I love that we are all on the same page that Wonderlands came and saved the franchise from BL3s terrible horrible very very very Bad writting and decision making with its fun story and drastically improved QoL changes and overall thematic of the game and endgame content and multiclass system and consecuently the build diversity.

I guess it really shows that randy truly learned from his awful decision making for BL3 and listened to the community and maybe it might be true what he said about always wanting to make a fantasy RPG because you can see the love the team put into this game.

We cant deny that gearbox literally beat Anthony Burch's story to the ground and spat on it then took the hugest dump on its face and said yep thats a game and that randy did some shady casting choices that backfired severely (the VAs did a great job though) along with trying to put so much stuff together that simply did not make the game feel too fun to play through and thus eventually making so many changes to the game that made the community question wether the game was actually ready to play at launch.

BUT we can also not deny that the team showed their growth through the years delivering very fun stories and showing the respect that they owed to BL2 during each DLC release and eventually releasing a game that feels very beautifully executed with many of the communities wildest dreams made come true.

I honestly dont know if gearbox as ANY intention to continue the franchise with a Borderlands 4 after the Mess of a story they left in the main game. But I can agree with the community players that say the story is still very salvageable and they can still retake the course of the story left by Burch before leaving the team to pursue a different dream. And after playing Wonderlands i can now say that i believe the team is ready to follow their instinct and go hogwild on the story if they ever decide to develop a fourth release, of course it wouldnt hurt to have some consultation with Burch every now and then.