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From: Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Boderlands 3 featured on Steam for $60?
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:35:55 -0400
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JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 24/07/2024 18:59, Justisaur wrote:
>> On 7/23/2024 9:05 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>> On 7/23/2024 6:05 PM, PW wrote:
>>>> I thought this game has been out at least a year
>> 
>> FIVE! Five Years!
>> 
>>>> and initially had
>>>> very bad reviews.  Now Steam is promoting it and selling it for $60
>>>> and has an overall Very Positive reviews.
>> 
>> I don't see more than one particularly bad review from journalists from 
>> when it was released, most were glowing to high.
>> 
>> In fact for me it had lowered the ridiculously high amount of grinding 
>> for good weapons that 2 had that annoyed the hell out of me to the point 
>> I used a cheat to change the drop rates.  I was just over borderlands 
>> long before that point as there were far too many non-numbered 
>> bordlerlands games by that point.
>> 
>>>> What is going on?  Back to full price for an old game?
>>>>
>>> An Eli Roth 'Borderlands' movie is coming out in a few weeks from 
>>> Lionsgate.  Big budget, Cate Blanchett is the lead.
>>>
>> 
>> Ah yes, always raise the price when there's any potential new interest. 
>> I'd bet on the movie being a flop from the way the trailers look, and it 
>> going back down on price shortly after though.
>> 
>
>One would hope they know what they are doing better than I do but I find 
>it hard to believe that anyone who's prepared to pay £50 now would do 
>that from after watching a film. Have they been living in a cave and 
>never heard about it?

Might be a case of, at the time of release they were not interested at
all in the game, and/or had a shit machine that could not play it.

The TV show sparks their interest, and now they'll take a chance on the
game since the show introduced them to that world.

I imagine that Interview with a Vampire movie, introduced a lot of
people to Anne Rice and who went on to read the books, only because
they'd been introduced to the world in a low effort way.

Xocyll