GS: "The Open Beta for 2K Game’s shooter title, Battleborn recently went live on the PS4. The Open Beta features two story missions, two multiplayer modes along with all 25 launch characters. Everyone has been excited for it since it was announced, but today, after a long wait, the Open Beta servers went down right after the Beta went live."
Ed writes: This past weekend, Battleborn was finally shut down by Gearbox and 2K. Let's look back at a game that deserved a lot better.
It at least deserved them moving it to a solo-able option post server shut-down, IMHO.
William writes: "Battleborn was not the game I wanted it to be, it probably wasn't the game a number of you reading wanted it to be. But what it undeniably was was a game that a team of hundreds of people poured their hearts and souls into."
Game preservation is important.
Single-player campaign should always be offline. So that some part(s) of a certain game still lives through and can be enjoyed later.
Always Online games will always end up like this at some point. Offline SP campaign should ALWAYS be included.
Thinking that games ( and in particular this one ) will forever be lost, it makes me sad.
Battleborn will shut down on the 31st of January 2021, so let's revisit its ill-fated history and discuss its surreal departure.
One of the funnier game i played with my friends. I like that one of the reason it failed is that it had many reviews like the one you did; criticizing the gameplay because it's 'too complex': because it had a skill tree and because there was different classes... My personal analysis of its failure is beacause of the Blizzard PR team: they saw a threat in it , and decided to kill it by paying professional reviews and counting on their fanboys to bash it and create a fake 'comparaison war' with it. The saddest thing is that this game will disappear forever. It casts, as others in the same situtation, a dark shadow on the future of video gaming. Hopefully there are and still will be 'pirates' to save and archive these for the future generations, that i hope will someday realize that consumerism is not the only solution.
Let's hope they fix this in the beta before it releases. It's a pity they didn't think of testing it first ...
That's the least of its problem. Feels like an average last-gen game.
That's what betas are for, as long as they're not called Capcom, they should be able to use this open beta to iron out these problems for a stable release.
They probably rushed the game to release before Overwatch.
The servers were fine last night as of about 10PM Eastern Time...A couple of hours before that was a crazy long queue wait though.