Re: Borderlands 4 justifies its contentious price with one must-have feature

On 01/07/2025 17:21, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 "Borderlands 4" was originally priced at $80USD, and got itself into
hot water after Randy "I don't know where that USB stick full of
underaged porn came from!" Pitchford suggested that _real_ fans of the
game wouldn't have any problem paying that much. After much uproar, it
later got reduced to $70 USD, but oddly enough this didn't stifle the
game's critics. But maybe a recently announced feature of the game
justifies the game's price.
 That feature being that you can finally toggle an option to get
Claptrap, the annoying robot buddy that people have hated since the
first game, to SHUT THE FUCK UP.*
 I mean, sure, another option might be to not insert a character people
hate into the game, or at least not make him so prominent that you
need an option to turn him off, but that sort of customer-pleasing
feature isn't what companies what Gearbox are known for. Actually,
we're lucky that Gearbox isn't selling the 'Mute Claptrap' feature as
optional DLC.
 Either way, it still won't get me to buy the game.
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I also see that good old Randy has put his foot in it again by tweeting that BL:4 will take even longer before it goes on such a steep discount as BL:3. Maybe he was worried that people were starting to forget about the whole $80 drama so he thought it was time to remind them about it?
It must be fun working in the Gearbox PR dept. where you wake up every morning thinking, what has he done now.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/randy-pitchford-makes-people-mad-again-by-warning-that-borderlands-4-will-take-even-longer-to-get-deep-discounts-than-borderland-3-did/