Borderlands 3
Borderlands 3 has just unveiled its roadmap for the rest of the summer, which includes six weeks of mini events. And if the current schedule sticks, we’ll likely hit the fourth and final announced DLC starring Krieg sometime in late September. We also have new skill trees, possibly for that DLC, or maybe earlier.
But now we have our first confirmation that Borderlands 3 will continue to produce content beyond what was already announced with its Year 1 Season Pass. In short, Year 2 is coming up.
This was confirmed by Randy Pitchford himself in the K1llerSix broadcast chat (around 4:20 in):
Randy talks about “big plans” beyond the season pass, and that they will soon start sharing information about it.
It shouldn’t be a huge It is surprising that Borderlands 3 continues to create new content beyond this first year here, although the form it takes is not yet clear. Borderlands 2 finished its “core” DLC offerings in its first year, and then introduced smaller “Headhunter” DLC packs, totaling five in the spring of 2014, roughly 2.5 years after the game’s release.
These were very small, just $ 3 to buy, and served as add-on content that kept people playing, but it was less than the expanding DLC we had before.
Is that what Gearbox is doing now? Perhaps, since they have fundamentally not altered their content model as much between BL2 and now. Exceptions to that would be meaty events like Revenge of the Placards and Takedowns, and I’d be surprised if we didn’t see more of that in Year 2.
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However, we may be out of the “big DLC” part of the game after Krieg’s debut this fall. It also seems unlikely that Borderlands will become Destiny 2 and switch to some sort of seasonal model with giant fall expansions every year for the indefinite future. Even if Borderlands it is more games as a service than you allow, I can’t fully see them on that path, so I would personally wait for the return of the Headhunter packages. I still hope that they will make a new Vault Hunter one day, even though they have flatly said they will not.
What will Gearbox do next? Well, they are publishing Godfall, although they are not the developers of that game. The last time they worked on Battleborne for years after Borderlands 2, and that didn’t exactly work. I wonder if they’re going to go straight to Borderlands 4 development right now, seeing how the series is still clearly engaging in 2020, or if they’re going to be working on something else first, and we may have another long, long wait for another true sequel. But for now, I guess we just focus on the final DLC and the second year, and we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves.
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