Won't Borderlands 3 on Steam require an Epic Account?

[Umbruhh]

I mean assuming PC players all have the same servers, won't it be similar to Ubisoft games where games like Rainbow Six or For Honor still need a Uplay account even when bought through steam?

[Gadget]

they may use shift accounts instead. for honour and siege use uplay to connect everyone because theyre ubisoft made games. if bl3 was made by valve then you would need a steam account.

[Starwight/ttv]

I don't think so because Epic didn't make Borderlands. Ubi made rainbow six siege and For Honor, so it goes through their specific launchers and data is saved on their specific servers.


edit: You make a fine ninja, Gadget.

[LowMax]

Borderlands doesn't have dedicated servers so I doubt it.

[Rogue]

BL don't use dedicated servers... At most you sign up to their marketing site (Basically 2K, their publisher, associated account) for shift keys and whatever promotional events.

[Shadow♥]

no its only epic exclusive for 6 months . epic does not own the game. once it is on steam it will be like any other steam owned game. it will not require epic to run because epic is not the owner of the game like ubi games have uplay. not the same situation with any of the epic games they bought exclusivity for. you only need epic for their own fortnite game.

[VoreDock]

https://twitter.com/MangioneThomas/status/1119529174178443264

[Shadow♥]

Originally posted by Random Hajile:

Nope, and I fully expect the player pools to be separate. Some games on Epic have online leaderboards stripped away because of Epic's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ infrastructure.

there was actually a new racing game that was downgraded because of the epic exclusive deal made for it because the game had in game feature of leaderboards that epic did not support. therefore if you bought that game on epic you lost features that would have been available had it released on steam who does support leaderboards between players. its right in this video:
https://youtu.be/pz7iaRptnJg

[xbox-pad]

really no hype!
https://twitter.com/Borderlands/status/1118514449793601536

[Pocahawtness]

Now I can understand SOME level of hype, but people, we don't even know if it's a good game yet! Calm down!

[Shadow♥]

Originally posted by ｢C❤A｣ Pocahawtness:

Now I can understand SOME level of hype, but people, we don't even know if it's a good game yet! Calm down!

i read the same twitter thread and half the comments are how people were hyped until it was announced as epic exclusive which i find hilarious. or how they are hyped for April 2020 release on steam.