...or Do Not Play

way ahead of you there, guy

I have accepted reality and not purchased the game.

Thanks for the heads up Bobandy.

I accepted and just didn’t buy it to begin with.

Countdown to him getting fired in 3…2…3…4…8…49…

Because companies ultimately seem to love leaders that are toxic these days.

The reality is you made a game that few will play for several years. You could have made a game that could be playable on most contemporary machines. You didn't and will now have to suffer from shitty sales due to your inability to understand that the majority of us don't have the money to spend like you do you out of touch clueless ballsack.

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

Considering i didn't bother to buy anything borderlands related since Borderlands 2, it will keep preety muchbthe same for me

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

I swear I have no idea why they let him talk. He doesn't even own the company, surely someone at 2K could just go... you know... shush.

I don't even think the BL4 thing is that bad, on the face of it. There is really no need to make it worse.

"We have been made aware of some performance issues in certain systems in our new release, we'll be looking into performance improvements in future patches". It's not that hard. At this point just copy/paste whatever the other thousand UE5 games said, go fix the wonky precompilation boot step and stop digging a hole.

Hell, it's even easier than that, because they have actually pretty much put that out. All he really needed to do was shut up about it.

He's looking like the Anti-Gaben Newell in that picture there.

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.

Sorry I can't hear you Randy. I am playing silksong and after that, I am doing another BG3 playthrough.

Of course the borderlands guy would look like that

Why is he like this?

Guys who wear bowties are not smart, but desperately need people to think they are.

Welp, that's what I did. Got my money back. I'll buy it when it's $19.99.

Dude is such a tool.

Oh look the piece of shit opens its mouth again.

We understand you stumbled dick first into your position of power. Now please shut the fuck up, you somehow sentient sludgeball.

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?

Say it with me now: "Fuck Randy Pitchford"

UE5 is a shit engine as of now, but what can be expected of a company run by someone just as insufferable? Epic took the advent of tech like DLSS and frame generation as an excuse to disregard performance and functionality.

All you have to do is pick out any UE5 game that exists and Google that + "performance." Even meeting the recommended specs for Rogue City, I still had to find specialized configs to get the game the game stop crashing on launch, and even then, those specs were based on using upscaling and frame generation. In reality, "recommended" was about 25fps at 1280x720. That used to be, and realistically should be unthinkable.

AND EVEN THEN, the engine's built-in settings for upscaling and frame generation caused even more crashing. Ultimately, I had to disable it in-game and turn it on in my driver settings because of the busted-ass engine. This is a problem with the state of gaming, and people like Randy, Tim and their supporters are only exacerbating it.

They're using a poorly made graphics engine and got scammed into implementing malware into their game.

Is this not the third tabloid style headline here about essentially the same thing?

I wasn't too keen on that $70 basic version price tag in the first place, so thanks Randy. Can't wait for it to be $39.99

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