Modded Borderlands 4 weapons and tools are being offered on Ebay with tailor-made gun elements and results. Nevertheless, as of writing, it would not seem this gray market of modded loot is especially worthwhile.
Ebay – a public e-commerce market – isn’t any stranger to gaming associated facet hustles, with quite a few account, beauty, and repair sellers establishing camp there over time with the discharge of in style on-line video video games. Eurogamer reached out to at least one Borderlands modded gun service provider to learn the way it is going.
“It’s pretty troublesome to do as they’ve included a brand new encryption technique to the weapons this 12 months that makes doing particular builds very very laborious and can take, I’d think about, a very long time to get perfected” states one Borderlands modded weapon reseller to Eurogamer below anonymity.
This new encryption technique carried out by Gearbox not solely makes the act of modding the precise weapon you need troublesome, it is also making prospects of revenue for resellers unlikely attributable to the price of getting the decrypted values for weapons folks will truly pay for. When requested how profitable enterprise is, the vendor advised Eurogamer:
“Not very profitable. I’ve offered possibly three or 4 since launch, which is round £15 to £20, which does not even cowl the prices to construct the weapons, however I do not do that to make cash or revenue.
“To make the modded weapons you usually have to pay for tables that knowledge miners have made that breakdown gun elements. Every a part of the gun has an encrypted worth, so does the rarity, producer, degree and so forth and the tables will be costly to purchase at round £50 to £100.”
As such, in the meanwhile, it seems that the gray marketplace for promoting modded Borderlands 4 loot is extra for the hobbyists reasonably than these trying to make a buck from a sizzling new launch (until you are a knowledge miner capable of dump precious data, reasonably than the wanted weapons themselves).
Whether or not or not this can turn into a terrific drawback as time goes on, and extra of the sport’s loot encryption is damaged down and made publicly out there, stays a possible drawback for the long run. Though as a PvE recreation, the modded gear vendor made an argument for why the apply of modding is not doing any hurt:
“Borderlands video games have at all times been modded and I’ve modded them since Borderlands 1 and each recreation in between. It is an enormous a part of why I like the video games a lot.”
