Borderlands: Back Online. No, Really.

[damon8r351]

Just throwing it out there for the plat hunters who wanted to play this but haven't because they heard Gamespy shut down the servers on May 31st. In truth, as of June 16th (and five minutes ago when I checked), the servers are still open, and a kicking party. Is that what the kids are saying nowadays, "kicking"?

 

While Gearbox was saying that they were moving the PC servers to Steamworks and "assessing the feasibility" of migrating the PS3 servers, it seems they assessed the shit out of that feasibility and kept the servers online. Or delayed closing them, I can't tell which.

 

EDIT: Appears I was wrong, the servers seem to be shutdown 21 days after they said they were supposed to go down.

 

EDIT: Servers seem to be back online, hopefully for good.

 

EDIT: Servers are offline again, I wish people would make up their mind.

 

EDIT: After months with no word, the online play is back and Xlink Kai is no longer required for the online trophies. See details here.

Edited February 2, 2015 by damon8r351

[killerJAZZ420]

Im pretty sure they confirmed they were keeping these up like 3 months ago. 
it makes sense considering Gearboxs only other game is Duke Nukem. Which imo is actually better then Boringlands.

[xzero4812]

Im pretty sure they confirmed they were keeping these up like 3 months ago. 

it makes sense considering Gearboxs only other game is Duke Nukem. Which imo is actually better then Boringlands.

[geogw]

Too bad GTA IV got boned. yes I know it was R* but let a man cry feel sorry for himself.   

Sure they gave us 6 years to get the plat.. but come on.. everyone knows we needed 7..

Seriously though, I'm sad.. this is good news though, hopefully they'll stay alive and 'kicking' see what I did there? for a good while longer. 

Edited June 16, 2014 by geogw

[Arkthur]

This is excellent, now I might actually buy the game, someday.

[Parker]

If you guys can't discuss this topic without insulting one another, I suggest you don't discuss it at all then. If I have to delete more posts the parties involved will be getting warnings. Come one guys, we're better than this.

 

 

Parker

[closertim]

Last time I checked they weren't too good. Kept saying I needed a network connection, even though I was signed in.

[nethernil]

Anyone in need of co-op add me: nethernil

[antithesis]

FYI - you can get "And they'll tell two friends" playing LAN mode or split-screen co-op against another PSN account that already has the trophy. 

 

So theoretically at least, the Borderlands platinum will remain possible even if the servers go down. You'll just need to take your PS3 to a friend's house...old school style.

Edited June 20, 2014 by ant1th3s1s

[damon8r351]

Yesterday I was playing Borderlands single player and kept getting kicked out of PSN. I thought it was an issue with PSN, or our internet, but after my wife played GTA Online for awhile with no issues, and I did an entire run up the mountain in Journey without getting kicked, it seems the issue is Borderlands. The menu on Borderlands freezes when you try to start on online lobby. Also you can't save your single player progress by exiting from the pause menu, you have to make sure you find a New-U Pole and save by walking past it. So it seems like I was wrong and the servers were shutdown 21 days past the date they were supposed to go down. So apologies for the misinformation.

[effdeegee]

Just wanted to throw my info into the ring and say that I too am experiencing the same issues that damon8r351 is having.

- When I click "online lobby", the menu freezes and my controller becomes unusable. The music is still fluid and Claptrap is still fully animated but, I can't move the cursor up and down or engage the PS button. If I remain frozen long enough, it signs me out of PSN.

- When I press the PS button to quit the game (on a second controller because I'm now forced to do so due to the first controller freezing), my PS3 freezes.

- Since the PS3 freezes, I have to do a hard reset which, in turn, forces a system restore upon restarting due to the PS3 not being shut off properly.

- When I click "LAN", it goes to the LAN menu but I'm immediately signed out of PSN and am unable to sign back in as long as the game/menu is still loaded.

This is extremely disappointing and frustrating.

[damon8r351]

As was stated earlier, the only trophy that requires online play is "And They'll Tell Two Friends", the rest can be done in splitscreen coop with a 2nd controller. So there's that at least. I have no idea if it works or not, but I'm posting the method to get this trophy via a local LAN match that I've found in this trophy guide on playstationtrophies.org.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

WARNING: Do not delete your saves as the trophy is tied to at least one of them and not your PSN ID (credit toMsFuruba and stgermain for this info).

Note: The description ahas a typo in it. i.e it says "Played in a co-op game with either an employee of Gearbox or someone who had this trophy", it should say "has".

As of June 21st 2014 the only way to get this trophy is via a LAN match:

There is another way of getting this trophy by setting up a local LAN:

After you click LAN, you have 3 choices:

Join Game
Host Public Game (I know it says public but I'm sure the LAN match should have a certain range) (it found nothing when I clicked Join Game)
Select Character (You will default to a level 1 character, if you don't use this) (If the host starts will level 1 char, you will also start the game at beginning)

If you click Join Game it will search and find nothing. After it has tried 1 time it will stay on that screen and give you the option to Host Public Game, you can also back up to the previous menu. You can also press  to Refresh List.

Player 1 (bcks007) picked Host Public Game. It brought me to the same exact screen as online mode, where you can jump into your game, i guess before the other person is ready or just wait there.(I waited there)

Player 2 (snowballtheninja) selected Join Game It found bcks007 in about 1-3 seconds, very fast. Trophy popped in the waiting room. I didn't even need to go into the level to earn it.

Credit to bcks007 and snowballtheninja for discovering this.

Even though the servers are now gone, you will still be able to get this trophy using the above LAN method but you must play with someone that got the trophy before the shutdown. Since the Stackable release is less common, it will be that much harder to find someone to setup a LAN with so beware. This trick may mean that this trophy could be considered as an offline one since you don't have to be signed into PSN to use a LAN. Whichever release you have, the trophy will pop during the load screen if you're joining someone or if someone joins you then it will pop moments before they spawn.

[DragonCharm]

gah

[damon8r351]

gah

 

You got the one you need online for out of the way. The rest can be done with a 2nd controller if you got one.

[DragonCharm]

LAN works still?

[DaftFruit]

I can confirm online still works...Just got Tell two friends. (UK/EU servers anyway)

 

According to 2k website they transitioned the servers to their own a couple days ago. No indication how long for though.

[damon8r351]

Looks like they're working on NA's end too, for now. First they're up, then they're down, then they're up.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bhcHryc&feature=youtu.be&t=3s

 

I'll reserve excitement until after the 31st.

Edited June 25, 2014 by damon8r351

[VaylinXCIII]

Can someone confirm if the servers are still up for the PS3 version as of today July 1? I checked on my 360 a couple days ago and it let me create a match but I couldn't find anybody (maybe people not playing around my level?). I would rather have this game on my PS than Xbox so I want to buy it for the PS3 but if I can't get that Tell Two Friends trophy it will drive me nuts not having the plat! I don't have any friends that have PS3 so I couldn't get it through LAN. Really hoping they are still up .

 

Thanks!

[mekktor]

Can someone confirm if the servers are still up for the PS3 version as of today July 1?

 

I just checked and yes they're still up as of 3PM GMT July 2nd.

[Mog]

Ugh i still need to 100% this game... the good news is that i can do it even if the servers are shut down, i think... right? Hopefully.

[Davidov34]

Hm, this is interesting/unsettling since I have the game, but haven't played it yet. Guess this is gonna be the first game of my huge backlog to be touched then. Anyone wanna add me for the co-op trophies?

[EternalChaos72]

was chatting to a fella last night and he says the servers are still up, and even if the servers do go down the platinum is still obtainable. make sure to get the 'and they'll tell two friends' trophy outta the way as thats the only online trophy there. i think the rest can be done on splitscreen.

[damon8r351]

Servers have been back online for about a week and a half as of July 7th, I'm hoping for good now. I've helped a few people with coop trophies a couple times since they came back up, and everything seems to be working fine. I'm guessing the downtime at the end of June was them migrating servers.

[DARKSCORPONOXR]

really do not get why other companies cant do the same... might have to get this quickly now and make sure the only online trophy is the first one i get if possible...

[Stevieboy]

I'm sure I read somewhere that Gearbox had planned to "look into migrating the servers" when the GameSpy server shut down was announced. Hopefully that is what they have now done.