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We\u2019ve been talking for some time now about how Borderlands 3 would likely end up being a watershed moment for the Epic Games Store and it appears Gearbox\u2019s shooter may well have ended up the game which broke the Epic Store hoodoo.<\/p>\n
Gearbox CEO and walking, talking PR disaster, Randy Pitchford, has now claimed the launch day peak concurrent players of Borderlands 3 on the Epic Store is double Borderlands 2\u2019s all-time high concurrent players.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cFun Fact\u201d <\/em>began Pitchford, letting us know this is probably a fact which is only fun for him, \u201cOn PC, the data is that the launch day peak concurrent players of Borderlands 3 is about *twice-as-high* as the all time peak concurrent players of Borderlands 2. WOW! You guys are great!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Congratulations are in order, we guess, although this always felt a dead cert from the moment it was announced. The Borderlands franchise well and truly elevated itself into the list of mega-franchises with Borderlands 2, so all that was required was more of the same.<\/p>\n <\/ins><\/p>\n Despite all this though, there are some extra bits we\u2019d just love to know. First of all, how many copies were sold, and secondly, how well will Borderlands 3 do once it comes to Steam. Impossible to answer, for now, but comparing a Borderlands 2 Steam launch to a Borderlands 3 Epic Store launch is very much apples and oranges. Borderlands 2 was big, but it wasn\u2019t an immediate giant, settling in for the long haul and eventually hitting an estimated 11 million copies sold on Steam.<\/p>\n Fair play though, it\u2019s a very strong start for Borderlands 3 despite PC mishaps, reports of fairly poor performance, and some absolutely broken DX12 support. Nothing, it seems, gets in the way of Claptrap\u2019s meteoric rise.<\/p>\n Borderlands 3 is out now on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019ve been talking for some time now about how Borderlands 3 would likely end up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[228,358,327,276,374],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","tag-big","tag-borderlands","tag-epic","tag-launch","tag-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/game8k.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Borderlands 3 benchmark performance round-up – Expected FPS from every major graphics card
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