Borderlands has Shortages & Shortcomings
No other words can possibly be sweeter to a developer to read than reports of “sold out” being associated with their new game. Music to their ears but much consternation to gamers eager to play said game but can’t due to its quick selling out. While it only released two days ago it appears that Gearbox’s new game is a hard-to-find commodity for 360 owners; at least if you live on the East Coast of the USA.
An unnamed representative of the company went on to comment:
Copies of the Xbox 360 Borderlands SKU have run out in a few regions, especially the East Coast. We are aware of this and are working with production and distribution at ramping up to catch up with demand. There will be more copies of Borderlands available on shelves as early as Thursday or Friday at many retailers.
The West Coast seems to have ample supply on hand especially concerning the PS3 version which, unfortunately, seems to be suffering from a whole other problem entirely concerning a “broken” friends list feature utilized for the multiplayer portion of the game. Thankfully Gearbox is well aware of this problem plaguing the PS3 version and is currently hard at work on a patch according to Scott Velasquez, a software engineer, commenting on the official Gearbox forums:
We’ve identified the problem and are working on a fix. We’ll find out very soon if the issue exists for the PS3 International versions of the [sic] Borderlands. If it does, we’ll hopefully have a fix implemented before it affects those customers.
No specific reason was given as to why the friends list feature is broken for the PS3 version as the game was extensively tested by Gearbox and 2K. Instead a more cryptic explanation was given by Scott saying only that:
…this particular issue we found could have never manifested itself in our or 2K’s test environments.
Make of that what you will. So if you have recently picked up the PS3 version and have experienced this problem, fret not, for a fix is on the way. Borderlands has been dubbed as a “role-playing shooter”, or RPS, and is a hybrid game blending two popular genres into one addictive package. The game’s two major selling points include support for four-player co-op and touts “bazillions” of guns that the player can find and use in its massive world.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 PM
My armchair guess is that the problem occurred due to people’s friends lists being too big for the game code to handle(a similar problem cropped up for a bit in a Beta I was participating in and I believe it’s since been fixed)
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 PM
the source is new.. but i read about this insident 2 days ago and it was reported as fixed from a servers perspective and no patch was needed. from my understanding gamers were happy that a fix was made so quickly. ill retrace my steps and see if its the same…….. im sure it is.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 PM
It still has sound problems (which some people are blaming on optical sound) but my sound is screwed in this game and I am using HDMI. Also all my other games work fine (always have) so I know it’s not my system or my settings.
They have also admitted there is a sound problem on the PS3 version. Why is it that no one seems to test games anymore?
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:26 PM
what a surprise the ps3 multiplayer doesn’t work well. Not anything new. Developers will always lead with and spend more time with the 360 when developing multi titles. Sucks I know. Xbox blows!
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:36 PM
the game did pretty well over at metacritic, I think it got a 90 or so.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:45 AM
I’ve also heard that one of siren’s top tier skill is not working properly. Good thing for me that I haven’t bought this yet since I was leaning on using siren. lol. Just went to target today and I was like standing infront of it for a couple of mins thinking should I pick this one out now or wait for a good deal or maybe next week. I may just get this when issues are resolved.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 AM
check this out guys.
Best Buy To Start “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” Deal This Weekend – PS3 News
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/6010.html
I may be buying borderlands next week. woo-hoo! Are they selling Demon Souls at Best Buy? Cause I didn’t find one when I went there.
Borderlands
Tekken 6
(still thinking of the other one)
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 AM
I got this game on release day and i havent had any issues at all…this game is awesome
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:17 AM
@ nasum
I second that, it’s my new favorite game by far…so addicting!
First night I played with a friend for around 7 hours and we hit level 20
October 23rd, 2009 at 2:01 AM
I love Borderlands. The only issue I have had is when playing coop, the voice audio of my friend would be horribly ridden with an echo, seemingly whenever we changed locations on the map. Anyone else get this?
October 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 AM
btw issues aside…it is a great game (imho it’s closer to a real Fallout 3 than Fallout3 was).
I hope they fix the issues soon, good thing I have so many other games to play right now.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 AM
I don’t care about the friends list for now, the single player is enough fun to last me until they fix it
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:00 PM
@kirobz – Yes, Demon’s Souls should be carried at your Best Buy. I know it is at mine because I was just there yesterday looking at games and saw it. Interestingly enough I went to look for Borderlands which I didn’t find. I guess they were sold out =P
October 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Glad to see this game is being recieved well cause it looks awesome.
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 PM
please say that the game is in THIRD person and not in 1st, as long as that is true, I may get it
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 PM
This is yet another game i wish i had/could get. damn it sucks being out of work now. wrong time of the year! lol