bimbimboy@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoWhat's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.lemm.eeimagemessage-square228fedilinkarrow-up11Karrow-down148
arrow-up1952arrow-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 days agomessage-square228fedilink
minus-squareLemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·6 days agoOk so that explains the bad reviews, but why is steam giving the game away for free? Also BL3 is heavily discounted
minus-squarebimbimboy@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·6 days agoI think it’s up to the publisher, and not steam, to give the game away for free.
minus-squareouthouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·5 days agoPublisher made it free to propagate their spyware.
minus-squaredontbelievethis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days 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
I think it’s up to the publisher, and not steam, to give the game away for free.
Publisher made it free to propagate their spyware.
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.