Borderlands fans outraged by Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands brief content

Watch a news cycle about Wonders of Tiny Tina The past month was like watching the news cycle of a game fast forward. You know how it goes: the game goes out. He gets positive reviews, and fans praise him. DLC hits, then fans criticize it. Now, it is basically a framework. Only this time, the entire cycle happened over the course of barely over a month.

Wonders of Tiny Tinacross from Gearbox long range Borderlands A series of Loot-Shooter, released last month for consoles and PCs. just last week, The game received its first DLC contentRun a dungeon called Caper cabbage. It’s the first of four to be included in a longer campaign called mirrors of mysteryAnd Which includes the $30 season pass for Wonders. (You can buy individual parts for $10.) The Season Pass also adds a seventh tier that has yet to be revealed Wonders of Tiny Tina.

Caper cabbagewhich you can access in the new Dreamveil Outlook area by WondersCentral city, you fight through a number of progressively challenging battles, culminating in a boss fight. Completing challenges adds additional changing rooms and a new raid boss mess roomrepeatable roguelite-ish endgame mode for Wonders. and in Caper cabbage Mode, the same boss level goes up every week—although you have to complete each edition before you can unlock the next. It’s a new idea that forces more time to play through replays. But innovation isn’t something you can actually chew on, and for all intents and purposes, this new expansion is a series of rooms that you can battle through frequently.

“One of the main things is that it introduces this concept [of replayable dungeons] Before Mess Room,” Matt Cox, Creative Director at Wonders of Tiny TinaHe told me in an interview earlier this month.

After about 2.7 seconds Caper cabbage go live, Borderlands The fans retreated. They say downloadable content is not fun. It’s disappointingly brief – especially when compared to similarly priced expansions from the previous Borderlands games. Popular Borderlands streamer six A brief summary of the comments on Twitter, note that Caper cabbage The run itself is short, the boss is an easy task, the gear you can earn from it is “disappointing”, and expectations are not in line with what Borderlands The fans have it for expansions.

“Complaint here. The entire subreddit is filled with the same posts, “Single player Written in a semi-viral Reddit post On the Wonders subreddit shortly after the release of Caper cabbage. Another player sarcastically said on the same day: “This thread is actually longer than downloadable content.” Many of the around 1,000 responses were similarly negative, saying that Caper cabbage It doesn’t offer nearly the same payment for its earnings as similarly priced expansions.

To some extent, the backlash can be understood. Borderlands Games, as Ki11erSix pointed out, are already known to offer solid post-release expansions. The first game, released in 2009, included three extended narrative DLC packs that added additional missions and regions to the game, each available for $10. (fourth expansion, Bottom riot of moxi madIt was more of an arena style than a narrative campaign. This went up for $10, too.)

In 2012, Borderlands 2 It followed suit, seeing four lengthy expansions in the wake of its release, each for $10 split or bundled together into a $30 season ticket. One of those expansions, Tiny Tina’s attack on the Dragon Keepas an introduction to Wonders of Tiny Tina. Last year, Gearbox made it available as a standalone entry for $10. was too Free for a week On the Epic Games Store.

Borderlands 3released in 2019, also Four campaigns appeared after the release. Those were a little more expensive than the ones in the first two games: $15 for partial expansions, and $50 for a season pass. Hello inflation. Borderlands 3 Ended up getting Secondly season pass; Instead of full expansions, though, the two add-ons—designer cut And Director’s Cut—Simply add new modes, missions and enemies to the base game. This pass costs $30.

So, there are some historical precedents for meatier DLCs here, for sure. But on the other hand, it’s not as if Gearbox has intentionally withheld any of what’s on the season pass. In all of the promotional materials, from press releases to trailers, the studio has been clear about what Caper cabbage– and what follows it mirrors of mystery Seasons – will ensue. And if you consider the Chaos Chamber to be the main draw of Wonders of Tiny Tinathen the main drag Caper cabbage Not what you get with your first run through its thin campaign; The main draw is what you add to the Chaos Chamber. (In danger of falling into weeds, Ughwhen attributing a monetary value to the art, the $10 for adding a bunch of new rooms and potential battles to a roguelike isn’t much more expensive than expansions that are defined similarly to other roguelikes, such as dead cells.)

But going back to the first hand—sorry, sorry, bear with me—there is also a school of thought Gearbox would have gone so far as to explain the length of Caper cabbage and its like. After all, again, more than a decade of history reinforces the idea that “Borderlands DLC “equals a ‘huge campaign'”. It’s not hard to imagine for a long time Borderlands Fans jumped in to pass the season without even glancing at its contents.

Gearbox did not respond to a request for comment for this story.