Season Pass vs GOTY

[Dyzzzo]

I'm fairly upset. I had purchased Borderlands 2 a little bit ago and just recently began to play it. I decided that that I wanted to try out the other purchasable classes so I thought I might as well buy the season pass since I already owned the standard copy (thinking goty wouldn't make sense to buy), boy was I wrong. When I attempted to try out the Psycho it went into the steam app and asked if I wanted to purchase it. I then realized that even though I bought the season pass for the game, it didn't give me either of the new classes to try out. Since when do season pass's not give you all dlc both present and future of a game?? What's even more upsetting is that I contacted Steam on Friday 5/22 and I haven't gotten a single response back from them other than the automated email they send. That season pass blows man....ugh just sucks.

[That Online Random]

You know the season pass only gets you the four dlc campaign add ons right? The psycho and neromancer are separate dlc that does not come with the season pass. Each class is 10 dollars apart.

[CampyMcLurkstein]

I bought the GOTY for Borderlands 1 and got the entire game, no bull****

Number 2 here is loaded with insulting amounts of DLC. Yes, you got scammed by the modern day gaming devs. GOTY editions are usually the way to go. In BL2 it gets you almost everything including both the extra playable classes. Unfortunately it's still missing a mass of Capcom style micro-transactions.

[Skyrnir]

Originally posted by CampyMcLurkstein:

I bought the GOTY for Borderlands 1 and got the entire game, no bull****

Number 2 here is loaded with insulting amounts of DLC. Yes, you got scammed by the modern day gaming devs. GOTY editions are usually the way to go. In BL2 it gets you almost everything including both the extra playable classes. Unfortunately it's still missing a mass of Capcom style micro-transactions.

The GOTY gives you pretty much everything you need. You don't really need any of the other dlce except UVHM 2 if you're hardcore

[CampyMcLurkstein]

Regardless. Capcom style micro-transactions are completely unwelcome and should not exist.

In BL1, there are no pay-walled character customization options. And that is the way it should be. The final price of all the DLC for BL2 far exceeds the price of the main game. How does this happen? What happened to gaming?

Don't forget how the OP dililiznizzo was misled by shady marketing of a "season pass." Gearbox got many people with that trick in BL2. My original purchase on PS3 years ago upon release was a bad one. I also got the pass and only played the 1st DLC. Then I found out that the DLC was not even really made by Gearbox. So yeah, they fooled me with the season pass purchase and got me to spend almost $100 on a new game. Best part is, that is still not enough to get everything in the game.
I know that I will never buy a season pass again for anything. Most likely will not purchase a Gearbox product again either. If you can not see this as a corrupt practice, then I'm speechless.

[Dyzzzo]

Steam contacted me today finally and they credited my account for the purchase of the season pass. It's pretty unbelievable that the season pass doesn't offer all the dlc as the goty edition does. Totally shady and not cool.

[ShinkuTear]

Originally posted by dililiznizzo:

Totally shady and not cool.

Shady? Last I checked, the Season Pass was ADVERTISED as being 4 major DLC areas. From the *start* they were saying that is what it would be... and that is what it ended up as.

Since Shady refers things such as dishonesty and trickery, this is not shady. They were honest about what it would be. The only problem here, is you.

[Dyzzzo]

The thing that's shady is the fact that people (not just me) would expect a season pass to hold all content that would be released for a game and then get screwed by that not being the case. Sure I should have thoroughly reviewed what the season pass includes, but I've never owned a game where the season pass didn't match what the goty has. I guess it's a lesson learned.

[CampyMcLurkstein]

Originally posted by dililiznizzo:

The thing that's shady is the fact that people (not just me) would expect a season pass to hold all content that would be released for a game and then get screwed by that not being the case. Sure I should have thoroughly reviewed what the season pass includes, but I've never owned a game where the season pass didn't match what the goty has. I guess it's a lesson learned.

YES!

What is the point of the season pass then? To save 1/4 price of the total of all the DLC? You are best off waiting to avoid the hype and get the GOTY later anyways.

Maybe they should have called it a campaign DLC season pass. However, then they couldn't have scammed all the people who backlashed on Randy's Twitter account only to be banned because it was bad marketing for them 8)

Glad it worked out dililiz. With my original BL2 purchase, I learned my lesson as well.

[Nelyeth]

Sticky thread, or just look in the shop before purchasing anything. I mean, why would you purchase anything without knowing what you're buying ?
Okay, the "season pass" name is kinda misleading, but hell, if you don't bother to make a few clicks to know what you're buying, you can't complain afterwards.

[꧁☬ⱤɆ₭₮ɄⱤɆ☬꧂]

Originally posted by SOVIET BEAR:

Originally posted by CampyMcLurkstein:

I bought the GOTY for Borderlands 1 and got the entire game, no bull****

Number 2 here is loaded with insulting amounts of DLC. Yes, you got scammed by the modern day gaming devs. GOTY editions are usually the way to go. In BL2 it gets you almost everything including both the extra playable classes. Unfortunately it's still missing a mass of Capcom style micro-transactions.

The GOTY gives you pretty much everything you need. You don't really need any of the other dlce except UVHM 2 if you're hardcore

i would recommend the headhunter dlcs aswell, as they includes boss fight each dlc

[zediiiii]

I'm bringing this thread back from the dead to comment as a dev (not a 2k dev) -- I want to get paid when I spend another several hundred hours developing a DLC that adds 10 hours of game play.

Why doesn't it make sense to pay for the extra addons that WERE NOT part of the original game? Because developers should work for free? Because you can't handle paying people for their work? Because the new content is under the umbrella of the same game name? Show some respect for the devs -- BL2 has hundreds of hours of content, far more than most games do.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by zediiiii:

I'm bringing this thread back from the dead to comment as a dev (not a 2k dev) -- I want to get paid when I spend another several hundred hours developing a DLC that adds 10 hours of game play.

Why doesn't it make sense to pay for the extra addons that WERE NOT part of the original game? Because developers should work for free? Because you can't handle paying people for their work? Because the new content is under the umbrella of the same game name? Show some respect for the devs -- BL2 has hundreds of hours of content, far more than most games do.

A: You shouldn't necro 6 year old threads, this is Steam, the policy (in most cases) is to start a new thread.

It doesn't make sense because it was repetitive, overlapping marketing. It was bad product design by 2K. Of course developers deserve to get paid, but Gearbox is a big studio with a stable income stream, and 2K is an even bigger publisher. The developers for those products had already BEEN paid by the time they released. This wasn't some shoe-string budget initiative by an indie developer.

When the GOTY version was released, the Season One Pass should have been retired as a product.