This is why I've stopped buying most games. I hate DLC! It's a greed-driven business model.
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Remember kids, anything Call of Duty does is bad; but the rest of the industry is a saint and if you don't agree well that's just your opinion and no one is forcing you to accept it./s
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It looks like this Borderlands fanbase is as annoying as that fanbase from that Youtuber, Pewdepie.
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They said that they would make more DLCs not included in the season pass and GOTY is basically the game with the season pass.
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Hrmm. I never buy big name games within a couple years of release anyway shrug
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Well the GOTY did not have all the DLCs in the 1st place...
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True. I think people should be "entitled". As consumers, it is the only means we have to prevent companies from steamrolling us with bad business practices. Just my 2 pennies.
I generally refuse to pay for DLC's always online, pre-release, or pre-paid games as well.
I buy games late and usually at great sale prices and I still get all the games I want without being screwed. Go ahead and flame this because I won't change & you won't change my mind anyway.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: just because they released GOTY, doesn't mean they have to stop supporting the game. People love the game, people want more content, developers make more content. What is the problem here? You can choose which content to buy and which you don't want to buy, GOTY shouldn't be the death of the game, if people still enjoy it.
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and i've said before and i'll say it again, GOTY doesn't have to mean the end of a dev SUPPORTING a game, but i think it's misleading to call something GOTY if it's an incomplete version of your game. most people are used to GOTY versions including all, or at least most DLC that had already been released.
if it was you i even said it to, to begin with, there are excellent developers that support their games well after release, and after GOTY versions without trying to milk their franchise to death and wave DLC in your face.
how on earth does no DLC mean the death of a game, anyhow? that's just ridiculous.
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I understand the game can stay alive without new DLC, but for how long? Unless it's a competitive game, it needs content and once all the content has been played through, people want more of it. Either the developer supplies the game with more content (in form of free updates or DLC) or the game dies. As much as I think new content for free would be awesome, that doesn't seem to be how companies work.
Another way they could do is to simply pump out free content and have a crap ton of customization items for sale for those that want to support the developer or just look fancy, but most of the people here whined about the skins as well, so... They would definitely make a lot less money by doing so as well.
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It's not necessarily a dead game, but DLC = more content. No new content = inevitable eventual death of the game.
One thing I really don't understand is - why do people care? You hate DLCs? But you want to have all the DLCs? More DLCs being released does not devaluate your existing game. Base game was complete, GOTY is a complete game with DLC, which doesn't make it more complete, it makes it more expanded.
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Quality over quantity. They pump out a lot of DLCs but majority of them aren't worth it and then they release GOTY and even after that they continue to release more content.
Extra characters should've already been part of the game or as free DLC. Tina and Torgue DLCs were good, rest was mediocre crap.
Look at Diablo 2, that game had ONE expansion and people still play that game to this day and it has been 13 years now since the launch.
I don't hate DLC. I hate rushed out, mediocre content for a high price.
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Borderlands 2 is one of the few games that is on sale at least once a month. The good thing about DLC is that you can choose to buy whichever you think is good value.
Comparing BL2 to Diablo 2 is a bit unfair, considering it's one of the most well-received games in world. People bought Diablo 2 even without the expansion, the expansion only added more to it and I'm sure people would be more than happy if another expansion was released...
My issue with people complaining is that they hate the DLCs not because they're mediocre, but because they're mediocre and they still want to have them. If people would understand that they don't need every single one of the DLCs, there would be no arguing about it.
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I can understand people being upset with this type of businness. Too many dlc can sort of alienate and piss off a lot of people. But i also understand diehard fans that want more content. It's hard to cross a line between the two and defining what is right or wrong. I personally dislike when stuff that is CLEARLY supposed to be in the main game is taken out (me3 prothean dlc anyone?), but if you get a good and well crafted piece of extra content, i'm more than willing to pay (tiny tina dlc is a great example).
What i think of Gearbox, i think they made a really good base game (more than 70 hrs of content without dlcs), and interesting expansions (tiny tina), but they kinda went crazy with the other dlcs, level cap packs, additional characters and in particular with the skins, but again, that is stuff you can easily avoid, you're not really missing anything good, all the stuff you don't get it's just cosmetic stuff that doesn't add anything worthful to the game, and the headhunter packs are on the same level.
So with the goty you get everything you need, solid stuff that will get you to over 100hrs of content, if dedicated (yeah, you don't get the level cap to 72, but that depends on how much you want to play the game, seriously).
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GOTY editions contain all content/gameplay DLCs and are released after all the DLCs for the game have come out IN GENERAL.
In actuality, they can package a GOTY edition however they feel like, even contain less than the base game if that is there prerogative. In this case, the GOTY edition contained the season pass, which people only assumed all gameplay DLC, but the developers decided to take the term "season" more literal, and used that to be able to have a "second season."
They said what would be in the season pass, which is what came in the GOTY edition, the 4 DLCs. You are saying that just because they decided to add more game content than just that to sell, they are cheaping you out? So what, you'd rather they just hang things up and give up on BL2?
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Bye bye GOTY. From now on you cannot be sure you have the whole game or just some bone. People are simply against their own money with supporting this!
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