I feel like my gaming life has devolved down to casually playing old games and then stepping into controversial topics on Era and making everyone mad at me. I should probably bounce out of this topic before I attract too much aggro...
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Randy Pitchford (Gearbox President) robbed of millions by his own personal assistant
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I feel like my gaming life has devolved down to casually playing old games and then stepping into controversial topics on Era and making everyone mad at me. I should probably bounce out of this topic before I attract too much aggro...
How did you possibly mean this to be read? I've seen so much dumb stuff here, but I don't think anything has left me nearly as confused. Not even that guy who makes a thread about next-gen turning every two months...
I always want to bring up the allegations about Gearbox and Sega or anything else and ask 'were any of this actually proven since it happened' and when it is brought up, some dumbass usually posts 'oh hey I found Randy' or some other dumbass shit so it just becomes exhausting to actually have a genuine discussion about things like this
You're absolutely right. But we can't just blindly punch up. That's the vibe I was getting from some posters around here and I just couldn't keep my mouth shut when I should have
no one is claiming to be enlightened in this thread but for real your discussion is literally for another day. take the time off from this shit and like, reflect on what you wrote.
This is 100% percent is me but boy did I not expect the thread to go the way it has. Between the Fallout76 crossplay thread and this I kinda feel like I have been reading the room wrong on Era recently.
Actually.... Yes!
Good night Era, See you tomorrow.
This has been a popular personal defense on the subject for years.
What if you personally funded someone and they chose to funnel it into another project, have the audacity to say they needed more money to complete your project, you agree thinking you can still trust them, they then pay someone else to do the work for them, then finish a better personal project for themselves in the meantime? I don't know about you, but i'd be pissed.
The second defense I always hear on this matter is "Your just a huge fan of the IP and was just disappointed".
And to this, I say, I never played Colonial Marines. Nor any Gearbox game or any game in the Aliens IP. This was just a scandal I came across, read the headlines, didn't think much of and moved on. Until one year a voice actor at Youmacon brought over the Vice President of Gearbox Business Division (the guy who voices Claptrap). And he asked the audience in the panel who bought a used copy of Colonial Marines. Few hands went up. Then he went off on a tangent swearing off those people in the panel and how they were destroying the industry, this went on to an uncomfortable level.
That's what made me curious and lead me to actually read up on the scandal in its entirety and became informed.
So does this decision effect me? No. But does Randy and his company deserve criticism and any sort of karma given to them? Definitely. But we shouldn't downplay what happen just because we got a very well made game that a lot of people enjoyed out of it.
The dude funneled and stole money from Sega, now he had 3 million dollars stolen from him. That's poetic, but the accountant will probably be caught but, hey, two wrongs don't make a right. But it's sure as hell entertaining to watch.
Edit: My sympathies does go out to any of his employees who had no action in any scandal, and will be unfairly affected by this.
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People really should stop with the whole Randy stole money from Sega thing. It comes from one anonymous blogger. Even Randy's biggest hater Jim Sterling has to clarify: "I can't back his claims of "embezzlement" -- likely more an emotional response on his part than anything else."
Well I'm surprised how quickly its all gone downhill. Feels like just yesterday when everyone ran out of a burning building and started pretending they never lived in it.
This thread is profoundly embarrassing.
Agreed. More and more I feel like this forum has failed to maintain even the most basic aspects of what it set out to do.
Agreed. More and more I feel like this forum has failed to maintain even the most basic aspects of what it set out to do.
Wow, you really put yourself out on the line there. Imagine the life you lead where Robin Hood was the most damning name you could come up with.
That's still food service employees having there livelihoods affected by something they have very little control of!!!!!!!!!
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