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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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  • D dustydata@lemmy.world

    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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    Echo Dot
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    Was he?

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

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    • C captainblinky@lemmy.myserv.one

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

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      Echo Dot
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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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        regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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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 cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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

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          🖖USS-Ethernet
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          That AAAA to you!

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          • G Godort

            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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            Echo Dot
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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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              prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              Of course the borderlands guy would look like that

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              • T tidderuuf@lemmy.world

                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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                  philosloppy@lemmy.world
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                  …or Do Not Play

                  way ahead of you there, guy

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                  • D dustydata@lemmy.world

                    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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                    brsrklf@jlai.lu
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                    #45

                    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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                    • L LiveLM

                      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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                      saharamaleikuhm@feddit.org
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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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                      • S sunsofold@lemmings.world

                        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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                        thatkamguy@sh.itjust.works
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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 prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone

                          Of course the borderlands guy would look like that

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                          Galactose
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                          You ain’t exactly handsome yourself bud😅

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                            Galactose
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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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                              You ain’t exactly handsome yourself bud😅

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                              nikls94@lemmy.world
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                              Randy Pitchfork looks like a mix of the first second generation employee of blizzard (aka Piratesoftware) and Steve buscemi

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                              • L LiveLM

                                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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                                moonburster@lemmy.world
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                                They destroyed the first update for risk of rain 2 when they bought it as well. They kinda made my favourite game a lot worse

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                                  blametheantifa@lemmy.world
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                                  The game is grossly overpriced and infected Denuvo malware. Those things are all symptoms of Randy Pitchford being involved. I’ll pass.

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                                  • C captainblinky@lemmy.myserv.one

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

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                                    jimerson
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                                    I’m enjoying the game. And yeah, a lot of cool folk work there. Sure a few suck, but there are a lot of neat humans that poured their heart into this game.

                                    I also haven’t had a single issue on a two year old mid-tier laptop so i can’t empathize with the fuss over performance. I’m sure there are older machines out there that wont run it at 1000FPS or whatever.

                                    At the end of the day, it’s a game. Calm tf down and play something else rather than raise your blood pressure over something so relatively trivial.

                                    Deep breath people. It’s a game. Support it or don’t. Edginess not required for this decision.

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                                    • S sunsofold@lemmings.world

                                      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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                                      madamebisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                                      Started with 2, liked it, hated 3, now playing 4 since yesterday with a friend and gameplay wise it has a bunch of changes/improvements. So if someone enjoys the gameplay its good. I mean cod and battlefield and fifa are also nearly the same game every time 😉

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                                      • S screen_shatter@lemmy.world

                                        Damn I had to look that up cause it seemed unbelievable. I am shocked it reviewed that well. It just seemed so awful to me.

                                        Am I so out of touch?? No, the children are.

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                                        Cethin
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                                        You aren’t out of touch. Even the worst games don’t get that poor of a review. When you job depends on being on their side, it turns out you can’t voice an honest opinion.

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                                        • P philosloppy@lemmy.world

                                          …or Do Not Play

                                          way ahead of you there, guy

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                                          rakonat@lemmy.world
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                                          Couldn’t have been less interested. Borderlands hasn’t been remotely interesting since 2 and everything since then has been a soulless cash grab.

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