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The Borderlands MMO is officially saved and playable in English, 11 years after its shutdown

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The Borderlands MMO is officially saved and playable in English, 11 years after its shutdown

11 years since its shutdown, a short-lived Borderlands MMO that only ever launched in China is finally playable again, complete with English localization, all thanks to the efforts of fans.

Late last April, modder, dataminer, and indie dev EpicNNG took to Twitter with a real treat for game preservation enthusiasts. He'd obtained a build of Borderlands Online, and though at first even getting past the MMO's login screen was an issue, he promised: "Won't give up though. I'll make sure the community gets to experience this game one way or another."

So began an enormous undertaking, with the dev turning to the Borderlands fan community for help, but almost a year and a half on, and Borderlands Online's revival has just entered playtesting, with fans able to jump in right now.

In a new video (below), EpicNNG admits that after his first video about the game, "the amount of work that went into this project completely towered over anything I had done 1 million times over." Not only was there the task of getting past that aforementioned login screen barrier, but other problems included translating the game from Chinese to English, having to resize parts of the UI to adapt to this, and even making entirely new HUD elements in Photoshop to replace the Chinese versions.

Borderlands Online's revival – now known as BLOL – isn't being monetized at all, and can be played online or offline, but EpicNNG warns in a YouTube comment that, at least for now, you can "expect bugs, broken skills, animations, server outages, and more inconveniences" while things are improved further.


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