Randy Pitchford weighs in on the recent Arenanet drama by saying some really fucking stupid shit.

97  2018-07-07 by OddSandwich

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Where’s the really fucking stupid shit?

Well it's related to video games so..

As much as I think ArenaNet did the right thing, that was rather elegantly done.

I dont get it

Yet again, this yet one more argument against tweeting

Ceterum censeo Twittrum esse delendam

Game Development is really hard. The best work comes from people who build up trust through working together over many, many years.

lol This faggot literally stole the concept and art design for Borderlands from some amateur film makers and literally used art stolen from some random guy's movie poster for Borderlands 2 promotional material. Gearbox also allegedly stole money from Sega that was supposed to go towards that awful Aliens game they worked on and instead used it to fund Borderklands.

I seem to also remember him telling some weird lie regarding Valve's GabeN and a poker game and getting publicly called out for it.

I seem to also remember him telling some weird lie regarding Valve's GabeN and a poker game and getting publicly called out for it.

More or less. Joystiq was doing one of those fluff pieces on the origins of stuido's names, and he told them that he won the rights to the name Gearbox from Gabe Newell with a hand of poker on a riverboat casino. It got picked up by other blogs and he retracted it pretty quickly after, calling it a "tall tale".

That said, I feel like something as ridiculous as that should have gotten some sort of verification from Valve before publishing, but video game blogs aren't exactly known for their fact-checking.

He's a total autist. 4chan used to have a thread on him in /v/ every other week where cringe compilations of all the retarded shit he did/said were posted.

In an industry full of people saying dumb shit and doing shady business, he still manages to stand out. Not quite to the level of Denis Dyack, but still up there.

The company name poker game thing is clearly a joke that fell flat, something he thought was hilarious in his head but didn't pass by another human before sending to the journalist. Unfortunately most gamers, including the journalists, are fucking idiots who are too fucking po-faced about their hobby and decided to brand him a liar rather than someone with a crap sense of humour because they would really like to believe people play card games with Gabe for company names - just not this particular Pitchford man, who is unworthy because of whatever minor upset the fucking gaming fanbase has got stuck up its arse that week.

stole the concept and art design for Borderlands from some amateur film makers and literally used art stolen from some random guy's movie poster for Borderlands 2 promotional material.

Sauce bb?

This article gives a pretty good rundown.

Juicy, thank you.

When he ran out of things to steal, he made Battleborn

Lets take a look at that steam chart

Didn't he discover the rule34 subreddit for Battleborn and then promoted it in hopes thirsty nerds would be more likely to play battleborn instead of Overwatch?

I prefer the theory that he created the subreddit.

It's a good narrative, but I think it's pathetic enough that he was browsing the regular battleborn subreddit like a hawk to find something like that so he could try and get people's attention again.

I mean, in theory, that's not a bad idea, considering what made Overwatch popular with horny nerds was the SFM porn.

Then again, maybe if you're going to go that route, you should put some effort into making your characters actually attractive, not a menagerie of hideous monstrosities.

Paladins and even Quake Arena have more attractive characters.

Don't forget that the Gussy owner was working for ArenaNet for all of 8 months. And was previously fired from Paizo Publishing because of a similar incident.

Randy Bitchford, once again, talks shit about something he knows nothing about.

Someone does something unprofessional on twitter that reflects badly on the company. Company fires them.

This is apparently cause for a shitstorm.

If I say the word 'feminism' while punching someone in the cock, then you're sexist if you fire me.

It wasn't just a "someone". This was a white woman game developer. This was the creative force behind the compelling story of Kinectimals.

Show some respect for your betters, scum.

Kinectimals had a story

/u/xNotch why aren't you on a twitter rampage?

/u/xNotch why aren't you on a twitter rampage?

He was working on some sort of new project last I heard. Probably why he hasn't been getting into as many shouting matches with the mongs on Twitter.

He was working on some sort of new project last I heard.

Sitting in a big empty mansion throwing m&ms into his trilby.

Empty? That dude probably has, like, at least three sets of Rock Band.

Notch has got to be one of the saddest people in the world.

Most people ranting on the Internet have nothing better to do, which is sad in its own right. But Notch, as a billionaire, could literally do anything he wants, and yet still gets involved with petty online spats.

This dude tweets less than the POTUS.

Trump is also in that category TBF. Even before he got into the presidential gig I recall this one interview where he basically showed the reporter around his gold-plated hotel and penthouse and tried to get the guy to appreciate his garish spectacles of wealth. Like, literally some rando reporter. The Twitter spats are expected.

He is rich, succesful, he does what he loves, and he doesn't care about what others think.
He's pretty happy IMO.

t.brainlet

he's too busy being fat

Defending sack of shits on twitter hrrrrrrrmmmm

Too bad the league of part time bartenders didn't stick up for the guy who assaulted children at a whataburger like these people do for their all important video games.

These sames type of people are all for getting people with wrong think fired. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Boo hoo

In the case of that dead limey YouTube guy, JP was all for him getting cancer for wrongthink.

Randy Pitchford says some really fucking stupid shit

gee really i am shocked

An impressive big nose. 🤔🤔🤔 I wonder what it means. 🤔🤔🤔

We are safe here, you can admit you wonder if his dick is proportional

If he were a Jew he'd have success and money, so no.

Is this about ethics in video game twitter?

thank god i didn't buy battleborn

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Idiot twitter progressives are once again banding together to defend feminists' right to be complete dicks to people.

so real talk here, I don't think those dev's should've been fired. but the fact that the culture they helped to craft led to their own destruction is so delicious to me.

Delicious, sure, but we must ask ourselves if it is nutritious and Cheerio-so-good to eat.

I have no doubt that Price (especially after being fired for her previous job for similar reasons) was on thin ice and that this was not her first offense there. But there is no reason at all for ANet to go into the gritty details of why they fire people, it's unprofessional, so they're getting raked over the coals with everyone thinking her and Fries got fired for such a small thing.

They wanted her out. She's an insufferable and entitled cunt. She berates fans at Expos calling everything sexist. There's no doubt in my mind that the company wanted her gone in the first place.

Whatever white knight gaming company flies in and hires her next will very soon come to regret it.

These mean girls need to get the hell out of the gaming industry. They give hard working women a bad name.

so real talk here, I don't think those dev's should've been fired.

I don't get this.

If one of my employees went off on a customer, let alone a pretty well known one and then also did it publicly, I'd have no choice but to fire them. This is why we have things like an employee code of conduct and a social media policy at my company.

It's not like this woman was fired for her opinions, or beliefs, or politics. It's pretty clear she was fired for trying to bully a semi-popular youtuber with close connections to that fan community, and she did it in front of the entire planet.

I don't see how you can't fire her at that point.

I mean, I get it. I just don't think this one particular issue is worth of a firing. Since I wrote that, it seems like this has been a pattern with her, so it makes more sense now.

The other dude getting fired though, I still think that's pretty harsh. But maybe this'll suspend the whole "insult your customer base because a good portion of them don't agree with me ideologically" trend for a little while.

The other dude getting fired though, I still think that's pretty hars

Two things:

1) If it's company policy, then it applies to everyone equally.

2) This womyn is a raging misandrist gender warrior. If they fired her and not the boi trying to white knight for her, then she'd simply claim that Anet was sexist. Hell, she's doing this now already and of course the usual suspects in the gaming press are eating it up.

Literally who ?

Again Should they both been fired?

If it's JUST because of those tweets, then I don't think so.

My guess, is that the lady is toxic to work with so this was used as an excuse...I however would also kept the firings pretty low key, knowing that it's the current year and such.

However if any of Randy's team would fuck up on twatter Randy himself would fire him/her as soon as the news would start rolling, so he's a hypocrite.

please don't turn r/drama into r/kia k thx

Didn’t gearbox make duke nukem forever? I feel like Jessica price would’ve gotten fired from there too pretty fast.

Holly Green of Paste has made tweets hinting that Anthony Burch had a casting couch at Gearbox and that Pitchford didn't do anything about it.

Yeah, whatever.

If it was anyone but Anthony Burch, I'd at least consider it, but Burch is such a fucking cucked (literally cucked) loser he probably would just hide in the closet while he watched some other chad game dev fuck the chubby intern against the foozeball table.

Randy Pitchford says something unintelligent, news at 11.

"Cool Clock Jessica, want to bring it to the Gearhouse?"