so so much worse.

There are no $120 versions.

The $130 version includes 2 additional classes, 2 map regions, additional story + side content, and yes, skins

 

[kazuyamishima]

Even a $60 price tag can't save this game.

Don't think that even PS Players will come in hordes, but we'll see.

 

[StereoVsn]

Super Deluxe Edition ($129.99)

I'll wait a year or two when its 10 bucks

Yep, not sure about $10, but it's guaranteed to be on sale for like $20-30 for the super mega plus version within couple years post launch.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

This IP ended with BL2. Everything that comes after is nothing but a lazy cash grab a la Halo post Bungie.

You played this?

Anyway from what I have watched I want this.
Keep in mind I haven't liked the series since part 2.
If it's all on disc and can be played offline I will double dip on this.

 

[SHAKEZ]

As always, I'll wait until they release the absolute final edition and grab it at the absolute lowest price in a sale.

 

[sendit]

That's the thing though? Both are ass. Why are you justifying Nintendo lmao

"If Ted Bundy can kill 30+ women, Dahmer can kill 15 men."

You just compared murder to the price of a product. Did Ted Bundy's victims have a choice to live or die?

 

[ProtoByte]

So that retard Randy kicked the hornet's nest for nothing LOL

I knew BL4 was going to be 70, but I still think Pitchford saying what he said was valuable. Just because people don't want to hear it, doesn't make it false.

The industry should indeed start communicating that spending 5+ years on a project staffing hundreds of metropolitan American workers throughout not including support devs is an extremely expensive and risky venture, especially in the modern structure of the market.

Yes, they do need to get their spending in control which is a whole other conversation to be had with the workforce pool, but also, 70 dollars is not going to be sustainable from now to the end of time no matter how much they reign it in.

 

[Elginer]

Aaaaaand preordered. Buddy and me and beaten each Borderlands and had a drunken good time talking shit and shooting dudes. Thanks Randy!!

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

I knew BL4 was going to be 70, but I still think Pitchford saying what he said was valuable. Just because people don't want to hear it, doesn't make it false.

The industry should indeed start communicating that spending 5+ years on a project staffing hundreds of metropolitan American workers throughout not including support devs is an extremely expensive and risky venture, especially in the modern structure of the market.

Yes, they do need to get their spending in control which is a whole other conversation to be had with the workforce pool, but also, 70 dollars is not going to be sustainable from now to the end of time no matter how much they get reign that in.

I think most people would agree if the industry actually began being transparent and showed recipes. But from then outside it's hard to be sympathetic when gaming is reportedly the most lucerative businesses in entertainment.

But it is what it is, the market will support some price hikes...until it won't.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

70 is still too much money for a videogame, especially when we consider that we don't even get the game, just a temporary license to play it.

A bit like life brother, a bit like life…….

 

[SamuraiEdge]

I liked what I saw with this one hoping it'll deliver the same quality experience I had with 2. 3 felt weak (some nice music tho) than prior entries that's for sure. We have the normal version via steam at £60 which isn't too bad, just got to hope it's worth it.

 

[Arachnid]

You just compared murder to the price of a product. Did Ted Bundy's victims have a choice to live or die?

Yes? Use some deductive reasoning and stop being so reactive. I'm obviously not saying it's as bad lol

 

[Ben87fr]

Fuck you Randy, pay me to play your shite, third game was horrible...

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

There are no $120 versions.

The $130 version includes 2 additional classes, 2 map regions, additional story + side content, and yes, skins

Oh my bad, idk how i confused it.

Even worse then, the "full game" is actually 130

 

[Dorfdad]

I'll wait for the 39.99 revision with bugs and patches 6 months later. I got no rush to play the same game but over and over. Me backlog is longer than my lifespan

 

[PleazureDome]

Every Borderlands has had a $30 DLC expansion pack with another 1/2 of a game, this is no different.

It's called DLC, it comes out later.

Base game is usually massive.

You two hammerheads need to take reading comprehension courses. This is what I am saying:

Normally when you buy the mid-tier version (base game + $30 Season Pass = $100) this gets you all the story missions they release over the next year or two.

This game is making you buy the 3rd-tier (highest) at $129 to get all the story DLC they will release over the next few years, plus 2 new vault hunters.

*I don't care about the skins and cosmetics this is only referring to playing all the story missions. This is the first time they are locking it behind the most expensive tier (I own all the games).

 

[MagiusNecros]

Super Deluxe is pretty much Base game and 2 season passes. And what you are getting is of comparable value of previous additional content of other Borderlands games.

The more pressing concern is the double DRM more then anything else.

 

[Mithos]

Does this include the spyware?

It has DUAL DRM, Denuvo and Symbiote

 

[IntentionalPun]

You two hammerheads need to take reading comprehension courses. This is what I am saying:

Normally when you buy the mid-tier version (base game + $30 Season Pass = $100) this gets you all the story missions they release over the next year or two.

This game is making you buy the 3rd-tier (highest) at $129 to get all the story DLC they will release over the next few years, plus 2 new vault hunters.

*I don't care about the skins and cosmetics this is only referring to playing all the story missions. This is the first time they are locking it behind the most expensive tier (I own all the games).

Well thanks for the correction, I honestly read that wall of text they posted and thought the Deluxe had all DLC's, but I'm also a bit retarded.

I also don't care about cosmetics but Deluxe does have " each with distinct areas, new missions, and unique bosses;" which threw me off.

 

[phant0m]

Oh my bad, idk how i confused it.

Even worse then, the "full game" is actually 130

Correct lol

 

[phant0m]

Super Deluxe is pretty much Base game and 2 season passes. And what you are getting is of comparable value of previous additional content of other Borderlands games.

The more pressing concern is the double DRM more then anything else.

Yeah I'll get this on PS5 if the PC DRM stays

 

[schaft0620]

You two hammerheads need to take reading comprehension courses. This is what I am saying:

Normally when you buy the mid-tier version (base game + $30 Season Pass = $100) this gets you all the story missions they release over the next year or two.

This game is making you buy the 3rd-tier (highest) at $129 to get all the story DLC they will release over the next few years, plus 2 new vault hunters.

*I don't care about the skins and cosmetics this is only referring to playing all the story missions. This is the first time they are locking it behind the most expensive tier (I own all the games).

Some of you just want to complain about everything. The $130 version is not for you. You know the base game will be $40 in November + $40 for the upgrade (probably). Its not a big deal at all. You can be a casual Borderlands fan. The end of Aug/early Sept is insane.