2K's Battleborn will reportedly become free to play in the coming months, with an official announcement supposedly coming in mid-November.
According to a report from Kotaku, the multiplayer shooter will undergo the pricing restructure due to poor sales since the game's launch in early May. The decision for the change has already been delayed a couple of times.
An anonymous source speaking in the report said that developer Gearbox wanted Battleborn to be free to play from the start, but publisher 2K reportedly decided it was better off as a full-fledged $60 retail game.
IGN has reached out to 2K for comment on the reports and will update this story should they respond.
What's more, the decision to change pricing models was reportedly partially inspired by Evolve, another 2K published game, which switched to free to play pricing back in July. The switch proved to be successful for the 4v1 FPS, with the player count crossing one million in less than a week after the change.
We've known about Battleborn's low sales for a while now. Just a week after the game's launch, Gearbox was "cautiously optimistic" about the game's future, but wouldn't release concrete sales numbers. Since then, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has said that Battleborn's performance on the market has been "below" the company's expectations.
For more on Battleborn, check out IGN's original review, in which we gave the shooter at launch and gave it a 7.1.
Michael Passalacqua is a freelance writer for IGN. Chat with him on Twitter about the New York Giants’ surprising start to the season.
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