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According to Randy, Borderlands 3 is apparently Schrödinger's "Premium Game" - so demanding because it is only supposed to be for "Premium Gamers", but also, we are supposed to excuse having to run it in lower resolutions and with higher input lag because it's not on the level of presumably more premium competitive shooters that do optimize better.
Sure, I won't play.
Don't play you say? Sure.
Might be the most insufferable Dev in the industry.
It's a tossup between him and Tim Sweeney
Nah, Sweeney at least has good takes every now and then, can't remember any from this guy
Tim Sweeney, the guy who has his studios go out of their way to break Linux support?
The guy whose lawsuits with Apple and Google are likely why Android is going to require developer registration in a couple years?
The guy whose storefront couldn't be bothered to add a shopping cart for 2 years despite throwing millions of dollars at publishers for exclusivity?
Yeah, that one. If you look through his posts he will occasionally show good takes. Not necessarily for the best reasons, but still. More than 0
Today, the gremlin told console players to quit and restart the game, as a fix for the performance drop the longer you play.
How do you get to be a CEO while being this stupid? Even if he was right, has he never heard the elementary phrase "the customer is always right"? Or more accurately, thousands of customers?
Since when been intelligent is a requirement to be CEO?
Wealth, high social status... has nothing to do with competence.
It mostly has to do with how much money you start with, who you know, and dumb luck.
Don't forget a complete lack of shame!
Ah, right yes, I forgot sociopathy.
How silly of me.
Much like the disappearing middle class, the game development market has shifted away from firms of every size and scale to two extremes: countless small indie devs and few massive corporations.
The CEO is confident that you can't get what they offer anywhere else, due to lack of competition at their scale, so it doesn't matter how well the game performs: people will still buy it.
You might want to look up the actual meaning of the phrase. It might apply here but not in the way you think. This isn’t early 20th century Sears.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right
this is mostly a thing in Western. nobody gives a shit about the customer in my country. they can fuck them
Not even Europe. It's a US thing
Read the wiki page there is a German and Dutch version in Wikipedia.
Just because there are translations, doesn't mean it was common place.
Sure there are some capitalists with that mindset in just about every country, but in Europe if any company tried to enforce it, the unions would squash it immediately. Because it is dumb and hurts the workers.
This Randy fellow is sure good at public relations.
Don’t make things the public consumes if you can’t take criticism
It's almost like this hasn't happened for the last several Borderlands releases. Like people just keep forgetting the company lies and produces sub-optimal trash at launch.
That's... a bold stance
not to play? lol, not to buy. I'll pick it up in a few years when it's on sale for a few bucks like all the other gearbox games.
I've never understood the massive success of this game franchise. I understand the appeal and that many people find it fun, but it's just never been all that great, IMO. There are so many much better titles out there. I'm guessing it's early success plus huge advertising budget and/or paid-for reviews.
Yeah, I mean the graphics, story, and characters are nice.
But the gameplay is so boring when just about every enemy is a bullet sponge and they keep respawning every time you walk between 2 places.
Yup. The rapid respawn stinks of lazy level designs. Respawning can be OK when done right.
I like them, personally, and there's absolutely nothing else that scratches the "I want to play Borderlands" itch. The quality varies a lot by the game, though.
I'm in the same boat. And borderlands is way better than destiny 2 in my opinion. I really love the gameplay of 3 and 4. I can see myself easily getting my money's worth out of it.
I've never really understood the comparisons between Destiny 2 and Borderlands, honestly. I like both but my brain puts them in very different boxes. Same thing with Warframe.
I kinda think there might just not be a lot of good looter-shooters out there. I remember looking for others to play and not having much success.
It's very easy to mess up imo, or people are pickier with them (or both). Warframe clicked with me, but playing BL2 I just wanted to complete the story as fast as possible and get out. Hard to pinpoint without playing both side by side.
Has he accepted what was on his USB that was found?
You know, I specifically remember the first having an awful port and they made an advertising campaign about how the second would be better for PC. Guess that's done.