[BugsBunny]

Beware if you are planning to get the GOTY edition to get yourself the early DNF demo code and save youself the hassle of downloading DLCs . Be aware of Borderlands GOTY Edition. It is exactly the same as Borderlands original 6.09 GB Retail DVD Edition - the DLCs are not on the disk.

The only thing that this GOTY adds is 2 paper slips besides the game DVD and a game manual, one paper slip contains the unique DNF demo access code and the other slip contains a "token code" that will enable you to download all the 4 Borderlands DLCs from the internet and install them. The GOTY DVD doesn't include the DLCs inside it. It's just a normal Borderlands 6.09 GB DVD containing the original Borderlands game. You still have to download all the DLCs yourself from the internet. I repeat the GOTY DVD doesn't include the 4 DLCs inside it, just the original Borderlands game. Even the game is not updated to the latest 1.40 version. You have to download the update patch 1.40 and the 4 DLCs yourself manually from the internet.

Oh how do I know it ? Because my wife baught me a BL GOTY Edition and gave it to me yesterday. Cheers.

BugsBunny

[Kathy]

Oh, the drama!!!!

And why the fuck you ended up creating topic in DNF subforum? It had nothing to do with it.

[ReaperMan]

So whats the big deal? You still get the DLC's.

[Master Fibbles]

When you buy a GOTY edition or a rereleased edition of a game, you tend to expect the game to be fully updated etc. I'm actually surprised that they just put the same CD in a new box and shipped it off with a few extra sheets of paper with codes and such.

The reason this is a big deal is that, contrary to popular belief, not everyone has a high speed Internet connection at home.

[MusicallyInspired]

Yeah that's kinda......lame, actually. Fairly cheap. Those DLCs should totally be on that disc. Whatever, I don't want the game anyway. No loss for me.

[BrOiler1985]

Yeah, I thought the DLCs are the Disk too. But then I saw that you have to download them. I have the austrian uncut-version of that game and the Page would only give me the download links to the german censored version of the dlcs which I couldnt use ^^ - but thank god for the internets . If someone has that problem too, just replace "censored" with "worldwide" in the download-link.

[Rehbock]

Yups was kinda weird as it was the 1.0 version without the dlc. But atleast it was easier to patch for uncut for us german people.

[ReaperMan]

Mr.Flibble, on Oct 19 2010, 08:36 PM, said:

The reason this is a big deal is that, contrary to popular belief, not everyone has a high speed Internet connection at home.

So it will take a few days to download, you'll still get the DLCs.

[BugsBunny]

ReaperMan, on Oct 20 2010, 08:24 PM, said:

So it will take a few days to download, you'll still get the DLCs.

If your logic is right then all we should get from a Retail DVD pack is a paper slip inside the pack with a serial code on it, and ofcourse the game can always be downloaded from the internet, isn't it ? After all I still get the game ! Nice logic

[Sebastian]

Alot of the customers I have actually don't have Xbox Live or PSN so this is a pretty big problem. I can't remember if it was the same thing when they released retail version of Mad Moxxi & Zombie Island though. Gonna have to look that up when I get to work.

[Kathy]

BugsBunny, on Oct 21 2010, 12:49 PM, said:

If your logic is right then all we should get from a Retail DVD pack is a paper slip inside the pack with a serial code on it, and ofcourse the game can always be downloaded from the internet, isn't it ? After all I still get the game ! Nice logic

Yep. That's the bright future. Minus the retail dvd part.

[X-Vector]

There's nothing bright in that future.

[blackharted]

BrOiler1985, on Oct 19 2010, 09:11 PM, said:

Yeah, I thought the DLCs are the Disk too. But then I saw that you have to download them. I have the austrian uncut-version of that game and the Page would only give me the download links to the german censored version of the dlcs which I couldnt use ^^ - but thank god for the internets . If someone has that problem too, just replace "censored" with "worldwide" in the download-link.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[ReaperMan]

BugsBunny, on Oct 21 2010, 05:49 AM, said:

If your logic is right then all we should get from a Retail DVD pack is a paper slip inside the pack with a serial code on it, and ofcourse the game can always be downloaded from the internet, isn't it ? After all I still get the game ! Nice logic

It is indeed nice logic, the publishers wouldn't have to put anything on cd's then.

[Martin]

It's pretty lame (specially it not even being patched up to the latest on disc), but you're making a mountain out of a molehill. It's not a big deal. The last 'GOTY' I got wherein it's main selling point was the inclusion of two big DLC packs, and said DLC was actually there in the box.. Oblivion GOTY. The DLCs came on a second DVD. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a 360 disc more-or-less completely full at 6.09GB? 360 discs have an absurd amount of the disc used up for some special anti-copy protection? Kind of stupid, since I swear a lot of people still just copy 360 games and play them on their chipped consoles. So with a 360 game, it's understandable that they would not be able to include the DLC on the same disc. Perhaps a second disc would have been nice. But no big deal.

What I don't understand is why they'll undoubtedly treat the PC and PS3 as if they have that same limitation. As far as I know, PC games do not dedicate large chunks of the disc to copy-protection, and PS3 discs can hold 50GB, so definitely no reason not to include it all on the disc there. The only other thing I can think is maybe it being like this makes the GOTY less likely to show up second-hand, since the used codes have obviously already been redeemed. This makes a second-hand GOTY actually equivalent to the regular edition. You could see that as rather crafty. Depends how far you are up your own anus with conspiracy theories.

[Kathy]

It's just that they weren't really worried to even work on this edition. This edition is pretty much a publisher's doing since the iso-images on the disks are the same(I'm assuming it from from the lack of patched versions) as they were on original versions.

[Martin]

Nah, it's become a bit of a trend over the last few years at least. The first GOTY I got which had no in-box extras, but codes to download stuff, was COD4. There have been a fair few that have gone that route. My Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Ultimate Edition is exactly the same as the normal version, except 'ULTIMATE EDITION' is crudely super-imposed over the normal box art, just under the title in black, and an extra code in the box for DLC. It's because beefed up re-releases fit the same manufacturing remit of early limited/collector's editions. Not the more extreme ones, obviously. And because those are all going down the 'bonus DLC' route, so are the GOTY/etc releases.

[canada4duke]

Dude! - Borderlands is just a game!

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