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Randy Pitchford (Gearbox President) robbed of millions by his own personal assistant
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There was a online magic store about a decade ago called Hank Lee's Magic Factory, out of Massachusetts. Every week they would have crazy 30% discounts on almost anything and everything. It seemed impossible to do week after week, as if it was the greatest magic trick ever.
Well, as they say, every "miracle" has its price. Turns out Hank was skimming off of his richest customers, hoping they wouldn't notice the small credit card charges among the big ticket items. Well someone finally did notice.
That person who noticed was Richard Garriott, Lord British of Ultima.
No more Magic Factory.
Well, as they say, every "miracle" has its price. Turns out Hank was skimming off of his richest customers, hoping they wouldn't notice the small credit card charges among the big ticket items. Well someone finally did notice.
That person who noticed was Richard Garriott, Lord British of Ultima.
No more Magic Factory.
I didn't know communists still existed. Do you live on a commune?
not the greatest example there, considering housing speculation is absolute poison to society and has had pretty extreme ill effects and screwed the lives of millions upon millions of people.
Wow. You have so thoroughly owned me with this mighty post, I am now considering changing my ways!
I don't know why it's surprising, capitalism is shit so of course socialists continue to exist.
Lol his assistant learned from the best
As BernardoOne said he stole Sega's money for his big boom, he also stole the Borderlands art-style from an independent artist. His success comes from him committing criminal acts and not suffering for it because he's rich. On top of that he's incompetent and has failed miserably at everything post-Boarderlands, he constantly lies to consumers, lies about poker winnings, and comes across as an asshole.
Why would you want to defend a guy like him? I mean I guess Opposing Force was a pretty good expansion but Randy wasn't the only person on the team.
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So if I write a story that's worth more than $10 to people and 300,000 people buy it for $10, I didn't earn $3 million? I just enriched 300,000 peoples' lives.
This guy has been stealing and cheating his way through his entire fucking career, all the while viciously attacking critics and even reviewers, and i'm supposed to feel bad for him?
Fuck that.
And that's even assuming any of this is true and not just another Randy scam.
Fuck that.
And that's even assuming any of this is true and not just another Randy scam.
While this is news. No worthy discussion can be had when a lot of the posts are "lol couldn't have happened to a better guy. "
Randy probably isn't one of them, but there are a fuck ton of people who deserve this and worse.
Call me Robin Hood, because I think it's cool and good that somebody stole something from a guy who was too rich to notice for years.
If this had happened to a beloved developer the only change in the discussion would be people calling the thief a piece of shit instead of cracking jokes at Randy's expense. At least this way I got a few laughs out of this thread.
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Wow, the fact that Randy says that it was such a problem they couldn't make payroll says a lot about how much of a flop Battleborn was, and how much Randy must have personally stepped forward to protect the company in it's wake. Otherwise there's really no reason the Pitchfords themselves should be having to do payroll-related stuff.
I mean the Colonial Marines shit was still not great, no doubt, but that's impressive.
Also, I guess just as a final though, reading the article you can see he's done this to a lot of people. I can't even imagine how gutted I'd be if I found out a trusted friend was stealing from me regularly. That must be some debilitating shit to deal with. :(
I mean the Colonial Marines shit was still not great, no doubt, but that's impressive.
Also, I guess just as a final though, reading the article you can see he's done this to a lot of people. I can't even imagine how gutted I'd be if I found out a trusted friend was stealing from me regularly. That must be some debilitating shit to deal with. :(
I'm honestly unsurprised about how this discussion went, from the Battleborn jabs to the people insisting that Gearbox deserves this. I'm not gonna lose any sleep over a faceless operating group like Gearbox's corporate level losing funds but like, they're an independently owned developer so the Robin Hood narrative being used to justify them getting burgled feels really off base.
The 'karma' thing feels off too. Like we all know about Gearbox's supposed dirty laundry at this point regarding SEGA, Borderlands, etc but like damn, you'd think they treat their developers like Telltale did. (At the same time TimeGate kind of closed down at the expense of Colonial Marines so I can at least understand the karma narrative.)
The severity of the theft is high enough that the implications that Gearbox couldn't make payroll because of it is fucking scary for a 300+ development team. Again, I'm not gonna lose sleep over Randy but like his team is losing their livelihoods due to an external factor they have no control of. But like Randy said, he didn't destroy Gearbox so eh
The 'karma' thing feels off too. Like we all know about Gearbox's supposed dirty laundry at this point regarding SEGA, Borderlands, etc but like damn, you'd think they treat their developers like Telltale did. (At the same time TimeGate kind of closed down at the expense of Colonial Marines so I can at least understand the karma narrative.)
The severity of the theft is high enough that the implications that Gearbox couldn't make payroll because of it is fucking scary for a 300+ development team. Again, I'm not gonna lose sleep over Randy but like his team is losing their livelihoods due to an external factor they have no control of. But like Randy said, he didn't destroy Gearbox so eh
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Yeah I noticed this was in September of 2016, so like 4+ months after Battleborn's release. I'm sure the flop of that game wouldn't kill the company but imagine being hit by a one two punch like this? That's the kind of shit that would put any 100+ dev team in the gutter.
Who's paying the printers? The supply chain workers? The PR? The bookstore?
It absolutely does not. Karma isn't a thing. Karma for what Randy did before wouldn't involve jeopardizing 300 developers' jobs, for one thing. Those people didn't do anything wrong.
I'm not sure it was Gearbox's payroll. It might have been a restaurant Randy's wife owns.
https://www.dallasvoice.com/warrants-issued-after-martin-fails-to-show-for-trial/
Edit: actually looks like I need to do spme reading on Pitchford!
It's a shared business account apparently ? But like either way that's still livelihoods being fucked with -- hell, that's /food service/ workers having their payroll fucked with. that's still really bad
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