Pre-purchase Borderlands 4 on Steam
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Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, deadly enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters.
    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I track how many times I intend to buy a game in a short unsigned integer, so I briefly shifted from planning to buy this zero times to planning to buy 127 copies.

      Thankfully, I updated my mental model in time. But maybe that’s the effect they’re going for, here?

      • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        Hard to say. Scaring customers away is an interesting marketing strategy unless they’ve started doing some Hollywood accounting and get an insurance payout for a product they already knew would fail.