For a long time he was told by everyone in public and in private that he was awesome and perfect, and the greatest game developer, which made him a ton of money and famous. Now his game is failing and his overinflated ego is panicking.
58008@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Why is he like this?
dustyData@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
echodot@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Was he?
Personally I’ve always thought of him as a bit of a prick.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
Was he? Was that a long time ago?
Seems to me him and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)
And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
As far as DNF goes, it was probably an easy profit for the company. They bought it from 3D Realms and patched it up into something releasable. I doubt they spent a lot on the deal. It didn’t have to sell many copies for them to hit break even.
Not a bad business decision, and I’m glad that development story had a definitive ending.
figjam@midwest.social 11 hours ago
his new game is failing. He must keep it in the zeitgeist for as long as possible. This is just some guy trying to be relevant
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
It’s the year of the billionaire who dont keep their mouth shut because they believe they are right and everyone will agree with their points and love them.
Happening right now with Mark Cuban on the NBA side.