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

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:21 this Tuesday (GMT):

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"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.
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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.*
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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.
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Either way, it still won't get me to buy the game.
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* reported here
https://www.pcgamesn.com/borderlands-4/claptrap-volume-feature

Oh my god. They actually did the meme!! They did the meme of "introduce
annoying character and market being able to shut them up"! I'm amazed.
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