Fri, Aug 19, 2011 | 23:08 BST

Quick Quotes: Content dumping is a disservice to gamers, says Gearbox – UPDATED

Update: According to Steve Gibson, speaking to VG247, his comments made behind-closed-doors at the Borderlands 2 gamescom presentation were taken a bit out of context. Below you will find his full statement on the matter.

“I said a few of those words, but that implies I was attacking other studios,” he said via email. “I just talked about what we didn’t want Borderlands 2 to be – because doing a content dump, quick one year sequel to Borderlands would be a disservice to gamers.

“I didn’t accuse any other studios of it.”

The original post, which was pulled from Develop is below, as originally posted.

“At many studios there is a lot of what we call ‘content dumping’, where people make a load of extra content with their first game, put it together on a disk, and add a ’2′ to the original game’s name. It’s a disservice to gamers. That’s not what Borderlands 2 is about at all. We’ve truly redone everything. We’ve rebuilt the world.” – Steve Gibson, Gearbox’s vice president of public relations and marketing via Develop.

10 comments

Phoenixblight
18/08/11, 6:07 pm

WOw another thing I have to worry with studios. Yeesh.

If Gearbox was doing that I am sure the game would be out sooner than next year.

The_Red
18/08/11, 6:19 pm

Assassin’s Creed. Definition of Content Dumping though most of annually released games are like that.

Phoenixblight
18/08/11, 6:40 pm

Makes sense now that you think about it. Bastards.

deathgaze
18/08/11, 6:57 pm

We call those “expansion pack sequels”. See: Super Mario Galaxy 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, God of War 3, etc…

El_MUERkO
18/08/11, 8:19 pm

[der]

HauntaVirus
18/08/11, 11:06 pm

Fallout New Vegas was an 80% content dump for sure. It’s still unplayable on PC.

Christopher Jack
19/08/11, 12:53 am

I agree with him, I think those kind of games need an RRP discount.

Phoenixblight
19/08/11, 1:08 am

Thats weird because I just played it and beat it twice over the month. In fact I am currently playing Old World Blues. No NV was not a content dump because Obsidian spent 2-3 years developing it. And New Vegas had a completely different feel than that of Fallout 3.

Christopher Jack
19/08/11, 1:53 am

I completed F:NV on PS3, with only one crash & 3 glitches where I had to load to my closest save (got stuck in the same bus twice-nothing I could do got me out, I got very far without saving during one of them & the other time I fell down some non-existent pit), but apparently that’s a low number of serious game errors for F:NV, I also believe that somehow, the PS3 was the least bugged out of all 3 platforms.