Board 8 > Battleborn bids farewell with its final update.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Is this the biggest big budget game to get completely destroyed in so short a period of time?

http://www.pcgamer.com/battleborn-bids-farewell-with-its-final-update/
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Aliens Colonial Marines was probably worse
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Sign of things to come imo
Too many multiplayergames, overshadowed by big name games
Why would I play Battleborn when I can play Dota/PUBG/Overwatch/Rocket League/Battlefront 2/Destiny 2 etc

Bring on Borderlands 3
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Literally tried to compete with Overwatch.

Many people probably lost their jobs over that decision.
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Lawbreakers may end up being an even bigger flop.
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MoogleKupo141 posted...

Lawbreakers may end up being an even bigger flop.

This, but Lawbreakers at least nails what it was trying to achieve, I can't bring myself to feel sorry for Randy Pitchford.
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red13n posted...

Literally tried to compete with Overwatch.

Many people probably lost their jobs over that decision.

Was Overwatch known about when Battleborn was announced? The official announcements were separated by a few months but I wasnt following rumors/leaks much at that time.
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Magikarp
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JonThePenguin posted...

red13n posted...

Literally tried to compete with Overwatch.

Many people probably lost their jobs over that decision.

Was Overwatch known about when Battleborn was announced? The official announcements were separated by a few months but I wasnt following rumors/leaks much at that time.

No, but Battleborn made a conscious decision not to move their release from a month before Overwatch when they had plenty of notice.

Overwatch came out a month later and Battleborn died.
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average concurrent player count over the past 30 days is just 54.5

Geez. That's pretty awful. I wonder if the devs are included in that number.
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I don't know if it was shorter than this, but Evolve also didn't last very long. I also don't know if Lawbreakers is big budget in the same way.

JonThePenguin posted...

red13n posted...

Literally tried to compete with Overwatch.

Many people probably lost their jobs over that decision.

Was Overwatch known about when Battleborn was announced? The official announcements were separated by a few months but I wasnt following rumors/leaks much at that time.

Yeah, I don't know if Battleborn was trying to compete with Overwatch so much as Overwatch was trying to kill Battleborn in a way that almost seemed meanspirited. Like how it launched its open beta on the other game's release date.
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Is it actually a bad game though, or just a game that got crushed by the competition?
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MrGreenonion posted...

Is it actually a bad game though, or just a game that got crushed by the competition?

It's a pretty good game, nothing spectacular, but it didn't deserve to get obliterated.
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I never undestood the comparisons. Battleborn is a full on Mona and Overwatch is a team based shooter? They were both colorful, is that the only reason?
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it's about them both being character-based shooters. In screenshots or even trailers probably they look pretty similar. The mobaness got overshadowed by the TF2ness.
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battleborn was just plain old boring and people were looking for other excuses for its failure

like if overwatch did not exist, maybe more people would have resigned themselves to playing it

if you just look at 20 second clips of the game it might look like a first person shooter, which would compete more directly with overwatch, but in reality its just a moba with a weird camera angle
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Lightning Strikes posted...

Yeah, I don't know if Battleborn was trying to compete with Overwatch so much as Overwatch was trying to kill Battleborn in a way that almost seemed meanspirited. Like how it launched its open beta on the other game's release date.

I mean, if they didn't see that coming...

What did you want them to do exactly? Push back their launch until AFTER Overwatch? That would have made the problem even worse!
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I played the battle born beta and it was kind of neat.

There was no way I would have paid any attention to it when I was so caught up in Overwatch hype launch though. They aren't exactly the same kind of game but similar enough that I think a lot of people who would have tried it were caught up in Overwatch too. Being smarter about when to launch probably would have helped a ton.

I might be misremembering this but I think they also massively messed up the pricing model. It was a full priced $80 CAD (maybe $60 USD?) game or whatever whereas Overwatch was only $40 for its cheapest price. So it was more expensive than the game people already wanted to play more.

That hurts a lot when it was a moba style game that should have been using a low price or F2P model to begin with.
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Overwatch was the same price as Battleborn on consoles.
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