“A massive win for media preservation”: Dedicated Borderlands fans have finally “made it into Borderlands Online,” months since the project to revive the long-dead MMO began
“A massive win for media preservation”: Dedicated Borderlands fans have finally “made it into Borderlands Online,” months since the project to revive the long-dead MMO began
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It says in the article it will be a long time before it’s playable again. Also, from the article it states the modder found a build online and is trying to use that. It was set to release in China (guess why I never heard of it) . Not trying to be a debby downer but I guarantee 2k isn’t going to think fondly of this.
There was a Borderlands MMO?
Misleading. The game was never even officially released.
A chinese borderlands MMO sounds absolutely awful, is this really preservation? Using leaked assets for a game that was never released?
I’m sure most authors have a book or two they scrapped in the works, I think it’d be odd if I happened upon a draft somewhere and published it myself.
This is where I think “media preservation” is the wrong word since the product wasn’t even released.
Now they should get the single player part of Battleborn working.
I never had a chance to finish the Phoebe DLC
If someone was using AI to try and scour the old files and rebuild a cancelled game, what would the communities opinion be?
How is that media preservation? Game was never released. It was never even *finished*. They worked on it for *less than a year* before the idea was scrapped.
If the creators/owners decide an unreleased game isn’t going how they want and decide to scrap it, that is 100% their choice to make. Nobody paid money to play this game and then watch it get shut down on them. There is nothing to preserve. This is just theft.
This is the kind of stuff that gets actual game preservation a bad reputation.
Also, im pretty sure a finished MMO takes a heck of a lot longer than a couple months of work. Whatever pirated leaked build they found, its surely gotta be very very barebones.
Putting all of the semantics aside, being able to login isn’t saying much. There are reverse engineering projects that have been underway for YEARS that you can login to, but playing them is NOT the same…
Go figure, the one thing they preserve was better off dead
Preservation is for things that was already out then shut down.
Like dragons dogma online.
The borderlands mmo was scrapped and probably for a good reason.
Oh wow, I remember first hearing about Borderlands Online while in high school.
A Borderland MMO ? In *fucking* China ?
There’s no way that thing was made for any other purpose than being a cash grab. The Chinese government censor so much stuff there would have been no way that the game would have kept the usual Borderlands tone.
Where is this a win for “Preservation” if it didn’t exist in the public eye in the first place?
Why do we need preservation for titles that never went gold?
It’s nice everyone gets to play it, although I’m sure it’ll become apparent quick that it’s been abandoned for a pretty good reason.
Still cool for the preservation side of things, though.