Borderlands (1, 2, 3, The Pre-Sequel, TftB)

So I decided to playthrough Borderlands 2 again, boot up the Handsome Collection, and they put fucking ads for Borderlands 3 on Borderlands 2's main menu. It's ultimately harmless, but do they do this stupid stuff on purpose to rub people the wrong way or are they just oblivious and not even thinking people would be upset. I'm sure a lot of people would be angry about this. I'm not, it was too absurd to be angry about.
 
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JamFlowMan said:
So I decided to playthrough Borderlands 2 again, boot up the Handsome Collection, and they put fucking ads for Borderlands 3 on Borderlands 2's main menu. It's ultimately harmless, but do they do this stupid stuff on purpose to rub people the wrong way or are they just oblivious and not even thinking people would be upset. I'm sure a lot of people would be angry about this. I'm not, it was too absurd to be angry about.
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There's already two ads for microtransactions (in the menu and bottom left) and now there's two more ads for Borderlands 3 (in the menu and top center).

It's pretty blatant and insulting that they would issue a patch for this and this alone.

I'm checking right now to see if they had the balls (the massive balls) to put in the "pre order borderlands 3" message into the steam version (EDIT - Not in the steam version, or at least the Steam "base" version. I don't know about the "Handsome collection").
 
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I'd forgotten how fucking insufferable Janey Springs is. Sure, one note characters is kind of the franchise's Thing, but her pestering, stalking and abuse towards other cast members is painted as cute and quirky - Scooter was treated as a creepy loser, but for Janey it's empowering.

Wouldn't bug me much if she wasn't clearly a writers pet. Calls someone an asshole because they hit on her, then starts hitting on the player character and leers over Maxxi. I'd normally treat this as a character flaw but it's clear the writers didn't agree...
 
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In the new Commander Lilith DLC that's meant to bridge Borderlands 2 to Borderlands 3, there's one particular mission in the game that stuck out to a lot of people: Claptocurrency. Once you complete the mission, Claptrap (now voiced by Jim Foronda) has a very...odd message for the player.
 
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In the new Commander Lilith DLC that's meant to bridge Borderlands 2 to Borderlands 3, there's one particular mission in the game that stuck out to a lot of people: Claptocurrency. Once you complete the mission, Claptrap (now voiced by Jim Foronda) has a very...odd message for the player.
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Credit where it’s due. I at least can’t tell the difference between them.
 
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I don't get it.
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The entire bit's about Claptrap begging to his boss to get his old job back and being a kiss-ass because his plans to get back at his boss (the cryptocurrency) went south. Many people (and outlets like GiantBomb) have interpreted this as a petty jab by Pitchford to Eddings, using Claptrap as a mouthpiece.


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(Tweet linked includes the GiantBomb video, because I can't be arsed to sift through their podcasts to find the exact clip.)

Granted it could just be a horribly-timed coincidence, but either way: this along with this mission existing because of Randy wanting to suck up to Elon Musk didn't sit well with people.

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EDIT: Apparently, there's also a mission later on in the DLC that makes light about how the people who you saved from the megacorporation in Tales from the Borderlands about how they all died offscreen (and rubs this fact in your face for a good while), but I couldn't find anything on that yet. Will look and update if I find it.
 
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Just give me a good ol story about how you found it or screenshot.

When I was an edgy tween, I fucking felt really bad farming loot midgets. Cause I wasted time instead of doing homework.
Thanks, Randy.
 
Just watched Amara’s trailer, and does she seem stupidly overpowered, even for a Siren, to anyone else? Lilith started with Phasewalk. Maya started with Phaselock. Angel’s ability seemed to be Phaseshift. Amara has Phaseslam, Phasegrasp, and Phasecast right out of the gate.

Her entire concept seems weird, for a siren. I realize they’re trying to differentiate between her and the other ones, but why would a Siren be a straight up brawler? It clashes with their whole motif imo.
 
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The publishers of this game, Take Two just nuked a content creator's youtube channel,Discord and twitch because he might have gotten a little bit of unauthorized info.
Upper Echelon Gamers on the subject:
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It actually gets even worse: the dude got private investigators sent down to his home and got hit with a copyright strike on his YouTube 7 times at once, with 2K Games sending explicit info to Discord and Twitch to shut him down lest they be held liable, alongside legit cancelling him all over his other social media accounts, both private and public (even hitting things that were unrelated to his channel).

Reminder, all of this info was publicly available. He just happened to make a popular YouTube video on it.
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r/pcgaming - YouTuber allegedly gets private investigators sent to his house by 2K games, copystriked 7 times and his discord account and channel removed for talking about Borderlands 3 publicly leaked information

20,496 votes and 1,517 comments so far on Reddit
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Note to self: don't ever fuck with 2K. Jesus Christ.
 
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That's more effective than Swatting and carries none of the legal consequences.

Time to shut a certain African Warlord down.....
 
It's fun to watch companies torch their own hype and potential sales over something small. What happened to just fucking sending him a message saying "Take that shit down plz or we'll have to strike you over it". Formality goes a damn long way.
Did Take Two think he wasn't going to tell anyone what happened?
 
bruhidfk12345 said:
Just watched Amara’s trailer, and does she seem stupidly overpowered, even for a Siren, to anyone else? Lilith started with Phasewalk. Maya started with Phaselock. Angel’s ability seemed to be Phaseshift. Amara has Phaseslam, Phasegrasp, and Phasecast right out of the gate.

Her entire concept seems weird, for a siren. I realize they’re trying to differentiate between her and the other ones, but why would a Siren be a straight up brawler? It clashes with their whole motif imo.
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It's the same reason Bloodwing became female, the original Vault Hunters completely changed their personality, manufacturers started producing completely different guns in the timespan between BL 1 and BL 2 and NEW-Us got retconned out of canon: They do not give a fuck about internal consistency, they just do whatever they feel like with the story and setting.
Which wouldn't be a problem in and of itself. They could just go "The plot is just an excuse to shoot enemies, continuity doesn't matter" and I would be fine with it, but for some reason they feel the need to pretend they're actually trying, as evidenced by the fact that Anthony Burch has a hissy fit every someone points out a plot inconsistency to him.
At least I hope they aren't actually trying because that would just be fucking sad.
 
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Borderlands 3: Take-Two Addresses Investigation Into Streamer Leaks -…

archived 7 Aug 2019 20:56:09 UTC
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Borderlands 3 YouTube Channel Investigated by 2K For Leaks Disappears - IGN

Following the rise of a #BoycottBorderlands3 social media trend, Take-Two has confirmed its investigation into leaked Borderlands 3 materials.
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Take Two decided not only to double down on the claims circulating around, but also reconfirmed said methods and their "effectiveness" in the past (a.k.a. when they smashed a modder's computer for recreating Vice City in offline mode, and when they sent goons to somebody's house to beat him up after he found an exploit...instead of just fixing the exploit).
 
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