Less than one year old and the numbers are sub 1K daily players on steam. BL:TPS started out with +65K daily players and a month ago with Claptastic Voyage it was down to 8K daily players and is now under 1K. BL2 is 2.5 years old and it is still pulling nearly 8K players daily at around 30th spot on steam stats. Make of this what you wish but having less than 2% of your player base still actively playing the game does not make for a good investment opportunity for further DLC. I would say that closing 2K Australia has hastened the departure from BL:TPS.
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Wait for a good Steam Summer sale and/or get the price of the game w/SP down to $9.99 like BL2 goty and maybe it’ll pick up again.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
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honestly, when they said the season pass would contain all the dlc released for the game, i believed them.
i can guarantee you that they never once expected this game to be as big as bl2. because of that they didnt plan as much support for it.
but so what, its a great game
eh, the game is dying but I got my moneys worth x10000% and I’m still enjoying it. Hell I only have one character at 70 so I’ve still got five more to go and I won’t stop until they’ve all reached level cap.
This, hopefully I can do a playthrough with my brother who isn’t a very die-hard fan.
Also, I was surprised to learn that it was in the top 100 to begin with. The 65k-1k decline is the interesting stat
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This makes me sad.
This beautiful game got such a bad, bad rap.
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Not surprised. It was mediocrity in a series of amazing games.
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I’m struggling to, at least, finish a second playthrough. It’s just not borderlands to me.
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It’s a good game.
For me, it’s not so much about endgame, as it was the general atmosphere and experience. I never got in to farming raid bosses until I was blue in the face for one specific item. I enjoyed stumbling across legendaries from exploring, breaking skag piles, etc. just by playing the game. That’s another rant for another time though.
My issue with the pre-sequel is it just doesn’t grab me or hold my attention. I enjoyed seeing Jack’s rise to power, but everything else felt more like a chore. The npcs were kind of bland, and I couldn’t tell you half the names of the people you meet along the way. Even none of the enemies really stand out. It all really boils down to Lost Legion, scavs, and midgets, with an occasional jetpack enemy.
I’m fixing to do the Eye of Helios mission next and it’s only just now felt like it’s started to pick up. I guess I’m also not a fan of the space station environment.
The characters do look to be better skilled and more interesting, but it’s such a pain slogging through a playthrough. Maybe it’s better in co-op, but as someone without internet, I don’t really have that option, nor new dlc.
When I first played BL2, it was a bit different from BL1, but it was still enjoyable. I didn’t care for the new loot system or raid stuff as much, but I still enjoyed playing through the game itself. I can’t really say that about the pre-sequel. It just felt like a stop-gap to tide people over until BL3.
I’m going to finish this playthrough as the doppelganger, (who is becoming one of my favorite vault hunters), but I don’t know if I have it in me to trudge through it a third time.
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Does it matter?
This will not stop my Nisha plodding on to L70 or my friends & I taking all the original 4 characters through the game. I’ve loved games that probably would have never have made it into the top 100 (NecroVisioN, Cryostasis), even on release. Conversely, there are games in there that I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole! If you have enjoyed TPS and feel you’ve had your money’s worth, isn’t that enough?
The only reason I could imagine that this would matter is if it figured in GBX’s decision making process on a BL3. But the, continuing, success of BL2 is enough to settle that.
I never expected TPS to be “BL3”. For me, it’s been an excellent extra slice of Borderlands gameplay to keep me occupied between major releases. It will remain on my desktop regardless of popularity.
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Ironic, on some level, that the anticipation and desire for the getting the space station was massive right up until it became a reality. Sometime people just think they want something.
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Story of this game. People asked for different stuff, GBX gave it to them, those same people didn’t want it.
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I didn’t want to get in Elpis. I wanted to get on Helios and love Helios.
But Elpis… meh. I mean, it’s good and all, but Pandora is better.
what place is bl1 on the steam top 100 list
bl2 is the most financially succesfull game 2k has ever released, and sold more dlc than any other game they released.
a large part of the outcry from casual fans was over tps not being a next gen title. i am willing to bet that the large number of those people will forget all about tps when bl3 is officially announced, especially since a fair amount probably skipped over it anyways.
this game was not supposed to a marketing machine, its largely just more for fans of the series who couldnt wait all the way till bl3, and so 2k could make money off the franchise in the mean time.
just because you’ve become disillusioned with the franchise, doesnt mean everyone else has to be
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