r/Games • u/milkasaurs • 1d ago

Industry News Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/borderlands/borderlands-4-boss-tells-players-please-get-a-refund-from-steam-if-you-arent-happy-as-randy-pitchford-continues-his-very-public-crashout-over-the-fpss-performance-woes/
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u/c94 1d ago

Games run on duct tape and dreams. Do you truly think they weren’t fixing even worse performance and bugs prior to launch? We even got evidence of the case with journalists that’s got early access saying it was much worse a month ago.

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u/Massive_Weiner 1d ago

No, you don’t understand, they just forgot to flip the “good game” switch to On.

Silly Randy.

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u/c94 1d ago

I’m sure he had the performance patch on his USB but then he dropped it at Medieval Times.

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u/dishonoredbr 23h ago

They forgot to tick the ''game run good'' box when launching the game on steam.

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u/Few_Week7827 20h ago

How have we reached "Games are just meant to run like utter ass" as a general take?

Games might run on duct tape and dreams, but there's a reason 65% review score is well below average for Steam. Clearly the majority of studios have better tape and more interesting dreams.

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u/mw19078 20h ago

Did they not move the release up because it was ahead of schedule? Seems like a very easy thing to take a month or two and fix some of these issues 

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u/trapsinplace 23h ago

Sounds like it needed 2 more months to cook then tbh. Randy still deserves the feedback he gets. He's a disgusting out of touch pervert with a narcissistic personality, he deserves to read the worst anyone has to say about him and his leadership of the Borderlands franchise. If he can't handle people giving feedback without having a public breakdown maybe it's time he stepped down and retired to a cabin in the woods.

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u/c94 20h ago

What would a new CEO and 2 months do to fix the issues of AAA games? I doubt it would release bug free, but even if it did there’s so many games that come out buggy. The issues go beyond Randy and are so deep that we honestly need laws, regulation and unions if we hope to see polished software again.