Is Battleborne stillborn?
You're the first one to make that joke.
what a fucking mess, I hope everyone at gearbox commits suicide
this is what you get for making bordermemes, everyone gets his just reward in this life
Yes, couldn't be the process just still running in the background, because games like to not close properly a lot of the time.
the question is, is it a bug or feature?
>>339471217
Yeah but multiple people have reported it and steam would most likely tell you another game is running if you tried playing anything else on steam after battleborn. The game is literally deader than we thought.
could be worse. not by much though.
>it's so shit it's been price cut down to 18 dollars already
>>339471217
its possbile, some games I quit lock their process and even when I destroy steam.exe the game process is still active and doesn't die even with kill task
this sounds just like another variation of that bug I have with steam
>>339471430
Still too expensive.
JUST
>>339471219
How the fuck could it be a feature
Only possible use for a game inflating hours played is making it so that you can't refund it, which I'm pretty sure has to be against some part of Steam user agreement
It's amazing how everyone except game developer and publisher knows that game will be total shit, and still gets developed and released. Like battleborn, or dead island moba, or homefront 2
>>339471049
Ill play it when its free
just fuck my game and company up
even if they die they've got no IPs worth resurrecting.
>>339471352
I saw a thread on here earlier with multiple people on steam reporting that DS3 fried their PSU due to the "game engine overdrawing power."
People don't like to think that they've overlooked simple shit.
>>339471782
its more common than you think, its happened because they live in circlejerk bubble of self praising and brand any criticism as faGGot trolling,
I am glad many SJW inspired game start falling apart economicaly, now lets on to mirror age 2
I thought San Fran indiecucks would be the first people to try and pull this shit to weasel out of refunds
Gearbox will probably get away with it, expect the spin to be 'it's a bug, it'll be fixed! (after our game's numbers are inflated and every owner is past the refund window)'
I like how the MNC format is apparently doomed to failure every single time.
>>339471049
It's not as dead as Kidswatch :^)
Even the Twitch streamers which said in the beta that Kidswatch is good don't want to play it anymore, because it is boring af
>>339472261
And yet there's still like 100 of these sort of games set to come out this year. Gonna suck having a front page full of Overwatch vs X threads well into 2017 clogging the front page.
>le funny memes
Meanwhile based Battleborn is kicking ass!
>>339471782
More like, they know but they don't want to admit so they're trying to squeeze out every last drop of cash they can.
>>339472342
How can one game be so good?
>>339472195
I doubt thats the case because I havent seen anyone complain about this and you could easily bypass the 2 hour refund window by making a shitty forced tutorial that goes over 2 hours before you actually get to play the game
>>339472342
>Can't even be bothered to change the background color on his shitty edit to make it a little convincing
How much are they paying you, I might need to get in on this.
>>339472306
>Kidswatch
Really? Listen here, Gearbitch. If you wanna be clever, you fucking apply yourself.
>>339472406
f r e e
h a t s
>>339472195
San Fran indies aren't even decent enough to code in this sort of jewery.
>>339471049
Ofc its not, just look at all the hours played people have. Its definitely popular.
>>339471219
Could be bug, same thing happened with starbound where exiting the game left one of its processes still running, and it inflated your hours because of it.
>>339472342
>>339472506
>>339472261
MNC was great though. SMNC was alright in beta but fucked completely in the release. Even then no one wanted it to go full League. People just wanted MNC2. Hell I would forgive Uber for all their bullshit if they shit out an MNC2.
>>339472518
DELETE THIS
>>339472604
muh bitcoin miner
>>339471430
BUY OUR GAME IT'S CUT DOWN TO 6 DOLLARS
>>339472306
>he can't accept that overwatch is here to stay
I don't like it either, anon. But we must accept it.
How does it inflate your hours? What could make it do that?
>>339471430
>>339471608
>>339472673
>all the "fun" of borderlands, but your progression resets constantly and you have to grind even more!
Yeah, nah
>>339472342
Those stats are outdated.
>>339471782
I actually enjoyed dead island epidemic somewhat. Game shut down a few months ago.
>>339472000
I was reading that as well and honestly it sounds like total horse shit
>Fucking NEVERWINTER is doing better than Battleborn
Holy shit, has there been a bigger flop this fucking century?
>>339473203
10/10
>>339473173
Can't blame them for trying to recreate the success of the only remotely good original game they've ever made.
>>339471219
>>339472534
its been confirmed by gearbox to happen, so they knew pre-launch, and it happens server side because the dude turned off his computer and it added 9 hours.
its gearbox doing it
>>339471049
I thought it looked kind of fun but they royally fucked up marketing and so on and I have no intention of playing an imminently dead game.
>>339472673
Its not your game fuck off todd
>>339473401
Oh right, thank god.
>>339473326
Brothers in Arms?
serves them right, though.
I'm so glad this game bombed
fuck you for making borderlands and having a surprising amount of influence over modern games
>>339473525
>Posting shopped pictures out of spite
Got nothing else to do, laddy?
>>339473556
source?
>>339473642
fuck off dude
>>339471892
If they die, Douk can be freed.
>>339473660
s my d dude
>Visit /r/battleborn
>All of that damage control that's been going on since Overwatch launched
>Trying to make the game seem alive by asking for footage for montages, always assuring people that the player numbers are fine etc
>>339471219
I'm almost certain it's a Steam bug, I've had it happen for multiple games. One game, for which I literally did nothing but start once and immediately exit, has Steam listing me as having played for over 50 hours. Other games have times well below what I actually played, e.g. I beat Amnesia in about 2 hours according to Steam.
>>339471746
Fucking GTA 4 and 5 did the same shit, thanks to Rockstart Social Club.
They're using external services either for multiplayer or anti-cheat, jesus christ you faggots are paranoid. TORtanic ruined /v/
According to Steamspy, battleborn is the 78th most popular steam game from the last two weeks with 117,934 owners and 78,824 players:
http://steamspy.com/app/394230
http://steamspy.com/
>>339473660
Anything else? I googled that and nothign came up
>>339473556
Oh shit source please
>>339473556
Can you tell me what the source of this fine webm is?
>>339473828
>>339473881
FUCK OFF
>>339474008
Come on man. I already got my dick out
>Battleborn has to force itself to run in the background to keep over 1k players
>>339474008
source ???? :D :D
>30 minutes queue
This game is so dead it's not even funny.
>>339471430
I'll wait for it to go F2P.
>>339474101
try KLYRSLF-645
>>339474331
Didn't work. Is there another?
>>339471782
Planned failures are a thing in commercial products. A lot of the time they're fronts to hire friends and connections for free money, and then bail out. Which is why a lot of people constantly involved in flops never actually fuck off from the industry they're ruining with their trash.
>>339474240
That sounds more like a bug
>>339471049
>Of those 2000-3000 players a bunch of them might not even be playing and it could just be a bug
Damn, Battleborn flopped hard as fuck.
Has there ever been a game that failed this quickly and badly before?
>>339474240
Except if you'd bothered to read your le reddit screencap you would have noticed the long queue was a technical problem that was fixed by a reset
That's not to say the game isn't dead but goddamn anon
>>339471049
>overshills desperate
steam records "hours played" even while games are close and you are only in the menu of a game before opening (you know , like witcher menus before fully opening the game)
but keep working shill , not like we dont have enough shills threads of your shit game here
>>339474496
This is proof that making new IPs doesn't work and games are sold too cheap.
>>339474607
No, it's proof bad games do badly.
>>339474581
>(you know , like witcher menus before fully opening the game)
yeah, i know, how it's fully inside the game
>>339474653
No, it's what I said.
>>339473718
>Check it out
>First post is "This game is so fucking fun!"
Maybe /v/ has skewed my image, but my first reaction was to assume that that post was a shill.
>>339474496
Evolve.
>>339474771
No. It's a bad game doing badly.
It was poorly advertised, tried to compete with a bigger, better game and honestly, low player count is due to people who own the game not playing it. It's sold 100k+ on PC, but averages 2-3k peak a day? That's fucking terrible and these are owners of the game who don't even want to play it.
The game is bad, and outside of it's small defence force, anyone who has played it will tell you it's bad.
>>339474496
wtf are you talking there are literally 1017 people online on steam playing it.
The game is totally dead.
You want to know how a game looks like on PC?
You wait in queu 12 mins and more and when the game starts people surrender in 5 minutes and you have to queue up again and dont even make me start how unbalanced the matches are because of low player count, I saw literally lvl 100 accounts playing against people under lvl 10
>>339474891
Battleborn is failing faster and harder than even Evolve.
>>339474895
>have a friend who is trying to convince me to buy it and play it
>>339474395
Nobody ever wants to not make money, the closest you get is after a sizable investment in a product that you have now discovered is going to fail for any number of reasons you may release it anyway to attempt to minimize your losses, facilitate some creative accounting, stock price manipulation or other such purposes. Only "artists" tend to do shit like planned failures and they do it for petty spiteful reasons.
People who produce nothing but flops are pushed out of the industry quickly, people who have an inconsistent success rate get to hang around. As long as you made someone a lot of money once there's always someone else who's going to give you a chance.
>>339474962
And evolve's the only thing to have ever failed anywhere near as fast :v
>>339475058
Nah, other games have failed pretty hard too, Evolve was just talked about a lot on /v/ so we all know of it.
But given Stillborn had an estimated $60-70 million budget, these numbers so shortly after release make it a fucking massive failure. Even on consoles it's dropped off the popularity charts entirely.
>>339472342
>tfw you try to paste battleborn over dota2 but can't even be assed to photoshop the color or even make battleborn look like the second most played
I'm almost certain this was a joke but still
So serious talk why is Overwatch so popular yet Battleborn such a flop?
Is it because of waifus?
>>339475445
KEK MAGIC
>>339475445
Blizzard + fat booty bitches = recipe for success.
>>339475445
Gearbox made it. Even if it was a good game, we'd still be here shitposting about it.
>>339475445
Very few people want to kill creeps in 1st person
>>339475445
Overwatch isn't graphically busy, the character designs are solid and the art direction is good.
Mei butt too.
>>339475445
I'd never even heard of Battleborn if it weren't for /v/ viral marketing
>>339475445
Battleborn wasn't advertised.
Competition was released around the same time that did advertise (a lot).
It has some of the worst aesthetics I've ever seen in a video game.
It has no memorable characters.
The videos of it look bad (and honestly playing it is much worse).
It's part of a genre that has a very high failure rate.
>>339471049
You wanna know the funny thing? Overwatch has been doing this exact same thing to me. I'll quit the game, come back hours later, open the launcher and it'll say the game is still running. Even if I closed battle.net. I have to manually shut it down by eliminating the process. I still don't get why it happens.
>>339475445
Both are garbage but one is from Blizzard and the other from Gearbox, Blizzard simply just have more retards.
>>339475445
>Is it because of waifus?
yes. They're shamelessly pandering to horny teenage boys with borderline pornographic female characters. Once people get jizzed out, theyll move onto something else
>>339475825
>Once people get jizzed out, theyll move onto something else
I'm still seeing brand new SFM Elizabeth (from Bioshock: Infinite) and Miranda (from the wildly successful Mass Effect series) shit released every week.
>>339475445
>>339475752
overwatch:
>tons of polish
>pleasant art style
>appealing characters
>waifus
>tried and tested TF2 gameplay
battleborn:
>lack of polish
>garbage UI
>ugly as shit art
>no waifus
>weird and dumb moba-fps-hybrid gameplay
also overwatch gets the blizzard bonus while battleborn suffers from gearbox's rather dubious reputation.
>>339475665
>I still don't get why it happens.
inflate game statistics, both for publicity (see how many people are playing our game, it must be good!) and for impressing the share holders (bump up stock prices, by making game seem more popular than it is).
Basically same thing Gearbox is doing, except Gearbox is also gaming the Steam statistics to increase sales.
>>339475916
All the good SFM artists have moved on from those games. Only ones making porn for them are people way too late for the bandwagon.
DLC is about to drop soon they just want you to buy the game and then the dlc classic shit move
>>339475653
>Battleborn wasn't advertised.
There was a point where commercials placed non-stop. I saw far more commecials for BB than OW
>>339476017
>All the good SFM artists have moved on from those games
Says you. Lara Croft is being railed by horses every day and here you are pulling your pud to Mei's linebacker shoulders.
>>339476053
I haven't seen a single Battleborn advertisement anywhere. Infact, I didn't even know it was a thing until the open beta.
That's some effective advertising right there. Someone who plays games daily didn't even know the game existed until a week before it's release.
>>339476080
audience has moved on.
>>339471782
>Homefront 2
Are you really that surprised that it was approved for release, considering that Deep Silver also published Ride to Hell: Retribution?
>>339476197
>>339476053
>>339475653
well isn't this some Barenstein bear scenario.
>>339476291
Slander. I want Tifa porn and there are plenty of people willing to work hard to give it to me.
>>339476197
Maybe Gearbox went to that one presentation talking about how people who buy more than a few video games are a dying market and not the one you should aim at.
>There are people who bought Evolve and Battleborn
>>339476343
Not really, commercials play based on region.
>>339475825
just like LoL right?
>>339471049
No, it's more SIDS then stillborn
>>339475445
battleborn has repulsive art direction and ui design
>>339476390
>there are people who masturbate to NTR
>check a friend's steam page
>has evolve
>has battleborn
>ask him why he isn't paying any of those two
>>339475825
>Once people get jizzed out
That will never happen. Once lonely people start worshiping something it can subsist entirely on their obsession.
>>339476545
>there are people who are getting NTR'd and can't even masturbate to it
>>339476390
h...ha...haha y...yeah who would buy those game right haha.
>>339471430
holy fucking shit I literally feel bad for every and anyone involved in making that game
>>339474607
and yet overwatch exists
>>339476674
You didnt buy Brink aswell right?Right?
>mfw it fell off the top 100 steam chart
>>339471049
The likelihood of this being on purpose is pretty low, but it's still pretty funny.
>>339476737
>>339476737
Not him, but I ditched hanging out with my best friend to play the free weekend. I didn't buy the game, but I still regret doing that to this day.
>>339476563
>work at eb games
>see cute guy with one of those awesome jackets like Leon from RE4 wears
>comes up to the counter
>tries to trade in Battleborn
>starts to swirk
>"isn't this a new game, sweetie? why don't you want it anymore?"
>he looks at his feet and just says "it's alright"
>give him $18 store credit which he uses to buy Overwatch
it's incredible how guys turn into complete autists as soon as you discover how bad their taste in vidya is
>>339472342
>overwatch isn't even n the list
and I who thought it was popular
>>339476737
Stop anon, he's already dead
>>339476737
>>339476829
At least you didn't fall for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
>>339472342
Huh?
>>339476910
>>339474945
the classic nitpick
>>339476737
I bought that one on release just because I had some extra money and wanted to have something to look forward too.
The biggest injustice of it all was that my PC at the time couldn't really run it, so I never got to really play it while it was active and it was well past dead when I upgraded my PC.
>>339476910
tfw so retarded I broughtthe collectors edition.
>>339476970
whatever at least you didnt buy starbound or cubeworld
>>339476970
It could be worse. You could have pre-ordered Spore.
>>339476867
I'd like to have one of those sweet ass jackets
>>339476918
>Tree of Saviour
>1,565 26,971
What
>>339476910
This is the worst. Thanks for reminding me anon I hope your cat falls in a blender.
>>339477023
turns out making a laggy ragnarok online clone doesnt work these days when every other game is just as grindy
>>339477015
wew lad you've gone too far.
>>339476980
>literal emoticon of a cyborg tipping his fedora at the bottom left of the OSD
>literal upvotes right next to him
you could NOT make this shit up!
>>339477015
that plus
>duke nukem forever
>watchdogs
>>339477012
>got starbound because friends had them
>>339477160
>>339477012
I bought Starbound after everyone found out it was "shit" and I don't regret it.
It was $15 and felt like a $15 game.
I think only retards who hyped the game up were disappointed.
>>339476197
>Worked at Rent A Center
>Adds for Battleborn were played every five minutes throughout every one of our stores
>People coming in to buy/rent shit would comment on how cool it looked
>One dude asked if we would carry the game for Xbone or Ps4
The game had ads, they were just weirdly placed and focus-targeted tards.
>>339477160
I want to hold you and let you know that everything will be alrightcause I bought all those fucking games too ;_;
>>339477147
>fadora
look, my man, you guys more propensity to have memes on the mind than gearbox does
marquis is just a german, classist butler robot
>>339477276
>expecting me to read a fucking essay
nah man it's a fucking fedora.
>>339477160
I kinda want to get watchdogs now that its cheap. those /pol/ webms make it seem like fun
>>339476631
Man, that guy is fucking ugly. Jesus.
>>339477260
>focus-targeted tards
It's not like anyone else would buy the game.
>>339476884
overwatch isn't steam
>>339477316
:^)
>>339476724
why? gearbox is awful. they released duke nukem forever and aliens colonial marines
>>339477369
Then how do you play it?
>>339477262
I got a job, I moved out, I pay my taxes and after bills and student loans I just wanted to buy video games, anon. Why did all of this happen? I think I'm a good person
>>339477318
You'll play it for an hour to kill people and see what the hacking stuff doeshint: its fucking nothingthen you'll never play it again.
>>339475919
Paired with their aggressive marketing, Blizzard also just did a good job on Overwatch and gameplay aside, which I very much enjoy, for me it's also the little things.
Most people don't notice that shit but the amount of little eastereggs, breakable stuff and lore bits crammed into the maps is just a sign of quality and care, jews or not.
>>339477440
Are you fucking 12?
YUST PLEI IT OFFLAIN MOD DOOD.
>>339472000
My PSU exploded while I was playing DS3 on release, there was an entire thread about it? Weird.
>>339477448
That's legit my story as well. Though no student loans since I was a lazy fuck and went to a community college for programming shit.Tfw have a credit debt instead of student debt and I keep buying vidya
God help me before it all ends anon.
why do they keep hiring anthony burch to write for games
his writing is lesbian fanfiction tier
>>339477595
>grants and scholarships to Uni. of Houston after community college
>student loans from comm college still around
>only went to a community college because I thought it would be cheaper than a full university
>pic related
>>339477707
Nothing wrong with lesbian fanfiction m8
>>339476390
Guilty and I like both.
Checkmate Atheists.
>>339477707
>people bought a game that Anthony Burch touched
The marketing for this game was fuck all. Like I know that /v/ gets rightfully annoyed with too much money being funneled into marketing but there was no marketing at all for Battleborn. Only this week I found out that the game is a FPS game with Dota/Moba/ARTS elements.
That and explicitly going head to head with a Blizzard game is absolutely bananas. There's a reason why a lot of games avoid releasing in the same release window as Call of Duty.
battleborn looks bad, but lets not get retarded
the process hung on his computer and he was too stupid to kill it/notice he was still running a game and now hes trying to make a conspiracy out of it
There is NOTHING in the Steam API that allows you to "inflate your hours"
Theres a chance they code the process to hang after you quit but thats some next level tinfoil hat boogey man shit.
>>339477728
I got my college paid for by the guvohment and I ended uppiratingmost of my books online since practically all my classes were on PCs so I could just read PDFs. Gen ed books were generally cheaper so I had plenty of money left over but somehow I fell into a deep debt cause I bought too much fancy shit for my room and now I regret it all.
I like that a fucking ytmnd site comes up if you google 'battlestillborn'
>>339476867
Yeah it must have been really awkward buying overwatch.
>>339477345
Not to mention that the average Rent A Center customer in my area was literally retarded. Most people were on disability or were plain old hicks, sure quite a few were normal people, but the amount of oddballs was massive.
It was even worse for people who rented consoles. (39.99 a week with a 719-1200 buy out, by the way).
>MASSIVE fat guy with a tiny fucking fedora walked in one day
>His hat had a Gears of War sticker on it
>Scruffy neck beard speckled all over his double chin, the whole package
>Drops a poorly re-packed Xbone on the counter.
>Really moist talker, each word followed by a gulp and labored breathing
>"Unfortunately, madam, it's no longer financially feasible for me to continue with my contract."
He hung around the counter saying "feasibility" and "that would not be practical at the moment" to the poor chick manning the counter.
>>339477845
Who the fuck leaves their computer on over night though?
>>339477891
>turning off your computer
Oh hey, it's me in the OP image.
That said, I don't play Battleborn anymore.mostly because it was so dead, I kept running into the same premades every single day
>>339477919
I just put it on sleep and restart it once a week or so.
>>339472342
Current players and peak players are way off, hours played is absolutely correct due to the skewed inflation.
>>339477886
>(39.99 a week with a 719-1200 buy out, by the way).
I hate to be shit talking your job mate but wouldn't it be better for people to just save up that $40 a week and then buy it at a cheaper price than the buy out price?
>>339477976
Legitimate question, what made you think it was a smart thing to buy Battleborn?
>>339477847
Being a spic, first person to attend Uni, and disability made the government pay for a good amount. The scholarships paid for the rest though, and now FAFSA is fucking me in the ass. I hate life.
>>339471049
So wait people can just buy a game play it for 20 minutes and then refund it a year later?
If you've played it for 8 hours you shouldn't be able to refund it anyway,
>>339477845
Too bad the message states that they were offline, and their computer was off.
Maybe you'll want to read it properly next time.
>bought brink
>bought the division
>bought battleborn
>bought evolve
>bought warlords of draenor
>bought a wii-u
>bought a vita
wish I was lying. I should've known battleborn would lose to overwatch, but the way /v/ kept talking shit about neo blizzard, I thought overwatch would bomb.
>>339477919
I restart my computer pretty much every time I go out or go to bed.
It doesn't matter once you've got an SSD.
>>339477891
I do, but I think a lot of /v/ probably shouldn't. I'm sure a lot of people on this board are infected by a RAT.
>>339477728
>only went to a community college because I thought it would be cheaper than a full university
It is, though. Especially in the Houston area. Like $1000-1500 bucks a semester (including) and you can knock off a year or two of University.
>>339478071
I'm sorry anon, we're in this together
>preordered DNF, Spore, Watchdogs
>bought Other M
Fuck my life
>>339473347
>and it happens server side
Not possible, that is not even remotely how Steam played time works. Your client records your play time and uploads it to Steam every 10 minutes or every time your game closes. Gearbox servers have no control over Steam played time in any form whatsoever.
>>339478038
2/3 of those. Well parents are central american but all hispanics are the same right? :^)
No disability here though I'm sure I could talk to a psychologist and they could analyze me with some fucked up head.
How did FAFSA end up fucking you? They just paid all my classes and threw like 800 bucks every 2 months at me. Got like 1600 each semester.
>>339474886
It doesn't have to be, but what is the point of starting a circlejerk discussion with nothing being offered except "I like X"?
>>339473203
>peak players: 5E972
>>339478027
An impulse purchase. It seemed alright and was like 25 euros on a cd key site. It was fun for a time, but the amount of glitches, collision errors and balance issues along with increasingly dwindling playerbase just couldn't keep me interested in it anymore.
>>339472342
I don't know why you keep posting this shit. It's not funny like you think it is.
>>339474962
I guess that's kind of relative. Evolve bled players really fast, but Battleborn doesn't even have that many players to begin with.
I don't think it's so much an issue of one being a worse situation than the other, one just got marketed the fuck out of and the other one didn't.
>>339478071
Dont let /v/ make you feel bad. You bought games you wanted. People here just want to fit in so they all praise the same shit. Overwatch is utter trash and has firmly cemented in my mind that /v/ is retarded and shouldn't be taken with even a grain if salt.
>>339478071
at least the raid content in WoD was good
rest is utter shit
>>339478183
Ehh I just mean FAFSA related payments the only large debt I have right now, and like >>339478161 said it isn't even that much (around $8,000 after switching majors one year in.) I'm just complaining more than anything.
Also, the disability I was able to claim was a bone density deficiency I had in like the 8th grade. One procedure and like a year of physical therapy and it hasn't been a problem ever sense, but sense I was born with it I can claim it whenever/wherever I feel like. Pretty cool actually.
>>339478071
>>339478175
I bought Brink, the Division, and Sporeand liked them all
>>339478515
Well best of luck to you anon. Time to get some rest and hit the grinder for 5 days again.
>>339478161
>(including)
including books*
Maybe I should have read more of them
>>339478370
That's actually fairly understandable, $27 for an AAA game is a reasonable buy. Atleast you didn't pay $60 for it like some people did and that you got your money's worth from it.
>>339478071
>also bought warlords
>almost definitely going to get legion as well
Someone set me free.
>>339478027
Rent A Center prays on the mentally handicapped, the old and the desperate. The only good deals in the store are Washers/Dryers and phones. Tv's can often be found at a fair enough price when they go on sale, but they are hard to get a hold off since we market them to existing customers over the phone.
Consoles were straight up terrible, though. Some came back with fluids, random scratches, shitloads of personal information loaded up on them and shit like that. One time we got one covered in MLP stickers.
The worst part? Customers don't know how internet dependant new gen consoles are, and most RAC stores in NE Ohio didn't have wi-fi.
>Time after time people would Rent an Xbox
>Tell them it requires an online activation before they can play it, since it gets nuked back to factory settings
>All agree that they can handle it
>Get angry calls within the hour about how their shitty brat can't play CoD with his buddies and the Xbox is stuck on a black screen.
>Same shit with Ps4s and their need for Ps+ and the day one patch
Shit happened every day, man. This one guy who lived in a trailer that smelled of piss gave us a good 2k+ a month for phones, a 4k TV and a Ps4 he got for Destiny, a TV stand and tablets. Shit was nuts.
>His name was "Mr Howard."
>Calls to complain that his tv is much too dark to play Destiny and it doesn't look right
>Go over with a shitty five dollar HDMI cable
>He has statues of Dragons fucking everywhere
>PSN name is "xXBlackFlameDragonXx" or some shit
>Has a gold plated HDMI cord "It cost me 80 bucks, I got the best I could find to draw out the most graphics from the Ps4"
>Switch cords and TV settings.
>He now thinks I'm some sort of wizard and makes me "his go to guy" for all his issues
>>339478601
you too anon. Back to the daily routine.
>>339478071
As much shit as Blizzard might catch (rightfully so, in most cases), there is not a single developer in the industry that's as shitty as Gearbox. If, by some fucking miracle of god, they somehow managed to make a good game, I'd refuse to buy it entirely because of how shitty they are.
They're actual fucking criminals. They've stolen money from SEGA, they've lied with press demos, they've denied royalties to a crippled man that has to take care of a wife with lupus. I'm not making that last one up, despite how absurdly cartoonish it sounds. Randy Pitchford is a fucking scumbag, and Gearbox deserves to collapse spectacularly.
>>339478706
>this whole story
>>339478706
Holy shit Anon.
I've worked in retail and working as a teacher (teenagers are surprisingly very technologically incompetent despite growing up in a "digital age") but that really takes the fucking cake.
That trailer story holy fucking shit.
>>339477276
So he's a German robot, with a French name which means nobleman, with a distinct English gentleman look?
Is there something Gearbox CAN do right?
>>339472506
>>339472342
>>339473203
Somewhere, outthere, there is a Battleborn dev crying over these pictures.
His dreams dead, his optimism gone.rekt
>>339478706
>Mr. Howard
>>339478706
Please, if you have more, don't stop posting.
>>339474886
On leddit they always do that when a game sucks.
When WoD's 5.2 patch was announced to be the last, leaving a fourteen month content drought, the /r/wow sub had tons of posts saying HEY THE GAME'S STILL FUN GUYS LOOK, showing pictures of themselves posing next to statues.
>>339471367
What's bothering me about this is that BL3 won't even be in development until Gearbox quits beating this dying horse with dlc nobody gives a fuck about.
>>339479057
As much as I hate Gearbox I actually feel sorry for the rank and file devs that made Battleborn. Captain Randy thought it was a brilliant idea to steer right into the iceberg that is Overwatch and then proceeds to yell about sloppy hamburgers whilst his staff will probably get laid off.
Will gearbox even be able to survive this disaster?
>>339479125
Why would you want a sequel to Borderlands 2? The entire series is terrible.
>>339473203
What does the E stand for?
>>339471049
>exploiting the 2 hour refund system to keep people who don't like your game from refunding it
Disgusting. I hope Gearbox fucking crashes and burns along with all it's staff
That's just dirty.
What a shit company.
>>339478706
I've seen some shit around here but
>>339473525
>>339473619
Where do we see these stats?
>>339476737
Playing Dirty bomb everyday. Which is sorta like Brink only F2P.
I sold Brink with a bunch of other games to inflate the price.
>>339478882
>>339478947
It's not even the worst thing to happen at that store. We once got back a "faptop" filled with Furry porn, straight from the fucking get go. Like user image, desktop backgrounds, everything. The fucking thing stank like cigarettes and had "sticky stuff" all over it, as one of our employees put it to the repair center. They told us to bag it and tag it as a loss, which we ended up doing.
One of the girls almost broke down in tears when another employee said "That thing smells like Jizz, man." All because she touched it without gloves. The worst part of this is, though, we were on the phone trying to rent it back to him within a day, but he wouldn't take it since "it was used."
A lot of really, really stupid and mentally disturbed people walked through those doors every motherfucking day. Rent A Center caters to them, though, and they did it gladly.
The amount of piss-smelling trailers filled with cats, trash and literal shit I had to walk into every week was unbelievable.
The smells are coming back to me as I type this shit. It was horrible, I would come home and throw all of my shit straight into the washer and shower, but the smell never really leaves you.
>>339477316
Bowler actually.
>>339479315
Steamcharts and Steamspy
>>339479231
Nope. We'll never get Borderlands Chronology Trilogy: Electric Boogaloo.
>>339479254
they are so desperate to sell Stillborn that they take away consumer freedom so if you buy it you're stuck with it forever unless you act fast.
>>339478817
This.
If Gearbox ever make a good game I'll just pirate it.
>>339479237
Did you not take physics in highschool?
You guys are hyped for The Paladins?
>>339479354
>>339479354
>Furry porn, straight from the fucking get go. Like user image, desktop backgrounds, everything.
>mfw I kinda dodged a bullet by having a toaster that couldn't run Battleborn during open free beta.
>>339475919
I'll actually probably buy Battleborn sometime for the Single player and some of the multiplayer.
>>339479453
oh hey, forgot I have alpha to that.
>>339479407
>even wanting another borderlands after 2 and 2.5
Also, there will definitely be a 3, but it'll be a cash grab in an attempt to make back their losses from this heap of shit.
>>339479513
>tfw tried it out cause a friend wanted to play it
Shit made me feel sick, not 100% sure what the exact cause of that was maybe it had something to do with the FoV.
>>339477707
>yfw you're not anthony burch
>>339479354
This has honestly been one of the first times in recent memory that I actually feel nauseous due to browsing the Internet.
Actually nice job Anon
>>339479591
You tried it? From what I seen, it seem more like Overwatch but with some cool ideas.
>>339478071
>Being this retarded
I'm glad you lost your money, because people like you shouldn't have financial responsibility. How fucking HARD is it to make your own educated opinion nowdays by looking things up yourself. I figured out on myself that Overwatch was gonna be a casualized TF2 clone and I could've figured out on myself that Battleborn was gonna be a pile of shit with Gearbox's reddit shit humor, so I bought none of them. I've also formed my opinion on all of those things you mentioned going by just their companies' track record, and surprise surprise, I turned out to be right. Apparently that makes me some sort of fucking Oracle.
>>339479634
Probably since the gun models for some of weapons (assault rifles etc.) take up like 1/3 of the screen.
>>339479234
>>339479234
>The entire series is terrible.
>>339479689
>that pic
