Sometimes you should walk away. This may be one of those times. Earlier this month, The co -founder and CEO of Gearbox Randy Pitchford responded to someone On social media about the upcoming game of the studio, Borderlands 4and You may receive $ 80. He said that she was not invited and then added badly, “If you are a real fans, you will find a way to achieve this.” This did not die well with people online. A few days later, on May 22, he said he does not intend to look like a fool.
Now, a week later, it was published about the comment of “true fans” again. However, this time Pitchford wrote an article on that, Publish 573 words. In the prolonged response, he apologized for “misunderstanding” and repeated that he never intends to suggest people who cannot afford Borderlands 4 They are not real fans.
Instead, he said that his point of view was that Borderlands 4 –Game I am still excited to play in September–It costs $ 10 will likely not harm the next shooter, because he thinks it is great and still deserves the price. And you know what, after reading this post 500+, I believe it. I think Pitchford does not really expect a short tweet from a fire storm. But that happened, and at this point, I am not sure of publishing over and over again. If there is anything, this only leads to more people who learn the original comment, and as a result, more speech occurs. It is like Sideshow Bob exceeds Rakes. Every post gets more people, which makes the situation worse. It’s time to put the phone down, walk away, and allow the Internet to move to something else. So, this is my advice to you, Randy. Sign out, shout.
However, here is the full post, lightly coordinated so that it is easier to read:
I am sorry for a misunderstanding. The absolute absolute truth is that I do not want anyone to pay more than it should or feel comfortable and always work with the intention and I hope that the customer always feels that he gets a better end to the deal regardless of what they pay.
The actual context was that the man who responded to a post about Borderlands 4 on Nintendo Switch 2 was warning me that if the price ended to 80 dollars, the game would fail. What I was trying to do is clarify that it was not my call, but if the price increased at a value of $ 10 (since this is the place where the industry is going), it will be fine and that Borderlands 4 will be fine because it is a great game and there is a lot of fans who will see the value and want that.
I think my attempt led to the fact that using the phrase “real fans” raised some people and I saw that it was amplified as if I was making a big statement (I was – I was just trying to help someone I thought he was sincerely worried about us and looking for us, and I could not think about everything).
The sincere fact is that I am grateful because anyone who loves our games is so humble that many fans appear to enjoy and support what we do.
As an artist, I do not want the prices to rise because I want everyone to reach what we create. I get that this work is something and that the market and the economy are driving prices up, and we will have to adapt to all of this so that the creative engine can make it at least as much as it is spent on providing us with amazing content. Whatever it is, I am here to try to entertain people, and my priority has always been to try to add some joy, happiness and creativity to the world. To what extent I succeeded in that, I am grateful, honorable, and made his best with emotion and humility.
May I recommend that you think that people who create entertainment you enjoy are real and true people working honestly to try to make great things. I have allocated my life to video games as his entertainment, and I chose to be within reach here. I do not want to leave the edge cases that destroy that for the majority of people who find value in using this method for positive communication, but I cannot help there be part of me at least not to try to help those who do not get some perspective and some dignity in how they choose to interact.
I do not claim that I am perfect. But I do not deserve any latitude less than anyone else. I chose to think about others who have the most charity, and I often surprised to discover some of those who jump to the worst possible way to look at something because doing this is just a confrontation of my nature.