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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:59:06 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Apparently even Uwe Boll is making fun of it.
On a related note:
Randy Pitchford, CEO Gearbox (developer of Borderlands), tweeted* in
2019 that the Epic Game Store "will outpace Valve’s substantially" and
that "Steam in five or ten years [will] look like a dying store".
Also, "Epic will inevitably surpass Valve on features and quality of service".
It also amuses me that Gearbox announced "Borderlands 4" yesterday, doubtlessly expecting that the excitement about the movie would help
to hype up the game. Maybe they should have looked at the daily rushes
before scheduling the game's release date.
These tweets, the movie, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Duke Nukem
Forever... you know, it suddenly occurs to me that Pitchford may not
be the best person to lead a business. ;-)
* here's an article about this very topic! https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/gearbox-boss-randy-pitchford-predicted-that-the-epic-games-store-would-kill-off-steam-5-years-ago-now-the-internet-is-mocking-him-as-borderlands-4-comes-crawling-back/
It's not really a surprise though. The early trailers --which
typically show the best a movie has to offer-- were pretty terrible.
The "Borderlines" franchise seemed such an unlikely source material
for a movie anyway; it is an extremely shallow game with extremely
dumb humor and writing that I think_any_ director/writer would be hard-pressed to make something good out of it. Still, Lionsgate really
seemed to be dredging out the bottom of the barrel with this one.
While in general I don't disagree with Pitchford's take (even if
saying thatmakes me feel dirty), I do refute the idea that Valve takes
more than it gives back. Yes, it's 30% cut seems high at first
glance... until you remember that price is less than retail
brick-n-mortar stores used to take. Developers flocked to Steam
because it was much CHEAPER to sell on Steam than to press CDs, print
boxes, ship the things to thousands of stores, and then only get a few
weeks on the shelf before their games got shoved to the bargain bin.
And yet, these same publishers still managed to make a profit.
It also amuses me that Gearbox announced "Borderlands 4" yesterday, doubtlessly expecting that the excitement about the movie would help
to hype up the game. Maybe they should have looked at the daily rushes
before scheduling the game's release date.
On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:59:06 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson ><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
Apparently even Uwe Boll is making fun of it.
On a related note:
Randy Pitchford, CEO Gearbox (developer of Borderlands), tweeted* in
2019 that the Epic Game Store "will outpace ValveÆs substantially" and
that "Steam in five or ten years [will] look like a dying store".
Also, "Epic will inevitably surpass Valve on features and quality of >service".
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> writes:
It also amuses me that Gearbox announced "Borderlands 4" yesterday,
doubtlessly expecting that the excitement about the movie would help
to hype up the game. Maybe they should have looked at the daily rushes
before scheduling the game's release date.
Well, it makes sense to announce games in a game conference, like
GamesCon. But I think they'll hope to forget the movie as quickly as >possible. Funny, I checked my local theatre. For the upcoming four
showings of Borderlands the movie I see 104/104 seats available. And not >showing it on Friday or Saturday either.
BTW, I'm not having high hopes for Borderlands 4. The gameplay in
Borderlands 3 was already so streamlined and at least one of the
characters so over-powered, it makes me wonder what the next one will be >like. "Just hold this button and watch the game play itself"? It's hard
to imagine anything but suckiness. Still, I'm probably going to play it
and probably sooner rather than later too.
Which one was overpowered?
I hate melee in games like this so I never played the chunky Siren on
offer in Bl3, despite Sirens being my favorite in the previous games.