Out of the loop

[An R Key5993]

Why is everyone freaking out and concerned the game is/will die?

Is it just as simple as Gearbox buying the IP or is there something else driving these opinions?

Whats the story?

[CronicDemise]

tl;dr is Gearbox is a not good company, lead by a piece of ♥♥♥♥ guy, with the likelyhood that either this game or future games about the IP are monetized to hell and back in the most unfun way.

[Skuffe]

Do you like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of paid DLC, always online ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and epic exclusivity?
No?

Well, neither does the rest of the fanbase.

Gearbox is utter ♥♥♥♥♥

[Leviathan]

Well, the reason would be Gearbox is one of those "DLC EVERYTHING" company. Tiny Tina's was released 5 months ago and all the DLC already costs more than the "full" game.

In my country (due to sales and maybe due to regional pricing too but I'm not willing to check steamdb to confirm) the price of Borderlands 2 DLC is 35 times the current price of the game. Similarly for Borderlands 3,DLC costs 17 times the current price of the game. That's what makes all those monthly Borderlands sales worthless, because the money is not in the game, but in the DLC. If they go "DLC EVERYTHING" with RoR2, well, anything could happen.

I mean, for now, SoTV and getting up to date on consoles would be nice and I would appreciate more content for RoR2, but if I have to pay for a season pack, skins for characters or stuff like that I'll be disappointed.

[An R Key5993]

Thanks for the reply. Wasn't aware of the IP purchase until today and also wasn't aware Gearbox was historically bad to their IP's.

I played the first Bordlerlands game very early on no DLC and haven't really kept up with Gearbox since.

[An R Key5993]

So just to check I looked at their steam page (they being Gearbox) and there's not any game I currently play by them so I truly am out of the loop on Gearbox opinions.

[Profile_Name]

The only time Gearbox can be good, is if they're not directly involved and only publishing, but judging from the info we got, they're taking full control. So expect quality to take a nosedive

[sumi]

gearbox sucks and their ceo is a piece of ♥♥♥♥. most of us generally dont like the way gearbox treats ips, and certainly are not looking forward to what they do with ror2

[Leviathan]

Originally posted by An R Key5993:

Thanks for the reply. Wasn't aware of the IP purchase until today and also wasn't aware Gearbox was historically bad to their IP's.

I played the first Bordlerlands game very early on no DLC and haven't really kept up with Gearbox since.

I mean it's not THAT bad. I played Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel a long time ago and they're really fun games, so fun that when you play them you don't really care about the DLC. Also most of the DLC is utter garbage that you don't need to have fun.

Adding such a monetization scheme to RoR2, for me, will be disappointing, but not more than that. It won't ruin the game: RoR2 is not a live service, so you can still play the same way, alone, or with friends. If they add paid skins and you don't buy them there is no change for you. If they add paid characters an you don't use them there is no change for you. So the most I can say is that it will be disappointing for me but I don't really care more than that.

[Xilo The Odd]

basically the worry, is we finally get chef, behind a paywall. with no other content besides access to chef.

that is a worry to have. it wont be cheap either.

[DormantGames]

Gotta be honest, I'm not that fussed about Gearbox getting the IP of Risk of Rain, I'm personally just excited for whatever new stuff they decide to pump out for it. Surely they wouldn't take the step to get the IP, just to do nothing with it, right? Paid DLC or not, I just hope more is brought in for RoR

[Rays of Apollo]

What makes this worse... if you're selling to a community that doesn't want what your selling (gearbox to this community), they may as well keep the paid aspect because someone will pay it.

Either, they make dlc that won't sell as much, or they don't make dlc. There's an obvious choice.


Buying the IP not only means they own this game, but this IDEA.

They won't change this game. They'll make their own RoR product and try to sell that.