You’d think he’d be better media trained by now. But no, here goes the foot in the mouth.
$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"
Submitted 8 hours ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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NeryK@sh.itjust.works 40 minutes ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 31 minutes ago
He got the horrible Hand, Foot in Mouth Disease.
carlossurf@lemmy.ca 16 minutes ago
Borderlands 3 was the first game I didnt even bother finishing, just super boring lol
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 minutes ago
Real fans “Find a Way” Yarr.
eronth@lemmy.world 44 minutes ago
I guess me and my several thousand borderlands hours are not a real fan then? The games weren’t worth $80 even when they came with goodies. They’re not worth $80 without the goodies. I’ll just wait for a sale.
Goretantath@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
I can make it happen? Okeydokey! 🏴☠️
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
If Randy Pitchford was a real CEO he would find a way to make $60 games
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
He’s too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.
leavemealone@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Too much games to play on the market to justify the urgency to buy it at release for 80 bucks. they now compete with free to play, gamepass, Indy games, piracy, and tons of past games with lower cost.
The fomo of newly released games is low when most games are released in shitty state and need 1/2 months of patches/fixes and that’s not even taking in consideration that the best experience is when all the dlcs are released and make the game finally complete.
The AAA industry is fucked. In a world where quality games are released each weeks they are often but even the best way to have fun with our limited time, like tepid Ubisoft games…
WarlordSdocy@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Yeah I’m really starting to feel like we’re gonna see a lot of these companies shift from doing big AAA games to instead publishing small indie games. Almost all of these big companies have indie publishing arms now and as they start to see good profits from those without having to take on the cost of paying devs themselves I wouldn’t be surprised if they start cutting back on their own dev teams and shifting to that.
Exusia@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Randy pitchford?
THAT Randy Pitchford? The Randy Pitchford that, because he loves magic tricks, downloaded himself some squirt porn (sfw youtube link to moistcritical) and then left it at a Midieval Times? The same Randy that grabbed the Claptrap VA by the junk because he was tired of voicing Claptrap for free and had the audacity to ask to be paid so Pitchford tried to intimidate him? The same Randy Pitchford that somehow “lost” “lost” 10 million dollars of Segas money causing Colonial marines to bomb.
Fuck that guy.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I got Borderlands 3 free on Epic Games, and it still sit there not being played. Guess it’s time to leave this franchise for good.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?
Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Borderlands 3 is in a free giveaway after a year or so on Epic Games. The sales must be abysmal to give a flagship franchise away for free, because of Randy being a bitch and insist exclusive is good. This will hopefully bite them back like last time.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
When $40 is half price, I will generally pass as if it were $80. There is a glut of amazing content out there for $40 or less, and much of it is truly inspired indie work. When your half-price game is competing with great full-price indie titles, I will continue to ignore your overpriced corporate muck.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Or get it second-hand off G2A or CDKeys.
I’m never paying $80 for a video game.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
I wouldn’t advise using those services, myself. Lots of sketchy stuff. Legit copies of digital games go on sale often enough.
yamper@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
piracy is preferable over buying a key off of greymarket sites like this tbh
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I got Borderlands 3 about a year after release for less than 5€, I can wait.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I honestly think it will sell a lot because most gamers won’t be able to control themselves.
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
What does a 12 year old care about $80? They ain’t spending that. Their parents are.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Or perhaps even find it to be worth the price.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Hi Randy, fuck off lol
sturmblast@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Or we’ll boycott you shit ass companies
nthavoc@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
I can make it happen during a Steam summer sale 4 years later. Borderlands 3 wasn’t that great when you compare it to 1 and 2. I can wait.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I found a way already, it’s called patience. Works well for basically any non nintendo game.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
You can still (for the moment) be patient with Nintendo games if you’re OK buying second hand
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I solved that by moving to pc and forgetting about Nintendo’s existence.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 1 hour ago
Stop buying Gearbox slop. Jesus fucking christ people. Why are they still getting a free pass for being objectively shitty developers?
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I don’t condone this, but we already had $60 games 10 years ago. If you simply add inflation you’d be at $81 today. That doesn’t even take into account that modern games also have larger budgets compared to back then.
Video games really are a cheap hobby comparatively speaking. I still wait for sales of course :)
dermanus@lemmy.ca 58 minutes ago
Games have been surprisingly inflation resistant. I paid $70 for Playstation games in the 90s.
ISolox@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m a huge borderlands fan. I will not be buying this for $80 lol.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Suck my cock pitchford. Hope the game bombs as bad as the movie fuckwad.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Looks like fitgirl will be getting my business instead
modifier@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Found a way!
detun3d@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Not a fan. Borderlands 3 made it happen.
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
I’m not a huge fan of Borderlands. I like the stories. But I don’t like the loot goblining. Constant hunt for ever higher damage numbers.
There’s only 1 company I’ll pay $80 for a new game. And that is Ryu Ga Gotoku. Cuz they don’t miss. No bad half finished launches. No bad games. Every game is a masterclass in Peak. Image
Yermaw@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
I’m the opposite, I don’t give a monkeys about the story but I like the loot goblining.
That said a borderlands came on the gamepass the other week and I was so excited to lure my boy into co-op with me for the first time in ages. It wouldn’t stop crashing. I googled it to see if they were aware and all I could find was the company sucking it’s own dick about having already released the final patch to stop it crashing so many times. I wouldn’t say I’m thrilled about the idea of dropping $80 on a day one release.
Graphy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m a Loot Goblin that spacebars through the story too, but Borderlands hasn’t been able to scratch that itch in a long time.
The last one I played was Tina’s Wonderland and everything about it was a slog. I didn’t care about any of the loot or any of the fights and I definitely didn’t care about the story.
jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.
Feel free to roast me in the process.
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Yakuza 0, kiwami, kiwami 2, Yakuza 3, 4, 5, 6, then 7, then Gaiden, then 8.
Then play Jusgement and Lost Judgement. Not part of Yakuza’s core canon. But adjacent.
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I’ll add Factorio to the list of games that deserve the $80 tag. $40 for base, $40 for Space Age expansion. Or don’t get Space Age and go with the mod that spawned Space Age (although not exactly the same).
I get it’s a bit of a niche genre, though. The factory thing the way Factorio does it isn’t for everybody.
Ulrich@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I honestly don’t know how people play this game. Every 12 seconds coming across new gear. Can’t do it.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It didn’t used to be like that and they actually mentioned in the deep dive that they’re getting back to the way it was before. Like the point of the game is loot goblining, but they’ve promised not to inundate the player with legendary weapons every twelve seconds so that you actually have time to savor the weapons you get between good drops.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
It’s not like I need to do the math to figure out which gun is better and why. Find something with green arrows? Hold E to equip it immediately. If I use it for a bit and aren’t a fan I’ll just swap back to what I was using before and mark it as junk so I sell it next time I buy ammo or fill my inventory.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
TIL a lot of people aren’t true fans.
Neuromorph@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
Yarrow. Matey. Captains orders are to take to the high seas!!!
Jaeger86@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Randy’s a twat. I’ll pick that shit up for $20 next Christmas
madame_gaymes@programming.dev 7 hours ago
🏴
DrCake@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well guess I ain’t a massive fan then. Shame
Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m OK with not being a “real fan”.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
If you’re a real fan, Randy, you find a way not to fuck up the franchise, but so far after Borderlands 2 you managed to deliver us disappointment after disappointment. So fuck off, I’ll pirate 4 to play it for 3 to 4 hours after which I’ll delete is because it sucks as expected. If I manage to reach 40 hours of gameplay, which is 2 euros per hour, I’ll buy your game. But we both know this isn’t going to happen, right Randy?
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
The video game landscape is already filled to the brims with more games than I need to play for the rest of my life and you want me to hurry up to pay for a game as it comes out, to ditch out the full price when my computer would suffer for the lack of latest gen hardware when I could easily find a large amount of fantastic games for less than 10 bucks and comfortably max out their settings?
Like, the witcher 3 with all its DLC, a fantastic game which is 10 years old but got a free graphics upgrade and with all its DLC, worth hundreds of hours of gameplay and a memorable experience is less than 10 bucks, as we speak, both on steam and gog.
Most people already have more games than they have time to play. Patient gamer has never been more rewarding. We fall too often for the fear of missing out the experience of missing out on the hype of a new launch…
I finished GTA 4 and 5 like a year ago, on my steam deck. I couldn’t care less if these games came out like 10 years ago. It gives me the flexibility to play them how I want to.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 8 hours ago
Lmao guess I’m not a real fan then!
Almacca@aussie.zone 12 minutes ago
Borderlands isn’t that good, Randy.