What went so horribly wrong
It existed.
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/whos-still-playing-battleborn-down-under-1k-players-pc-544962
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>release it simultaneously with a higher budget, more marketed competitor
>>344830076
They openly tried to start a rivalry with overwatch even though the 2 games are vastly different.
Marketing against and competing with Overwatch when they are two different games for two different demographics.
The UI and status effects could be neater, the writing it typical Gearbox affair, but there is a decent game at its core.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FElmjlzdSSM
DON'T LAUGH
>>344830464
Is all time peak actually 12000? That's less than people currently playing skyrim, a shitty mess released by betheshit 5 years ago.
Was there every any word on console pop or sales? Anyone not retarded realizes it wasn't made for pcfags.
No cute waifus
Shitty artstyle
Gearbox """"""""""""""humor""""""""""""""
Pandering to a crowd that doesn't buy games
$60 for a game in a genre dominated by F2P games
Slow as fuck movement
Too much shit is locked at the start
>>344830642
Yes, and that was on its launch date.
>>344830076
>EBIN MAYMAYS XDDDD
>ONE OF THE CHARACTERS WAS LITERALLY MODELED AFTER BRIAN WU
>CRINGEY ARTSTYLE
>DID I MENTION MEMES SO QUIRKY XDD
>>344830076
Honestly the $60 price tag. It should have been $20.
Game is fun. its better than overwatch. Its a good mix between moba and FPS, but nobody gave it a chance due to the price tag.
Not to mention the art style and how flashy everything is takes a little to get used to, but it doesnt take longer than a few games and if you get tired of hearing your hero say the same shit over and over you can actually turn it off.
>tfw I had to buy and play overwatch because none of my friends except for 1 bought BB.
such is life.
>>344830076
It tried to market itself against a company that could murder it with a mere moving of dates.
And that's precisely what happened.
>>344830076
It was another moba nobody cared about made by a developer people hated and is known for scamming money out of people.
Didn't help the picked a fight with Overwatch before it released.
I honestly don't think Overwatch did THAT much direct harm against the game, it's mediocre on it's own merits.
>>344830938
I don't think it was it's launch date. I think it was the Few days between Overwatch's public beta and release.
I actually play this more than Overwatch.
>>344833146
I'm sorry.
>>344833323
Why? I enjoy it. Certaintly got my dollar/hour ratio out of this faster than I did Overwatch.
Timing
>>344833037
It was its launch date.
>>344830076
It's easier to say what went right.Nothing.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>>344831121
>BRIAN WU
gonna need a source there chief
Its an all right game but there are enough issues with it to just boot up something else instead.
>>344833502
I'm apologizing for the death of your game, not a lack of enjoyment. It may not be dead yet, but it's on the brink.
>>344833865
Eh. As long as they keep pumping out characters and I can ply Orendi till I die I'm good.
>made by Gearbox
Gee
>awful graphics, looks like a sea of vomit
>sound effects hurt your ears
>characters are tryhard edgy, like that hipster robot, this 4 armed witch goblin or feminism-is-awesome guy
>on top of that characters are ugly as hell, even that blonde chick looks like stolen from a haunted house
>that UI
>gameplay looks terrible, seemingly you either destroy pine cones or fight some creatures which take forever to die
I've only seen videos and streams about it, but I don't like what I've seen.
Also, why was almost every streamer playing this hipster robot? Nobody likes snipers, they ruin every game.
They should have waited and released today.
>>344830076
hows it doing on consoles anyways?
a majority of games have longer lifespan on consoles than pc
You know what the funny thing is? They were practically GIVING it away with Xcom 2 today on Amazon for the PC version.
Despite that, I got the standalone Xcom 2 during the flash sale despite the bundle only being about $3 more after taxes. Why? I can't be assed to play battleborn, it looks like shit.
>AA studio that can't afford to buy reviews
Really, though, from everything I've heard, it's just nothing special. People say it's unfair to compare it to Overwatch, but I have a limited budget. Was it better than Overwatch? Few folks comparing them ever seemed to think so.
>>344835197
overwatch will be alive in a year battleborn wont
>>344835197
I'd say even if it was the playerbase is so small and has practically zero chance to grow. You'd be better off getting a single player game.
They don't have any brown qts
>>344835020
Overwatch was spammed by Gearbots begging people to buy Battleborn and third-worlders and Russians crying about it not being free.
>>344835482
this looks cooler with the sombra mask on
>>344835197
both are dogshit desu
if you have people to play with you might enjoy battleborn a bit more since it has a single player campaign
overwatch is way too expensive for a pvp game. even battlefront has more content than fucking overwatch.
if you're patient maybe wait for overwatch to go cheaper.
The character designs look like early discarded concept art from a better game, like they just drew a few doodles and said "Fuck it, I'm done." It looks like a shitty Chinese knock off of Overwatch, and I'm sure that turned off most casuals who, due to only having a passing familiarity of Battleborn due to the Overwatch hype train, think Battleborn is just Overwatch's retarded little brother.
>make a stereotypical Victorian British gentleman
>call him German
>>344830141
Vicious
>>344835942
The worst part about the character designs is how fucking inconsistent they are. I mean just look at the OP, do any two of those characters look like they even belong in the same game?
Gearbox
That's all it takes
>>344836425
Agreed. the only character design I like is Mushroom guy, probably because he looks like he belongs in a Banjo Kazooie game.
>blunderborn has fewer people playing it than borderlands 1
>>344835738
>overwatch was spammed by gearbots
>literally a fraction of overwatch's playerbase
if they were able to lower overwatch's scores to 6.2 why the fuck couldn't they take their scores above 6.7.
retard
