It appears that Gearbox’s hero shooter, Battleborn, may go free to play in the next couple of months. According to Kotaku’s sources, this F2P announcement will be made in mid-November, though this could very well change.
According to Kotaku, Gearbox wanted from the get-go to make Battleborn a F2P title, however 2K Games insisted to release it as a full priced title.
Battleborn flopped pretty hard, and it appears that Gearbox and 2K Games will try and repeat Evolve’s F2P success.
Evolve was another MP full priced game, published by 2K Games, that flopped. However by making it a F2P title, 2K Games and Turtle Rock Studios were able to significantly increase its playerbase. Our guess is that 2K Games will attempt the very same thing with Battleborn.
Naturally, take everything you read with a grain of salt as 2K Games has not commented yet on this rumour!
UPDATE:
Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford has responded to this rumour, claiming that it is false.
I was just told about a reckless story about Battleborn going F2P that is false. There are no plans to convert Battleborn free to play.
— Randy Pitchford (@DuvalMagic) September 29, 2016
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I guess they’re going to differentiate between people who paid for it and people who get it as F2P. Like having the founders edition with it’s full campaign + all paid/premium items (which f2p players must buy with microtransactions or play a lot to get them).
Here’s a vid that might give you some clues why.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FElmjlzdSSM
LOL thats what you get for putting microtransaction in $60 game
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmKqS1-VYAI27uS.jpg
Well if Randy spoke then I believe him.
I lied.
Let it fail, let it die, we don’t want it anymore…
I hope when Gearbox files for bankruptcy they sell the Duke Nukem IP to Devolver.
Thanks to the unoptimized Borderlands series, that will not happen.
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4cd00ec1e64308485330ba1beb601a8178a50b1f763546ebb49e70f92d8c0fb7.png
Maybe Randy can do a song on it.
Battleborn a 2016 “AAA” release (Multiplayer Centric)
current players accd to steamcharts : 206
WarFrame 3yrs old F2P (Multiplayer Centric)
current players accd to steamcharts: 18,294
Yeah, they need to do something. But I trust Gearbox it’s not like they’ve ever lied to us about one of their games
Aliens Colonial Marines“According to Kotaku’s sources”
There’s your problem. Infact, you shouldn’t even mention or link to Kotaku, ever. Unless you’re purposely trying to embarrass this site.
No matter what grudge you have against the site, Jason Schreier does some proper journalism from time to time.
And i do farts that barely smell from time to time.
*rolls eyes*
I’m not a fan of the site, but your right about Schreier being right more often than not. I still remember the NoMan’sSky community issuing death threats when he reported on the delay. Wonder how they feel about all that now?
Probably moved on to hate and send threats to someone else. Bunch of weirdos.
Quick response which by the amount of lies we’re told by developers these days makes you think there’s something happening
I never ever seen a game going down in price like this one. You can get a key for 6€ in any site.