Poll: Poll Borderlands 3 Epic Games Store or wait 6 months for Steam?

Will you be buying Borderlands 3 on release from Epic Games Store or waiting 6 months for release on

  • I’ll be buying on release from Epic Games Store

    Votes: 55 24.6%

  • I’ll be waiting 6 months and buying from Steam

    Votes: 119 53.1%

  • I won’t be buying BL3 at all

    Votes: 50 22.3%
  • Total voters
    224
bigmike20vt said:
indeed.... and as i said i aint writing off BL3 at all, just waiting till my concerns are put to bed. (in this day and age there is zero reason to be an early adopter in non competitive games

the patient gamer gets a more fleshed out game, with fewer bugs and at a better price..... I never used to be, I was a pre-order / day 1 on all the games i really wanted to buy, but now that i have probably 500 games i have never even installed let alone played across all my platforms (PC, Xbox 360, wii and ps4 pro) i am happy to wait now for all my games.

I was just addressing someone who was saying they were surprised at the number of folk holding off on BL3. I have my reasons and that is even without me being loyal to steam store.
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The only release game I bought was Titanfall 2
 
I have bought a few, but for specific reasons. I got elite dangerous but to be fair I was genuinely worried it would not pass Kickstarter. I am also a massive elite fanboy (best game of all time for me) so was happy to go all in on the KSer for a new elite game

I kicked in for dirt rally and assetto Corsa 2 on the day they announced VR support in early access to try to show support for VR supporting Devs

And I backed star citizen because of the "dream" and because of past CR games . I do regret that a bit now tho

The thing is all the above were either smallish indie projects which I was worried may not take off (which is funny looking now at the money SC gas pulled in) or smallish Devs supporting niche hardware I want to do well.

However game like borderlands....... I see no need at all to buy day 1 (or before) for those.
 
mohawk said:
how was the dlc handled? i dont remember having any issues with it personally.
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They release a full price season pass which up untill that point a season pass meant ALL paid dlc for the game then released a bunch of content (actual new maps and unlocked levels) outside of it.
They were also one of the 1st to sell lootbox keys afaik (for actual game altering gear not just costumes)
 
bigmike20vt said:
I loved BL1 and BL2. My concerns for #3 are that everything i have seen so far really does look more of the same, so much so that from shots i would not necessarily be able to tell whether it was BL1 or BL3 i was looking at.

my 2nd issue is i do not like how the DLC for BL2 was handled.

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What do you mean? I thought the DLC for BL2 was probably the best DLC I've ever played. Tiny Tina's assault is probably my favourite DLC - in any game - of all time. It's brilliant, and funny and yet achingly sad in parts, I thought it was extraordinary.

Now I want to play it again!
 
Rezident said:
What do you mean? I thought the DLC for BL2 was probably the best DLC I've ever played. Tiny Tina's assault is probably my favourite DLC - in any game - of all time. It's brilliant, and funny and yet achingly sad in parts, I thought it was extraordinary.

Now I want to play it again!
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i am not questioning the quality of it, just the releasing of a bunch of it outside the season pass - at that time a season pass was imo generally accepted to mean all future content of the game...... since then other games - such as destiny - has followed suit there fore where as i used to buy all games season passes when there was one so as to know i would get all content, i now no longer buy unless it specifcially details what the DLC will be and that it will include ALL DLC for that game. if not i wait... which i am fine with, saves me a lot of cash

but we all have our issues that annoy us, for me it is this, for others it is games on stores other than steam - personally i am fine with that :)
 
For those that don't rememeber the BL2 DLC Season Pass included:

Captain Scarlett and Her Pirates Booty
Mr Torgue Campaign of Carnage
Sir Hammerlocks Big Game Hunt
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep

A pre-order bonus was offering Gaige to those who purchased before release. After a few weeks she was available individually

Krieg was a new character and offered seperately outside the season pass

Then there were the 5 headhunter maps (Bloody Harvest, Wattle Gobbler, Mercenary Day, Wedding Day, Son of Crawmerax).

Some skins were also available individually but offered no in game advantage.

There was also the level 61- 72 and Overpower levels addon.

Golden Keys were never sold.

Total content outside the season pass: 2 characters, 5 non story maps, some skins.
 
Psymonkee said:
Total content outside the season pass: 2 characters, 5 non story maps, some skins.
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When it comes to cosmetics I'm really not fussed if they're not included in a full package. People almost certainly aren't going to use them all, it's expected that you'd just pick a few that you like. However I do find it amusing to call all this 'some skins'

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They certainly didn't skimp on the options!
 
I will be waiting and buying it on Steam, eventually.

I am actually more disappointed about Maneater being a timed exclusive on the Epic Games Store. I might give in on that one.....
 
Cosmic Schwung said:
When it comes to cosmetics I'm really not fussed if they're not included in a full package. People almost certainly aren't going to use them all, it's expected that you'd just pick a few that you like. However I do find it amusing to call all this 'some skins'

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They certainly didn't skimp on the options!
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I am not bothered about cosmetics myself either. I apologise if BL never sold loot crates I thought they did however it was the extra level cap boost and the vault upgrade pack with actual content which had actual content which annoyed me. (even if the golden keys were not sold however they still detracted from the game imo. i used a couple - because why wouldnt you??? - andthe weapon i got from it was so good it made actually hunting for weapons in game somewhat pointless for a while.

I was a bit OCD at the time (still am to a point) and the only point of a season pass for me is to know I am getting all content for a game in 1 go (you don't save money in general , a bit of patience means any savings are rendered moot due to how quick prices drop). Personally I just am not interested in buying part of a game, which is why I used to defend season passes as an option for games, 1 payment - albeit a higher one- but you get a complete game. Remove that and season passes are worthless to me.
(It's not just me either, after the flack they got the pre sequel promised no content outside of season pass due to the saltiness. However that pass ended up being pretty poor value in general imo
 
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If it is only 6 months I will probably wait. That way it will hopefully be cheaper as well.

Unless my friends buy the game then I will buy it from wherever so I can play it with them.
 
I don't think there's anything Epic could do to change my mind - I won't use that store at all.

If it's a 6 month exclusive, I'll be looking into it 6 months later on Steam.
 
Just daydreaming here... neither of these would ever happen but I'd love to see them

Imagine if the Steam/Borderlands community came together to all launch and play Borderlands 2 as much as possible on Steam on the launch date of Borderlands 3... it would be crazy if Steam's concurrent player list for Borderlands 2 maintained a higher number than the sales figures for Borderlands 3 (I'd say concurrent player count but I'm 99% positive Epic's store won't have a stats feature like that)

Imagine if Valve suddenly released Half Life 3... but to make a point they allowed it to launch without exclusivity on any platform that wanted it including Epic's, and see how many people choose to play it where (i.e. actual competition)...
 
1 thing i think that needs to be confirmed - if it isnt already - if i buy the game today on epic (i aint, but just for discussion) and you buy the game in 6 months time on steam....

can we still play together?. if we can then store front decisions really dont matter, but if we cant that is a major ballache and as such it would be better keeping it a permanent epic store exclusive imo.

pCARs and Dirt Rally are both pretty much ruined from a MP point of view by being on the oculus store....... i see constant posts of dissapointment - or used to anyway when it was still relevant - of people on oculus forums wondering why no one was showing up online in pCARS.

the answer was because they were all playing it on steam!. This would be a criminal shame to split the playerbase of BL imo as 4 player coop is how this franchise shines.
 
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