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'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash

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  • 58008@lemmy.world5 [email protected]

    Why is he like this?

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    It's the year of the wealthy personalities 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.

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    • rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldR [email protected]

      I have come to accept that this is a PR campaign to plaster the name everywhere all over social media and let it worm its way into currently pissed off gamers' heads for a few months down the line when they've calmed down and inevitably buy the fucking thing.

      Pitchford is a slimeball. Rarely has a man who is allegedly not an insurance or used-car salesman given off such nakedly scummy vibes.

      We need to stop giving free publicity to this little marketing man, and to this poorly optimised, expensive game.

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      I don't think there's anything that well thought out, and it's just someone who takes things personally and cant resist blurting out their thoughts.

      Since after what he said my thinking was even if my friends beg me to get the game on discount I wont because of how personally irritated the comments have made me.

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        This has been there already with Ubisoft games. It wont end well for the IP and also, the main problem is Randy Pitchford. That problem wont be fixed any time soon.

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          I'm not going to punish the entire development team just because he's a tool.

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          They got paid already and most of them will be laid off or moved to different projects by the time the games is $20.

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            Gearbox was been scummy for a while now. Customers can learn to stop giving them money or can keep putting up with this.

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            Borderlands 3 kinda sucked it. I realized when I played it that they had hit peak during Borderlands 2.

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              I haven't played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you're a 9 year old who's never played, and it's all on mom's dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?

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              • S [email protected]

                I haven't played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you're a 9 year old who's never played, and it's all on mom's dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?

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                Any interest I had in the game, which was already fairly minimal, was completely obliterated when the price was announced.

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                • D [email protected]

                  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 very famous. Now his latest game is failing and his overinflated ego is panicking.

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                  Was he?

                  Personally I've always thought of him as a bit of a prick.

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                  • C [email protected]

                    I'm not going to punish the entire development team just because he's a tool.

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                    It's not that he's a tool it's at the game it has poor performance. And being a tool is just a guarantee that issue will never be fixed.

                    So in a way I kind of do blame the team, they must have done testing they know what the performance is like.

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                      He can deep-throat my dad's days-dead dog's decaying dong.

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                      • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comC [email protected]

                        Out of the loop, is it a AAA game drama?

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                        That AAAA to you!

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                          Nor did he leave a USB stick containing sensitive design data and camgirl porn at a Medieval Times

                          Things are looking up for ol' Randy

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                          The cam girl porn was the valuable bit. I sure as hell know nobody wants the Borderlands code

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                            Of course the borderlands guy would look like that

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                              It's 100% an astroturfing campaign. Doesn't matter if it looks good or bad, it's still getting awareness out there about the game which generates clicks and probably makes more money than the game itself.

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                              That would have to be the weirdest advertising strategy in the history of all advertising.

                              My our game, it's really shit

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                                ...or Do Not Play

                                way ahead of you there, guy

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                                • D [email protected]

                                  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 very famous. Now his latest game is failing and his overinflated ego is panicking.

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                                  Really? Was that a long time ago?

                                  Seems to me he 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.

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                                    Gearbox was been scummy for a while now. Customers can learn to stop giving them money or can keep putting up with this.

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                                    Eh, the people are dumb as fuck and will keep buying their slop. Just look at Nintendo, one of the most horrible companies out there, releasing the same 5 games over and over again, but the idiots keep buying. They will keep buying their Mario Kart until it's $200 a month

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                                      I haven't played 4, but I played 1, 2, and a bit of the presequel or whatever it was called. They were essentially all the same game. Run, shoot, run, shoot, hear vaguely off-color joke, run, shoot. Is there any particular reason to bother with an overpriced remake of the same old game? Is there a reason for worrying about 4KUHD textures on a game where the aesthetic is cartoony? If you're a 9 year old who's never played, and it's all on mom's dime, I could see being tricked into buying it by the advertisers, but why is anyone else excited about it?

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                                      I played the hell out of the first Borderlands (including New Game+ across all expansions), but promptly bounced off 2 & Pre-Sequel because it literally just felt like more of the same and I was already sated.

                                      BL3 and now BL4 are literally just more of the same, but with ever increasingly more egregious monetisation.

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                                      • P [email protected]

                                        Of course the borderlands guy would look like that

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                                        You ain't exactly handsome yourself bud😅

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                                          Randy needs to get comfy with the fact that he may go broke.
                                          Do what the doctors in goa (a state in India) did to their health minister. But in this case impact his income & force him to grovel.

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