Mostly negative reviews on Borderlands Franchise because of Biorderlands 3 exclusivity

What I find hilarious is that review-bombing is probably one of the primary reasons publishers and developers want to get off Steam and join Epic Games. You're just giving them one more reason why they shouldn't put their games on Steam.

Look, i'm think bombing review is a bad thing to do... But, there is another way to show your insastifaction with the Publisher? Only make questions, like i said, i think it's wrong, but apparently it's the only way to appears in community like this, or we're not talking about this here and in anothers forums.

For me, Epic paying Publisher to make theirs games exclusives is wrong. Publisher when agree with this, is wrong too! When Users making Bombing reviews are wrong too!

Bombing BL1/2/PRE SEQUEL is a way people find to bombards the Publisher and epic games.

And some people are talking about of a thing like "In epic games, the games will be more cheaper, because Publisher have more gains and less taxs" So, the price for me, is the same or more higher even! So, why the Publisher are selling their souls for the devil?

The Exclusive Dirty Money!

Games are being more and more expensives, and more more bring expensives DLCS, more paid content, more loot boxs, more ways to take out your Money, Steam is greed you say? Okay! But Greed like this publishers? Ah!

The Age when a publishers makes a game to be played is pass out, like Shadow of the Colossus, is a máster piece of art! Only little developers, like indies are making glorius games with all theirs efforts! Like the Hollow Knight: Silksong and the pre sequel, cheap games, but make with love!

So think about the Greed Publisher and the Epic Devil's Tentation, and the Indie Games Lovers.

Steam reviews were a nice idea but from the moment it was implemented it got abused.

So far there aren't yet any games that are exclusive on other platforms that really interest me, all nice games are still on Steam. But I already quit buying games that charge way too much money (except CKII, CKII is expensive but the best in it's genre) and that are the ones that are exclusive and most of the time not even worth trying looking at Ubisoft, Activision, EA (Day 1 DLC, Season Pass, Skins, lootboxes, etc.). There are still tons of good games on steam that you can buy for a really cheap price and that still hold up.

TL;DR Don't Buy Borderlands 3, buy something else.

you should have only posted the last paragraph. other paragraphs are rubbish!
good writing is concise and to the point. also "unfair to Borderlands" is a silly statement.

I mean its a low blow to people to like the game and dont use the epic platform cause it sucks.

These review bombs always blow over, and tbh I doubt they really affect sales.

"Don't hate Borderlands because what Epic did to it." I didn't know Epic could just force Gearbox to make it exclusive on their platform.

You seem mad. So you came here to rant and show your displeasure because it's one of the few things you could do that others would read. Now imagine a mod coming and deleting this thread. You would feel silenced, and people don't like to feel silenced.

Apparently million dollar companies need to be "defended" by nobodies on the internet. I happen to despise "Brand Loyalty", but I feel it should at least be able to go both ways. People would be silenced on forums so they are taking the only other path that they can where they (were) heard. But I guess a faceless company still needs defending.

People who review bomb on more than one occasion should have their ability to review games removed permanently. It might deter people from doing it and destroying the integrity of the review system. Most people don't care about their butthurt reasons for bombing; they just want to know if a game is actually fun to play. It's totally immature and pointless.

Well, I'm a reviewer and I think that act is disgusting... BUT people are free.
If they are dumb enough to do that... they are free to be stupid :/

Not fair, but they have their right (and Borderlands franchise is famous, I think it won't affect too much).
People need to read the reviews and know which one is relevant, that solves the problem (if I see a game with mostly negative reviews, but I liked the game, I read a lot and I try to understand why people didn't like, or if the reason they didn't like will affect me)

https://www.pcgamer.com/randy-pitchford-comments-on-borderlands-review-bombing-on-steam/

Why u report them? Opinion is opinion, always subjective. Ppl can hate game for anything-it's their SUBIECTIVE opinion about game, developer, updates or dlc.

BUT WHY THE HELL people post negative reviews of GOOD games, harming the franchise more than Epic ever does!?

Evidently this form of protesting and trying to be heard matters more any potential "harm" that could come of negative reviews: Whether harm to the franchise, harming this publisher's chance at bringing another game to Steam, etc.

My first run in with Steam review bombing was Disgaea 5. People were giving it negative reviews for having p2p sharing and map editor removed. Some complained that the publishers should have mention it before release instead of the day of.
The argument that the reviews are a way to be heard in my opinion is bullshit. A review is a review it means that you consumed a piece of media and are giving your opinion of it as a whole good/bad/inbetween. To do otherwise is unfair to the poor souls out there the buy games solely on reviews. There is a forum for gripes, devs/publishers have an email/twitter/facebook/etc. Go ham on those platforms with your disgust. But the number one way to show them you're not happy is to not buy the game. Way too many of the people bitching had the game, had hours in it, and thus didn't get a refund. So it felt like they dropped 60 bucks on a game, got salty that a few features were MIA, had collective bitch fits, then kept the game because "reasons".
I can imagine this is the similar scenario with Borderlands 3.

Definitely seems unfair to review bomb Borderlands 1 & 2 over what was (if I remember correctly) the publisher's choice, not the dev's. Especially after they released the enhanced GOTY edition of Borderlands 1 for free to existing owners, including those of us who got it on the cheap from Humble.

To be clear, I don't completely disagree with review-bombing in general, say if a game is fundamentally changed for the worse, but putting negative reviews on otherwise undeserving games doesn't seem like the best way to get things done.

Mad about products going to Epic Games? Don't buy things from them. Less return on investment means they're less likely to continue buying exclusives. Naturally some folks will buy it wherever it shows up first but I'm sure there's also a percentage of people who will complain about it being exclusive to the Epic Games store... then immediately go and buy it there upon release.

Personally, as much as I dislike games being exclusive to Epic for a certain time, my hope is that it eventually inspires Steam to lower the cut they take on sales, keeping Steam relevant in the long-term. How it actually plays out is yet to be seen though, I suppose. As for me, I'll likely continue waiting until they hit Steam or skip them entirely, since my backlog allows for that :)

because people are special snowlakes and they can't adapt to anything.
is something changes they will whine and whine a lot

and still a lot thinks that game developers eat air and don't need salary.

Don't care about Borderlands nor have I had money to spend on games for a few years now(except for leftover steam wallet from selling cards, emoticons and other game items) so I haven't bothered to keep track of the whole thing with Epic Store thus can't make a judgment on this case specifically.

However in general if you disagree with a company's decisions then your only actual option is to not buy anything from them(even other potentially unrelated products because that is still giving them money) and spread the message so people know about it and, hopefully, agree with you to do the same. Though there is an argument to be made that buying in a specific way/place can also have impact, I find it iffy since from experience companies would rather double than back down, so as long as they getting money it is dubious whether there will change you seek.

Thus can't say I agree with you in that they are wrong in principle with their actions, though as I said I don't know enough to say whether they are wrong or right in this specific case.

I do think Steam's decision is wrong however and so I would like to thank you for bringing it to my attention so I can change preferences and see actual review score as I always read a spread of reviews anyway to then seek further information on relevant points.

so if another company commits human right violations by over working employees to the point of mental breakdown, passing out, and/or death we can't review the game poorly? this has already happened a few times byw.

also the only reason they care about reviews is you need to be in the positive to show up on steams front page.

p.s. i already had plans on waiting like a year or more for a complete version because 2k likes to put out to many dlc.

People being immature assholes as usual.
Volume and anonymity easily make a mass of childish bullies.

Due to the lack of places where us, as customers and pc player,have to express ourself, is perfectly undertandable that we use the review system on steam to express our displeasure about the decision made by devs and/or publishers that affect our most beloved video games.

Yeah, I suggest avoid venting on Steam forums and reviews, instead it is better to make our opinions known on, and direct the general rage towards, the Epic Store forums and reviews... OHWAIT!!!11 :D

This is why Steam could do with adding the ability to review developers/publishers.

When a game changes or receives new updates that are not very well received, I kind of support review bombing - though perhaps it could be done with a separate mechanism. However, when a developer or publisher does something unrelated to their past games that people don't like, leaving negative reviews on those past games is really the only way people have to "officially" register their dissatisfaction; it's obviously a desire held by many, so just give people the ability to score them directly, I say.

Because that is IP or Brand damage for you. One bad product (exclusive hird installment) can hurt the entire franchise. That is how the consumer can assume its control over the final product. Do good games and good distribution or you get your ass kicked.

i dont see the problem. this 'tactic' harms the publishers and developers... this in term makes them reevaluate if their decisions (that are upsetting consumers - ie their target audience) is WORTH the response they are getting. i genuinely do not see the problem here, as this is one of the VERY few tools consumers have at their disposal to convey their feelings on the business practices of these companies.

and im glad people are starting to use them... we've seen what a sorry state gaming has become thanks to the indifference and silence gamers have been projecting in the past.

from your tantrum in your post, one would almost imagine the ONLY problem you have with this tactic is that you somehow feel that the games feelings are being hurt by negative review scores?