Current Events > Battleborn goes free-to-play

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/battleborns-multiplayer-is-now-free/1100-6450597/

Gearbox today announced and released a free trial for its badass Battleborn game, giving people the opportunity to play all of the multiplayer "without any limits or level caps."

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battleborn sucks. just because it doesn't cost money now won't make it good


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FightingGames posted...

badass

Not the word I would use to describe it
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lol
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could i get a rest in kill
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Greymayne master race

any waifus?
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I remember when Evolve went F2P, had a pretty good time with it but it ultimately didn't work out.
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lmao first thing that came to mind was Randy's tantrum that his plans leaked

Jason Schreier redeemed.
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MakoReizei posted...

any waifus?

no. this is actually my biggest problem with the game
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Zurkon posted...

Remember when people thought Battleborn was going to out do Overwatch? This game failed hard.

no one did except Gearbox
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I might download just to see how much of a dumpster fire this is.
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battleborn was garbage lol
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remember when randy made a hentai subreddit for battleborn and immediately tweeted about it?
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lmao at Randy's tantrum on Twitter about this
https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/872108662487232512
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why now, why not like 6 months ago
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I'm still confused why they're calling it a trial? is this permanent or not?
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ManSpread posted...

remember when randy made a hentai subreddit for battleborn and immediately tweeted about it?

Good times lmao
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Xeno14 posted...

why now, why not like 6 months ago

Randy's pride is why

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/872136751715930112
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MakoReizei posted...

I'm still confused why they're calling it a trial? is this permanent or not?

Because if they called it F2P Randy would need to admit that the news that leaked out about this half a year ago was correct.

I wish I was joking.
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I don't get the fascination for these games and I am confused by the all the different ones there are. They're so cartoonish and random.
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Lmao @ a grown ass man who runs a company starting a Twitter argument
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was Battleborn his pet project or something
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Randy used to be a cool guy back in the Brothers in Arms days. what happened?
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

was Battleborn his pet project or something

Randy is just a sad dude in general.

https://www.engadget.com/2009/08/17/whats-in-a-name-gearbox-software/

"The next two cards were blanks, which is what the expected results were when I got the money in. I had him covered, so that knocked him out of the game! I did it! By knocking him out, I won a lot of chips, but more importantly I won the wager and with it I won the name 'Gearbox.' We got to keep the whole, big awesome Gearbox and Gabe had to settle for just being the Valve.

"No hard feelings, though. We still worked together later when Gearbox did Half-Life Opposing Force and Half-Life Blue Shift and and Half-Life for Dreamcast and Half-Life for PlayStation 2 (a lot of Half-Life stuff between Valve's first and second Half-Life game). I guess Valve didn't want to spend any of their own time on add-ons or bringing games to the PlayStation. But I think that stuff was fun to do and made our customers really happy and made some money to help us build our studio and made them some money to help them fund the continued development of Half-Life 2, so that was a win for everyone. But getting the Gearbox name – well, that was only a win for us. Gearbox Software is ours. Watch this: Gearbox Software®. See that little ® symbol? That means Gearbox Software® is registered with the US trademark office as belonging to us ;)

"And, if you can believe it, that's the story of how Gearbox Software® got its name!"

Update: Valve has informed us that Randy and Gabe didn't meet until after Valve had shipped Half-Life, making Randy's story seem ... well, unlikely. We're trying to find out what happened right now.

Update 2: Well, we just heard from PR and they confirmed that the story is a fabrication. Pitchford is apparently going to get in contact to explain what happened. We can't wait to find out his excuse for taking advantage of our Pollyanna-esque faith in the inherent goodness of people, and, by extension, telling tall tales to you, the people who are buying his games.

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I always knew Randy was insufferable but those Twitter replies are just pathetic.
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