I guess the most hated man on the internet had a point when he called Randy out for having shitty takes
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
Submitted 5 hours ago by mintiefresh@piefed.ca to games@lemmy.world
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Einhornyordle@feddit.org 1 hour ago
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 52 minutes ago
Who is the most hated man on the internet? I thought that was me.
Snailpope@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I literally thought an in game boss was telling you to get a refund
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
That would be comical. Breaking the 4th wall, boss taking shit. Get a refund you suck at this, while you’re at it throw your PC in a lake, fish play better.
passepartout@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Can someone find an excuse for how this behaviour is not just extremely short sighted and just plain stupid? Never heard of the guy before, but he seems to behave like a petty little child throwing a tantrum for something that is obviously his or some of his near colleagues fault. Comparable level of stupidity to “Do you guys not have phones?” lol.
I think they would be better of by just ignoring or at least appeasing the crowd with something.
Zanshi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Never heard of the guy before
Lucky you. Randy has a long history of being an insufferable asshole
bytesonbike@discuss.online 4 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 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”.
the_artic_one@programming.dev 23 minutes 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.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 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.
passepartout@feddit.org 1 hour 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.
fluxion@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Present times have shown us that a lot of CEOs are incompetent idiots with mental disorders
lath@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Musk/Trump type wannabe.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 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?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 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.
ShadowRam@fedia.io 3 hours ago
right?
Randy Pitchford has been this way for years.
I guess its news to some people Randy shooting off his mouth.
passepartout@feddit.org 4 hours ago
Could as well be the case. Would fit to the general theme of the series lol.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 4 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.
Red_October@piefed.world 3 hours ago
This guy is why PR consultants and Social Media teams exist. Some people just should not have contact with the public. However good he might or might not be in his work on the project itself, someone should have told him to sit down and shut up and let someone who knows how not to damage the entire game with a single statement handle the communication.
banazir@lemmy.ml 33 minutes ago
I generally have nothing but a deep sense of loathing for marketing, but I genuinely feel bad for the people who have to try smearing lipstick on this pig.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I don’t get it. Borderlands 1 ran at like 720p (less?) on native hardware (Xbox 360) and it looked great, mostly because of the cel-shaded graphics. Cel-shaded was code (maybe still is) for low-res and it covers it up well. So I feel like anyone trying to push 4K Borderlands (Gearbox, or players) is in the wrong here and that may be part of the problem. Now if Borderlands 4 can’t run at 1080p or 1440p on good hardware… that’s Gearbox’s problem to fix. Trying to run Borderlands at 4K sounds about as stupid to me as Animal Crossing at 8K — apparently that has been accomplished with a very powerful computer and an emulator. (AC for Switch is not performance locked to hardware, it’ll scale up to whatever you can run it on.) But it just begs the question “fucking WHY?”.
I feel like the discourse around Borderlands 4 should be “is it fun” followed at a great distance by “is the story compelling enough to draw me in?” I did not have plot expectations for the first one, and it exceeded them.
Disclaimer: played and beat BL1 and all its DLC. Dabbled in 2 and 3. Have not played BL4 yet. Looking forward to a Siren play on my Series X at some point, but not now.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Trying to run Borderlands at 4K sounds about as stupid to me as
On the contrary, it should be perfectly runnable at 4K because its a 2025 PC game and the cel-shaded graphics should be easy to render.
‘Unreal Engine’ is no excuse either. Try something like Satisfactory rendering TONS of stuff on a shoestring budget with Lumen, like butter, on 2020 GPUs, and tell me that’s a sluggish engine.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
My understanding is that Unreal is a garbage engine for optimization at face value, it has a lot of useful tools and a lot of incorrect/dated documentation for those tools some of which are also just kind of configured wrong as their default settings. If effort is put into optimization to configure things correctly and only use the various tools like nanite or lumen in their actual use cases (rather than just throwing them on everything) you can get some pretty fantastic optimization.
TLDR: Good but complex tools marketed as low effort with bad defaults and exagerated marketing.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Right because Cyberpunk looks amazing in 2025 and it ran like shit five years ago at launch.
But 4K gaming is more demanding than people realise and gaming companies shouldn’t be getting so much flak for it.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Overrated franchise has dogshit legacy sequel. More news at 11.
banazir@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Seems like the kind of guy I’d want in charge of my company. “Don’t buy my stuff” is some next level 4D marketing.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
[Gabe Dislike That]
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Gabe not even noticing from 1 of his 6 superyachts
bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
He’s right. Refund it and don’t bother supporting him again. Simple!