>WELL HOWDY >IM SALLY MAY THE FARM LADY >I GOT SOME BANDITS FOR YOU TO CLEAR OUT FOR ME >IM GONNA SCREAM IDIOMS INTO THE RADIO IN MY ACCENT FOR THE ENTIRE MISSION, HOPE YALL DONT MIND
Anyone who played Borderlands after the first two, respect. Those games are hard to choke down.
Yeah Ellie was the worst part of the game by far. If I get too annoyed I just turn off audio and subtitles and put on music. WHAT THE FUCK were they thinking with some of these conversations? It’s like someone from Reddit got even more Reddit
Battleborn was better than OW in every way but Blizzard shut it down. I really don’t care if you disagree because your that guy that will say League of Legends is more difficult than DoTA 2 just to get a rise out of people
OF was really mediocre compared to the main game though.
Blue Shift was even worse however.
Battleborn was better than OW in every way but Blizzard shut it down. I really don’t care if you disagree because your that guy that will say League of Legends is more difficult than DoTA 2 just to get a rise out of people
All those four games you just mentioned are braindead trash.
People like you are exactly what's wrong with modern gaming.
Sony might go for it as a counter to Activision Blizzard. >But that would be fucking stupid
This is Sony who also bought Bungie after the Bethesda acquisition.
Marketing for their next live service game. >from the company who brought you Borderlands 2
That's all they need. Doesn't matter if the actual Borderlands guys aren't there anymore.
>If there's anything I hate more than monsters, it's Nazis >not just Nazis, I'm talkin any fuckin bigot that crosses my hairs. >You still think two dudes can kiss? You're a fuckin bitch.
Why is there no "Smash Bros of shooters" anyway? Could be fun. Just make it an arena shooter and every character plays like their respective game. Imagine Classic Doomguy who doesn't have to aim vertically but also can't jump, against modern shooter characters like John Halo.
For when Microsoft inevitably gets bored of the videogame industry, and pulls out taking an absolute metric shit ton of IPs with them never to be touched again.
Is Embracer laundering money or just retarded?
They fucked Saints Row and closed Volition.
They're fucking Tomb Raider allegedly, and don't know what to do with that.
Now they're getting rid of this 2 years after they bought it.
Something else i'm probably forgetting.
>They fucked Saints Row and closed Volition.
Volition fucked itself and Saints Row was already a a shadow of its former self.
>They're fucking Tomb Raider allegedly, and don't know what to do with that.
Like
Tomb Raider is their most profitable one. They bought it for what? $300k? And now they are renting the license for $1M
anon said, they are licensing the IP to other people, and I have heard there are movies or a show being made about it.
>Now they're getting rid of this 2 years after they bought it.
Gearbox was already hemorrhaging money left and right before the acquisition, besides they are fucking massive as a company for what they do. They have shitload of people doing basically nothing, including a supposed Bordeland show and Brothers in Arms movie that never materialized. No wonder Embracer wants to get rid of them.
I FUCKING HATE BORDERLANDS
IT'S THANKS TO THAT FUCKING GAME Aliens: Colonial Marines turned out the way it did, a lackluster game that was mean to be much more!
FUCK BORDERLANDS, Bury that game and never dig it up!
Would it change much? It still seems like they are still going for the 4 high-profile game releases a year when they have like 20+ studios under them. You would think they'd be able to crank out a big new release every month since we've had nothing since the launch of the series X until we got something released this year that people kinda cared about. Ignoring the Redfall dud.
do they even own the borderlands ip entirely or does it have strings attached with 2k?
though m$ definitely won't be one of the possible buyers if it comes with randy so its either 2k, ubisoft, tencent, or sony
Video game companies are collapsing because they do not have organic support dumbass. ESG is heavily to blame because companies sell their soul for billions of dollars to pump out stuff people do not want and are not willing to buy.
Embracer just gambled on that major deal with the Saudis covering their spending spree and it didn't pan out. Now they've just come to realize that there is overhead in owning a shit ton of not particularly profitable studios
If Embracer hadn't untaken the classic tech-head idiot plan to profitability of: >Take on debt >Become a monopoly/too big to fail >Slash costs/increase prices >??? >Profit
Then maybe they'd have a profitable business by now. Are you going to tell me I should have gotten two Netflix subscriptions when their tens of billions of dollars of debt sinks them as well?
>Starfield, the saviour of Xbox turned out to be a meme with ugly models and boring gameplay, 0 chances of winning goty >Halo Infinite flopped >Everwild in development hell >Perfect Dark in development hell >Fable confirmed to be pozzed and woke, also in development hell >Gears 5 flopped and Gears Collection is nothing more than a rumor >Redfall is a soulless always-online open world co-op shooter made to meet diversity quotas at 30fps >No Shinji Mikami kino because he left shortly after Bethesda/Tango acquisition >removing emulators >removing $1 gamepass >miss 80% of all Japanese games unless Microsoft pays for a gamepass port >goypass missing it's target every finacial quarter >hardware revenue down >dashboard littered with ads >no offline achievement support >storage upgrade only available through expensive proprietary solutions through selected vendors >physical next gen disc games only contain the Xbox One version of games, requiring you to connect to the internet to download the Series X version
>gamepass keeps missing targets >studios aren't turning out games >on the rare occasion they do, they flop >Phil on a never ending apology tour
It's amazing he's still got a job.
I hope they get lods of emone for Gearbox so Plaion or Koch or Embracer or whoever the fuck can pay David Doak and Dambusters handsomely to make the new Timesplitters. I don't care about anything else, but it seems like some of their recent purchases like Gearbox, Volition and Square Enix aren't doing too well so I hope they all fuck off.
I can die peacefully after a new Timesplitters game.
Gearbox published the game but gunfire games itself belongs to thq nordic, it wouldn't be part of the deal at all. Remnant would stil remain part of embracer
Why is Randy so spiteful towards Duke Nukem? Did someone working in duke 3d call Randy a gay ass wizard while he was also doing some work on a duke 3d episode?
I still cant believe Square sold off Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, LoK etc for cheap and neither Microsoft or Sony stepped in before Embracer
Phil already has to deal with ActiBlizz so I doubt he wants to deal with the drama going on at Gearbox who have only put out dogshit since BL2
Microsoft should try to snatch up Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics if embracer is liquidating. It's a bit of a shame they missed out on it last time when square was selling them but seems like they might have another chance now. As for Gearbox? Definitely seems like more of a Sony buy if either console manufacturer is looking for a decent sized buy right now. Microsoft still hasn't closed on the activision one.
Biggest mistake they made with arkane was not cancelling redfall as soon as they closed the acquisition but the game was greenlit a good while beforehand anyway. They removed the always online shit the game was gonna have too.
It's been known that arkane was already on a shit path because of their zenimax overlords and if anything the devs at that studio were hoping Phil would cancel the turd that was redfall, I'm not saying ms isn't evil but this one time it wasn't entirely their fault.
MS pretty much lets Zenimax operate with autonomy, and unless you have a goldfish memory, you'd remember that Zenimax's business sense gave us such classics as Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls Blades, and a Commander Keen phone game that had such vitriol upon reveal that it had to be quietly cancelled.
These guys own gearbox?
Can't they at least do the decent thing and separate the rights of duke nukem from the rest of gearbox before they sell the stuff?
>devs paid in stock options >studio bought out >devs all become millionairs when studio is purchased >devs all retire early >studio worthless
every. single. time
>duke nukem >homeworld >brothers in arms >risk of rain >battleborn
This is right? Doesn't sound that appealing tbh. Embracer probably wants 1 billion for it.
>>B-but Microsoft would be different, you guys!
MS will keep failing, but as they have their windows monopoly money they will continue with the shitification of the gaming industry via gamepass. Gamepass is nothing but the netflix business model applied to the video-game industry.
Going from Borderlands 1 to 2 is so jarring it feels like I was in a car crash and my head is screwed on sideways. The writing in 1 wasn't good, sure, but it was tame compared to 2. I know coomers who used to play Lilith just for her screams on shield breaks and deaths, and they won't touch her after what they did with her in 2. It takes serious talent to make a coomer back up off a character like that. I don't even want to touch 3 based on what I've heard.
I only care that Risk of Rain Returns gets a smooth release and Duke gets pried away from Randy eventually, that's it.
Boringlands is dogshit could care less about it.
Won't happen, they'll get bought because Borderlands is too juicy of an IP.
Volition only had a quirky GTA clone and mediocre FPS turned TPS, neither of which are household names. Almost anyone who is a bit familiar with games knows of Borderlands. Note that it's not indicative of the games' quality but still.
Borderlands 1 was the first note worthy translation of a translation of the arpg looters genre to fps, coining the term looter shooter. Borderlands 2 was a much more polished version of the formula with almost 0 competition in a relatively dry market that released at the absolute peak of diablo 3 hype (lol) right before ps4 and xbone dropped (easy goty edition ports).
It was the perfect idea (a translation of diablo's most cancerous mechanics) at the perfect time and it sold like hotcakes.
The studio is worthless now. They're never gonna strike fire twice
He likes to buy studios with a good legacy but right when they are at their worst hoping they will bounce back but there is no pile of gold at the end from any of them..
Microsoft has no interest in good companies that went to shit.
They only have interest in good companies they see with the potential to go to shit if they aquire them.
Didn't Tiny Tina flop
Yeah, because they did a time-exclusive on EGS. It's where games go to die.
Maybe so, but BL3 was the first game to ever break the EGS curse.
It did but honestly it's the second best borderlands game behind 2
And absolutely the best to actually play
The ai is braindead and the guns sucked
>Make borderlands game
>Dont call it borderlands
>game flops
Everyone is supposed to remember who tina is? Brand awareness? Marketing? Randy a moron.
>WELL HOWDY
>IM SALLY MAY THE FARM LADY
>I GOT SOME BANDITS FOR YOU TO CLEAR OUT FOR ME
>IM GONNA SCREAM IDIOMS INTO THE RADIO IN MY ACCENT FOR THE ENTIRE MISSION, HOPE YALL DONT MIND
Anyone who played Borderlands after the first two, respect. Those games are hard to choke down.
I couldnt tell what the fuck im being told over the radio in 2 90% of the time. Its just non stop noise.
Same, you get to a point where you involuntarily ignore it because it’s not good. I can’t even say it annoyed me because I barely remember any of it.
I turned the dialogue in 2 off and found I enjoyed it more.
This is why BL1 is the best game - it conveyed through theme / setting, not via non-stop dialogue.
it's the "best" in the way cancer is better than aids because at least you aren't a big fag.
Yeah Ellie was the worst part of the game by far. If I get too annoyed I just turn off audio and subtitles and put on music. WHAT THE FUCK were they thinking with some of these conversations? It’s like someone from Reddit got even more Reddit
>Embracer snatches anything
>They're getting rid of Gearbox after only two years.
When was the last time Gearbox made a good game? I don't think Microsoft, or anyone else, would even bother.
Brothers in Arms.
1999 Half-Life: Opposing Force
Their first and only good game.
Battleborn
this
the last time they made a good game and the only time they made a good game was back in 2012 when they released bl2.
Battleborn was better than OW in every way but Blizzard shut it down. I really don’t care if you disagree because your that guy that will say League of Legends is more difficult than DoTA 2 just to get a rise out of people
>Battleborn was better than OW in every way
Based. Battleborn really did deserve better.
They made some good maps for Halo PC back in the day. That's about it.
Agreeing with
.
OF was really mediocre compared to the main game though.
Blue Shift was even worse however.
All those four games you just mentioned are braindead trash.
People like you are exactly what's wrong with modern gaming.
Sony might go for it as a counter to Activision Blizzard.
>But that would be fucking stupid
This is Sony who also bought Bungie after the Bethesda acquisition.
They have bungie. Why would they want gearbox? It doesn't even come with borderlands.
because they can make disappointing FPS twice as fast
Marketing for their next live service game.
>from the company who brought you Borderlands 2
That's all they need. Doesn't matter if the actual Borderlands guys aren't there anymore.
Because so that they can turn Duke Nukem into a cinematic third person movie game
>If there's anything I hate more than monsters, it's Nazis
>not just Nazis, I'm talkin any fuckin bigot that crosses my hairs.
>You still think two dudes can kiss? You're a fuckin bitch.
I can see it now.
If Sony does buy Gearbox, then Duke Nukem is forever gone
if microdick buys gearbox they better make a shooter with all their fps heroes.
If MS buys gearbox expect a Borderlands extraction shooter featuring everyone's favorite BL character Ava
Why is there no "Smash Bros of shooters" anyway? Could be fun. Just make it an arena shooter and every character plays like their respective game. Imagine Classic Doomguy who doesn't have to aim vertically but also can't jump, against modern shooter characters like John Halo.
There is a smash bros of shooters it's called fortnite
If you mean some hero shooter concept, Microsoft tried it and it flopped lol
How many more washed up companies will this guy buy before shareholders kick his ass to the curb?
They're going to get literal peanuts for their $1.4 billion 'investment'.
Do shitty developers just keep getting bought and sold until no one wants them anymore and then they're closed or absorbed into even shittier studios?
I dont care
Enough to open the thread and type that reply you gay.
>a billion dollars just gone to waste in about 2 years
The fuck
that billion dollar deal falling through and saints row really hurt them.
Anon, it's a billion dollars. How does something that large just up and get wasted
are you retarded
they bought the studio from the shareholders, they didn't cargodrop a billion dollars in the Gearbox offices
They had a 2 billion deal with the Saudis that fell through, it pretty much killed any plans they had
Saint Row and Volition weren't art of Gearbox on release. Nobody really knows why the changed the internal publishers.
>Buy Gearbox
>Fire Randy
>Turn Borderlands into a Destiny clone that gets new content every few months
Could work.
Stop making Borderlands altogether and let them remake Duke Nukem Forever
>Duke Nukem Forever
>with 2023 writing
No, I don't want Duke to be a lapdog of Duchess Bombem
you got me untill the last part
>buy companies in bulk
>does fuck all with them or makes half-assed shit
Whats the powermove?
For when Microsoft inevitably gets bored of the videogame industry, and pulls out taking an absolute metric shit ton of IPs with them never to be touched again.
>Can't make a single fucking game on their own
>Just buys everything else up instead
I hate this stupid motherfucker
I lost count how many companies are trying to be bought and/or shut down this year now
It's glorious. The fed turns of the money spigot and all these shitty devs finally start collapsing after coasting off of easy money for a decade.
Cant we just give the memelands copyright to sony out of spite?
>Borderlands
>Console exclusive
Damn my condolences to console people they don't deserve this.
How much money does Sony have left for acquisitions?
This does seem like a sony buy. They need some skin in the fps game.
Is Embracer laundering money or just retarded?
They fucked Saints Row and closed Volition.
They're fucking Tomb Raider allegedly, and don't know what to do with that.
Now they're getting rid of this 2 years after they bought it.
Something else i'm probably forgetting.
they bet everything for a saudi deal and that fell through and so will the company
Tomb Raider is their most profitable one. They bought it for what? $300k? And now they are renting the license for $1M
>They fucked Saints Row and closed Volition.
Volition fucked itself and Saints Row was already a a shadow of its former self.
>They're fucking Tomb Raider allegedly, and don't know what to do with that.
Like
anon said, they are licensing the IP to other people, and I have heard there are movies or a show being made about it.
>Now they're getting rid of this 2 years after they bought it.
Gearbox was already hemorrhaging money left and right before the acquisition, besides they are fucking massive as a company for what they do. They have shitload of people doing basically nothing, including a supposed Bordeland show and Brothers in Arms movie that never materialized. No wonder Embracer wants to get rid of them.
I FUCKING HATE BORDERLANDS
IT'S THANKS TO THAT FUCKING GAME Aliens: Colonial Marines turned out the way it did, a lackluster game that was mean to be much more!
FUCK BORDERLANDS, Bury that game and never dig it up!
This is what Borderland Took from you! NEVER FORGET!
Whats your point? it looks like the usual staged autoaim consol action. Aliens supposed to be horror. Always has been. AvP series was haunting.
cry about it gay
Don't forget that Sega had also commissioned Obsidian to make an Aliens RPG that had to be canned because of CM.
Alien: Isolation was 10x better anyways. If you are going to cry about anything then cry about Segas incompetence.
Would it change much? It still seems like they are still going for the 4 high-profile game releases a year when they have like 20+ studios under them. You would think they'd be able to crank out a big new release every month since we've had nothing since the launch of the series X until we got something released this year that people kinda cared about. Ignoring the Redfall dud.
Who gives a shit?
Who the fuck wants Gearbox? Borderlands is near dead, they have to take an epic deal last time. What else do they have?
>Borderlands
Do they still make those games? Do people still play them?
Buy Gearbox today and you get a greasy sleaze ball for free!
do they even own the borderlands ip entirely or does it have strings attached with 2k?
though m$ definitely won't be one of the possible buyers if it comes with randy so its either 2k, ubisoft, tencent, or sony
go phil go!
Embracer is collapsing and taking all the game studios it gobbled up with it.
This wouldn't have happened if you bought their games. I hope you're proud of yourselves.
> this wouldn't have happened if they didn't fall for the ESG POZZED meme
FTFY
>im retarded and I blame bad game design on ESG boogeyman and not just admit im racist
who do you think are working on the game dumb fuck? straight men or gay white trannies like yourself?
Video game companies are collapsing because they do not have organic support dumbass. ESG is heavily to blame because companies sell their soul for billions of dollars to pump out stuff people do not want and are not willing to buy.
Have they ever made even a single good game?
Just some okay remakes of SpongeBob and Destroy All Humans. Maybe the new SpongeBob game is good too but I haven’t played it.
it was clear that thq nordic was just a money laundering operation
now that someone made an exit, shit started to fall apart quick
They used them as a mask to buy old THQ subsidaries and then dropped it as soon as they were ready.
Embracer just gambled on that major deal with the Saudis covering their spending spree and it didn't pan out. Now they've just come to realize that there is overhead in owning a shit ton of not particularly profitable studios
Some of them like Dead Island 2 were genuine successes. Some like Saints Row weren't.
If Embracer hadn't untaken the classic tech-head idiot plan to profitability of:
>Take on debt
>Become a monopoly/too big to fail
>Slash costs/increase prices
>???
>Profit
Then maybe they'd have a profitable business by now. Are you going to tell me I should have gotten two Netflix subscriptions when their tens of billions of dollars of debt sinks them as well?
it's their fault for making frivolous purchases, it's like the time yahoo bought tumblr for 1 BILLION dollars
>Starfield, the saviour of Xbox turned out to be a meme with ugly models and boring gameplay, 0 chances of winning goty
>Halo Infinite flopped
>Everwild in development hell
>Perfect Dark in development hell
>Fable confirmed to be pozzed and woke, also in development hell
>Gears 5 flopped and Gears Collection is nothing more than a rumor
>Redfall is a soulless always-online open world co-op shooter made to meet diversity quotas at 30fps
>No Shinji Mikami kino because he left shortly after Bethesda/Tango acquisition
>removing emulators
>removing $1 gamepass
>miss 80% of all Japanese games unless Microsoft pays for a gamepass port
>goypass missing it's target every finacial quarter
>hardware revenue down
>dashboard littered with ads
>no offline achievement support
>storage upgrade only available through expensive proprietary solutions through selected vendors
>physical next gen disc games only contain the Xbox One version of games, requiring you to connect to the internet to download the Series X version
KEK! didn't volition got absorbed into gearbox before he shutdown? now gearbox is for sale?
how is he not fired yet
He will be fired once his contract ends.
More like he will resign and get a golden parachute to retirement
>He will be fired
Very rarely happens publicly.
If anything he'll fail upwards.
>gamepass keeps missing targets
>studios aren't turning out games
>on the rare occasion they do, they flop
>Phil on a never ending apology tour
It's amazing he's still got a job.
I hope they get lods of emone for Gearbox so Plaion or Koch or Embracer or whoever the fuck can pay David Doak and Dambusters handsomely to make the new Timesplitters. I don't care about anything else, but it seems like some of their recent purchases like Gearbox, Volition and Square Enix aren't doing too well so I hope they all fuck off.
I can die peacefully after a new Timesplitters game.
Take two has the publishing rights for borderlands regardless of who own gearbox. Gearbox in itself is worth nothing
Remnant II was a big hit relative to its production costs.
Gearbox published the game but gunfire games itself belongs to thq nordic, it wouldn't be part of the deal at all. Remnant would stil remain part of embracer
What about Brothers in Arms?
Gearbox does own Duke Nukem, unfortunately. The one thing they have of value is the thing Randy owns out of spite and will never do anything with.
Why is Randy so spiteful towards Duke Nukem? Did someone working in duke 3d call Randy a gay ass wizard while he was also doing some work on a duke 3d episode?
Randy got slighted by Scott Miller once and he never let it go
>Duke nukem in 2023
moron are you out of your damn mind?
I still cant believe Square sold off Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, LoK etc for cheap and neither Microsoft or Sony stepped in before Embracer
Phil already has to deal with ActiBlizz so I doubt he wants to deal with the drama going on at Gearbox who have only put out dogshit since BL2
Embracer got the Middle Earth rights, how the fuck did that happen over Apple, Amazon, or Sony?
They all had no interest in it would be guess.
Amazon was really retarded and overplayed for the tv(and maybe film rights) for a small part of lord of the rings. Amazon I’d filled with retards.
>buy and kill another game developer
Why does Phil hate videogames?
Microsoft should try to snatch up Eidos Montreal and Crystal Dynamics if embracer is liquidating. It's a bit of a shame they missed out on it last time when square was selling them but seems like they might have another chance now. As for Gearbox? Definitely seems like more of a Sony buy if either console manufacturer is looking for a decent sized buy right now. Microsoft still hasn't closed on the activision one.
>Microsoft should try to snatch up Eidos Montreal
Hell no, have you seen what they’ve done to Arkane?
Biggest mistake they made with arkane was not cancelling redfall as soon as they closed the acquisition but the game was greenlit a good while beforehand anyway. They removed the always online shit the game was gonna have too.
I thought Arkane did that shit to themselves
It's been known that arkane was already on a shit path because of their zenimax overlords and if anything the devs at that studio were hoping Phil would cancel the turd that was redfall, I'm not saying ms isn't evil but this one time it wasn't entirely their fault.
MS pretty much lets Zenimax operate with autonomy, and unless you have a goldfish memory, you'd remember that Zenimax's business sense gave us such classics as Fallout 76, Elder Scrolls Blades, and a Commander Keen phone game that had such vitriol upon reveal that it had to be quietly cancelled.
Zenimax also gave Wolfenstein Youngblood and that killed the entire Wolfenstein franchise.
I don't think it matters any longer. Whatever Microsoft touches (relating to video games... and operating systems tbh) turns to shit 😀
As long as games release on PC I don't give a shit who owns them
Gearbox hasnt been relevant since Opposing Force. Nobody want that shit.
These guys own gearbox?
Can't they at least do the decent thing and separate the rights of duke nukem from the rest of gearbox before they sell the stuff?
that aint happenin and its for the best that it does not
OMGGGGGGG Inow want the Game Pass redeemed
I just want a good borderlands game...
the only good borderlands game is tales from the borderlands
Exactly! There aren't any good borderlands FPS games! They all have way too many bad elements that could have been easily solved.
Borderlands 3 was a failure, and if they ever make a 4th it will be an even bigger one. Games tend to pay for the sins of the previous title.
Anyone stupid enough to buy gearbox deserves to lose all the money they pay.
It brings me joy seeing woke chudlands scum getting what they deserve.
Didn't Randy Pitchford get busted for child pornography on a USB or something? Whatever happened with that?
take a guess happens when CEOs and game developers gets busted for CP
Gearbox have no IP to sell, they are purely a developer. A shit developer with a ton of overpaid diversity hires. They don't even own Borderlands IP.
If anyone buys them they will be paying millions in wages for nothing.
>devs paid in stock options
>studio bought out
>devs all become millionairs when studio is purchased
>devs all retire early
>studio worthless
every. single. time
>duke nukem
>homeworld
>brothers in arms
>risk of rain
>battleborn
This is right? Doesn't sound that appealing tbh. Embracer probably wants 1 billion for it.
Gearbox don't own those IP.
??
https://www.shacknews.com/article/133213/gearbox-entertainment-risk-of-rain
Borderlands is owned by 2k, duke nukem in the feminist age? everything else is shit and their devs are also shit
did you fucking see what some biohole dev did to sirens fucking face in bl3?
Sad they will destroy ROR I love ROR/ROR2
I guess it will just be ROR Returns and that's it.
Gearbox have all the same problems Volition did, they are full of crappy feminists and diversity hires now.
I don't think anyone will buy them, not even tencent are that stupid.
>Watching Embracer implode under the weight of all of the studios they bought.
>B-but Microsoft would be different, you guys!
No, MS is just as retarded. I don't see the point of buying companies if you aren't going to do fuck all with them.
Wages are too high in the industry, and the quality of the staff is too low.
>>B-but Microsoft would be different, you guys!
MS will keep failing, but as they have their windows monopoly money they will continue with the shitification of the gaming industry via gamepass. Gamepass is nothing but the netflix business model applied to the video-game industry.
Going from Borderlands 1 to 2 is so jarring it feels like I was in a car crash and my head is screwed on sideways. The writing in 1 wasn't good, sure, but it was tame compared to 2. I know coomers who used to play Lilith just for her screams on shield breaks and deaths, and they won't touch her after what they did with her in 2. It takes serious talent to make a coomer back up off a character like that. I don't even want to touch 3 based on what I've heard.
badass Phil does it again
I'm trying to thin of a company retarded enough to buy gearbox and I'm coming up empty, maybe Krafton?
not only that, but if a company gets sold it will be battered goods and there will be no pride in the company to make anything good either
fucking waste of money to whoever buys them
Sony
I only care that Risk of Rain Returns gets a smooth release and Duke gets pried away from Randy eventually, that's it.
Boringlands is dogshit could care less about it.
Nobody will buy them, they will be put down same as volition were. which is a good thing,
Won't happen, they'll get bought because Borderlands is too juicy of an IP.
Volition only had a quirky GTA clone and mediocre FPS turned TPS, neither of which are household names. Almost anyone who is a bit familiar with games knows of Borderlands. Note that it's not indicative of the games' quality but still.
2k own borderlands IP anon.
No 2k just publishes them Embracer owns the IP (for now)
Volition To Become Part Of Gearbox After Saints Row Failed To Meet Expectations
How is Gearbox worth a billion
just what the fuck have they been doing to be worth a price like that, is it really just Borderlands?
Its pretty much was Borderlands 2 being a lightning in a bottle and its success.
> 2021
covid coattails probably
Yes, it's just borderlands. BL2 was a huge success and I guess that every borderlands game afterwards sold enough.
Borderlands 1 was the first note worthy translation of a translation of the arpg looters genre to fps, coining the term looter shooter. Borderlands 2 was a much more polished version of the formula with almost 0 competition in a relatively dry market that released at the absolute peak of diablo 3 hype (lol) right before ps4 and xbone dropped (easy goty edition ports).
It was the perfect idea (a translation of diablo's most cancerous mechanics) at the perfect time and it sold like hotcakes.
The studio is worthless now. They're never gonna strike fire twice
>boredomlands
yawn
>Wanting to deal with randy bobandy bitchford
Go ahead, buy them. I'll just sit back, sip on my cup of chocolate liquor and laugh.
Why does Phil keep buying garbage developers and publishers?
He likes to buy studios with a good legacy but right when they are at their worst hoping they will bounce back but there is no pile of gold at the end from any of them..
It's going to be Microsoft that buys them
I can see it now
>microsoft is going to own both doom and duke
>OMHS WE COULD GET A DOOM AND DUKE CROSS OVER GAME NOW YIPPEE
Microsoft has no interest in good companies that went to shit.
They only have interest in good companies they see with the potential to go to shit if they aquire them.
Didn't they just buy the Risk of Rain IP last year?
>now there's going to be borderlands shills
please god no.....
There already are.
>Borderlands Xbox exclusive
more of a death sentence than anything
I hope they just get liquidated so 3D realms/Apogee/NewBlood can get the duke nukem ip.
Another Xbox L