Oh shit. Steam is actually fucked by this. Not only is it a multiplayer game, so people won't be able to pirate it. But it's motherfuckin' Borderlands. People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist.
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game You're one stupid fucking zoomer.
Landon Jackson
i don't really care for borderlands one time my brother bought me a borderlands game for christmas i played it for like 30 min then sold it you guys always get excited over shit i just don't give a fuck about, but i guess the feeling is mutual because i get excited about new snk games and you guys only masturbate to kula, angel and mai
Aaron Young
store opened 4 months ago
>ITS A MONOPOLY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jason Sanchez
Borderlands is shit though. Nothing of value was lost. By all means keep gobbling up AAA shit and install Epic's launcher.
God damn shut up. Not a single person here knows what a monopoly is. Just shut up already.
Justin Howard
I bought 2 because it was on Linux, lack of a Linux version forced by Epic means no purchase.
Parker Martinez
its gonna get a console release regardless. just discuss it with your friends if you'll all get it for piss4 or xbone so you can play together
Colton Cruz
nice shill post desu
Aiden Reyes
>epic store exclusive Wrong, it's also available on The Pirate Bay
Easton Wright
Good thing that this shit is not on the store front of Steam, more space for good games. It is also very funny that someone was dumb enough to give Randy money.
Michael Turner
Blunderlands is nothing special plus these epic niggers don't have any multiplayer API or masterservers like steam, not gonna be surprised if it turns out they'll be using Steam's API for multiplayer (since it is open source and all that now)
Easton Young
You can't pirate online games.
Adrian King
Who says it’s online required? I never played online with any borderlands games.
Justin Wood
What does this mean?
Jose Harris
I dont get the big deal , if a service has a product you want , use that service. I could be ignorant on the whole situation though so I dunno
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist. We waited over ten years for Halo three to come to PC without even the promise of it. I am sure we can wait 6 months to a year for a game that is only tolerable when playing with friends.,
People hate Epic because "They're stealing our data!" but conveniently don't seem to mind that Steam is doing the same thing. Almost as if they're being paid by Valve.
Mason Lee
Epic is Chinese spyware and has nothing new to offer but exclusives. That is why people are upset at it.
Aiden James
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game actually laughed. good job op
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game why not? it's a shit series.
Chase Cruz
>Not only is it a multiplayer game, so people won't be able to pirate it.
My last co-op experience was with Borderlands 2 and it was so fucking awful I'll never play co-op again. Not that the game was bad co-op it's just everyone I played with were horrible people so I just stopped trying. I will gladly pirate and played through 3 solo, I solo'd 1 and it was a great experience.
William Jones
Thanks for spoonfeeding me. uh here are some anime tits
I hate epic because they bribe publishers for exclusivity deal. They should have gone cashback/coupons deal instead of this exclusivity bullshit.
James Anderson
Here's a more in depth version of why Epic's store is shit and why you really don't want them at the forefront of PC gaming -Epic doesn't mass generate keys for free for publishers to sell to other stores, so you won't be able to buy from third-parties who are competing on price (only from a 'partner' like Humble Bundle which will just sell the game at the exact same price) -If you live in an area that doesn't have high amounts of credit card usage, you might usually rely on cash cards to buy your vidya, and unlike something like Steam which eats the cost themselves Epic will just charge you more (given their low take for themselves) -Instead of using their vast wealth from Fortnite to make brand new titles for their store, Epic's paying to take choice of where to buy away from customers, and this includes both Steam and GOG options being taken away -Ironically if you live in China you can't actually buy games from Epic -If you're one of the few Linux people out there you're screwed because you can't as easily take advantage of Proton or anything like that -The 88/12 split becoming a regular thing likely won't hurt Steam all that much overall, but it will kill all the third-party sellers which provide better prices for games like Green Man Gaming, Voidu, Fanatical and Gamesplanet -Tim Sweeney himself has said that he doesn't want to do sales even on the level of current-day Steam, along with a clear focus on his store being more publisher-friendly instead of customer-friendly (for example, an opt-in review system)
Justin Gonzalez
2K seems to be the architects of this exclusivity deal though. Notice every single exclusive turns out to be published by 2K. Seriously, look it up.
Carter Brown
>-Instead of using their vast wealth from Fortnite to make brand new titles for their store, Epic's paying to take choice of where to buy away from customers, and this includes both Steam and GOG options being taken away This is a lie. Epic is the reason why Journey and all the David Hogg games like Heavy Rain have PC ports.
Robert Hughes
It's a bit more complex than what they're saying. Not only is Epic stealing data from your machine (There's already proof they are reading Steam data to check if you have Steam and what you do in it) but they're also extremely pro-dev while being extremely anti-customer. Their store has no forums and no review system and while they promised to add a review system they said it would be opt-in so if a dev wants he can just turn off his reviews, that's right, they can turn off criticism at will. And the reason they push for why Epic is better? They give a bigger cut to the devs. Of course that doesn't mean jack shit to the customer since the prices are the same if not even higher! The deck is already stacked agaisnt players these days with cutting content to make DLC, microstransactions, season passes and blaming customers for problems instead of themselves, using Epic is the same as feeding your money to the ever growing monster that is the modern customer unfriendly game industry. Now post more tits.
Justin Collins
Thanks again for laying it all out , I have a better sense why people are upset now. Uh here are some more anime tits
>Epic is the reason why Journey and all the David Hogg games like Heavy Rain have PC ports. Incorrect. Flower wouldn't have released on all PC platforms otherwise, and we've known the Cage games were coming to PC since October of 2018. They're able to come to PC because QD owned the rights and they were bought by a Chinese company who was able to fund the porting process
Charles Hill
>Epic only benefits developers in the shortest of short terms >It doesn't benefit consumers at all >The only thing it benefits is their attempts at becoming a monopoly >Yea Forums is shilling for this How fucking low do the ultra contrarians go?
is tim sweeney making these threads to hype the epic store or is randy pitchford making them to hype his shitty game?
Michael Edwards
While cringy i do find some of the characters to be quaint and sometimes amusing. I like the upbeat 2 kool 4 skool atmosphere too. Other than that ye its shit desu
Adrian Gonzalez
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. watch me
Tyler Clark
It is such easy bait. Any thread about Epic Store is guaranteed 500 posts. There is no downside to creating one. I wish I'd created a few of these while we had likes.
Xavier Gutierrez
well nothing particular useful. More or less about the people on messageboards and how they react to certain things
r/ourguy/ BASED Jim "Jimquisition" Sterling told us to hate steam and love the epic store because of communism or something
Joshua Sanders
Literally every previous BL game was piratable and played online easily. Plenty of games that use steam and epic servers for online have been piratable and played on their servers.
Evan Hughes
>There are humans that listen to that fat (literal) cuckold
>its motherfuckin borderlands. Kek nice shillthread the fact that you think borderlands is worth the fucking day 1 purchase is goddamn laughable.
NEVER BUY BORDERLANDS ON RELEASE.
Jaxson Edwards
I know this is a bait thread but you dumb niggers vastly underestimate how much money valve has. They've been making a chunk of every game sale on steam for over a decade. and let's not even get into the marketplace with transactions on hats and crates and keys and trading cards and all that gay shit. Valve doesn't have to do anything about epic at all. If epic actually gains a foothold and keeps swiping games, steam still has a bunch of other different things coming out to make them money. If epic fails and gets fucked then steam continues operating in the exact same way it did before. Valve has to do literally fucking nothing, which is what they've always done and will keep doing.
Speaking of which what is with all these faggot shills saying developers are getting a bigger cut? They aren't gonna get jack shit. It's an extra cut for the publisher, so basically EAniggers are making even more money to ruin and underpay studios. Why does anyone actually think this is a good thing?
Maybe if Steam is more based instead of bending over backwards for the SJWs, it wouldn't be exclusive to Epic Games.
Asher Collins
>Not only is it a multiplayer game, so people won't be able to pirate it >People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist. fuckin shills man lol
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game I deeply regret buying 2 and I never heard anything about the prequel one so I assume it didn't do that great.
Cooper Morris
>Borderlands is bad Yes, yes it is
Cameron Ward
Yeah, gearbox's writing is beyond obnoxious. I can't even think of a better word to describe it, it's fucking awful.
Asher Campbell
Prove it, fatso.
Eli Jones
I'm sorry, can you buy Trap Shrine on Epic Store?
Didn't think so.
Connor Stewart
It's not even only retards who shill Epic anymore.
I tried Fortnite (the real Fortnite, the singleplayer game, not the one everyone plays) and people said the writing was like Borderlands and it even has Ashly Burch as the main character but I found the writing to be very humorous and enjoyable so I was thinking that if Borderlands is anything like that maybe I should try Borderlands.
Austin Walker
>but it’s motherfucking borderlands I don’t remember borderlands being that big of a deal, but suddenly a lackluster trailer comes out and everyone is acting like this is the Big Sequel people were wanting all along. Why
Grayson Morris
>But it's motherfuckin' Borderlands. why do soiboys talk like this online
marketers. every borderlands game has been shilled hard on Vee.
Brody Rogers
Yea Forums fucking loved Borderlands 1 back when it came out, I have no idea how this board got so infested with newfags that think Borderlands is a bad game.
Grayson Hall
Based retard
William Foster
Is that an ugly girl or a dude?
William Rodriguez
>steam is fucked no more RE >steam is fucked no more Metro >steam is fucked no more Doom >steam is fucked no more Memelands clockwork.
It's because there's nothing quite like it. Sure there's Destiny and Anthem and shit but they're all really really bad at the whole looter shooter thing, meanwhile Borderlands has crazy weapons and skills trees and vehicles and shit and you can invite four buddies to shoot shit and drive with, so even if it's not a masterpiece there's nothing that hits the spot quite like it.
Hunter Hughes
>meanwhile Valve pays them to release their games on any store they want
I'm pretty certain some people find gay sex with friends to be fun I'm sure you're on expert on that so what's your point?
Hudson Morgan
why dont they just post these on the epic store instead of shitting up the steam one
Easton Rogers
I never said I thought borderlands was a bad game, but no grandpa geezer, a lot of people under 30 weren’t here when borderlands 1 was released.
What I remember of Borderlands is that it was a fun, but ultimately lackluster and shallow game that was good for a campaign run on co-op. One and done.
Brandon Brooks
They probably just couldn't pay enough for exclusives so they paid just enough that what they pay + what they will sell in multiple stores is more than what Facebook is willing to offer for their game.
Julian Anderson
>Didn't continue the box art theme of a psycho shooting finger guns at his head.
Shame they could find a creative way to do it.
Isaiah Gomez
Steam's "catering to consumers" schtick woulda worked too, except that consumers are mindless cattle and don't make games.
Brandon Young
>Epic Games gets Borderlands >Steam gets Halo:MCC+Reach We all know who is going to make out like bandits here.
Exclusivity from 3rd party sources is fucking retarded and anti-capitalistic.
Michael Cruz
Dude, this is a blue board. Cut that shit out.
Aaron Bell
I really like that the new box art is literally Jesus so I don't mind too much.
Gavin Edwards
I guess that’s why it never stuck with me, I never did much of the co-op.
Ryder Jones
borderlands was never considered great but 2 forever marked the series as shit. maybe you missed the countless anthony burch hate threads?
Grayson Collins
>The date means that that didn't happen What did he mean by this?
Adam Brown
Probably because they hired Anthony. However he works for Riot now so I imagine that's no longer a concern for 3 and Yea Forums will come back to loving it again.
Brody Gray
>Jesus
I thought it was Buddha.
Ethan Hall
Randy's still there you know
Elijah Peterson
How is Epic securing all these big dick exclusives? Did Fortnite REALLY make them so much money that they are able to fling money around like this? I just find it so hard to believe that a developer who’s made nothing good since Gears of War is suddenly one of the most powerful entities in gaming.
Tuungle has been dead for a couple years Hamachi is unreliable Gameranger only supports a handful of games and it's also unreliable
You can't use any of them to pirate or play most new games unless there's a dedicated lan function which is never supported anymore
Jack Ramirez
Epic Games is responsible for a little something called the Unreal Engine, which you may be familiar with because literally every fucking game uses it.
On top of that, they now have a net worth of something upwards of $15 billion.
Hudson Lewis
ok , sorry
Ethan Wilson
Why do people bitch about Epic so much? Is downloading another program really that much of a hassle?
Mason Ortiz
>Have to install spyware to play a a sequel of a mediocre series That's a hard pass for me.
Jackson Anderson
"Muh China"
That's literally it.
Blake Ross
it is one of those things
Xavier Watson
based retard
Christopher Jackson
It'd be fine if they offered services beyond certain games I would want, but they really don't.
Asher Jones
Why should I download any program at all? I should be able to just walk into a store, buy the game, put the disc in and play.
Bentley Cook
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist. Haven't bought one since the first. You're exaggerating.
Camden Mitchell
yarr it is
Nathan Murphy
It's a free storefront. What do you care. Just get the game you want then leave it alone.
Ayden Allen
real talk gaben sicked his valve drones on it so they built up the false narrative that it is stealing all the data and network traffic on your computer and sending it to china.
Mason Morgan
He wants cheevos and cards. He's one of those.
Ryder Wilson
Remember when Erik Kain defended Anita?
Lincoln Smith
>installing a program I am going to get a one time use out of
>implying that's the only additional service steam offers over the EGS
Joseph Harris
What's wrong with Anita? It was a good movie.
Isaac Cruz
boy I love pirate bay exclusives
Julian Long
So who are y'all gonna play in Borderlands 3?
Aaron Anderson
Developers are not being consulted about these exclusivity decisions; Epic is going straight to the publisher. It does not necessarily matter to the devs where a game is sold so long as it (worst case) doesn't flop, and (best case) brings in the expected amount of money or more so everyone can get their bonus and the studio can afford to do more work. With big AAA titles like Borderlands a flop is just not going to happen, so the publisher can be very choosy with how to market and sell the game. It is entirely probable that Epic's payoffs are not going to the devs at all and just being pocketed by the publishers. Borderlands is still selling copies even after ten years. Six months of exclusivity is nothing when the alternative means missing out on a fat stack of free cash.
IF YOU ARE A TRUE SUPPORTER OF FREE PC GAMING THEN YOU WILL REVIEW BOMB EVERY GAME THAT GETS CAPTURED BY THIS SHIT I love Borderlands, the whole series, been playing for years, but im going, right now, to spam negative reviews with multiple accounts on multiple platforms, and there's at least a drop of decency still left in you, dear fan of this game, you should too do so. Make them understand that we will not accept their shit any longer. Review bomb all 3 of the borderlands games, dlcs too, EVERYTHING.
I beat all the other ones in singleplayer, why would I need to play this one in multiplayer? I'll pirate it and if I still give a shit a year later maybe ill buy it at 75% off.
Connor Thomas
Interesting variant of the "and that's a good thing" at least.
Hobot probably, but maybe JoJo if it's a proper JoJo character.
Borderlands has always been p2p. Steam never host servers (proton is maybe going to be an exception? I haven't really bothered with figuring out what it is).
Noah Nelson
>reddit: the game chinkware exclusive who gives a fuck?
Owen Russell
I played the first borderlands and that was quite enough for me.
>Erik Kain fell for the "epic store is bad meme" Does this guy just parrot Yea Forums to pander to anons? Competition against a de facto monopoly is good. >b-but it's not really competition because I'm already loyal to their competitor! Cope In before winnie the pooh Tiananmen Square ect.
>the big mean monopoly, which is why we need epic guys, couldn't pay more cause they're obviously strapped for cash
Henry Lopez
>RE I presume you mean resident evil? Thats still up on steam >Metro They like to tout that it sold 2.5x times what their last game did, but I haven't seen any official numbers, so it doesn't mean much. And the ray-tracing shit they were trying so hard to push with the game fell on its face. >Doom Well Bethesda did come crawling back to put their stuff on steam after the shitshow that was their launcher/fallout 76. engadget.com/2019/03/25/new-bethesda-games-come-to-steam/ >Borderlands Probably gonna be one of the most pirated games of the year if they don't change their stance on exclusivity. But seeing as 2k and Pissford have already taken the china money, I doubt it'll change.
Noah Hill
Big if true
Liam Jenkins
>We pay you steam revenue in advance >This means that we pay you now >But any money you make on our platform goes directly to us They aren't even paying for the exclusive, they're just paying the developers in advance... And those developers aren't allowed to make a better deal now.
Camden Morales
How is Epic a monopoly? So they got the pc distribution rights to a game. Valve has done the same for countless other third party games
You probably werent gonna buy the game anyway
Benjamin Garcia
Borderlands is a terrible series, nothing of value was lost
Isaac Nguyen
Yea Forums shit on Borderlands 1 for viral marketing and generally just being lackluster with a terrible ending BL1
Epic made a profit of 1 billion dollars last year off fortnite
They can literally fund whatever contract they want and not suffer
Blake Stewart
>valve paid the developers for timed exclusivity in all of their games shit i didn't know that
Zachary Sanchez
HOLY FUCKING SHIT JUST DOWNLOAD THE EPIC GAMES APP ITS LITERALLY FUCKING FREE
THIS IS SO FUCKING STUPID!!!!! I PLAY EVERYTHING ON FUCKING XBOX ANYWAY BUT GODDAMN PEOPLE JUST DOWNLOAD ITS A FREE APP JUST DOWNLOAD THE FUCKING APP THEN YOU CAN PLAY THE FUCKING GAME!
PLEASE. SO WE CAN ACTUALLY DISCUSS THE FUCKING GODDAMN GAME INSTEAD OF OH MY GODDDD I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A FREE APP WTF BROOOOO
Spacewar :^) it's not that hard to hook up to steamworks i remember playing pirated stellaris with a friend just fine using steamworks
Evan Russell
>hyped for the first one, play it, it's boring as shit >every map feels dead as fuck, the world is dead >get the second to see if they improved something, it's possibly worse These games are awful, and playing with friends was still awful.
The biggest issue (in my eyes) is the timed exclusivity. Honestly if it was a permanent exclusive that would bother me less.
Joseph Garcia
Those were the good days. I still have the box for Far Cry on CD. That was the last PC game that I paid for.
Charles Hernandez
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist watch me
Caleb Miller
Wait I'm confused about something. If the game uses steam for the mp backend do I just buy a steam code from epic and then I can use my steam friends list to coordinate with my friends? Or does epic have their own friend system I have to use?
Brandon Rivera
Epic has its own friend system. It even, somehow, can scan and find suggested friends tied to your friend list on steam, letting you find them very easily. so...I dunno, just buy on epic, then add launcher to steam. It is gona be crossplay due to epic's shenanigans so it wont matter where you buy it.
Angel Baker
They know which friends you have on steam since they copy a file called localconfig.vdf, this file contains a lot of your info, like games, playtime, wishlist, groups, access tokens and friends.
John Martinez
It's really fucking simple folks. If it's not on GoG, I'd rather just play it on Steam. If it's not on Steam, I'd rather just pirate it. People prefer Steam not because they agree with their monopoly or whathaveyou. It's because it's the lesser evil and that's where all their other games are stored anyway. I dislike Steam too, but if no developers are going to bother releasing on launchers like GoG anyway because they want that sweet, sweet DRM, then I'll gladly up with Steam. But that's as far as I'm willing to go.
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist. I wasn't even going to bother to pirate it, the first two sucked.
Jason Miller
Basedlands indeed. Hard to think of a more based game.
Evan Young
When was this posted? I'm all for justice for the devs and free games
Dominic Jones
I don't even remember the last game I pirated, most new games are so shit they aren't even worth the time downloading them. The few that are good are cheap or free.
>15 hours That's literally less than every other BL game barring Tales
Jackson Rogers
Why would that bother you less?
Gavin Reyes
Retard
Owen Barnes
Since everyone is saying you can supposedly pirate online games now, would it being online heavy even matter considering you can still pirate it and play it online?
Why did y’all conquer the world for spices, but never use them?
Levi Robinson
No actual physical release, no buy. Download code in a box obviously doesn't count. Fuck Steam and fuck Epic. Looks like yet another game I'll be forced to pirate.
Luis Gutierrez
What was the last PC game that actually got a physical release? I'll wait.
Shut the fuck up nigger JEW!!!! This is a /pol/ satelite board now. Your going to do what we say. If we do an operation you'll follow along like a good little lemming. Capiche?
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. i don't know a single person who gives a fuck about borderlands, it's a complete non factor
Oliver Lopez
ive seen this post posted before word for word
John Diaz
Witcher 3 >digital only is a good thing, praise le gaben They could always start giving PC actual physical releases again if enough people demanded it, but you cum guzzlers are too busy praising le gaben
Matthew Ortiz
Witcher 3 came out five years ago.
Ryder Cooper
>yesterday was 2016 woah
Jayden Kelly
Steam has Halo MCC. Enough said.
Levi Gomez
Do we know this for a fact?
Kayden Hughes
>Enough said. so this was an easy win for epic
Adam Nguyen
Why do the graphics look like outdated trash in all the trailers?
So that it can run on old PCs. They want more people to buy the game.
Cooper Anderson
no you haven't
Michael Collins
It's been 7 years, can they not even find out how to add any details to landscapes besides big rocks and small patches of long grass?
Jaxson Lee
>borderlands why is it that when 2 was released the game was pretty much universally shitposted about for being an ebin meemee lootershooter but now we have discussion threads and people trying to hype it up it's almost like there's been a shift in demographic on Yea Forums ____________REDDIT____
But people literally played pirated Borderlands 1 and 2 online?
Blake Kelly
zoomers my friend
Asher Howard
What do you want in your landscapes? Ants?
Jackson James
skyrim did it to be fair...
Lincoln Bennett
Bethesda did the paid mods thing and valve pulled the plug. That's why Bethesda doesn't support the steam workshop anymore and sell the mods on creation club now.
Xavier Jackson
Such as what?
Gavin Taylor
Did it really? Can you step on them or are they just aesthetic?
Asher Brown
I mean, if they're not going to develop the gameplay beyond shooting and watching numbers go up, I at least expect to have some pretty shit to look at while my mind slowly degrades from long-winded "epic" character bits over voice comms.
Samuel Thomas
>see BL1 got remastered >sigh and resignedly expect to have to pirate it despite owning the first one on Steam >look into what it adds >find out it's free for anyone who owns the original
Well that's surprising from Gearbox.
Jaxson Kelly
>won't be able to pirate it but you can pirate it?
>Chinese find the English language difficult. nice projection Tyron.
Jacob Collins
No steam no buy
Kevin Richardson
>No unga no bunga.
Oliver Brooks
tell that to all the T.A.s that can barely teach a lab
Evan Morales
epic has always been the sleeping giant of chaos. Now that is awake no one can stop it. Valve is a fucking joke and Steam is trash, this may force them to improve their service. Everybody fucking wins here, there is no reason to be a corporate drone.
Optimally, yes, this would happen, but in practice Steam has so much money that they can just double down on whatever shitty practices they want and still have it be years before they fail. There's too much money going around these days.
Xavier Roberts
This isn't rpg chargen you insecure faggot.
I'm playing the muscle wizard, I don't give a fuck if it has tits.
>no reviews >no forums >no community guides >no workshop Pirating or waiting for Steam sale with full DLC complete edition $20 sale are valid options
Eli Reed
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. lol just watch me
Connor Robinson
So where're the lower prices? Why am I, a customer, should care about this? Exclusivity? That's not a plus - it's a reason that i never bought any console with my own money since i started working. I don't support that.
Jeremiah Hall
It will be epic exclusive for only 6 months, so calm your fucking tits. It will come to steam, I repeat: IT WILL COME TO STEAM AFTER 6ONTHS. Now stop with your shit threads already nigga.
Nathaniel Collins
what pirate site has >reviews >forums >community guides >workshop
Jordan Clark
I have the question. If I buy from EGS, can I play with steam friends?
Camden Ramirez
lol k
Lincoln Kelly
>Is downloading another program really that much of a hassle? Why do the epic shills keep posting this when no one is complaining about downloading more launchers?
Ryder Young
trick question you have no friends
Angel Moore
The worst thing about it is that Borderlands """""humor""""" syncs up perfectly with the tastes of the 13 year old zoomer Fortnite audience
Levi Evans
Apparently yes. They say this game will have cross platform play.
Jose Barnes
Nope.
Michael Hall
Exactly. So I need to prepare for the future.
Robert Ward
>I was going to buy it to play with my friends >My friend really really really hates the Chinese and said he won't buy it from the Chinaman store >One other friend says he won't download epic becuase it's a waste of space and stupid he can't download it from Gearbox's website or through steam I guess I just won't buy it then.
That's PC/XBOX/PS4. PC does not necessarily mean across different storefronts, and the xobx/ps4 probably won't work on steam.
Jaxson Watson
I see no reason why it wouldn't.
Jaxson Thompson
>stupid he can't download it from Gearbox's website Why don't companies do this anyway? At least AAA games that barely need the extra exposure provided by existing on Steam should be able to just sell their games directly without the need for a shitty launcher.
Andrew Price
DRM
Joshua Moore
They do. EA does it for EA games. Ubisoft does it for Ubisoft games. Epic does it for Epic games.
Jackson Sanchez
RDR2 will show who the real big boy is
Luis Martinez
It wasn't until Borderlands 2 that the BADASS got kicked to 11, every character was reduced to one joke repeated infinitely, and memes started being injected directly into the dialogue though. But that was still six and a half fucking years ago, long enough for 13 year olds to be 19/20 now.
Aaron Young
If this pic aint total bullshit then theres hope lad for pirates anyway
The fuck do you mean "hope"? People will pirate it even if that image isn't true.
Henry Murphy
Is there any actual word that RDR2 will come to PC? They said that RDR1 would and I still don't see it.
Jose Cox
Will Borderlands 3 have LAN play again? Cause if so than I can just pirate and play with my friends the same way I did through BL2.
Gavin Garcia
Ubisoft made their own shitty launcher, Epic made their own shitty launcher, and I haven't bought anything EA since they killed Dawngate and ruined ME so I'm not sure about them.
Michael Reed
Launcher DRM might as well not exist. Slap some real DRM like Denuvo onto the game if you really cares first-week sales.
Josiah Lewis
>so people won't be able to pirate it didn't fucking stop me from pirating the last two
Henry Foster
Monopolies are only bad if it's a natural resource. If it's an invention or service then everybody should mind their own business.
Jace Rogers
Reminder that TPB is a literal honeypot.
Cooper Reed
>tfw waiting until after the exclusivity period is over to buy it on _gmg_ >tfw get to find out if the game is good or bad beforehand by all the frothing retards that can't keep their wallet in their pants when someone says borderlands >tfw it'll even have any big bugs patched out beforehand and possibly even DLC that I'll also know the quality of beforehand and can add to my first time experience with the game >tfw I'll get to do all this while still telling Sweeney he can go fuck himself
Yeah it fucking sucks and I'm pissed that this is even a thing, but if you think people who care can't wait then think again. 6 months is nothing. And I can probably just pirate it within the first week until the Steam release where I will buy it.
Seriously, what the fuck is the point of a 6 month exclusivity deal? One year I can understand from a business perspective, but do they seriously think that people aren't patient enough to wait out the exclusivity? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the Steam sales triple the EGS sales.
Nicholas Lewis
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist. TOP KEK
Played 2 when it had a free weekend on steam, it was fucking trash.
Luke Jackson
You can still download their games directly from the website. You don't have to download the launcher.
Ethan Morales
>can’t pirate the fuck you mean? My friends got Borderlands 2 working on the Mac computers back when it came out
Nathaniel Morris
>some real DRM like Denuvo Denuvo was cracked literally years ago. There is no effective DRM anymore.
Chase Bailey
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. I have never bought a borderlands game. I only game into this thread to tell you that. Now I am leaving.
Christopher Wood
Why didn't they use that time for something useful like porting the Halo games to PC?
Evan Butler
you’re probably born or raised in an English speaking country. Are you 2nd generation Chinese or whatever they call it?
Dylan Bailey
hehe. Well...
Ian Barnes
1989 Tiananmen Square
Daniel Nelson
Don't fucking remind me. The worst feeling is when the professor is conveniently out of town the week before midterms and all you can do is ask the chink TA for help.
Thomas Davis
I don’t know. guess they wanted borderlands 2 instead
Cameron Ramirez
I had an indian ta. Very nice, but god his accent is deep and hard to understand
Levi Anderson
I’ve never bought a borderlands game. Most people haven’t. They’re just not very good.
Doesn't work unless you post it in Chinese. My internet is safe another day.
Colton Taylor
>gay option Homophobic much?
Jayden Bailey
>Implying you can't pirate a multiplayer game
Sure kid Epic doesn't even have their own servers for multiplayer games besides fortnite
Angel King
Any time you have to ask "Is this real?" about Borderlands, let me simplify it for you: The answer is always yes.
Cameron Garcia
>95 votes Woah, buddy. That's some very accurate statistical data, careful with it.
Noah Robinson
>in BL3 you will have to stand in athena's and jane's wedding >and its part of the main quest imagine
Jack Morgan
The latest super cool epic store exclusive that everyone totally cared about, Satisfactory, has a multiplayer fix for the cracked release.
Connor Jenkins
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game Watch me, faggot
John Green
(1)Yes. (2)Furthermore, it's entirely unclear for what reasons should I use a store that offers nothing but what I can get freely. (3)"Goodwill" is certainly not one of those reason for a store that makes me go through extra hassle with anti-consumer practices.
Charles Lopez
>anti-consumer practices without sounding like a complete idiot name three
Christian Hernandez
>Wait 6 months to buy the game >Get it for half price and with a bunch of DLC Based Epic helping consumers do the right thing
Jackson Wright
>People cant just not buy Watch me
Liam Smith
Why don't people care about it? It looks satisfactory.
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. They won't be able to resist. Watch me, Nigger.
Grayson Hall
it's cute that you all think youre the heros of this little adventure but you're not WELCOME TO Yea Forums KIDDOS
Wyatt Howard
HAHAHAHAHA
Dylan Wright
Okay Yea Forums listen up, this is more /x/ stuff, but I got a nice blog for you, so read up, because this is a level S-RANK testimony I got here, and I ain't fishing with bait here, but you are ultimately fish. I use to be a very critical person, logical, studied planetary science, my way or the highway. I still do love science, nothing wrong with it. However life got dark along the way, you can say I felt like my mind was always being attacked by something menacing, thoughts, perhaps it was a neurological problem, or mental illness, as if I needed to get on some pills right away to make everything right, etc. But doctors couldn't help me, medicine couldn't help either, now I was messing with a lot of bad juju then, and it felt like dark forces just trying to beat me down to the point where I was fleeing from friend to friend, house to house, state to state, just get away. I finally arrived at the very end and simply collapsed, I gave up, who else was going to help me? I told him I knew he was there, Jesus, Mary, everyone really, (was I wrong to ask, was I a fool to attempt this act, I was at my wits end, what do I have to lose?) I prayed and slept. I was hit by a gold pillar of gold light; glittery and misty. The darkest snakes and insects scattered out of me. Then out of this light came out three angels blowing long trumpets in their hands. Quite.. crazy but what isn't normal or logical always is. I had then become a child in the dream.. I was in an old stone house, a table of tools on one side. There was a door before me, the latch was missing on it so I could see through the hole.. There was a sunset with a field of tall grass through that hole, and what sounded like children playing.. I pulled on the door but it was locked. The door wouldn't open, but then something came through the door, it transformed, swirled open with Jesus coming through it. Within his hands he was holding his heart which was on fire, he then handed to me..
Why do faggot mods always delete threads when they get into good religious discussion about Christianity? Is there a serious fedora tipper among the mods? This happened a while ago with a thread about games portraying biblical events and someone asked what version of the bible to get. mods just deleted the whole thread.
>Valve has done the same for countless other third party games Name them.
Jeremiah James
that thread literally bait
Logan Hill
umad
Christian Morris
CONT.
I took it this fiery heart and placed it inside of me. The feeling I felt from this exchange was a happiness that blinded everything, imagine every triumph, goodness, the birth of your children, love for your parents, your girlfriend, wife, whomever, everything happening all at once, now multiply that by a million, that was the feeling, nothing mattered at all, except this burning feeling which was of unconditional love.
HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART and what changed my perspective, and would change the most hardcore atheist or agnostic immediately if they experienced this same experience.
I never had read the bible up to this point in my life. JOHN 10:9 "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."
EZEKIEL 36-26 "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."
REVELATION 3:20 "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me."
So as you can see I had no prior knowledge of the bible or these scriptures but there they were. As always, it's up to you to decide what you want to believe, but there's no price.
And this thread isn't? the mods don't delete threads for being bait ever.
Joshua Allen
Yes I have.
Jacob Nelson
I've taken a break from Yea Forums recently, and only just returned so I don't know why people are butthurt about competition for steam. In the last few years Steam has been getting really shit and I remember last year talking to anons saying someone with more clout that GoG needs to compete with steam and end their shitty little monopoly. Now we have one and people are mad. What are the reasons Epic's store will be bad? I think it's a good thing to fuck over Steam. Fuck Steam. I always use GoG when I can now.
Christopher Turner
borderlands 1 borderlands 2 borderlands the pre-sequel
Wyatt Jenkins
Who even gives a shit about Borderlands in 2019? Give Epic a Rockstar exclusive and after that we can start talking about unfair treatment to consumers/stores or whatever, this game was never going to be relevant no matter how many corners of the internet it touches, in fact, it's only getting relevance thanks to the Epic controversy.
Ian Reed
There is no competition you mong
Colton Lopez
Is the epic store actually spyware or is that a meme? Even if it wasn't though, why are people defending the shitty business practices of a big company?
Liam Cruz
Steam is no monopoly. Don't bend words to the point that they lose all their meaning. Cut a long story short, epic is paying off devs to have timed exclusives.
Brody Gomez
>gay >goy Fuck off newfag.
Isaac Martinez
Discuss what about the game exactly? That it's stupid garbage no one should be excited about?
Ryan Hill
I know they aren't a real monopoly, Disney aren't either. But they are both the closest companies to being a monopoly in each industry right now. All their competitors are small or irrelevent. GoG and Origin were their biggest competition and Steam was killing it against Origin and GoG was for niche old games for most of it's life.
How is it not competition. God of War is only on Playstation, Mario is only on Nintendo, Halo is only on Xbox. Pulling money and users away from steam is a good thing. Fuck steam. Fuck Valve. Fuck Gayben.
Adam Bailey
>a multiplayer game, so people won't be able to pirate it What the fuck are you talking about, nigger.
"Spyware" is a bit of a loaded term to use that implies sinister motives but yes, Epic Store does copy literally all of your steam data and send it to Epic Games so that they can analyze the steam data of every user they collect it from and inform business decisions. They haven't faced legal action yet though, so judge for yourself whether this is actually a shitty move or not that warrants not buying a game just because its on the Epic Store
Dylan Hall
>Cut a long story short, epic is paying off devs to have timed exclusives.
Microsoft did this last gen with timed 360 exclusives too, it's nothing new.
Jaxon Thompson
Oh it's another one of those retards. >i'm playing innocent >but i'm only here for le ironic shitpost
Jack Robinson
>B-b-b-but consoles literally retarded.
Brandon Gomez
Unreal license is part of it but recently they dropped the price/deal cost they also got China money and then there is Fortnite that makes a shit load from normalfags. They just bribe the publisher with a Sign on bonus for being exclusive and then pay for guaranteed min sales.
Camden Rivera
I'm not shitposting though. If you think timed exclusives are new, you must be new to gaming.
Hell right now there are Steam exclusive games that GoG can't get, and GoG has some exclusives too. Go look up Space Colony on GoG and Steam. I bought Space Colony HD on GoG when it came out, but then when they did a big update to add/fix issues, they did it for steam version only, then the steam version got renamed to Space Colony Steam Edition. GoG version was left in the dust. Fuck Steam.
Christopher Thomas
>Consolepeasent is willing to do literally anything as long as the corporation delivers his shots of dopamine
God of War isn't just available at Gamestop. Mario isn't only at Best Buy. Halo isn't only at Amazon. That's the difference. Console companies don't make their games exclusive to their own store. Epic has a monopoly of sale on third party exclusives they sell ON TOP OF requiring their client, whereas steam only has the latter for third party games.
There's literally no benefit to using EGS for end users, all it has are exclusives. The defense for Epic's store seems to be fueled by consoletard shitposters and a blind grudge against Steam, as if competition should exist just for the sake of it and not providing a better service or doing anything better than your competitors.
Jason Kelly
places like 9gag are having a fucking meltdown demanding everyone pirate the fuck out of it for not bowing down to lord gabe. Want to see what "PCMR" REALLY is? Go see them, its fucking cringe.
Parker Richardson
/thread
Charles Ramirez
>gonna pirate it with my buds and play through Hamachi or gameranger feels good, not missing out a single thing. epic paid for my copy in advance anyway
>PS4 only has one game >lol why the fuck would anyone buy an Xbone there's no exclusives everything is on the windows store too >PS2 and SNES best consoles of all time look at dat library >lol OG Xbox just had Halo shit console who cares if the specs were better than PS2
Gamestop, Best Buy and Amazon always have exclusive DLC preorder bullshit.
Matthew Bennett
"Steam exclusive games" are only exclusive to the client, not the store. And GOG doesn't pay developers to keep games off of Steam or only provide updates for their version, or vice versa.
Ryder Sanchez
>so people won't be able to pirate it wat.
So you just outed yourself that you never actually played a Borderlands game.
Isaiah Perry
Case of point: you misspelled “yes we do”.
Juan White
We weren't discussing preorder exclusives user, but good job moving the goalposts entirely to a new stadium
Logan Perez
I am just saying it's not a new thing. It's stores competing with other stores by offering their own exclusives to customers.
Elijah Garcia
>People can't just not buy a Borderlands game. Lmao
Ryder Ortiz
>argument over games being exclusive >still arguing over preorder exclusives
I’ve always loved this image because you can literally hear claptrap’s voice.
Jack Hill
Fortnite singleplayer was embarrassing in a kind of sweet way at least if borderlands was your autistic 9 year old cousin with a kazoo then fortnite is a kitten with a kazoo
Lincoln Hernandez
/tg/ is better
Anthony Parker
95% of sales happen in the first two weeks. After 6 months there will be no one left to buy it.
Imagine their faces when they found out there's no way to avoid installing the EPIC store and that steam is gonna end up shutting down and taking their games away with them.
I can't use Tencent related products or services even on my off hours on my own computers. Our government sees Tencent as a front of the Chinese government and anything they touch a security risk.
No, I went and got both versions. Steam's version is proper 16:9 HD and the screen is adjusted so you can zoom out to see your whole screen without it fucking up the image (due to some small maps being smaller than the res size of your screen) or to zoom in to original zoom but still had HD. They also added some other extra stuff and fixed bugs and crashes for modern systems.
Brody Mitchell
I wasn't responding to one.
Carson Stewart
To be fair, they are.
Robert Cruz
You must be 18 to post here
Ayden Torres
Guess you're out then.
Jack Ross
Maybe. But a lot of people will wait for either the price dropping or the game of the year edition. My point was that it's not an epic exclusive.
People reeeeeing over epic game store are retards anyway.
Justin Bailey
>Not only is it a multiplayer game, so people won't be able to pirate it. Pirated and played all the previous games with a friend. >But it's motherfuckin' Borderlands. People can't just not buy a Borderlands game Off yourself, faggot.
Nathaniel Diaz
Only 6 months exclusive Is the money running out chinks?
Brayden Ortiz
Underage detected.
Jason Evans
With steam I can buy games from their store or hundreds of other sites, wherevers cheaper. With GOG I don't have to run a launcher at all. With EGS I can only buy from their store and I have to use their launcher unless I pirate.
People who still don't understand this are stupid.
Benjamin Morgan
should have made one then
Liam Powell
If you don't like the price, don't buy it.
That's true of every store, not just Epic.
Nathaniel Cruz
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Aiden Watson
i'd like to see you try and prove me wrong bud
Kevin Williams
zoomer and millenials who were kids when borderlands was big and they grew up with this shit. imagine having nostalgia goggles for this crap.
No, it's only true of stores with exclusives like Epics because you have no other choice.
If I don't like the price on Steam, I can buy it somewhere else. You can't value shop for EGS games
Dylan Walker
Oh shit, I fucking hope they go through with this. Fuck Randy and Fuck Gearbox. I'm barely surprised to hear that this SJW cuck is a bullying control freak behind the scenes.
Ryder Smith
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Charles Phillips
>millenials >kids when borderlands was big
I guess you don't get what the definition of the age range of millenials are.
Landon Gutierrez
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you all know you will buy it on the epic Game store anyway someone post the pic of the call of duty boycott group where literally everyone was playing the game they were supposed to be boycotting
Jack Allen
Steam would also be much better by not requiring the launcher.
Parker Hernandez
Except Borderlands 3 is on console so you actually can.
Wyatt Barnes
To make spicy memes, of course.
Jaxson Murphy
That image has been posted literally dozens of times in this thread. It's actually creepy.
Matthew Rogers
>so people won't be able to pirate it what were you sayin again?
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Elijah Rodriguez
it's already been posted And yep, it's gonna be the same this time around
Nolan Harris
Yeah i was mostly memeing, i should have said GenZ but it does not have the same impact.
Too old for this place but at least i have good taste.
Evan Robinson
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Noah Cooper
Some Steam games do not require the launcher. You can launch them completely unconnected to Steam.
>people are actually spamming this in Division 2's local chat in an attempt to drive off the chinese players
How did this meme came to be? I understand what's implied by it but it's just outlandish to assume this does ANYthing at all other than make the poster look like a fucking retard
Owen Nguyen
Most steam games don't require the launcher.
Austin Fisher
impressive.
Kevin James
You're right. Some games on steam don't require the launcher, but it sucks most steam games do.
You can't buy the PC version anywhere else other than EGS. So you don't have a choice on PC.
No one here seriously fucking cares. UK pigs, which are just US muppets, can gtfo. Also i'm on your side. Down with US-faggots.
Liam Cruz
Then make it user-friendly and explicit. Like the launcher asking if you want to exit after a game's installation, asking for desktop and start shortcuts, and by default have steam not opening with Windows startup (since why would you go to a store daily if you can play games without it). Now thats user-friendly but probably illogical for them as a business model.
Jackson Richardson
How about Implementing hairworks in the game, so I can stare at the monsters fuzzy coat instead of shoot it?
It's upvoted so much on The_Donald that retards have actually started to believe it, and the fact that it gets deleted here fills them with such indignation that they post it more and more, thinking they're trying to "hide" something.
Jackson Moore
TressFX has been used in like three games total. Nobody seems to care about it.
Daniel Taylor
top tier bait
Daniel Roberts
This thread is obviously bait but I'll say borderlands is fucking Boring and looks like a cartoon.
Aaron Mitchell
It's shitty the devs won't update the GoG version but that's not the same as Valve paying them not to update it and making the game exclusive to their store and nowhere else.
Is it true that it takes all the way to volume 4 for that show to actually get good?
Ian Perry
Hey OP, it's Randy. Thanks a bunch for your support! Here's a picture of me, working hard to ensure I make BL3 just as well as I made Battleborn, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and Duke Nukem Forever!
Thank you for saving my company so we can continue to fight bigotry and be BADASS for many years to come!