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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

After the Borderlands 3 incident, not surprising.

[–] aisteru@lemmy.aisteru.ch 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is this incident?

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Probably referring to the 6-month timed exclusivity on PC for EGS that Borderlands 3 went through.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And the fact that Epic couldn't cobble together a content delivery platform that supported preloading before BL3's release.

And the fact that they used Steam essentially as an advertising platform until the TOS was changed.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As someone who sunk hundreds of hours into each of 1 and 2, the staggered launch felt like it did so much damage to player base as well as player interest. Felt like when I was interested in it none of the old hardcore raiders I used to play with were and vice versa. And thats after I was the one to crawl to epic because I was afraid of missing out that sweet endgame co op high I got from 1 and 2.

[–] jack@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I loved BL1 and 2 so much, my pets are named after characters from the games. The staggered launch of BL3 caused me to forget about it for years after release.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

The DLC didn't help either, I was thinking about getting it to hop back on right around the same time the steam players were ready for something else for a bit. I actually really liked the game. Story was whatever but had as much fun as I can have by myself in a game like that.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

I played a ton of 2 and presequel but only just bought 3 at like a 90% discount and even then I’m not exactly interested in playing it.