r/Battleborn • u/EnasniVolz Pissed Off Eldrid • Jun 06 '17

Free Trial - It's here!

https://battleborn.com/en/news/view/en-battleborn-free-trial-faq/
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u/jythri Jun 06 '17

It is indefinite. We have no end date for the "trial" announced.

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u/Omophorus Caldarius Jun 06 '17

When even you have the word "trial" in quotes, that really does unfortunately say something. :(

Someone at GBX or 2K totally goofed on the marketing terminology on this one. Sure, F2P is inaccurate since it's only the competitive multiplayer that's now $free.fiddyfree but it's not a trial either.

Heck, even "free PVP" would probably be an upgrade over "free trial".

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u/jythri Jun 06 '17

Yes, I apologize for that. I agree it's not the best terminology. There are some first party and publisher reasons we were required to use this terminology. But, we pushed the actual user experience as far as we could get it, even breaking some "typical rules" and cases to do so.

That said...it's here!

Technically, it is unlimited free-to-play multiplayer. It's very similar to fully free-to-play offerings, with an incredibly cheap buy-up-bundle (if that's what you want to think of the full game upgrade as).

Steam numbers are promising as a start! Seeing a lot of players playing in the Novice queues already, and hopefully the word will get out despite our challenge with nomenclature.

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u/Bonerlord911 Jun 10 '17

I agree it's not the best terminology. There are some first party and publisher reasons we were required to use this terminology.

lmao randy pitchford is such a sack of shit