It's becoming a near impossibility to justify a purchase of a Randy Pitchford product. Dude is one of the worst people in the industry and he's not even hiding it anymore.
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Kotaku: Despite Huge Sales, Borderlands 3 Developers Are Getting Stiffed On Bonuses
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EGS money probably went to 2K. Article said that 2K had to recoup all costs before Gearbox gets something.
Hard to say without any context for what game development costs
The guy is scum. Still can not believe people would work or associate with Gearbox knowing of Randy's constant legal troubles.
Over and over and over and he still gets away with it.
Over and over and over and he still gets away with it.
This is kinda weird... it's really like spending your earnings through gambling while you haven't even gambled yet.
it's an incredibly volatile industry not everyone in it has the luxury to just wait for the perfect employer to come along.
I've said it for almost 10 years now and I'll say it again.
Fuck Randy.
AAA games are expensive to make, especially here in the west.
Fuck Randy.
Poor management, major decisions during development, paying employees, advertising, etc.
AAA games are expensive to make, especially here in the west.
Landing a job in an industry that already attracts, at a company that is pretty succesful, is really attractive for people who are starting out in this industry I bet.
These kinds of actions are often protected legally so I'm not sure suing would accomplish much other than accruing hefty legal bills for people who might already be struggling financially.
Randy Pitchford is awful.
He's always been a pathological liar. He claimed to work on Vanilla Duke 3D (Broussard himself rebuked this when asked about it), he claimed he almost won the name Valve from Gabe Newell in a Poker Tournament (Gabe Newell himself said this never happened).
These are white lies for sake of boosting his own ego and image, but now he's promised his employees bonuses that are not getting paid.
Don't give this man any fucking leeway - Ever.
Fuck Randy Pitchford.
He's always been a pathological liar. He claimed to work on Vanilla Duke 3D (Broussard himself rebuked this when asked about it), he claimed he almost won the name Valve from Gabe Newell in a Poker Tournament (Gabe Newell himself said this never happened).
These are white lies for sake of boosting his own ego and image, but now he's promised his employees bonuses that are not getting paid.
Don't give this man any fucking leeway - Ever.
Fuck Randy Pitchford.
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Lets be real, I can see BL3 budget being 95 million if they put in there some of the losses from previous games, growth costs, and development hell (basically doing accounting magic for it).
The DLC budget of 45 million (95+45 = 140) MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SENSE THO.
The DLC budget of 45 million (95+45 = 140) MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SENSE THO.
randy is more overt about it, but the talent is pretty much never at the head
This doesn't surprise me at all. Fuck Randy "squirting teens are magical" Pitchford. He's a creepy, greedy, sweaty little gremlin of a man.
I wonder if he'll call this article out, be it through subtweeting or @ing Jason, or something else. I know he's reacted similarly in the past when it comes to anyone shedding light on how much of a scummy fuck he is but I noticed that as Borderlands 3's release crept nearer, we heard less and less from him.
This is a perfect reminder for myself to skip out on getting the Switch ports, regardless of how much I loved 'em back in the day.
I wonder if he'll call this article out, be it through subtweeting or @ing Jason, or something else. I know he's reacted similarly in the past when it comes to anyone shedding light on how much of a scummy fuck he is but I noticed that as Borderlands 3's release crept nearer, we heard less and less from him.
This is a perfect reminder for myself to skip out on getting the Switch ports, regardless of how much I loved 'em back in the day.
Feel horrible for the devs. I'm honestly shocked that such talented developers would want to work with someone with a decade+ of consistently bad press, both professionally and morally. Hopefully a bunch of the devs leave and go somewhere else where their promised bonuses don't vanish via magic trick.
Also, if i was promised money and had it taken away and my boss told me "Quit if you don't like it" i would have had to have been physically restrained.
Also, if i was promised money and had it taken away and my boss told me "Quit if you don't like it" i would have had to have been physically restrained.
This industry needs to take a long, hard look at itself if you can't make much profit off the back of 7 million copies sold. Especially in a time where a lot of the copies sold are digital so bypass the retailers cut completely.
Of course the answer is to release consoles with 4x the power, needing much larger World's to show off the SSD at the end of this year...
Of course the answer is to release consoles with 4x the power, needing much larger World's to show off the SSD at the end of this year...
I am in no WAY DEFENDING Pitchford, no f'ing way. If anything I would never trust or believe any promise from a company run by Pitchford.
I get what you're saying but having a kid planned around a bonus, that's not how parenting costs work, kids are expensive long term lol. But that's all beside the point. Regardless, I hope the employees that were financially planning around a bonus based on game sales, or whatever metric, had this promise in a contract. Someone's word, or a hand shake ain't enough.
Regardless, we all know Pitchford sucks, nothing has changed. The devs need to start looking for new work if possible.
it's probably just shady accounting. They learned it from Hollywood where major studios swear massive movies barely break even to avoid paying residuals or bonuses.
Constantly amazed he still has any clout or even a job. Happy for the real devs that BL3 performed well because it's great to have your work be noticed, but not happy that it's only made Randy more legitimate in the eyes of the people who make money decisions.
Thats an insult to rats!
But yeah extremely scummy, fuck randy pitchford
Trust Pitchford to never miss an opportunity to be one of the industry's biggest scumbags.
Any opportunity that Pitchford creates for himself to have a huge steaming pile of shit dunked on him by Sterling and the broader community is A-Ok in my book.
Any opportunity that Pitchford creates for himself to have a huge steaming pile of shit dunked on him by Sterling and the broader community is A-Ok in my book.
I could have gotten a key for this, instead I paid for it and the season pass to support the devs.
Regrets, I have some.
Regrets, I have some.
The commonly used baseline for development in the US is on average 10k per employee/ month. Take a couple hundred devs for a few years, and you very quickly have huge budgets.
Yeah I realise it may be complicated but anything that hurts 2K/Randy would be good.
Swapped engines mid-development, expanded the studio, and those costs also include the development of all the DLC as well and probably some extra stuff.
I would hope so even if it's just in this case.
Ballooning budgets are a real concern though. I can't imagine what a GTA or Elder Scrolls game will cost to develop on Series X / PS5 with RDR2 being $250-300 million...
Man I feel bad for the devs but never make financial decisions based off an upcoming bonus and NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER trust Randy Pitchford.
Get out of that company, your skills will be appreciated much more at better companies (which is basically 99% of them).
Fuck Randy Pitchford, scum like that should not be in any industry.
Get out of that company, your skills will be appreciated much more at better companies (which is basically 99% of them).
Fuck Randy Pitchford, scum like that should not be in any industry.
this Is one nerd I would love to shove in a locker.
Gearbox devs shouldn't be afraid of a chronic masturbating grifter who looks like a clown's thumb after finger painting.
Gearbox devs shouldn't be afraid of a chronic masturbating grifter who looks like a clown's thumb after finger painting.
How much DLC is planned? If it gets 1-2 years of post release support then that doesn't sound outrageous.