I’m OK with not being a “real fan”.
Yeah, the way to make it happen is adding it to my wishlist and waiting for the price to drop to at least $40.
They never fixed the bugs in Borderlands 3. Let me rush out and get this
I will illegally download an illegal version of the game, thanks bye
Or wait the number of years it takes to be on sale for $20.
I’m absolutely ready to pay 80$ for a game. But then I don’t want to see scummy shit like lootboxes or advanced access in it. If I pay 80$ I expect to see a game release that isn’t half-baked and has to get fixed with hotfixes and patches over the next two months but that just works out of the box and that doesn’t try to get me to spend even more money on it. That also includes no content that they’ve already produced being held back for DLCs.
This has always been my counterpoint for the Nintendo haters when they complain about price. (Although they are a shit company in several other ways) Because when my daughter wants a new switch game if its a top tier Nintendo title its going to be a finished game with zero bugs and zero concern about problematic content for me.
Exactly. That’s why I buy Nintendo games near release and am patient for PC games.
Remember how Randy Pitchford funneled money that was supposed to go to Aliens: Colonial Marines into Borderlands 2 (and Duke Nukem Forever lol)
How the fuck do you leave a USB stick full of child abuse material at a fucking Medieval Times and get away with it?
Laws only apply to us poors.
Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?
I think the more apt description would be that when you’re got something that makes other people money, then you will be protected. When that ends you’re fair game.
I also agree that the more money you have the better defence you can get, but I don’t believe laws only apply to the poor. That’s hyperbole.
Weinstein? Diddy? Epstein?
All three of those examples got away with it for literal decades.
Both Weinstein and Diddy were known dangers in their industry.
They took Epstein out because you know he had compromat on Trump. Best friends.
Or - the Cosby shit was an open secret. No one cared until Hannibal Buress started pointing it out.
All three of those examples got away with it for literal decades.
Literally what I’m saying. They got away with it because they had utility for other people and when they no longer did that’s when they get indicted, cause people stop running cover.
So the logic is…
The laws only apply to the poor except for exceptions where rich are on their way to poor and can be used as examples of the exception .
I don’t believe that’s what I said, or at least it wasn’t my intention. I was more trying to highlight that wealthy people (which are not in the way to being poor) will be protected by the people that stand to gain from that protection, not simply for being rich.
I also explicitly said that the justice system does favour the rich, not in a malicious way but more because we have a system that means rich folk can afford more man hours which translates to a better defence.
I want to be clear I’m not defending rich folk here, just being a pedant I guess.
Ah yeah we are all pedants here and such while I understand and mostly agree with your comment I now must include.
Uhh, actually we don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system.
Haha how dare you out pedant me.
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Didn’t pre-order PS, 3, or any of the others, why would we for this one?
Especially with Bl3 getting their eula updated to be horrible
Imagine preordering a game in 2025.
Give us guaranteed emploment of the staff that built it, and you get guaranteed pre orders?
Wait, how do you guarantee employment to a team after their work and contract is complete?
Game development should not be a gig economy. It is often treated as such so studio execs can pocket more money by dropping staff at release to pad their own wallets. There are plenty of game companies, and millions of companies in other sectors, that reinvest that capital into the company.
But what about other forms of entertainment? Movies! Books! Music!
Royalties. This would be another solution.
Tagging @[email protected] because they might find the thought of royalties vs continued Dev interesting.
I do find it interesting…I don’t think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea
Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with
Let’s say it’s 2% of a game that made $100M - you’re looking at tens of thousands each when it’s all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it’s not financial security kind of money
And then let’s say the game flops or gets cancelled… Well that’s not going to help much, so you can’t really rely on it
So I think the idea is great, but it’s still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism
You say what project they’ll be transitioning to as less and less bug fixes are necessary. Could even be dlc
I didn’t want borderlands even when it was cheaper.
Find a way?
Piracy is a way. Thanks for the tip.
I can make it happen during a Steam summer sale 4 years later. Borderlands 3 wasn’t that great when you compare it to 1 and 2. I can wait.
Listen, I unironically love being woke. Accessibility for impairments? Human rights? Equity? Regulations standing in the way of greed? Overrepresentation of minority demographics? Fuck yes to all of that shit. Hell’s Yeah.
But the direction of these games have been poor for a lot of reasons. It doesn’t feel woke, really, it feels like they want us to believe they aren’t Handsome Jack’s corporate studio goons like they are.
I can barely justify 50€ for a massive game like Baldur’s Gate 3. I’d never pay that much for any other game that is not on this scale. But 80 bucks? The fuck are they thinking?
They don’t have any dlc lined up yet so not being to sell you empty promises on top of a normal game price is really tugging at Randy’s purse strings.
/s
I will never buy the game out of spite
