• Light/Dark

Should Randy Pitchford distance himself from Borderlands 3?

lowhighkang_LHK

lowhighkang_LHK

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,913
Las Vegas
Obviously he's been associated with some controversy in the past. Generally speaking, a lot of people in the press and enthusiast gamers don't really like him for various reasons:

Deflecting issues. Blaming others. (Aliens Colonial Marines / SEGA)
Lying.
Go after members of the press (Jim Sterling) - also calling him fat
Telling journalists "to do their jobs"
Accusations of Owning pornographic content of underage girls. Pitchford claiming his USB was filled with "barely legal" content. Hmkay....
Accusations of embezzlement and fraud.
and then there is this...

Update:
And now his reasoning of why Steam is an evil monopoly and how the Epic Games store is the savior to PC Gaming.

As the CEO of Gearbox, the developer of Borderlands 3, I'm curious to see if they don't want him being on the front for Borderlands 3. Like he was for the first two main entries. Borderlands is generally a well liked series, with a lot of fans on this forum. But also said fans really don't like this guy, and it's always just seems unfair when you have a lot of people working hard on this game under a CEO who just kind of ruins it for everyone. I'm not exactly sure what the benefit of having PItchford be the face of the franchise exactly does, but it seems -at least in certain circles- it provides no benefit, but only harm.
 
Last edited:
Psyborg

Psyborg

Member
Aug 6, 2018
1,798
Him calling out PAX for the technical difficulties during the showcase was cringe AF.
 
DMVfan123

DMVfan123

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
7,363
Virginia
99% of people buying Borderlands 3 will have no idea about the Pitchford allegations, or who the fuck Randy Pitchford is in general
 

Adam802

Banned
Feb 12, 2018
660
Yes, he should distance himself from the entire industry tbh. But its not gonna happen unfortunately.
 
TheDanimal

TheDanimal

победитель победитель куриный ужин
Member
Oct 25, 2017
855
The only game you'll see him distance himself from is Battleborn
 
Zips

Zips

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,920
lowhighkang_LHK said:
No. I didn't. I loved Borderlands 1 and I'm ready to jump back in. So I'm trying to go on gameplay blackout for BL3. Can they not read the writing on the wall? Why not have the lead game designer come out and be the face of Borderlands 3?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
You thought that reply was about you?

... Weird.

But anyway, Randy should maybe distance himself a bit, yeah. Will that happen? Not a chance.
 
Cyanity

Cyanity

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,345
That stream today sure was.......something. Dude looks like he does a lot of cocaine
 
Damn Silly

Damn Silly

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,260
Given the allegations in the currently ongoing(?) lawsuit, and even just his general reputation, I think he should.

I think the stream today made it fairly clear that that's not going to happen though.
 
MJnR

MJnR

Member
Mar 13, 2019
668
No because I want to see him tweeting about 'reports' of a subreddit for rule 34 with Borderlands 3 characters.
 
Sou Da

Sou Da

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
16,738
Can't wait for the report a year from now about RoR2 losing all their money to BL3
 
spam musubi

spam musubi

Member
Oct 25, 2017
9,412
Damn Silly said:
Given the allegations in the currently ongoing(?) lawsuit, and even just his general reputation, I think he should.

I think the stream today made it fairly clear that that's not going to happen though.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Yeah even beyond the porn/child porn/sex theater in his mansion for child porn thing, he's also facing embezzlement accusations in the millions, and there's the Aliens embezzlement rumor. But this is gaming, so people won't really care. People have actively defended worse.
 
Kinthey

Kinthey

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
22,700
The casual audience won't know about his antics and the people that are informed know that he's the CEO of the company that makes the game so him distancing himself really wouldn't mean anything
 
Spazerbeam

Spazerbeam

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,449
Florida
I think Randy should just stop being the figure head for Gearbox and their reputation would suddenly be way better.
 
Kyle Cross

Kyle Cross

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,546
What's going on with that lawsuit that alleged he owned child porn and would throw underage sex parties? Those are some serious allegations and I don't want to touch anything Gearbox with a 50-ft pole.
 
OP
OP
lowhighkang_LHK

lowhighkang_LHK

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,913
Las Vegas
Kinthey said:
The casual audience won't know about his antics and the people that are informed know that he's the CEO of the company that makes the game so him distancing himself really wouldn't mean anything
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

But what does BL3 'gain' by having him in the forefront?

In addition to the serious accusations against him going on now, the members of the press don't like him, at all.
 
Strangelove_77

Strangelove_77

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
13,392
No one outside of this forum cares. He's not going anywhere.

Shit, even here most people don't care. It's just a handful of people who always bring it up in every Gearbox game's thread.
 
Calibro

Calibro

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,822
Belarus
A lot of people in the entertainment industry would be out of their job after stories like Pitchford's. But everyone seems to not care in his case. I'm interested in BL3 but hesitant to buy it because of everything Pitchford.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.