Remember the 2016 shooter Battleborn by the creators of Borderlands? The game is having its servers turned off for good later this month, and due to how it works, the game will no longer be playable in any fashion.
This was actually announced a year ago, with 2K noting that "the game will continue to be playable until January 25, 2021," but even the single-player campaign and peer-to-peer games won't be an option moving forward.
"Will I still be able to play Battleborn in any fashion (e.g. the single-player campaign, peer-to-peer games) after the servers go offline?
No, once the servers are offline on January 25, 2021, Battleborn won’t be playable in any way."
Unfortunately, this is the big downside of always-online games, and it means if you happen to own Battleborn in either digital or physical form, your copy will be about as useful as a chocolate teapot after January!
What are your thoughts on this? Did you enjoy Battleborn? Let us know down in the comments below.
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I miss the days when games were products and not services.
I played some of it last night. I’m really, really, really going to miss it.
I really liked this game when it came out. Lack of a decent-sized player base really hurt it as the months went on though. I do think it's a bit crap that the single-player game will no longer work. At some point, either they need to release this stuff as free to play right out of the gate (it went F2P but later on I think) or make the online component optional. 2K has burned me twice with this, first with Evolve (which I really loved) and now this.
This game was fun. Unfortunately, 2K aimed too high.
Never played it due to it being similar to Overwatch. Doesn't surprise me thought that they are shutting it down.
@swedetrap i too was burned on evolve!!!!! its a reason other sport games and RD and GTA i wont buy a 2k game again.
Well, that’s $4.99 that I’ll never get back.
I'm surprised it took this long.
Glad I refused to support always online single-player content, it always bites me.
Q) What are your thoughts on this?
A) I will be honest; I thought this had happened last year. In fact, my brother and I recorded a playthrough of the game for our channel when we heard the news. It makes for a neat bit of historical preservation to a degree and something unique that can't be replicated in the future.
Which in of itself is silly and just goes to show how baffling an always online game in 'every' mode of it is... well, MMO's are probably an exception for obvious reasons. The single player didn't need to be always online but they made it that way and that's a shame.
Q) Did you enjoy Battleborn?
A) It's not quite my cup of tea and I found the characters a tad grating (due to how most of it's large cast have the same snarky characteristics) but I had fun with it's campaign. It had a nice structure to it, it was fun to try out new characters and get progressively better over the course of each level and co-op always helps make a game a bit more fun.
I remember playing through the campaign but I don't really remember much about it. That game was just a big disappointment and it's no wonder why they went back to Borderlands. Anyways the issue of this game no longer being playable is why I have no interest in buying any games locked behind online multiplayer-only gaming. Even though you could play this game solo, which is how I played it, it was still designed so you could connect to people online for coop and that is why the game expects you to login and launches solo missions from a multiplayer launcher.
Honestly the single player gaming really suffered as a result of all of that anyways, the whole game felt like it was designed around having coop and left a lot to be desired as far as a solo experience went. If you didn't play this game you didn't miss out on much.
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