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Borderlands 3 Will Only Have Cosmetic Microtransactions, No Lootboxes Or Premium Currency

Borderlands 3 Will Only Have Cosmetic Microtransactions, No Lootboxes Or Premium Currency

  • Liam Ferguson Liam Ferguson
  • May 3, 2019
  • < 1 Minute Read

Borderlands 3 publisher 2K Games has clarified that there will be no loot boxes or premium currency purchases in the game, only in-game microtransactions for cosmetic DLC.

Over the past couple days, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has been trying to sort out the language used when discussing Borderlands 3’s microtransactions. During a gameplay reveal stream, he announced that Borderlands 3 “won’t have microtransactions” or “microtransaction-y, free-to-play junk”, but then informed viewers that there would be “all kinds of fun customisations like heads and skins”. Creative director Paul Sage also told Game Informer that Borderlands 3 would be “selling cosmetics”, which further muddied Pitchford’s claim of no microtransactions.

Pitchford ended up confusing everyone further in an angry Twitter rant against Game Informer’s report, which finally prompted Eurogamer to just ask 2K for clarification. “Players will have the option to purchase certain cosmetic items like character, vehicle, and weapon skins,” 2K declared, “but none of these purchases would be considered pay-to-win or impacting on the gameplay, like weapons or actual gear.”

https://twitter.com/DuvalMagic/status/1123659538392014849

So, Borderlands 3 will have in-game microtransactions, but these will only be cosmetic and purchasable without the use of either premium currency or loot boxes (like Pitchford tried to say in the stream). This implies that the XP and loot boost mods included in Borderlands 3‘s special editions won’t be purchasable in-game. Borderlands 3 has been stated to follow a similar model to Borderlands 2 with plenty of campaign DLC, and Pitchford’s tweets communicated that “there will be tons of cosmetic drops as (free) loot in Borderlands 3“.

The game is expected to drop on September 13th, 2019, for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. There will probably be lots more news in the coming months, so CGMagazine will keep you posted.

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