Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes

passepartout@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Zanshi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never heard of the guy before

  Lucky you. Randy has a long history of being an insufferable asshole

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  • bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pretty much. Can’t remember what he did that ticked me off like 8 years ago.

    I stopped buying and surprise surprise, got everything after Borderland 2 for literally free or like $2-3 at some point.

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    • Exusia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was his crashout before Borderlands 2 where Gearbox accepted a boatload of Sega money to help finish Colonial Marines, and instead outsourced the project. Gearbox kept the money in spite of the failure, and allegedly used it as funding for Borderlands 2. (They were sued by Sega for keeping the cash, but later dropped the suit)

      He also crashed out during the Borderlands 3 leadup.

      Groped the Claptrap VA 6 years ago because he was tired of voicing Claptrap “as a favor” and when offered normal market rates wanted more because Claptrap is iconic. Pitchford cornered him at the hotel elevator, grabbed the VAs junk and said “youre gonna do what I tell you to” -allegedly.

      Other than that, about the same time, he left a thumb drive at a Medieval Times that had company secrets and squirt porn on it. Same thumb drive. Brother apparently can’t afford 2 thumb drives to keep his porn separate from his company secrets.

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hadent heard of him until BL4 was released, but man does he seem like a real big piece of work lol

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But then again, maybe he is just another CEO asshole and has always been lol.

  When you fire everyone that disagrees with you, it doesn’t take long to loose the ability to handle criticism.

  Like, there’s a very good chance this guy has had absolutely nothing but praise while “working” on this game. So now that people whose job doesn’t depend on making him feel like a genius are giving feedback, it literally breaks his brain.

  He most likely genuinely believes the game is perfect and all the criticism is from “trolls and haters” who are just lying because their jealous of his genius.

  There’s a reason this attitude is so pervasive among the wealthy.

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  • passepartout@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now that I think about it, that has been one of my two blanket explanations for rich people being assholes.

    The other one being the mix-up of correlation and causation (or even just the direction of causation). Money arguably does make you a worse person, but also being a bad person usually can make you a lot of money in the first place.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That feeds back into what I was saying, it’s the same thing.

      The first couple times you dick someone over for money, you’re gonna feel bad.

      But everyone at the company is going to pat you on the back and say you’re a genius cuz numbers went up.

      Anyone who says it wasn’t worth the numbers going up, gets fired.

      The wealthy live in a bubble where the only people they interact with only care about money

      Our whole capitalist society is a giant feedback loop that concentrates wealth and strips the wealthy of their humanity.

      It’s not like there’s some problem where something is broken, this is the natural and logical result of how we’ve spent the last couple generations

      Unregulated capitalism always ends in an oligarchy with most people penniless

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• fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Present times have shown us that a lot of CEOs are incompetent idiots with mental disorders

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think they would be better of by just ignoring

  I mean the best thing they could do is to acknowledge that the game could use some optimization and promise to continue working on it. Even if they have no intention of doing so. But that might get them in trouble with Nvidia since they slapped an “Nvidia optimized” badge on it.

  The worst thing they could do is say “buy a better PC”.

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Exactly, like what CDPR did with Cyberpunk - own up to the fact that it was shit on release, then take the time to fix it and update it. People flipped nearly overnight from having a negative opinion of the game to a positive one when they released the working version of the game (plus a really solid DLC, which probably helped too).

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I still think it’s fucked up that CDPR and so many others have a “release it now, fix it later” mentality, but yes, at least they owned it.

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  • the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that sticker just means you sent Nvidia a pre-release build so they had time to add game-specific hacks to their drivers before your launch.

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• lath@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Musk/Trump type wannabe.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, I’m a longtime Borderlands fan who follows what’s going on with the franchise, and Randy just acts like a child who inherited a video game company. He usually says this dumb shit with a smile on his face, so I think he’s intending it to be in good fun, but it just does not come across that way.

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  • ShadowRam@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    right?

    Randy Pitchford has been this way for years.

    I guess its news to some people Randy shooting off his mouth.

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  • passepartout@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could as well be the case. Would fit to the general theme of the series lol.

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• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, in fact at this point, I struggle to imagine what value he could possibly provide his employer that could match or exceed the damage he’s doing. Certainly, everywhere I’ve worked in the games industry he’d have been out on his ass… some time ago. I clearly must be missing something. Who knows? Blackmail on the CEO’s wife or something.

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• Dojan@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted / plain stupid?

  It’s not. It works because he’s always operated like this and keeps getting away with it. People keep sucking up his garbage games so why should he change?

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