Randy Pitchford (Gearbox) on Steam and GFWL
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Areius




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PostPosted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 22:18    Post subject:
I still like DNF to this day.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 00:40    Post subject:
I'd still buy Duke Nukem Forever for a full price compared to buying a Call of Duty game for a full price.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 00:55    Post subject:
yeah. It was a good game. Surely better than cod


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 02:39    Post subject:
KillerCrocker wrote:
Fuck Pitchford.
He lied so much about DNF. SOOO MUCH.
"It is the best game ever. We are so proud of it etc etc etc"
FUCK THE SON OF A BITCH


He never said any of that. He said he liked the game and realized it wasn't for everyone, but believed it was treated unfairly by reviewers. If there's one thing he did lie about, it was his claim that DNF had secret areas like in Duke 3D.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 05:01    Post subject:
consolitis wrote:
Better be a "liar" than downright insane and stupid.

Hey, let's not start talking about Peter Molyneux here!
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 06:01    Post subject:
KillerCrocker wrote:
yeah. It was a good game. Surely better than cod


mmm a 'sequel' to a game you never played when it actually came out.
it was a decent game. it had duke humor. and an ok fps experience. like what more do you want? original duke was never really epic awesome. it was one of the only games any of us actually got to play. rott, d3d, doom, and a few others. duke stood out for his attitude, one liners, and tities. that's pretty much it. The gameplay / levels of duke nukem were outdone really fast.


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PostPosted: Mon, 1st Oct 2018 19:15    Post subject:
https://www.pcinvasion.com/gearboxs-ceo-scammed-out-of-3m/

A con artist is at large after scamming a reported $3 million out of Gearbox Software CEO and President Randy Pitchford.
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PostPosted: Mon, 1st Oct 2018 19:57    Post subject:
Read it yesterday but the source was some 'murican paper that wasn't available from yuro post that RGPD stuff in may.

Karma is a bitch, huh randy?
Let's have game journos interviewing the scammer though, so he can explain to randy and the missus how they're not being fair about this Laughing


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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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PostPosted: Mon, 1st Oct 2018 20:04    Post subject:
Scammer is probably lying low under some concrete.


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PostPosted: Mon, 1st Oct 2018 20:04    Post subject:
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One fateful day in 2016, the Pitchfords were shocked to learn they did not have enough money to make payroll


Imagine being so rich that you never bother to check your card balance until someone dried it out. Crying or Very sad

Also it feels like there is more to this. Weird how people so willingly and without anything in return give him credit cards, cars and other stuff. And what kind of a man works as a interior designer? A homosexual one! So putting 2 and 2 together I would say this guy has been a secret lover of Pitchford, the "friend" Worthen and probably others and they gave him the money for it. If it wasn't for Pitchford's wife to find out he was using the card, I assume this wouldn't have ended.
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PostPosted: Mon, 1st Oct 2018 20:30    Post subject:
stemot wrote:
I still like DNF to this day.


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PostPosted: Mon, 1st Oct 2018 21:34    Post subject:
lolozaur wrote:
https://www.pcinvasion.com/gearboxs-ceo-scammed-out-of-3m/

A con artist is at large after scamming a reported $3 million out of Gearbox Software CEO and President Randy Pitchford.


Just goes to show how aloof and separated from reality wealthy people are. A few hundred thousand dollars go poof over the course of a year and neither of them notice it until YEARS later. It's like losing pocket change in a couch to these people. And they're seen as "leaders", "visionaries", and heads of studios (and we wonder why games are complete shit now'a'days?) . In all honesty, I'm surprised the guy knows how to wipe his own ass. Laughing


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 00:12    Post subject:
http://archive.fo/GlyXD
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Former Gearbox Lawyer Accuses CEO Randy Pitchford Of Taking Secret $12 Million Bonus In Lawsuit Gearbox Calls 'Absurd'

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.


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Yes, it's true.


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 00:19    Post subject:
just read it on kotaku https://kotaku.com/former-gearbox-lawyer-accuses-ceo-randy-pitchford-of-ta-1831679539

rip randy assford. good times for the industrie
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He is DONE! Laughing

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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 00:31    Post subject:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/gearbox-ceo-allegedly-kept-underage-porn-on-usb-stick-new-lawsuit-alleges/

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Randy’s rebuttal: The porn was a “magic trick”

Bizarrely enough, Pitchford corroborates some of the story's details by appearing on a podcast that went live one day after Callender's suit was filed. On the December 22 episode of The Piff Pod, Pitchford talks at length about porn that he enjoys watching, including "camgirl" pornography, in which a host exposes themself to a live feed and takes requests and financial tips from consumers. Pitchford explained that he was "a consumer of this content." He confirmed that he copied a specific video "to this memory stick" to, as he describes it, "work out the method" of how a camgirl host faked the act of female ejaculation. (Be warned: he describes how the video looks in particularly graphic detail.)

"I realized, this is not a sex worker," Pitchford said on the show. "This is a fucking magician." Pitchford, for those unaware, has a vested interest in the field of magicians and owns the magic-focused Genii Magazine.

"This was before I learned I should probably have password-protected memory sticks," Pitchford says, before admitting that he had indeed left a USB flash drive at a Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament restaurant. "Some kid, an employee of Medieval Times, discovered this memory stick, took it home... and discovered secrets of my company and future games in development, and also discovered the pornography. It was 'barely legal' porn. This girl's handle was 'Only 18.'" The USB flash drive was returned to Gearbox, Pitchford says, in exchange for "swag" and video games.

Pitchford claimed that the flash drive arrived at the studio while Pitchford was on vacation, so his executive assistant checked its contents. "Before I know it, I think the entire office looked at it. And there was one piece of content on here. And it never occurred to any of them that the reason why there was just that single porno was because of the magic trick, not because of [pause] I don't know whatever the fuck they thought." Later in the podcast, Pitchford suggests putting this "Only 18" performer "on the cover" of a future Genii Magazine issue.


Sure, Randy, sure.
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My sides, where are they? How long can a person survive without sides?
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 00:43    Post subject:
yeah all that magic in all the porn videos where women make dicks disappeear in their mouth or genital parts. amazing Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 00:48    Post subject:
Wow Laughing


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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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PickupArtist




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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 01:39    Post subject:
who here never had any porn with them , stfu liers Razz

after seeying the halflife 20year documentary where he explains (39 mins in) how valve fucked him during the sierra valve negociations with the CONDITION ZERO game and a third possible expansion , i think he became the lier he is today, he learned it from valve, but i bilieve his story, u never just have one pron .... that isnt enough to u damn well know what Very Happy

and once the scum seed is planted 12 million dollars turns them into super scum with no morals Sad


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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 01:54    Post subject:
Lol, so Randy Pitchtent likes 'em young.

Meh, if it's 18+ it's perfectly normal. But saying "i was watching this to see the magic trick" is like saying you watch porn for the plot Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 01:55    Post subject:
This is for Aliens Col Marines, you prick.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 02:34    Post subject:
Hang him high.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 03:10    Post subject:
Holy shit, i've always hated that douchebag, turns out he's a genuine piece of shit.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 03:13    Post subject:
I bet Jim Sterling is having a great time right now. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 03:26    Post subject:
@Nodrim I look forward to it too.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 04:56    Post subject:
18 is underaged now? Additionally, who cares? Certainly not me.
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PostPosted: Sat, 12th Jan 2019 06:27    Post subject:
Pitchfork telling porkies again... Laughing
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