Borderland's 4 Collector's Edition looks amazing, but has a disappointing detail

A special Borderlands 4 Bundle has landed the game back in hot water, as the expensive package doesn't even include a playable copy. Gearbox's upcoming looter shooter has met many heights and flames leading to the emissions, and it seems that the controversies are not over yet. With Borderlands 4 Just over a month out, the game is back in the limelight for all the wrong reasons.

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Pricing has been a hot button's question for the game and its fanbase in recent months. After speculation began to swirl a potential price point of $ 80, the gearbox's CEO Randy Pitchford poured gasoline on the fire by saying Real Borderland Fans would “find a way to make it happen” no matter how much the title costs. While things have since been cleared, the memory of these comments may be back in many players in the middle of the last Borderlands 4 Pricing controversy.

The Gearbox team was in the middle of another round of unwanted attention because fans criticized the company for not included the game itself in $ 149.99 Collector's Edition. The official gearbox Twitter account made it clear that this was an error, and that the package in question was actually the ECHO-4 package, not the collector's edition. Gamestop Exclusive actually costs $ 150 and is sold separately from the game, including only collectibles such as an ECHO-4 figure, a fabric map of Kairos and four double-sided art prints. Now that it has been confirmed it Borderlands 4 will cost the industry standard $ 70, which means that the merch package costs twice as much as the actual game.

Borderlands 4's $ 150 ECHO-4 package does not include the game itself

The Borderlands 4 The ECHO-4 package is far from the first limited edition for getting criticism from players for what it does or does not include. By the end of 2024, Xbox fans expressed disappointment that Agreed Physical Steelbook Edition did not have a physical game record, despite what its name may suggest. Digital download copies in premium editions are an overly familiar sight for players today, but not to include any version of the game is unusual, not even in the current market.

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It is unclear if the ECHO-4 package would have attracted as much controversy if it had been marked correctly from the beginning. However, the confusion and controversial costs are not the only things that cause a movement among the fans right now. Pitchford has proposed that Borderlands 4 May not be sold for a long time, and Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game comes out almost a month after it was released on other platforms.