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Without explanation from either Epic or Gearbox, preorders for Borderlands 3 have been suspended on Epic Store. Where previously there was a pre-order button with pricing information available, it now simply says "coming soon". This seems to coincide with the sale whereby Epic were giving customers a $10/£10/equivalent in local currency discount on games in their store.
It's for real this time. There was a false alarm a while ago.
As recently as a few hours ago it was still available for purchase, with the discount
Randy Pitchford appears to have deleted his tweets discussing this sale (although I don't have any screenshots of those tweets, did anyone else happen to save them?)
This is the fourth thing to go wrong coinciding with this sale. First Ubisoft games got pulled from sale reportedly due to a uPlay integration issue. Then games from Paradox/Klei got removed from sale on the Epic store completely (Paradox have said that Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 will return after the sale). Hades from Supergiant has had a bit of a rollercoaster of pricing shenanigans, including increasing the base price during the sale, which has thankfully been reversed.
It's not clear if there will be any way to get the discounted preorder price again prior to launch. There's not been any clear communication from any relevant parties about what is going on with this game.
Hopefully Randy Pitchford will be able to explain what is going on here in a calm and rational manner.
Edit:
Randy's now deleted tweet promoting the discount
Without explanation from either Epic or Gearbox, preorders for Borderlands 3 have been suspended on Epic Store. Where previously there was a pre-order button with pricing information available, it now simply says "coming soon". This seems to coincide with the sale whereby Epic were giving customers a $10/£10/equivalent in local currency discount on games in their store.
It's for real this time. There was a false alarm a while ago.
As recently as a few hours ago it was still available for purchase, with the discount
Randy Pitchford appears to have deleted his tweets discussing this sale (although I don't have any screenshots of those tweets, did anyone else happen to save them?)
This is the fourth thing to go wrong coinciding with this sale. First Ubisoft games got pulled from sale reportedly due to a uPlay integration issue. Then games from Paradox/Klei got removed from sale on the Epic store completely (Paradox have said that Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 will return after the sale). Hades from Supergiant has had a bit of a rollercoaster of pricing shenanigans, including increasing the base price during the sale, which has thankfully been reversed.
It's not clear if there will be any way to get the discounted preorder price again prior to launch. There's not been any clear communication from any relevant parties about what is going on with this game.
Hopefully Randy Pitchford will be able to explain what is going on here in a calm and rational manner.
Edit:
Randy's now deleted tweet promoting the discount
here, not my image.
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