Borderlands 2 is temporarily free to grab on Steam, as it continues to be review bombed for non-Randy Pitchford tweet reasons

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Borderlands 2 is presently escaped to support connected Steam until June 8, but its caller reviews are mostly antagonistic owed to an ongoing reappraisal bombing from players acrophobic astir its presumption of service.

This follows an earlier upset among Borderlands likers due to the fact that of Gearbox exec and unstoppable poster of words Randy Pitchford, who precocious said a alternatively inconsiderate happening astir Borderlands 4’s pricing and past said immoderate somewhat little inconsiderate things astir Borderlands 4’s pricing.

If you spell to assertion the crippled for zero pounds and zero pence up of the connection expiring connected Sunday, you’ll announcement that portion the full fig of reviews it’s racked up since merchandise successful 2012 person near it sitting astatine “very positive”. That’s successful spite of the past period oregon so, which has seen it accrue this barrage of antagonistic verdicts that’s gotten much aggravated since this announcement of it going free.

It’s attracted 1980 thumbs downs conscionable implicit the people of June 5 and June 6 arsenic of writing, successful examination to conscionable 280 affirmative reviews successful the aforesaid timespan. The immense bulk of these caller antagonistic reviews mention an update to Take-Two's presumption of work connected February 28 this twelvemonth arsenic their crushed for unhappiness, with galore accusing the steadfast and 2K of pushing “spyware”.

This looks to beryllium the continuation of a reappraisal bombing question that the game’s reappraisal graph suggests truly kicked into question successful May, stemming from concerns implicit a caller 2K alteration to Borderlands 2’s Ts and Cs. PC Gamer reports that a YouTube video released by Borderlands contented creator Hellfire whitethorn person been wherever things started.

Those doing the reappraisal bombing, which has besides deed different games successful the bid similar Borderlands 3, are citing the types of information the revamped EULA collects astir players, arsenic good arsenic a clause successful its “Code of Conduct” conception they judge unfairly targets mods and cheats.

That clause reads arsenic follows: “You volition not usage exploits oregon amerciable oregon unauthorised means to interfere with oregon adversely interaction immoderate different user’s quality to usage the services arsenic intended; to summation unfair gameplay advantage; oregon to summation entree to virtual items oregon different contented to which you bash not person valid entitlement. This includes the usage of cheats oregon alleged ‘mod menus’, unauthorised mods, hacks, glitches, oregon immoderate different method exploits, and phishing, scamming, oregon societal engineering.”

So, thing that could possibly impact modders mostly - not that salient Borderlands modders look acrophobic - but sounds to maine much similar reasonably emblematic EULA worldly designed specifically to discourage the usage of mods oregon cheats online, wherever they could impact the acquisition had by different players. You know, similar the checks chap Take-Two-owned GTA Online developers Rockstar person tried to institute to halt your league being ambushed by invincible gods who alert astir magically giving everyone immense sums of escaped money.

We've reached retired to 2K for comment.

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