Careercow Randy Pitchford / DuvalMagic - Gearbox's magical fuck-up of a CEO, lost a USB drive full of porn.

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Fagguccine said:
Holy shit. A franchise built on stealing someone else's style.
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Randy Pitchford was a level designer for Duke 3D and I believe Shadow Warrior. If you go and look at the levels he was part of, 80 percent of them say along the lines of "Started by Randy, finished by X. " So him leaving shit half finished, and having someone else clean up his mess is an ongoing thing. Hell, half life blue shift was the one expansion of half life that didn't add any new weapons and was 90 percent reused assets. I don't think it added any new mechanics.
 
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TV's Adam West said:
Randy Pitchford was a level designer for Duke 3D and I believe Shadow Warrior. If you go and look at the levels he was part of, 80 percent of them say along the lines of "Started by Randy, finished by X. " So him leaving shit half finished, and having someone else clean up his mess is an ongoing thing. Hell, half life blue shift was the one expansion of half life that didn't add any new weapons and was 90 percent reused assets. I don't think it added any new mechanics.
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Blue Shift being so simple compared with Opposing Force has more to do with it starting development before OP4 than Randy shenanigans, it was originally a part of the Dreamcast port of HL1 before that got canned, it explains why it lacks all the cool stuff they added with Opposing Force, and why the maps feel so smaller compared to OP4 and HL1, they had to make them run properly on a Dreamcast.

The port got cancelled in 2001, and they had to shit out a PC version at the last minute, with them making the HD pack to justify the expansion's existance.
 
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I found this while trying to explain the "magic trick pornography" incident to one of my friends.
Unfortunately I can't download it due to the age restriction.
 
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Product Placement said:
You'd think at some point Randy would have got PR training.
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So I'm not a fan of Borderlands or anything, but I did look into this. This man is over 50 years old and decides to make a tweet talking down to his fanbase essentially. Calling that bad PR is putting it very lightly! Sadly this won't make a meaningful impact on sales, but it's still not something to be encouraged.
 
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Randy's reputation is bottom of the barrel already and has been for a long time. I doubt this makes any measureable dent in the sales of the game.
 
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Sadly this won't make a meaningful impact on sales, but it's still not something to be encouraged.
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This will have a meaningful impact on sales.

Borderlands 4 is a title in trouble because Borderlands 3 was quite terrible on release. The Borderlands movie was so bad that the actors in it started coming with excuses as to why they said "Yes" to it. New Tales of the Borderlands was also terrible that it made people pine for those samey-Telltale games. It has been 13 years since Borderlands 2 released and Gearbox has been on a Ubisoft level of decline during that timeframe.

Someone at the studio knows this as Borderlands 4 has run a sleek and expensive marketing campaign. Ads everywhere and very carefully curated reviews/previews at various big-time events. A focus on "a return to form" and "back to what made borderlands good" is seen through the marketing which shows they know what audience they're targeting - people who dropped Borderlands at some point in time.

This isn't enough to get someone who already has BL4 Special Mega Hyper Expensive Edition pre-ordered to run out and cancel it - but it is enough to sway any "I liked BL2, maybe I'll give a shot" people into the "$80? Randy Pitchford is still there and doing this? I think I'll wait until a deep sale to see how this all shakes out".

Also the game looks like ass and they're trying to release it early, holy moly.

 
Hot take: $75-80 games don't really bother me BUT they have to be worth that amount. Randy uses the same excuse as me that back in the day that certain games in the 8 and 16 bit era did cost $75-80 after taxes. I remember Sonic 3 cost $75. Then you have something like Earthbound. However, they were the exceptions to the rule.

You can easily justify $80 a game IF it comes with a battle pass. But they're not doing that, they're doing $80+ for the battle pass and DLC and other bullshit.

But I welcome the companies doing this anyway because it will just further the death of these obnoxious AAA games.
 
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on god this nigga is so zesty
zesty ass nigga.webp
 
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BrunoMattei said:
Hot take: $75-80 games don't really bother me BUT they have to be worth that amount. Randy uses the same excuse as me that back in the day that certain games in the 8 and 16 bit era did cost $75-80 after taxes. I remember Sonic 3 cost $75. Then you have something like Earthbound. However, they were the exceptions to the rule.

You can easily justify $80 a game IF it comes with a battle pass. But they're not doing that, they're doing $80+ for the battle pass and DLC and other bullshit.

But I welcome the companies doing this anyway because it will just further the death of these obnoxious AAA games.
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I basically agree with this. For all of the bitching about video game prices, inflation adjusted we were paying $120-140 2025 cuck dollars for $60 SNES games in the 1990s. However that came with a physical cartridge, a manual, and the knowledge that the price of entry was the price it was going to be, no DLC, no day one patch no scams, and the $60 games weren't janky pieces of shit. When you were paying a premium, you knew it was one of the good games. The janky dogshit was priced at ~$30-40.

But when you have no physical distribution costs and are providing nothing but a cuck license, and are going to be milking your playerbase for that sweet sweet live service income stream, it's moronic. I don't mind that model but the price of entry should be lower if you're going to do it right. I don't know what the margins are like on Helldivers 2 but that's one of the more recent games that has come out that feels like it does that model in a respectable way. Including having ways to access the premium content through gameplay.
 
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This greasy rat-fuck loser trying to go the negging route of "If you're a real fan you'll cough up those eighty dollary-doos! We were paying that for games back in the 90s!" Motherfucker, you actually GOT a game for that money back in the 90s! Like, a physical game cartridge, not a flimsy jewel case with a strip of paper and a download code. You don't even get a fucking disk anymore, and game manuals have gone the way of the dodo and wooly mammoth.

And the game you got back then was fucking COMPLETE when you took it home and popped it in your machine. None of this "Oh shit, the release deadline is a week away and the investors are at the door with torches and pitchforks wanting a return on their investment NOW! OK, we will push it out, drop a Day One patch, and patch out all the problems after release. The game won't be playable for a few months, but those rubes will still buy it. They we can shake them down for more money with DLC releases and story expansions and other microtransactions." When you bought a game back then you actually bought THE GAME complete, play tested, and (most) all the bugs and issues worked out. The game didn't ship out in an incomplete state.

And that's not even addressing all the "current year modern audience" bullshit that Gearbox has been shoving into everything it does because Randy went full Woke Warrior before BL3's production as an overcorrection for all the slimy, greasy shit he's been into. BL2 was a hilarious game with really sharp writing at times. BL3 was like a cheap knock-off of BL2 written by some danger-haired college they/them who watched their dormmate play BL2, liked a lot of what they saw, but decided the writing and humor was too "problematic" and decided to take it upon themselves to "fix" that for a "modern audience".

And the movie was even worse. BL3 was like 2016-2017 SJW messaging, and the movie was like full-on 2020 wokeshit. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to cast two grannies to play the roles of aexy young women in their late 20s? Or Kevin Hart as Roland? I'm so glad I didn't watch that shit. It could have been an interesting movie, especially if they had stayed true to the first two games and really tried to go high quality with the action, effects, and stunts instead of making yet another lazy CGI slopfest. And Tales 2 is a blight on all of humanity.

I have really low expectations for BL4. I'll follow it's release to see if I'm either right that it's going to be another letdown, or if I'm actually wrong and it's a true return to form, but I'm fairly comfortable in my belief that it's going to be more current year dog shit with bad writing, bad humor, and full of woke messaging. If it actually does defy my expectations and is more like BL2 then I'll probably pick it up when it's on a good sale.
 
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