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A minor issue: Borderlands 2 sold 12 million copies (as of 2015). Borderlands: the Pre-Sequel was quite disappointing compared to it (both sales and reviews) and it seems to be mostly based on Borderland 2's code. So at least part of its short development time and small team can be attributed to it not having been written from scratch.

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Yeah. I've been a fan of the Borderlands franchise since the first game and I couldn't believe the guy had the courage of pointing to the pre-sequel as a success. It felt over-extended, and it should have been cut to a third, at most, and sold as a DLC for Borderlands 2.

While the Borderlands 2 and most its DLCs have been really fun and great value for the money, the pre-sequel has left me wary of the 2k shenanigans around the franchise. Won't make the mistake of pre-ordering again.

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