💼 Careercow Randy Pitchford / DuvalMagic - Gearbox's magical fuck-up of a CEO, lost a USB drive full of porn.

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Feline Darkmage said:
I feel like this is a saga that needs more elaborating on.
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I think he's referring to how Randy took the money Sega gave him and Gearbox to make Colonial Marines and instead used nearly all of it on Borderlands 2. This is one of the reasons CM was such a legendary shit bomb; they took the money and had to outsource the game since they couldn't afford to finish it themselves. Sega of course never told them they could do this, yet Randy and GBX somehow got away with it.

So, in a way, he stole Sega's money.
 
Keystone said:
I think he's referring to how Randy took the money Sega gave him and Gearbox to make Colonial Marines and instead used nearly all of it on Borderlands 2. This is one of the reasons CM was such a legendary shit bomb; they took the money and had to outsource the game since they couldn't afford to finish it themselves. Sega of course never told them they could do this, yet Randy and GBX somehow got away with it.

So, in a way, he stole Sega's money.
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Can I see some sources on that? If that's true, it's both hilarious and sad.
 
 
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I wonder if Randy has a toilet fetish, that would explain the quantity of pictures of him at the toilet.
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Ser Weeaboo said:
Can I see some sources on that? If that's true, it's both hilarious and sad.
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Here you go: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Ge...ns-Colonial-Marines-Says-Developer-52765.html and http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Se...er-Embezzlement-Says-Sega-Employee-52947.html

tl;dr, Sega deserves to be blamed for shipping the game in the state is was in, Gearbox deserves to be blamed for being sleazy bastards. Some of the funds were supposedly used to help prop up DNF in addition to those funds used to develop the Borderlands games.
 
Keystone said:
Hate to use slimefuck game "jorunalism" sites but they're all I can find--

https://www.gamnesia.com/news/gearb...used-funding-for-colonial-marines-to-make-oth (http://archive.is/PlQEu)
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Se...er-Embezzlement-Says-Sega-Employee-52947.html (http://archive.is/x3OkG)
http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/28/86...es-lawsuit-loses-class-status-gearbox-dropped (http://archive.is/y6tln)
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SoberBlitz said:
Here you go: http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Ge...ns-Colonial-Marines-Says-Developer-52765.html and http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Se...er-Embezzlement-Says-Sega-Employee-52947.html

tl;dr, Sega deserves to be blamed for shipping the game in the state is was in, Gearbox deserves to be blamed for being sleazy bastards. Some of the funds were supposedly used to help prop up DNF in addition to those funds used to develop the Borderlands games.
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Thanks guys. So this just further confirms that Gearbox is a slimy company run by slimy individuals, and I'm, by my own set of morals at least, right in either pirating their games or buying them used to avoid supporting such shit.
 
I have a funny feeling Randy really liked Battleborn. He responds to provocation on it in oh so many funny ways.

Darwin Watterson said:
This made me laugh a lot.

I've actually not been much of a follower of Gearbox. I had Borderlands but never got around to playing it. The only game of theirs I actually own and have played is Duke Nukem Forever which is garbage. But to be fair, it wasn't necessarily Gearbox's fault that it was garbage. They just polished 3D Realms' turd.

Speaking of Duke Nukem Forever, it's a testament to how little this Pitchford character cares about anything other than profit. There's no way that, after polishing the existing product, Pitchford could genuinely say "yup, looks good" and mean it. If he did, he did so without actually testing it. That fucking game was in development for almost fifteen years, so it's not like it'd matter if they took a year or two to re-work it and make it not suck.
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They did debate holding off and building the game up from the ground again but it would've just extended their "vapourware" legend even longer. DNF suffered from a magpie of a director who would play all the new releases and tech development, then demand a level to have said new tech in. Which made the game the fucking mess it is.

Apparently one of the most expensive is the completely forgettable snow level.
 
Along with everything that everyone has already mentioned (Stealing money from Sega, Battleborn's stillbirth, the god awful new chapter to DN3D, that fucking song, DNF in general), don't forget some of the other greatest hits of Randy:

- Enabling Anthony Burch
- Outsourcing their only good franchise to 2K Australia who proceeded to fuck it in the ass (with Anthony's help)
- He's a fucking magician
- Re-releasing Bulletstorm for $50 with virtually nothing added; also pulling the original Bulletstorm off of Steam so you couldn't pick up basically the same game for $5
- Ditto for Homeworld Remastered, although Homeworld is a classic so this wasn't quite as bad
- Proved Half-Life OpForce was an accident as proven by his inability to create any other HL expansions worth a shit (Blue Shit was criminal)
- Remember Counter-Strike: Condition Zero? Neither does anyone else.

Gearbox and Randy have been worthless for almost 2 decades now. They released one good Half-Life expansion, one decent RTS and stumbled ass backwards into success via Diablo meets Doom meets memes.

Three good-ish games in 18 years. Gearbox is the Nas of video game companies.
 
proteus4994 said:
- Re-releasing Bulletstorm for $50 with virtually nothing added; also pulling the original Bulletstorm off of Steam so you couldn't pick up basically the same game for $5
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Don't forget rereleasing Duke Nukem 3D without the megaton edition content and level packs and user created workshop levels and making a worse version with shit sound with only one new level with the worst level creator commentary ever made, and for way more money than the original megaton edition.
 
Even Gearbox's actual involvement with the critically acclaimed Homeworld Remastered is less than minimal. Basically Randy won a bidding war for the IP when the previous owner went bankrupt, then he outsourced everything but the marketing and publishing aspect to the original Homeworld developers who had already organized into their own independent studio, who lost the bidding war and are now locked into a dead-end partnership with Gearbox for as long as they are making Homeworld IP titles.
 
Sorta related:

I just got back from a con that David Eddings(Gearbox VP of Marketing, Claptrap from Borderlands) was attending. While I was talking to him, I found out that he left gearbox 2 weeks ago. I wonder why...
 
OP could have simply put his involvement of Duke Nukem Forever as a lolcow.

That game crippled any chance of a half decent reboot of Duke Nukem for the next ten plus years.

Fuck this guy.
 
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