bimbimboy@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoWhat's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.lemm.eeimagemessage-square187fedilinkarrow-up1944arrow-down142
arrow-up1902arrow-down1imageWhat's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.lemm.eebimbimboy@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square187fedilink
minus-squareLemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·7 months agoOk so that explains the bad reviews, but why is steam giving the game away for free? Also BL3 is heavily discounted
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoPublisher made it free to propagate their spyware.
minus-squarebimbimboy@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·7 months agoI think it’s up to the publisher, and not steam, to give the game away for free.
minus-squaredontbelievethis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoProbably because borderlands 4 is on the horizon and sweat-gland randy caught some flag for tweets. My guess is that it was planed to be good PR.
Ok so that explains the bad reviews, but why is steam giving the game away for free? Also BL3 is heavily discounted
Publisher made it free to propagate their spyware.
I think it’s up to the publisher, and not steam, to give the game away for free.
Probably because borderlands 4 is on the horizon and sweat-gland randy caught some flag for tweets.
My guess is that it was planed to be good PR.