• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org
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    3 days ago

    I might very well just be a cynical prick, but at this point I assume these “stories” are just made up Corporate PR propaganda.

    • iAmTheTot
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      3 days ago

      I mean, the much more obvious answer is that a terminal patient was incredibly thankful to get a sneak peak at a game he may not live to see released, of his favourite series, and was playing the game with my exactly the most unbiased lens.

      Which is okay. You don’t have to dig any deeper than that, you can just be happy that this person got to play the game.

    • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Could also just be a well intentioned skew. A terminally ill person who’s already a fan and is getting a special gift from the developer isn’t about to say “the gameplay is fine, but it failed to make the most of its niche and has several glaring bugs”, are they?

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      3 days ago

      How much corpos paid this shill for this PR?

      People need to really wise up to these clown tricks jfc

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    3 days ago

    Next week: “Gearbox sues terminally ill fan for early review while under NDA”

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    3 days ago

    Glad he could play.
    Disgusted at those douchebags at the company used it for advertising

  • sir_pronoun@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Vertical integration: secretly make some of your fans terminally ill, then let them play a preview of your game.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I’m glad people still enjoy this series but I dropped it at Tiny Tina’s. Nothing felt new even if it was technically a new class or enemies or what have you. I can’t help but feel the vault hunting aspect was dropped too soon after 2.

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    3 days ago

    I tried to play 3 when it got free on Epic Store but Jesus, it was boring and generic.

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    3 days ago

    Borderlands 3 dialogue was akin to torture. I’m hoping 4 raises the bar by playing slaughterhouse audio during cutscenes.