'Battleborn' Should Be Put Out Of Its Misery

With less than 100 active Steam users turning up to play Gearbox's Battleborn, is it time for the developer to pull the plug?

[S-Word]

Title should replace Battleborn with Gearbox.

[TheBurger29]

Nah fam. Need me some Borderlands.

[TheLordOfStuff]

Need some more brothers in arms as well :)

[OhMyGandhi]

need some more Colonial Marines...Errr, nevermind.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Need more Duke Nukem, Bulletstorm and Borderlands :3

[InMyOpinion]

Bulletstorm is by People can fly, I believe.

[Dan_scruggs]

Cool to hate huh?

[hirobrotagonist]

Seriously Gearbox is terrible lately and Randy Pitchford needs to humble himself and come back to earth. Especially after charging 60 bones for a lazily remastered game. I work in the game industry and no one I know ever even talks about Battleborn. Considering the people I work with mostly all play videogames more than the average person; this is not a good sign.

Not sure why I'm getting downvotes. Just look at their track record in the last few years...I did like the Borderlands series though.

[maelstromb]

I agree. The only worthy games which have ever come out of Gearbox development have been Half Life: Opposing Force, Brothers In Arms, and Borderlands. Other than those few, the rest have all been sub-par to truly awful titles marketed by Pitchford himself (who I sarcastically refer to as, the snake-oil salesman of the games industry) as groundbreaking and innovative. The reality couldn't be further from the truth in those cases (Aliens: Colonial Marines & Duke Nukem I'm lookin' at you two!). Even Borderlands, while cheeky and bombastic, seems to have a love affair with itself - just like Pitchford seems to have with himself - despite each sequel feeling more and more like a recycle bin full of parts and another less-than-inconspicuous vehicle for Pitchford to gouge the wallets of his most excitable fans.

[TC731]

Borderlands 2 was far superior to the first one.

[Garethvk]

I really enjoyed it. Fun gameplay if dated and fun characters and humor. A campaign and multiple oinline modes. Yet Overwatch with dated gameplay, basic maps, no campaign, and redundant gameplay gets heaps of praise and awards. Just bad marketing sadly.

[Rachel_Alucard]

Overwatch is actually fun to play and the characters are likable. Battleborn had more yes, but executed everything poorly. Characters and writing are some of the worst aspects of the game imo. Outside of the fact it's literally an FPS Moba which turned off most people, while Overwatch is just a shooter with predefined characters. They are both presented to be similar on the outside yet game wise they are different in genre.

[quent]

They're probably planning to do the Evolve thing, if those concurrent player numbers are correct they're definitely not just going to be ignoring it, that's would be extremely daft.

Also I get this faint hint that people might be wanting a new Borderlands game , someone should let Gearbox know

[glennhkboy]

It is the idea of full price MP only shooter that is a complete failure. Except Overwatch, all MP only shooter sold miserably after the 1st month.

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

Destiny did just fine thanks :) and so is CS:GO

[Fist4achin]

Tough break for Battleborn. I think their timing was awful and that was their demise. Sad actually...

[TheColbertinator]

Gearbox just needs a return to basics. Maybe not release next to a big Activision or EA title.

[Elda]

It wasn't that bad of a game & the graphics were pretty nice but after a while it got boring it needed something more.I didn't even finish the last chapter of the campaign I traded it in at Gamestop for credit.

[Brohan]

I don't think so as there are people that play and enjoy the game, shit when I tried the game out I liked it more than Overwatch which is so dull and boring but I haven't bought ether of the two games.

[rocketpanda]

Wow, what a dickish assumption. Gearbox will "put it out of it's misery" when they feel like. Maybe do a write up about Steam greenlighting under garbage instead.

[NecoTehSergal]

Such an ugly face for a character

[BlackDoomAx]

They should make cross platform servers. I'd love to play with those 100 gamers :)

[holdmyown83]

Who ever wrote this article should be put out of their misery.

[Gitgud]

coulda made BL3, but no we wanted to make some dead new IP.

[Helios86]

...Along with Gearbox and Randy Bitchturd.

Fixed that for you.

[MilkMan]

Why? Game is dope.

[Kosic]

Should go free 2 play with optional microtransactions.