Re: Borderlands 4 justifies its contentious price with one must-have feature

On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 09:30:12 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 02/07/2025 18:58, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

It must be fun working in the Gearbox PR dept. where you wake up every
morning thinking, what has he done now.

I just assume they are awoken by a TOS era red alert klaxon and flashing
lights.
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Randy Alert, Randy Alert ...!

He also queried fans about whether making the next Borderlands game a
platform exclusive (without specifying the platform) was something
they should aspire to. Fans were not pleased with the notion.
 
As PC Gamer suggested, somebody needs to take away his phone. But I
think CEOs like him think that ANY publicity is good publicity... and
that anything that comes out of their mouth is worth listening to.

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What sort of mindset would make you think that gamers would aspire to
having a platform exclusive game. Normally I'd say this game was just ok
but as there's lots of people that can't play it I now find it really
good, I mean seriously?

In this case, the question was as much about the storefront as the
hardware; e.g., would be okay if BorderLands(Next) was exclusive to
Steam, or to Epic, or GOG more than PC or XBox or Playstation.

The response was fairly predictible, with most people saying no
exclusives at all (but if there had to be one, put it on Steam).

Mostly I think it was Pitchford just being a troll. He didn't get any
useful new information and just wanted to keep the Borderlands brand
in the news. And I guess it worked... even if it did poison the brand
a bit more. But that's a problem for the future, and modern CEOs don't
ever worry about that sort of thing.