ShadowStar83x Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 According to reports, Battleborn will become free to play in response to poor sales and an official announcement coming in November: Battleborn Reportedly Will Become Free to Play - IGN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingGuy420 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 That's good, really. It's a great game, just suffered due to poor timing. Free to play models always bring in good money and Battleborn is already structured in a way to make the transition easily. I think it'll be more successful this way which is great for Gearbox and the player base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Weight Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 The same article has an update saying: Update: Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has responded to the rumor on Twitter, saying "There are no plans to convert Battleborn free to play." "We have some unannounced plans to do a trial version of the game that would be free and from which retail can be purchased along with DLC," Pitchford said in a followup tweet, then added, "Free trial plans are not firm yet - months away. Expect great continued support and awesome line up of DLC." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Man, if this game ever were to become a free to play title, i would feel bad for those people who bought this game at full price, especially those who pre-ordered the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowStar83x Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 The same article has an update saying: Update: Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has responded to the rumor on Twitter, saying "There are no plans to convert Battleborn free to play." "We have some unannounced plans to do a trial version of the game that would be free and from which retail can be purchased along with DLC," Pitchford said in a followup tweet, then added, "Free trial plans are not firm yet - months away. Expect great continued support and awesome line up of DLC." I'be seen rumors denied, then it turn out they're true, so we'll see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kishnabe Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Rather have it as a PS+ offering that F2P....would piss off plenty of the early buyers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcrunch061 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 The same article has an update saying: Update: Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has responded to the rumor on Twitter, saying "There are no plans to convert Battleborn free to play." "We have some unannounced plans to do a trial version of the game that would be free and from which retail can be purchased along with DLC," Pitchford said in a followup tweet, then added, "Free trial plans are not firm yet - months away. Expect great continued support and awesome line up of DLC." Definitely damage control there. Rather have it as a PS+ offering that F2P....would piss off plenty of the early buyers. Agreed. This makes a LOT more sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x9zachattack5x Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 You can't release gold like Borderlands, then at the same time release the game around Overwatch's release date. Suicidal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totallycrushed Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Man, if this game ever were to become a free to play title, i would feel bad for those people who bought this game at full price, especially those who pre-ordered the game. Basically Evolve. =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caesar Clown Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Man, if this game ever were to become a free to play title, i would feel bad for those people who bought this game at full price, especially those who pre-ordered the game. Preordered it and bought the season pass. To be honest, I'd be pissed since the Season Pass DLC hasn't even been made live yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playdemos1 Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 I will be waiting Battleborn ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darling Baphomet Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 It probably won't happen for a while. Tutorials have to be added, matchmaking has to be completely redone, and before any of that can be done Gearbox still has to release two more characters, one gamemode, and four more co-op missions. I'd say early 2017 is the earliest we'll see F2P Battleborn. You can't release gold like Borderlands, then at the same time release the game around Overwatch's release date. Suicidal. Actually, Battleborn kept trying to release before Overwatch, but Overwatch pushed the date back to match them. They were trying to avoid competing with Overwatch AFAIK, but Blizzard went as far as even releasing the Open Beta right around BB's launch. Shame. They should have let Overwatch release, polished the game more, and THEN pushed it out. Even now PC is a mess optimization wise, and apparently consoles had issues too at launch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMaySlayLizDaw94 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 The game sells for like £10 pre-owned now and there's tonnes of copies available for it I've never seen a game price drop as quick as this did It was absolutely awful though, it wasn't fun and the grind was real and yawnsome They should make it free to play Make it so people can pay to unlock characters early and pay to buy loot etc. If they like and they may make fair bit of money I mean what have they got to lose I'm sure the game was a huge flop as even on release the game wasn't exactly heaving server wise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrHappy10989 Posted October 19, 2016 Share Posted October 19, 2016 Maybe people will actually play it then :') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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