Use Your Borderlands 2 Golden Keys!?!
For those of you who have played Borderlands 2 there is a chance you have seen the Mysterious Golden Chest in Sanctuary. As you are progressing thru the game it becomes difficult to get "good" high level loot making your game progress take longer. The Golden Chest is a way around that and by spending a Golden Key you are rewarded with a guaranteed purple drop that is level matched to the character who spent the key.
If you follow Gearbox Software on Facebook or @DuvalMagic (Randy Pitchford) on Twitter you will get a chance at getting more Golden Keys. For instance they posted keys for 5 Golden Keys today on twitter with a follow up message.
Randy Pitchford @DuvalMagic
PS3: CT5BJ-6FZCH-TXX5T-SB5BJ-3CHC5
WinPC/Mac: KB5TJ-CJB3Z-H6KKT-BB33B-KH33B
X360: CBWJ3-BKXSX-HSJ5X-WX3TJ-6BBZS
Randy Pitchford @DuvalMagic
SHiFT codes for five Golden Keys for Borderlands 2 on the way. Use them, don't horde them. Good luck, and happy hunting!
The ongoing rumor in the community is that every time a Golden Key is spent a snapshot of your player and game data is sent back to Gearbox so they can determine how often you play, what level your character is and what loot you have. I suspect they can also gauge how popular the game is which might have also been a driving force behind all the DLC they released.
As listeners of the Hardware Asylum Podcast will know, Darren and I have played a bunch of Borderlands 2, and still play on occasion. Sadly there comes a time when the loot you have is actually better than what the Golden Chest can provide so you tend to horde the keys figuring that you might use them when you need extra cash or when a playing partner needs a better gun or something.
Right now I have a total of 186 Golden Keys and stopped spending them when I realized that the purple gear in the chest was rather crappy compared to what I have collected. I'll continue to collect keys for as long as Randy keeps posting them however, unless they start allowing legendaries and pearls to crop up in the chest the chance that I'll spend them is pretty slim.
