Hey guys,

Sorry for the delay. I had a couple meetings go long today. I also wanted to take a little extra time to craft this post, so my apologies in it being later than I promised. SO–

First of all, I want to thank you all for your feedback here. While we do our absolute best to be as interactive as possible, we sometimes fall short for various reasons. Tagging us in posts like this is very helpful, so I appreciate you guys voicing these concerns. As well as we try to do, we always want to do better!

I’m going to go through some of @zesban’s points here an address as much as I’m able:

zesban: zesban: After reading a particularly worrisome article many of my concerns and frustrations with Battleborn this past week were quantified, which is not a good thing -

I’m not going to deep dive into the media, but I will say this: They have a job to do which is to get people to read what they write, just like our job is to get people to play the games we create. You can read into that what you will.

zesban: zesban: The toxicity being created between PvE and PvP Players over PvE and PvP Only Lore Challenges, Gear Grinding only in PvE when Players would rather keep PvPing, and the DCs and bad behavior Players exhibit on both sides for being forced to do something they loathe

The short answer here is that, while I don’t like to tease adjustments and I can’t give a specific time frame or date, lore challenges are being given a very hard look and changes are coming. Additionally, we’re having conversations on how we can best combat toxicity in-game.

zesban: zesban: A lack of communication on how problems are going to be solved, only that they will be solved soon ™

This is a tough one for me. A big part of my job is to advocate internally for you guys. It’s in my nature to want to tell you all as much information as I can and make sure that everyone is happy with that information. Unfortunately, when it comes to the big picture though, I can’t do that. I respect you all and your trust in me too much to give you “estimates or ETAs”. I know that sometimes seems like a quick fix, but it’s not. If give you an inaccurate ETA on something and it doesn’t pan out, then what? I’ve only managed the exacerbate the problem and make myself and our team look silly. It’s better to wait and give you all the correct info that you deserve rather than make a bigger mess to try and make everyone happy in the short term. This isn’t a philosophy I relish, but it’s an unfortunate reality that I deal with daily.

zesban: zesban: No official announcement on when new content such as Skins will release, especially after confusing discussion and remarks were made by GBX representatives elsewhere on the topic (Remember, the internet never forgets, especially if you said it on Reddit)

This sort of goes hand in hand with what I said above. Official announcements are planned out ahead of time for various reasons and even when someone misspeaks (it happens, we’re human), it doesn’t always mean we can come out and spill the beans. Is more content coming? Of course! We said all along that it was, but we can’t divulge too many details even when mistakes are made.

I can’t do anything more to quell talk that “the game is dying”, but what I can tell you is that, with the data we’re privy to everyday and a plan of what’s coming down the pipe, we’re more than optimistic about the future of Battleborn and its community. I hope this helps put your minds at ease a bit.