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The Latest Breaking News from Randy Pitchford

Borderlands 4 is killing off a tired "FOMO" trend — I hope other developers follow suit

Borderlands 4 is killing off early access. Can we finally say "no" to this tired trend forever?

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Borderlands 4's $70 price is "extremely unlikely" to have been influenced by backlash to Randy Pitchford's "real fan" comment, Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says, even if he thought it was "gross"

$70 is just a cheaper entry point for a co-op game

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Gearbox says the Borderlands 4 collector's edition isn't actually the collector's edition, even though there doesn't seem to be any other version available

Way more confusing than it needs to be

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Borderlands 4 is getting "a TON of awesome DLC," including "a range of free and paid updates," according to Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford, who continues to be "stoked" that the game is only $70

Four DLCs and two story expansions have been confirmed so far

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Forget the $100 and $130 Deluxe editions, Borderlands 4 has a "pretty rad" collector's edition that doesn't include the game for the low, low price of $150

Or you can wait until January when you will probably be able to pick it up for $40

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Borderlands 4 has "a huge slate of post-launch content planned," and its "Bounty Packs are going to be similar to Headhunter Packs from Borderlands 2"

The Headhunter Packs were $3 each, while the deluxe edition with four Bounty Packs is $30 extra.

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Borderlands 4 just revealed its price — it's not all good news

Not all upcoming prices and bundles make sense for Gearbox's latest creation.

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After all the anger and noise, Borderlands 4 isn't $80 anyway but there's a whopping expensive deluxe edition if you want to spend even more money on it

Borderlands 4 preorders are live now, and everything is fine.

PC Gamer

Borderlands 4’s price crisis comes to an end, and the results are mixed

$70 or $80? What would you pay?

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Borderlands 4 isn't $80 after all, publisher confirms, weeks after Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford enraged the community by saying a "real fan" would pay that much

"No price increase for Borderlands 4," Randy Pitchford declares today

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Borderlands 4 is "turning out to be better" than Borderlands 3 "by every measurement we have, including subjective ones," Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford teases

Gearbox is "very excited about the launch!"

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Splitgate 2 dev snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, channeling Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford by upsetting fans even when his FPS is looking pretty good

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Gearbox finally responds to series-wide Borderlands review bomb after 19 days, says its owner "does not use spyware" and it's actually OK with most mods

Borderlands' new privacy policy has gone down awfully

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Borderlands 2 is temporarily free on Steam and Randy Pitchford is even throwing in free loot keys, inviting even more negative reviews as Take-Two privacy policy backlash continues

Pitchford is encouraging fans to "check it out if you haven't played it"

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Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford wants to know what makes a game bigger or better, and he's using Borderlands 2 and 3 to find out

It's time for a good, old-fashioned community poll

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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford's $80 "real fan" price tag overlooks one long-term cost

Games cost more. Fine. But don’t tell players that struggling to afford them is fandom.

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Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is free, but Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford has somehow found a way to make fans mad about it: "Dude's milking people for hate clicks at this point"

Pitchford's latest comments follow remarks around Borderlands 4's potential affordability

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'The absolute sincere truth is that I don't want anyone to pay any more than they should or are comfortable with': Randy Pitchford's latest post on the Borderlands pricing controversy is a whole dang essay

And it's honestly a banger.

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In a 557-word post to end all posts, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford fully lays out the "misunderstanding" over Borderlands 4 $80 comments: "I don't want anyone to pay any more than they should"

"What I was trying to do was explain that it wasn't my call," Pitchford says

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After Borderlands 4 price comment backlash and a smoldering review bombing, series fans turn a new offer of golden keys from Randy Pitchford into the latest theater: "Surprised the code wasn't 'for the true fans'"

Fans still aren't happy about the recent "real fan" comment

GamesRadar

Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford sorta kinda apologizes over $80 "real fan" comment: "Nobody likes being taken for granted and it was not my intent"

Prompted by an AI-generated Handsome Jack, of course

PC Gamer

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford wades back into the Borderlands 4 pricing controversy: 'Game budgets are increasing ... it's getting gnarly out there'

Pitchford shared a recent video from PAX East to explain "the truth" about videogame pricing.

GamesRadar

Gearbox CEO's $80 Borderlands 4 controversy has even some of the series' biggest fans distancing themselves: "Absolute lose-lose situation for him"

"Not fair on the devs to f*** BL4's hype like this"

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"For the price of one copy of Borderlands 4," Devolver says you can get 4 copies of its own co-op shooter – which Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford inexplicably says is "cheaper than a point of meth - probably has fewer side effects, too!"

This has seemingly not helped the pricing backlash

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Borderlands 4 boss Randy Pitchford responds to "real fans" backlash by doubling down on the fact he doesn't set the price: "If you want the truth, here it is"

Stop me if you've heard this one before

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