One Angry Gamer "The internet never forgets. It’s a maxim you learn time and time over again when you get caught with a foot in your mouth. In this case, Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford found himself engaged in a conversation that was bound to end badly… especially since he was defending an employee who outed himself as partaking in unethical behavior."
Gearbox CEO defends Borderlands 4 against fan criticism, urging players to "cheer and root for us" to get the best game possible.
No offense but I feel like gamers on the internet are overly pessimistic. I took it to be a positive energy affirmation.
In real life when I talk to gamers we get excited for games. Online it's just so polarized and depressing. Online people look for things to hate or be mad at. It's so twisted and it doesn't reflect the spirit I get from gaming.
@Eonjay
I don't get this, of course people are cynical and pessimistic these days, the industry has turned to s**t with greed, lies and false promises.
I'd get your point if we were still in the golden days where nothing much happened but we've had so much thrown at us of course people are worn day and sceptical
The guy who's saying this in the article is Randy Pitchford man, he's a complete sleaze bag, what do you want people to do, take his word for it and look on the bright side where there's nothing but sunshine and rainbows?
People who complain about all the negativity should blame the industry and the issues within it, not the gamers who are only like this because of what we've had to go through the past 15 years or so.
Here is the fun part, they have not even released a full gameplay and yet people are crying. If you want to critique the game, at least wait for a gameplay walk through. Most of the people I have seen crying or complaining, have been about the looks of the characters. Which tells me they more than don't know the game has customization and are just crying because, they saw something they didn't like.
But it's just much more easier to complain and cry than it is to wait and see for yourself
@DarkWingDody
Can you send me a link of this gameplay walk through. They might have released it in whatever made up world you come from, but I am still waiting for it, thanks in Advance. If a 1 minute trailer is what you call a gameplay walk through and now crying about it. I can understand why some gamers are so miserable. See a few seconds of a trailer and then start crying. Why wait for a gameplay walk through that would contain a sizeable amount of content, when you can start crying over a minute long trailer. Awesome times.
You were spot on in regards to critiquing. No matter what you put out there you better be ready to be critiqued. They shouldn't have shown anything if they weren't ready. They're in the wrong business if they can't handle that.
There was nothing shown to differentiate this one from part 3 in my humble opinion. I'll wait for full release but it just looks like more of the same.
That and/or we are going to release an unfinished game, but don’t worry if you support us we will fix it eventually.
Or, maybe it's because gamers are morons and would rather complain and wish for bad games and failures.
Idk why I’m not a bigger fan of borderland series.
I never buy it, but when I do play it like (subscription) I have a good ass time.
I'm happy either way if it flops take two share prices stumble making it a good time to snap up shares before GTA vi and if it's great then I get a great game unlike 3
So it's a win win
Yeah cause the stock market hasn’t already ‘priced in’ gta 6 into the ttwo price. SMH.
It’s the only game that makes them money anymore. They are just playing it safe. No innovation in the series.
You could have shown me borderlands 4 gameplay and told me it was borderlands 3 and I would have believed you…
Gearbox Studios lead Randy Pitchford has admitted defeat against Valve’s PC gaming storefront Steam. Five years after claiming the store was in death throes, the Borderlands 4 head has finally accepted his mistake.
I don't understand him or others who wish for Steam to crash and burn. Yes they charge 30% but so does Sony on playstation, Microsoft on Xbox and pretty much most other gaming platforms. Yes Epic does charge less but their storefront is garbage and I would bet money if they were top dog they would jack their fees up just like every for-profit company is and had been doing forever. Such ignorance to believe Epic was only doing it for the devs and players. It will always be about the greed for money and power.
100% agree with everything you've said. All they were trying to do was strong-arm themselves to the storefront leader and quickly.
As a new PC gamer steam is awesome. User friendly, great customer service and all
In one store
Yes precisely. Best of all Valve didn't buy its way out of its problems with Steam. It made a service that people actually want and supports developers and communities fairly. Discounts are commonplace and indie support is strong.
The other PC storefront owners like Ubisoft, Microsoft, EA and Epic should take notes.
I've been a steam user since it's inception with Half-Life 2. The platform has never done me wrong. Yet, to be fair. Epic, and GOG have been consumer friendly as well. I never had trouble getting refunds through any of the three I mentioned.
U-Play and Origin/ea app whatever they are using now are the worst.
Steam's been around since just before Half Life 2. And was installed on tons of new PCs when that great game came out.
Hah, I thought it was a bit before that. But, I guess I've been on Steam since it basically launched considering I have the "20 years of service" medal. Pretty cool I still have my account from Steam's first year.
Yeah, and people hated it so much just like console hardcore fans hating on digital today. Its adoption really took off in 2007.
“Future experiences [are] already under development at Gearbox," says Randy Pitchford
I'm actually surprised by this, I feel like it came and went very quickly without too much interest
but good to see!
Well, it was relatively short and no True Vault Hunter mode to replay the campaign. The DLC was horribly short, lame and overpriced, which didn't help.
Probably had a significantly smaller budget, so it was able to smash lower targets while not being immensely popular.
I wonder how Borderlands 3 did overall as well. I've seen that game for under $15 multiple times (and in multiple clearance racks for $5).
A sequel will need a lot of work. They didn't lean nearly enough into the fantasy elements, which left the combat feeling like Borderlands rather than a new franchise. The end game is trash, there's no new game plus, no proper DLC/expansions, etc. The drop rates for loot were god awful.
It had a lot of great ideas but in terms of gameplay it felt way too safe, like Gearbox was too scared to stray too far from Borderlands.
I legit thought it was intended to be dlc at first for b3 which kind of explains why it didn't
Yeah, fuck those drop rates. Trying to farm for something specific was futile. Especially for the armor. Need to match 2 classes instead of 1, and then there's the whole Ascended, Primordial, etc thing that made it even harder. Add another class into it later lowered the chances even further. They really needed to tailor drops so you had a better chance of getting your own classes drops.
This is why I stopped playing. I'd spend an hour or two every day farming, filling my inventory, loading up loot bunnies with crystals, and consistently get nothing to show for it after a month of trying to get an upgrade for one piece of gear.
What an absolute douche.
The way he goes on is some arrogant, good job trying to sell your studios next game with that attitude. Gamers don't forget.
Yeah I think I can skip a few Gearbox releases for the foreseeable future....
What a douche, no way we should buy the new Borderlands on the release date, and i like the series.