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

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PumpkinSpiceBitchMeringue said:
Gearbox is going to release Borderlands 2 in VR. There are pre-orders for now.
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Well, they did published that Desert Bus VR game and that was somewhat successful, even if any company could have published it and sell a ton of copies anyways, because of how infamous the original game is.

Randy probably now thinks that VR is an instant winning formula, so he's releasing a port of BL2 to make a quick buck, Gearbox seems rather desperate these days.
 
LMAO Randy is going around his local malls and snitching on small shops to his big developer friends :story:

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There's rumors going around about potential new DLCs for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel. Honestly I don't believe any of it, yet given how the VR version was released a few days ago and apparently The Handsome Collection was added to Steam I really don't know what Randy's idiocy is capable of.


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PumpkinSpiceBitchMeringue said:
There's rumors going around about potential new DLCs for Borderlands 2 and Pre-Sequel. Honestly I don't believe any of it yet given how the VR version was released a few days ago and apparently The Handsome Collection was added to Steam, I really don't know what Randy's idiocy is capable of.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vuKEcwPaRmY
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Maybe he saw older titles like Age of Empires or Titan Quest successfully getting expansions to this day, and decided to join the bandwagon? Then he dragged out a couple programmers and coders and told them to recycle the existing assets just one more time.

Why do this though? BL2 already has so many DLCs and content that Pre-sequel undersold and had its DLC plans abandoned. The only way I see it working is if Gearbox already has Borderlands 3 in the works and the old game DLC, free update or expansion ties the plot of old and new games, and teases some new features - this could also allow to experiment with gimmicks and features the dev team isn't sure about introducing to a sequel, then expanding them further in full game if they're a success. But I'm afraid Randy wouldn't think up of anything like it and it's just a last ditch attempt at earning a buck maybe?
 
BigRuler said:
between battleborn and lawbreakers, these guys have created two of the most high-profile disastrous failures in recent gaming history.
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Lets not undersell Aliens: Colonial Marines, the hugely anticipated next gen dip into the military side of the alien universe from the studio that made Brothers in Arms and Half Life: Opposing Force. That he then took the money the publisher was funding the project with to pay for work on Borderlands 2 and Duke Forever.
 
I don't have a Scribd account, so someone please fetch the PDFs (Added! after the story), because this shit WILL develop into a LOLsuit, it's a scientific certainty at this point. :story:

Emphasis in orange is mine.

Tagging in @AnOminous because I know this is his thang.
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Former Gearbox Lawyer Accuses CEO Randy Pitchford Of Taking Secret $12 Million Bonus In Lawsuit Gearbox Calls 'Absurd'
Jason Schreier

The former general counsel of game studio Gearbox (Borderlands, Aliens: Colonial Marines) and CEO Randy Pitchford are suing one another in a messy legal battle that sees both men accused of violating their legal duties to the company. The suit against Pitchford is full of sensational allegations, including the accusation that the Gearbox CEO received a secret $12 million bonus from publisher Take-Two Interactive as an advance against Borderlands profits.

Wade Callender, who served as Gearbox’s lawyer from 2010 until 2018, filed a suit on December 21, 2018 accusing Pitchford of violating various contracts involving both Gearbox and a separate real estate company that they both owned, as well as Callender’s own employment contract.

“The allegations made by a disgruntled former employee are absurd, with no basis in reality or law,” said a Gearbox spokesperson in a statement to Kotaku. “We look forward to addressing this meritless lawsuit in court and have no further comment at this time.”

Callender’s suit was filed one month after Gearbox sued him, in a separate case, for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Gearbox alleged that Callender borrowed money from Gearbox for a home loan and tuition that he did not pay back in full, and that Callender “abused the privilege of credit card access by charging unapproved, wholly personal expenses, including family vacations, gun club memberships and firearms accessories, and trying to get six-pack abs.” Gearbox also accused Callender of destroying evidence of the home loan agreement he made with the studio. You can read that suit in full below.

According to Callender’s lawsuit, which you can also read in full below, Callender and Pitchford were longtime friends (backed up by an old tweet from Pitchford) whose relationship fell apart over the last two years.

The lawsuit alleges that Pitchford struck a deal in 2016 to receive a “personal, secretive ‘Executive Bonus’ 0f $12,000,000 to be paid directly to Pitchford entity called ‘Pitchford Entertainment Media Magic, LLC.’” That bonus, Callender and his lawyers argue, is an advance upon royalties that would otherwise go to Gearbox’s staff. “This is particularly tragic exploitation,” the lawsuit states, “because these millions are being syphoned to Randy Pitchford’s personal accounts instead of funding the development of Borderlands.”

Callender’s most lurid allegation against Pitchford is an accusation surrounding an event that he says occurred in 2014. Callender says that Pitchford left a USB drive in a Dallas, Texas restaurant containing sensitive corporate documents for Gearbox and its partners including 2K Games, Sega, Sony, Microsoft, and others. Says the lawsuit: “Upon information and belief, Randy Pitchford’s USB drive also contained Randy Pitchford’s personal collection of ‘underage’ pornography.”

Callender also accuses Pitchford of holding parties in which “adult men have reportedly exposed themselves to minors, to the amusement of Randy Pitchford.”

Gearbox, founded in 1999, is best known for the critically and commercially acclaimed Borderland series. The studio also developed Brothers in Arms and Duke Nukem Forever. Pitchford, an outspoken figure who has become renowned for his brash statements and love of magic, has courted controversy several times over the years, most notably for his statements on the critically panned Aliens: Colonial Marines. That game also became the center of messy litigation back in 2014.

You can read Gearbox’s suit against Callender here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/397273508/Gearbox-suit-against-Callender
DL link: https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/397273508-gearbox-suit-against-callender-pdf.636567/


You can read Callender’s suit against Gearbox here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/397272204/Gearbox-lawsuit
DL Link: https://kiwifarms.net/attachments/397272204-gearbox-lawsuit-pdf.636566/

Source: https://kotaku.com/former-gearbox-lawyer-accuses-ceo-randy-pitchford-of-ta-1831679539 (http://archive.vn/kqWTx)
 
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This does sound a bit like typical disgruntled employee bullshit, especially the CP USB drive, but there's always hope! I love a good lawsuit episode.
 
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