UPDATE: Anonymous Source Claims Battleborn Will Go F2P

By Michael Byrne, Editor in Chief September 30, 2016

UPDATE: Randy Pitchford, CEO of Gearbox, took to Twitter to state that the free-to-play conversion of Battleborn rumors are flat out false.

Original Story: I know this may come as an absolute shock to many of you, (/sarcasm), but Kotaku is reporting that an anonymous source "familiar with the plans for the game" is saying that Battleborn, the team shooter from Gearbox Software, will go free-to-play and the move could happen as early as this November.

Seeing as sales of the game declined rapidly after launch and in light of the genre's recent overcrowding, this move could do for Battleborn what Evolve's recent free-to-play transition seems to have done for that title. In fact, the unnamed source states that free-to-play was what Gearbox was actually pushing for back at launch but publisher 2K stepped in and wanted the game to carry its normal box price with season pass content.

While anonymous sources can always seem a bit sketchy, this source also claimed that Gearbox is working on a remastering of Bulletstorm and that was basically confirmed today through leaked Brazilian Advisory Rating Board updates.

We'll watch this one closely and keep you up to date on any official word from Gearbox.

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About the Author

Michael Byrne, Editor in Chief
Mike “Magicman” Byrne has been a part of the MMOBomb family for years and serves as the site’s current Editor-in-Chief. His love for MMOs and gaming in general has led him to covering games for numerous websites including Gamebreaker TV and XIV Nation where he proudly displays his fanboy flag for FFXIV:ARR.

bluegets 6 years ago

i heard the game was totally dead anyway ? why not go f2p and join the rest of the low pop games that never were that popular , do they have such a small dev team where they lay most of the people off who made the game where now they cant afford to make the transition to F2p?

Razer 6 years ago

They should rename this game to Stillborn.

Phanda 6 years ago

Its not going to be F2P on trial version

Hi,

I have heard some discussion regarding Battleborn going F2P.

This is an official word from Randy Pitchford's Twitter (@DuvalMagic)

I was just told about a reckless story about Battleborn going F2P that is false. There are no plans to convert Battleborn free to play.

We have some unannounced plans to do a trial version of the game that would be free and from which retail can be purchased along with DLC.

Free trial plans are not firm yet - months away. Expect great continued support and awesome line up of DLC.

I do not expect we'll have our details sorted or be ready to talk about it until we're well past the DLC - months away at best.

All the other discussions regarding this topic will be merged into this thread.

Thank you.

Source:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/394230/discussions/0/343787920123606591/

0_0 6 years ago

Let me guess, "FREE" as in limit the sh!t out of the game to get you to pay for premium.

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trionisshit 6 years ago

Too late even if its happens, should be f2p from start now time lost, game is very bugged and very bad optimization and devs do nothing to improve anything, they left game to rot already!

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Elveone 6 years ago

Well, at this point they should. It is a fun game but there are two major problems right now. The first one is that the population is so small that being a beginner there is really harsh because you are matched with people who have played for months now. The second one is their stupid character locking system - if I bought the game, I shouldn't have to do boring repetitive tasks to unlock the characters. Going free-to-play will automatically fix the first problem and if they have any sense left they will fix the second one as well.

Yawn 6 years ago

At this point Anthony Burch/Gearbox would need to pay me to even download Battleborn even if it goes f2p they should have went f2p when the game died two weeks after release

Buggy 6 years ago

It would be better if free to play seeing the fans of borderlands can just jump to it seeing oh we played a console game of this lets try the free online one