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Borderlands 2 is free to claim and keep on Steam

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Last updated: 6 Jun 2025 at 1:26 pm UTC

There's a big Borderlands Franchise Sale on Steam, and you can get a free to keep copy of Borderlands 2 for a limited time. It's still one of the best co-op shooters around, even with how many years ago it was released.

All you have to do is go to the Steam page when logged in and hit the "Add to Account" button. You have until June 8th, 5PM UTC to claim it for keeps. It has an old Native Linux port and it also runs well with Proton.

I wouldn't be doing my duty if I didn't mention the recent reviews situation, as users have pushed it into "Overwhelmingly Negative". A similar situation with other older Borderlands games on Steam with their reviews.

Why? It seems to be mixture of updates to the Terms of Service / EULA by Take-Two Interactive (who own the publisher 2K), along with a stupid comment from Gearbox's Randy Pitchford on X/Twitter in reply to a user concerned about the price:

As for the EULA, I don't know exactly what's different and the games haven't been updated so aren't doing anything they weren't doing so before. It's mostly just the usual lawyer speak for companies to cover their butt, along with keeping up with newer regulations across different regions. Some of the claims I've seen about it being "spyware" are just over-blowing it into pure 100% exaggeration.

Borderlands 2 | Release Date: 18th September 2012

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tmtvl 10 hours ago
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I just came to the realisation that to own a really good game (like Symphony of the Night, Arcanum, or Chrono Trigger) I could be persuaded to pay 80 USD, but paying that amount to LICENSE a mediocre game? I'm sorry, but that's just not going to happen.
Jahimself 28 minutes ago
I perfectly remember one of the possible ending sentence of Monkey Island 1. Don't want to spoil, but Ron Gilbert was basically saying that even at that price they would still be making a lot of money. I trust the dev.

OFC there is inflation, but with those 20bucks back in the days, I would fill my car, buy some cigarettes, and probably even few beers to share with friends. With 90€ nowadays I'm not even sure I can fill my car anymore.

The problem is coming from people making money with video game while they don't know anything about it, and gets most of the subsidies while devs and players pay the price of their non ending greediness.

I'm almost certain outside of indie devs that 35% of the price is going to these sharks. They are the initiator of price increase because they want more from the cake to the point of ruining it in every possible manner, because then they lower the quality in every possible manner by willing to take more wherever they can, thus making life hard for the people who really loves videos game. (devs & gamers)

Never had to do it, but you could literaly phone Ron Gilbert if you had an issue with the game xD


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