>Overwatch on pace to have a big Anniversary event that will

>>377615618
I can just imagine the Gearbox offices where every employee is miserable, slumped over their desk, worried about their future because there's a strong chance the company they work for will go under. Then the office in the back doors fling upon, after 4 hours of tweeting Randy stumbles out and yells some gibberish about badass and misogyny in gaming before further dooming his company and employees.

>>377615958

Yeah, just imagine making this and putting your heart in it but the head of the hydra was full on retard.

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Can we just take a moment to imagine the embarrassment that the employees felt after how hard their game flopped?

Just cringing to themselves as they write their resume for their next job once gearbox collapses.

>>377617220
>It says on your resume that there's a several year gap with nothing, could you tell me what you did in those years?
>C-Certainly not developing Battleborn! That's for sure!

>>377615958
I don't think Randy Bojangles is the only one with the mindset in Gearbox.

The entire company is full of those people, and the company is losing tons of money over it.

>only needs a sale

yeah why is this shit still full price

i think console sales are keeping this afloat

>>377615618
>he still won't try to salvage as much as possible from this abomination by making the game f2p

>>377617220
>>377617576
I don't begrudge any of the rank-and-file Gearbox members for Battleborn's failure. I'd only be embarassed of working on Battleborn if I was in Randy's shoes or other executive level. Rank-and-file can always blame the failure on other departments or the execs.

>>377617220
Imagine being a coder for Gearbox. You put your heart and soul into the game, building the mechanics, tuning the game play, working long hours and maybe even coming in on weekends writing code to make the best game your team has ever put together. Not being an artist, you're relying on the UI guys and the artists to make everything look as good as you've made it run. And what do they do? They make everything ugly as sin. Characters that look like some PS2 shovelware title upscaled to 1080p and a UI that looks like a parody of a FPS HUD. To top it off, they cover it up with so many gaudy particle effects you can barely see what's happening. You might try to complain, but you're just a lowly code monkey, you don't have any say in the art direction of the game. Finally, to make matters worse, the marketing department picks a fight with Blizzard, your CEO acts like a retard on Twitter, and upon release your magnum opus has become the laughingstock of the industy. The whole project, the one your whole company staked their reputation and very future on is burning down around you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>377617220
I know a teacher at UT Dallas that worked on BB, Borderlands 2 and Alien Space Marine, guy's cool but I'd be emabarrased over having such a shit resume.

>>377617712
So do you get another game if the game is on sale for $2.50 from $5?

>>377618308

Of course not, anon-why would they switch to a f2p model when they can release a special demo mode to help people still on the fence decide to buy it?

In all honesty, there's really no point in trying to swap pay models. Interest in the game has pretty much died off completely, and even if they did drop the price tag, there are plenty of f2p hero shooters they'd have to compete against.

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The tweet that started it all

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>>377615618
>Added a season pass to make easy shekels
>It became the rope that Battleborn hung itself with

Of course they dropped support as soon as they could, but the damage has already been done.

>>377619982
Imagine randy giggling as he types the tweet on his phone

Does anyone have that youtube video that compiles everything about BB's fall? It had stuff of emphasis like "THIS IS OUR BIGGEST GAME EVER" by Randy and the "FEMINISM IS AWESOME!" line

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>>377615618
Randy has been really quiet on twitter for the past week, I wonder if someone told him to stop replying to bait or he is just too depressed to leave bed

>>377618929
>work on shitty game
>you should pitty me because i put my emotions into the product

>>377617576
>I had a 4 year crack addiction
>I see. For a moment there I thought you were working on Battleborn!
>Ha..haha...

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>>377620664
>>377617576
lol

>>377619982

Stop posting this shit. Every company shitposts to rivals on twitter.

>>377621012
This is the tweet that made Blizzard fuck Battleborn's beta and launch date, anon. Blizzard used Overwatch's popularity to kill Battleborn before it was even out.

>>377621012
>lmao lets openly challange a rival many times our popularity
>wait... blizz stop... its just a prank bro

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>>377620129
the fucking retard claims he had nothing to do with that whole debacle
>>377621012
Fuck off Randy

>>377620404

A classic, /v/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FElmjlzdSSM

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>>377615618
THIS GAME IS BADASS

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>>377621948
HELL YEAH BRO

>>377621012
Uh-oh, Randy is upset everyone. Better not hurt Randy's feelings anymore.

>>377621948
>>377622058
>GUYS
>GUYS
>GUYS
>GUYS I GOT THIS OK I GOT THIS
>BAD
>ASS
>IDEA
>WHAT IF WE
>MAKE THE WORST LOOKING UI OF ALL TIME!?!
Randy pitching Battleborn during a Gearbox brainstorming session.

>>377621948
>>377622058

As a person who was interested in Battleborn when it was first announced, I can tell you right now it's in your face presentation is what kept me away.

There's no contrast in the art so everything just blends together in a mess of colors. What I didn't realize at the time was how the took the obnoxious characters from Borderlands 2 and made every character that obnoxious character type.

My actually autistic cousin bought it and showed it to me and I felt like I was watching a shitty Saturday morning cartoon. I'd feel bad for him, but he continued to buy Call of Duty despite never having Xbox live, so maybe he's just retarded.

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>>377615618
>when you need to make fake accounts to afk in the game in order to keep the player count in the triple digits

GOOD JOB GEARBOX

>>377621948
>everything is a slightly different shade of purple
>scope makes me physically react, since humans naturally react when something is getting jammed in their eyes
>have no idea what the fuck is going on
>particles being ass blasted everywhere
>Randy: "Badass! I approve it all!"

>>377622775
Most people who buy Call of Duty just play the single player and never touch multiplayer.

>>377622058
That arm flapping around when running looks fucking awful

>>377615618
Battleborn was the sleeper hit of 2016. Fuck yourself.

>>377615958
cocaine and videogames is a bad combo

>>377623303

Sleeper hit implies it woke up at some point, anon.

>>377622921
remember: they put 4 times more effort into each of battleborn heroes than into whole bl2.

>>377615618
Why dont they just make the game f2p? Would fare pretty OK than.

>>377623490
That wouldnt be badass enough

>>377623303
sleeper in the sense of being dead, sure

All units, be advised: Feminism is awesome!

>>377623303
>sleeper
Yes.
>hit
No.

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>>377623303

Battleborn was the sleeper hold of 2016

>>377623303
Randy, it's time to stop posting.

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>>377615618
The saddest thing, and I mean the SADDEST is that Battleborn is the better game. It simply is. The upgrade system in matches is intuitive, the characters are varied but there's plenty of convergent skills, and the style in some levels is sublime.

But Overwatch won. And I'll tell you why: Overwatch made you think it rewarded you for playing it at all. All characters unlocked, plenty of free crates for good players early on. It didn't matter that you are algorithmmically obligated to lose some matches, because Blizzard desperately wanted you to believe you were playing Team Fortress 3.

Battleborn was a 70$ game that tried to force you to pay ANOTHER 70 bucks for 90% of the content at release. They fucked up big time by making this AAA blockbuster multiplayer gangbang into a F2P model cash machine.

I unironically love Battleborn. I haven't played it for a year, but I love it. It was going to be perfect, but they gor greedy and that's what fucking happens.

>>377623936
>>377623839
It was pure kino

>>377623552
BADASS

>>377623490

At this point, there are a lot of free games with better press and bigger communities they'd be trying to compete with. Paladins, Dirty Bomb, LawBreakers-hell, even Awesomenauts is going free in a few days.

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>>377615618
Seriously? Another thread bashing Battleborn and Randy Pitchford? I thought /v/ was above kicking others when they are down.

>>377624297
>>377624024

here comes the gearbox shills

>>377624635
t. somebody who isn't badass

>>377624105
Go away, Randy

>Overwatch exists
>Paladins is free AND better than Battleborn

Literally no one talked about or bought Battleborn. It was a game no one wanted or cared about. Like, it wouldn't even matter how good of a game it was, nobody gave a shit.

>>377624827
Paladins doesn't have waifus.

>>377624024
no, but i replied so i guess i was troll'd hrd

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>>377615618
This is how it died. Not with a bang or a whimper, but with silence.

GOOD. Fuck Gearbox I hope they go bankrupt.

>>377624024
tell your wife to lose weight randy

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>You will never have a castle to play vidya and sleep in.

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>>377624872
>Paladins doesn't have waifus.

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>>377624872
Yes it does. And they're not a bunch of mudskinned dyke cunts either

>>377624872

https://youtu.be/bozvLUp0f1o

>>377617576
top kek

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>>377625038
>only 1 waifu

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>>377624297
>above kicking others when they are down.
that's when the fun beggins

>>377624297
>I thought /v/ was above kicking others when they are down.
What on earth gave you that impression?

>>377623360
[cant wake up]

For a second there I thought it said Battleborn was going F2P.

Damn shame, I've always wanted to give it a try.

>>377624872
Neither does Battleborn unless you're into chicks that look like Brianna Wu

>>377625243
It's not worth the bandwidth and hard drive space.

>>377625065
cringe

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>>377615618

overwatch has gone on to be the game i have ever spent the most time on and i really love playing it with my friends but i feel bad for battleborn, they game had lots of potential and i think the art style looked great and the borderlands vibes were there but it was released at a horrible time

poor bastards, trying to compete with blizzard is a stupid idea, and the thing is both games are different enough to be judged on their own

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>>377624024
I agree that Battleborn has the better underlying mechanics, gunplay is garbage, but then again so is Overwatch's, the leveling letting you have options for your character so you can do some adjustments based on enemy tactics, gear to improve your stats, etc.

But Gearbox got the wrong lesson from Borderlands, and that's what fucks it. They thought "neon and zany, look at all the CRRAAZZZYYY BADASSSSS" was what made Borderlands popular, not the fact it was a shooter rpg that was willing to go off the rails a bit, and you can get together and play with your buddies with nothing to really force you to do anything right now. So they slapped neon paint and particles everywhere, made the co-op pretty much all escort and defend the point missions, and put a ton of focus into the moba mode trying to be e-sports, and just like a moba, sometimes your match is decided at character select, which is terrible for how long the games dragged.

Hopefully they learn from their mistakes for Borderlands 3, and not just go " Battleborn must not have had enough ZANY AND MEMES, WE NEED MORE!"

>there are persons on this fucking board who defend Pitchford and Gearbox

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>>377625119
Paladins has plenty of waifus.

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>>377625119
But there's actually plenty, anon
And they keep releasing new ones every other update

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>>377625157
This image should explain why I got that impression.

>>377624024
You've got to be joking. Overwatch has its problems like any other game but you've got to be joking. That's just objectively wrong, unaffected by opinion.

>>377623303
The sleeper that took a dirt nap

>>377615618
Slow and steady guys.

>>377625675
does she do that in game or is it just fan art/sfm stuff?

>>377624872
Sure it does. More than BB but less than OW.

>>377625119

No, there's also cheerfully violent ice witch waifu, rock mom waifu, elven assassin with skintight jumpsuit waifu, blindfolded seer waifu, sniping bounty hunter waifu, russian bear killer waifu, and elven genie illusionist waifu.

No fencer waifu in a fancy dress, admittedly. That's still a point for Battleborn.

>>377619231
>worked on one good, successful game
>worked on one bad, successful game
>worked on one indifferent flop

Doesn't sound all that bad

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>>377625823
Shes tilts her head of flashes the peace sign but doesn't do a full on ahoge.

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>>377625672
>>377625675
>>377625832
Battleborn has it's own porn subr-reddit...

I bet Paladins doesn't have one of those.

>>377625931
weak

>>377624024
>It didn't matter that you are algorithmmically obligated to lose some matches

You could just save yourself the trouble and write "I don't understand matchmaking or my own skill level" instead of trying to use complicated words and fucking it up.

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>>377625949

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>>377625949
hmmm

>>377615618
My god, those character designs are just garbage. The entire aesthetic of this game turns me off more than any game I've ever seen before. It looks like a Chinese ripoff of a Pixar movie.

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>>377615618
>This was supposed to be GB's biggest game ever!
But, it is their biggest game...

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Why couldn't Gearbox get some inspiration of their UI esp since they worked with Valve in the past.

I mean, how can they not get something like this but instead get...

>>377624024
I agree that Overwatch is a skinner box Blizzard cash cow designed to sell both $99 loot crate packs and the feeling of being a pro MLG tournament gamer without things like aiming or skill getting in the way.
But I played Battleborn's Beta, and my conclusion was that it was an average game that didn't really bring anything new to the table. I was thinking of playing it when it came out, but then I realized that it wasn't a F2P title and that they expected money up front for it. Based on the quality of the game I had assumed that it was designed to be F2P, and when I learned that it wasn't I laughed and laughed.
Really this whole "hero shooter" genre is a cancerous ASSFAGGOTS spinoff and renders what we know as videogames down into the most reduced and pathetic state imaginable, but at least Overwatch looks like it cost them money to put together.
I don't understand where these millions of dollars that GB claims was spent on BB went, unless it was to line their own pockets, because playing the game is like being held down and vomited on by characters from Pixels.

>>377626287
Randy stole the Gearbox name from Gabe in a game of poker haha.

oh hey does anyone else remember when Randy Pitchford made up a story about how he got the name Gearbox from Gabe Newell

>>377625038
>got rid of her midriff

FUCKING

DROOOOOOOOOOOOPPED!

>>377625719
How can I smuggle a toucan to California?

>>377624024
At its core, it's a more complex game than OW. It was far more like a moba shooter much like the Monday night combat games. But it was poorly managed and poorly marketed.

>>377626409

It's still available as an alternate skin, though.

>>377626443
You can buy one, they're just expensive

>>377625624
Combination of Bitchford himself and Gearbox employees.

>>377615958
I'm sure there's people who think Borderlands 3 will pull them out of this, problem is it won't. People are burnt out on that crap and other games take their concept and do it better. They'll have to compete with Destiny 2 whenever it releases.

>Poorly veiled Blizzard circlejerk thread.
Top kek.

>>377626130
Theyre more like
>make a decent design
>add some wacky shit on top of it
Perfect way to fuck up anything

>>377617220
>>377618929
working on a flopped AAA game is still really good for your resume unless you're a manager or something

>>377626593
Fuck off Randy.

>>377619982
Reminds me of when RIFT made the poor decision of saying you aren't in Azeroth anymore in their commercials.

>>377621948

This is literally the only Webm of this game I've ever seen. Nobody plays it so nobody can make more

the sad reality is battleborn is the more complex and thinking man's game. OW is for everyone. If you like stratigy games and mobas BB is for you.

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>>377615618
Paladins is better.

>>377626457
It didn't have waifus like Overwatch

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>>377626287

I know everyone on /v/ relishes the chance to see a game fail but battleborn is kind of sad. The artstyle is super terrible and the game looks outright shitty but the concepts behind it could have been more interesting in the long run. If nothing else you could say the team is dedicated if not delusional. I wonder if they could have waited and tried to release their game in response to overwatch which would of been successful regardless of quality. In the end, I feel especially sympathetic to games that died mainly to timing. Not for Randy, but for the programmers. I actually played avp with them and demiurge once and they seemed like cool dudes that didn't want to neuter avp3 if it wasn't for company orders.

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>>377626676
>there was a point where we should have stopped, but we did not

>>377626993
why black and white

>>377627096
>/v/ is scared of strong women
I'm shocked.

>>377627096
Honestly, I feel sad for that tiny head guy and mage girl, they were hit the most

>>377627204
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSS KUWEEEEEEEEEEEN

>>377627116
Probably to show the contrast. Overwatch has defined light, shadow, and color while Battleborn is a putrid mesh of shit. Don't know how cherrypicked those screenshots are though.

>>377627092
it would have died regardless, it's a piece of shit

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>Overwatch destroyed Battleborn
>if they go F2P, they will be humiliated by Paladins

>>377627116

To better show the contrast in colors. Notice how busy (black) colors in Battleborn are in comparison to Overwatch's light colored floors which produce white when analyzing thresholds.

Floor and walls should contrast which happens in Overwatch. In Battleborn they basically blend together.

Here's a talk on negative space that goes more into this.

https://youtu.be/GZ99gAb4T0o

>>377626962
That too. Sex sells. Even Nintendo is picking up on that.

>>377626993
People might not like Overwatch, but the art direction for it is incredible. If Blizzard is good at anything it's art direction.

>>377617220
Their potential employer sees their resume has Battleborn on it and straight to the shredder it goes.

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>>377626950
Overwatch > Paragon > Battleborn > Paladins > Gigantic > Evlove > Lawbreakers > Quake Champions.

>>377627728
Man Quake Champions is shitty.

>>377627728
Factually incorrect

Gigantic > Paladins > Overwatch > everything else there

>>377627728
>>377627801

How is Gigantic, anyway? I never really hear people talking about it.

>>377627728
Swap Battleborn and Overwatch and the list will be correct.

I would unironically love to see a retrospective from the devs about what the fuck went wrong from their perspectives, free from Gearbox and Randy peering over their fucking shoulder.

The game visuals were nightmarish, but there's so much detail packed everywhere it's actually impressive. The writing is shit, but the sound and music are actually kind of nice. The gameplay was kind of shit, but...

...


yeah

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>>377625524
I think the most important point you make is about esports and cooperation.
I loved me some Battleborn, but I love me some Borderlands more. And Borderlands 2 and the Meme Sequel are wonderful to just drop into. You can log in, join up with bros or randos and you're good to go. Even Tales From the Borderlands manages to use the world effectively for a lot of laughs.

Before battleborn, I hadn't touched Mobas. I'm a competitive type and competitive games that I'm bad at just piss me off, so I avoided them. A shooter with those mechanics? Wow! And Borderlands man made it too? Fucking neato.

But what I didn't realize, and this applies to Overwatch as well, is that Mobas are fucking boring as shit if you don't really understand how to play them effectively, no matter the platform/gimmick.

Yeah, getting second placed in DOOM because some anus chainsaws from behind you can be sucky, but spending close to half an hour at a time in a constant state of loserdom can wear a man down.

The graphics are tricky, some levels in Battleborn are OBSCENELY good. I think specifically of the skybox in the villain's lair. It's very offbeat, but hey it was memorable.

Overwatch did it better. Things are slick and clean, I can't deny Ilios is a level I enjoy playing on simply because it looks GOOD.

So, it's a bittersweet feeling.

>>377626585
Didn't the pre sequel perform like shit with sales and reception?

>>377620442
You can still tweet from bed idiot

>>377627856
The release was almost as botched as Battleborn most everyone that wants to play it can't because it's only on X-Bone or Windows 10.

>>377621359
>I just wanted your attention
It seems like it's not hard to get his attention. He's too busy acting like a baby on social media and not, you know, running a company.

>>377627728

So are these the new breed of shooters? "Hero shooters"? I honestly don't mind cause I'm having fun with Paladins and Overwatch but I'm really curious where this is all going in the next few years.

People flocked for that LoL/Dota money with their own mobas, now I can see people trying their hand in these kind of things. I know class shooters have been a thing but the resurgence with a new coat of paint as "hero shooters" is something.

>>377628228
It did lukewarm, general consensus was that it wasn't horrible just really "meh". Literally Borderlands 2.25 and they even treat the game like that's what it is.

So what went wrong? For real.

>>377617712
I bought it for $5 from a Redbox to play with a friend. Campaign has been aight

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>take borderlands universe characters
>have them in a first person moba
>take borderlands 1 graphics

Is the game better now?

>>377622879
Lmao yea right. The single player is a fucking chore and snoozefest, every goddamn time.

>>377629160
>The entire game is a fucking chore and snoozefest, every goddamn time
Ftfy

>>377626071
>JEB SURGE INCOMING

Kek

>>377628843
Gearbox thought they were inventing a new genre with Battleborn, unfortunately for them, there were about six other similar games in production wishing to take advantage of the new "hero shooter" formula.
Blizzard released Overwatch, which was a far better game and competed directly with Battleborn at a much lower price point, and then a short while later Paladins came out, which was a competent F2P alternative, meaning that Battleborn couldn't even go F2P to save itself and stay relevant because Paladins had already captured that market.

In short, Overwatch delivered the killing blow and then Paladins molested the corpse.

>>377615618
Why is that guy's head so small?

>>377629547
Funny joke also small head hitbox

I kinda wanted to get that Duke Nukem game for PS4 but I can't buy anything developed or published by Gearbox.

>>377629547
Because his dick is like a raisin

>>377628843

Before the game was released, people began (for whatever reason) to perceive Battleborn as a direct competitor to Overwatch, despite the fact that the games had very little in common. Gearbox couldn't and wouldn't face the Blizzard marketing machine, so already, people were leaning towards Overwatch.

When the month of release rolled around, Overwatch had been enjoying considerable success with its beta, and to celebrate, held a free weekend so as to bring even more players in-specifically, the weekend that Battleborn released, which hurt. But the free weekend didn't hurt the release nearly as much as the crippling technical issues that accompanied the PC version of Battleborn, making the game unplayable even on high-performance machines. This wouldn't have been such a major issue, had not Gearbox decided that the PC and console versions MUST share an update schedule (minor fix in a week, full patch in a month)-as a result, these serious performance issues persisted for an entire month, and the release suffered as a result.

Things didn't improve afterwards. Following their disastrous first month, Gearbox attempted to hold a sale at massively-reduced price to earn customers, but this just made the people who'd paid 60-75USD at release feel like they'd been cheated. When they later added microtransactions for cosmetics, it was perceived as a blatant cash grab, which only pissed off more people, especially those who had purchased the season pass and still had very little to show for it. By the time Gearbox FINALLY began delivering on story operations and the like, most pass owners had simply stopped caring and moved on to something else.

>>377630284
This is the type of shit that keeps me away from online shooters
Fucking bigger drain on cash than mobile games

>>377630284
>>377629349
Thanks guys.

>>377630284

Is gearbox the most incompetent developer ever? Every thing I hear about them is dumb fucking decision after dumb fucking decision. From Duke Nukem to Colonial Marines and now this. They just cannot unfuck themselves.

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>>377624024
lol u wish randy

The biggest joke is that paladins, a literal joke game that no one even knew about, crushed BB and is 1/2 way to the playerbase of OW

ha

>>377631394
If you check out the shit about the Bulletstorm remaster you'll realise that they're also the most incompetent publisher.
It was the first job as publisher and considering how hard they fucked up probably also their last.

Is there any hope for Battleborn or has it just had too few players for too long? I dunno what they could do besides make it F2P but that didn't even help Evolve for very long.

>>377631627
PC version has more playable character than players by now.

>>377631625
What happened with Bulletstorm?

>>377630284
There is a reason why people compared the two games. Its like the competition between Prototype and Infamous 1, and between Call of Duty and Battlefield. On a surface level both games seem similar and were releasing in the same timeframe. Plus whoever was in charge of PR at Gearbox deliberately went out of their way to challenge Blizzard, bad idea right there.

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>>377626071
>Jeb Surge Incoming

>>377631627

I think it's safe to say it's been too long. The only real press the game gets anymore is from its detractors in threads like these, and as other anons have pointed out, the F2P market for Hero Shooters is tightening up. What reason would people have to start playing a year-old title infamous for its failure when there are plenty of alternatives with healthier playerbases and less tragic histories?

>>377627615
If you waste time playing the SJW in a 75%+ males between the ages of 10-40 medium of entertainment, and don't just have girls with ridiculous proportioned tits and badondadonks you are a fucking idiot.

who is really funding these games?

i know developers have to be catching on to how poorly their cuck politics influence sales, so there must be some third party investing in otherwise unprofitable ideas to serve their agenda... George maybe?

>>377632065
They basically resell a six year old game for 50 bucks with minor graphical tweaks (the game actually sometimes looks worse) and an extra game mode where you can use all weapons at any time.

The Duke Nukem mode they try to sell the game with turned out to be a pre-order bonus and otherwise is DLC that costs an extra 5$ and is horrendously implemented with off-synch lip movements, no one having any new dialogue so they still call Duke Grayson, Duke acting like he's in the wrong game in one moment and suddenly caring for characters he shouldn't give a shit about in the next and Duke still having Grayson's grunts and hit screams during the actual gameplay.

One of the biggest reasons for people to buy this was the removal of GFWL but they went the extramile and remastered even the DRM by adding fucking Denuvo to the game.

But those weren't even the worst things:
They made a deal with the shady keyselling site G2A for a special collectors edition which caused a massive shitstorm.
Instead of admitting that they fucked up they threw People Can Fly in front of a bus and blamed THEM for the PUBLISHING-deal instead of themselves, the PUBLISHER.
Randy, someone who creates PC games, later said that he never heard of G2A before, one of the largest keysellers that every moron with internet access and Steam knows after one month tops, and said that they should cut the guys in their publishing department some slack since they are new at this - AND LATER TWITTERED THAT THEY ARE PROS AT THEIR JOB.

Their marketing campaign was also absolutely embarrassing and the epitome of that "how do you do, fellow kids?" image:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPvzerNAAxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0kAHxqymdo

>>377615618
>We need to have one sexually attractive character
>We'll make the blonde's tits larger than average but cover them up
>And obscure her ass in a massive gown to compensate

>>377633818
How does one fuck up this badly?

>>377633775
Publishers. Namely 2K who thought BB would make Borderlands dollars. Kike Soros is busy playing American politics.

>>377633818

Karma then struck hard with the Bayonetta PC port that came out of nowhere just a week later, had all the same feats like unlocked framerate and 4k support, the Nintendo-exclusive shit like the Japanese dub, etc. and only costed like 19 bucks, resulting in it selling over ten times as much.

Some even think that Sega deliberately did this to piss in their cornflakes after what they did with Colonial Marines.

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>>377633818
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjYQNdK1W7s

would you rather be

anthony burch

or

randy pitchford

>>377634104
I still wonder why its hard for publishers to realize you cant charge full price for a re-release of a game years old and floating in bargain bins. Fucking Capcom when they ported RE4 to the Wii gave it a $30 budget pricetag, even when Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary came out in 2011 MS gave it a $40 pricetag.

>>377634646
the or

>>377634646
Randy. No sane man wants to be Anthony Burch.

>>377634104
You know what would really piss off Gearbox? If Sega ported Anarchy Reigns to PC. They should do that.

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>>377626443
I live in a third world shithole, I can send you a couple of toucan eggs at $30 a piece +shipping, I've been sending eggs for almost 5 years to the US and I've never had any shipment detained, I file it under "arts and crafts"

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>>377626874
>mfw I saw that on their box and knew they commited corporate suicide with that statement

>>377623303
Everyone was asleep when it came out and no one played it!

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I'd like to take a moment and remember that this game had a fucking card game / trading cards associated with it.

>>377627096
Funny thing is, I played for the entirety of the beta and she was by far the most fun to play.

I don't know why /v/ loved watching Battleborn fail so much. The people behind it fucked up hard but the game itself could have been alright.

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>>377633818
>#turnt
>hashtag
>turnt

>>377634753
at least anthony burch is out of the limelight until someone asks a question like that.

randy is on blast 24/7

The real tragedy of Battleborn is that there's a decent game underneath all the pisspoor visual design and marketing decisions.

I do think that Gearbox deserves all the shit they get, but credit should be given where credit is due.

>>377628627
Yeah, it's pretty much Borderlands 2.1, only with worse player characters and even more obnoxious writing.

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>>377636203

> the parody /v/ made is actually cleaner looking

>>377624024

>I haven't played it for a year

So you dropped it within 3 weeks of it's release?

>>377619982
life comes at you fast

>>377636203
This screenshot is misleading, though. It has a lot of temporary notifications on the screen to make it look worse than it actually is for 99% of the time

>>377636901
>It has a lot of temporary notifications on the screen to make it look worse than it actually is for 99% of the time

So does the other one you stupid fucking faggot.

>>377636381
>objective: kill hitler
>not ''literally kill hitler''

>>377615618

They didn't respect Blizzard's power. The second Blizzard threatened to start an open beta ahead of release on Battleborn's release date, they should have dialed it back. They poured too many resources into the project to let Overwatch run train on it.

>>377637474
There's a lot of permanent stuff on the left side image.

>Escort target tracker
>Oxygen meter
>Semen meter
>Fingerless glove meter
>Decompression sickness tracker
>Depth tracker
>Minimap

Meanwhile, the only permanent UI elements in the Battleborn image are

>Minimap
>Health and shield bars
>Ability bar and ammo tracker
>Escort target health (only shown when there is actually something to escort, doesn't appear at all in competitive play)

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>>377634646
Dead.

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Why are you bashing randy? He's literally /ourguy/, pic related

>>377638414
Why did you post the edit?

>>377615618
Battleborn is the perfect example why CEOs get paid so much money. Gearbox has a bad CEO so Battleborn fucked up.

Battleborn is a great game and had so much potential, but the CEO doesn't know what to do. I know that a lot of Blizzard employees are false flagging like CTR against Trump. All those "the art design of Battleborn is shit" bullshit is from paid shills who just behave like CTR.


How Randy could still rescue Battleborn
>make the game F2P, at least the PvP because Overwatch hasn't more than PvP
>don't be a cuck
>completely disable items in PvP or at least make you chose your items at the beginning of the game without farming
>give every hero with every skill from the beginning
>use some kind of anti cheat, even Paladins is unplayable because of cheaters
>change the design of every ugly looking non white male
>use a decent match making which isn't shit like the Overwatch match making

But at this moment I just think Randy is not qualified for a successful hero shooter. He even could gain so much money by just copying the loot box system of Overwatch. If a top CEO would have been responsible for Battleborn, Overwatch would have no player base right now, because Overwatch is nothing more than an average game with a big company behind it.

>>377637652
It was too late in developement to do something else. They weren't expecting Overwatch and its popularity even less.
These games were developed at the same time behind locked doors.

>>377637474
>Blizzcuck got triggered that his CTR propaganda against Battleborn is just FAKE NEWS

LITERALLY STUMPED Now go back to the shed

>>377634770
How would it piss them off?

>>377638414
What an brave and unexpected cheap hook at Christianity in our edgy secular media environment

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>overwatch isn't going on sale during anniversary event

goddamn greedy as hell

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I wanna make a baby with ying

>>377637994
Oxygen, Depth and Decompression trackers would be temporary while you're underwater.

A fake game screenshot made to be shit has better design than battleborn.

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>>377639683
>mfw gunning down a helpless Ying as Lex

Bitch is so easily BLACKED

>>377639913
Except the whole mission is underwater because the image is parodying the hated "underwater escort mission" trope.

So for the purposes of that image, those are permanent UI elements.

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>So how was your return on investment for Battleborn been so far?
>I can't talk about it because we have a publishing partner and they're publicly traded and so that's kind of off limits for me, but we're okay. I'm not freaking out. We're fine.
>I'm not freaking out. We're fine.
http://www.glixel.com/interviews/randy-pitchford-on-switch-overwatch-and-being-fearless-w462836

>>377638929

>Make the game F2P

As opposed to all those F2P games that haven't failed tragically and lost all the goodwill their playerbases had?

>Don't be a cuck

Something tells me that wouldn't help.

>Disable items in PVP

Would piss off the people who actually put effort into getting items.

>Give every hero with every skill

They actually made all the original characters free with a winter update. Didn't help.

>Anti-cheat

They probably have an anti-cheat already. Also, pretty sure you're wrong about Paladins.

>Change the design

Putting aside the fact that Gearbox has probably taken all the artists they used for the game and long since moved them to different projects, change them how?

>Decent match making

The reason there isn't "decent match making" is because the player base has shrunk by about 99% since its release.

>>377626443
by leaving California

>>377622058
>Unnecessary mini map
>Health and ammo spaced in opposite directions, tucked into corners, forcing you to take your eyes off the match over and over again
>retarded arm flapping across your vision
>constant garish color blasting in your face
>Everything is so fucking over saturated and neon you would swear you're watching a Nickelodeon show from 1995
>Annoying nuke "KAY OHHH!" popping up in the top corner, further trying to pull your attention from the match
>Unnecessary deviant art of your character over your health bar
>Green numbers over green bars
>Red numbers over red bars
>3 or 4 different icons constantly tracking stuff at all times

How could so much failure happen to one game?

>>377639683
Ying is only best girl when she has the genie skin equipped

>>377626585

>Destiny 2

That shouldnt be a problem