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[Draugoth]

After a launch last week mired in optimisation complaints, stuttering woes, and crashes. In response, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has been busy batting off critique regarding the game's performance on his X account over the weekend—although his comments don't appear to have gone down as well as he might have hoped.

"Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers. Just as Borderlands 4 cannot run on a PlayStation 4, it cannot be expected to run on too-old PC hardware," he posted on Saturday. "This is not a game made to run on 10-year-old PCs… if you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed."

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'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/borderlands-4-is-a-premium-game-made-for-premium-gamers-is-randy-pitchfords-tone-deaf-retort-to-the-performance-backlash-if-youre-trying-to-drive-a-monster-truck-with-a-leaf-blowers-motor-youre-going-to-be-disappointed/

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Top lad Randy

Poors need to GTFO

 

[Eesha]

im still wondering how Gearbox is still alive whit this bufoon on the lead

 

[Yoshichan]

"Code your own engine and show us how it's done, please"

 

[MidGenRefresh]

There's nothing premium about Borderlands... there never has been. And I'm a fan.

 

[AJUMP23]

Someone in his PR department should take his social media away.


Someone ask him if he is taking everyone's bonuses again?

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Premium shit for premium gamers. (c) Randy Pitchfork

 

[TintoConCasera]

"Code your own engine and show us how it's done, please"

What this greasy retard doesn't seem to understand is that his devs and those companies can say all the stuff they want, but in the end the one's who's right will always be the customer. If the customer says your game runs like shit while not looking much better than the previous ones, then you've done a very shit job, period.

 

[GymWolf]

Bl4 doesn't even run that bad on my pc but dude should learn to read the room and shut up when most people are having problems.

A cell shaded game didn't needed to be made in ue5.

 

[Scrawnton]

Randy is a premium chode.

 

[Kacho]

What a shitshow the launch has been.

 

[MisterXDTV]

He's clearly having a mental breakdown after being mocked for the whole week

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Premium Gamers.

That's a good one, PS3 Sony era would be proud.

 

[Valt7786]

While I'm in no way agreeing with the way in which he's saying this and there's undeniable proof his "premium" game runs like arse even on "premium" PC Hardware, underneath all the layers of stupid he has a small point.
It's about time we let go of old hardware, start progressing things again. The PS5 is 5 years old now, time to move on.

 

[The_hunter]

No FOV slider on console

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Man this dumbass needs to learn when to keep his mouth shut. Does he really think this is going to counter the criticism and make people want to buy the game?

 

[Dazraell]

Someone in his PR department should take his social media away.


Someone ask him if he is taking everyone's bonuses again?

"Hey Randy, we've heard you are a magician or something. Could you show us a magic trick where you disappear for like a month and a half? That'd be great, thanks"

 

[Kuranghi]

The game just starts stuttering for no discernable reason after a couple of hours of play. This happened on PS5 Pro, in both coop and solo.

Fix is restarting from the main menu, I'm kinda reluctant to play more until that's fixed tbh.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Lol what a chump. Memory leaks on PS5, no Pro patch, runs like a piece of shit on most PC hardware and has a fuck ton of bugs and crashes.

Randy, fuck off you absolute bell end.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

"premium gamers"? What a total retard.

 

[proandrad]

Guy should just retire and enjoy his money.

 

[Gonzito]

This guy should not use social media because he doesn't know how to talk

 

[DirtInUrEye]

How come it still essentially looks the same as the last game then?

 

[Abysse]

 

[PurePlatinum]

I understand his sentiment but this guy has a habit of saying the absolute wrong thing.

Your game is not good enough to be talking all this trash.

 

[hemo memo]

Calling Borderlands 4 premium is like calling KFC fine dining. Borderlands as a franchise is the gaming equivalent of McDonald's mystery meat. Bloated with meaningless loot and recycled jokes that make you cringe and missions so bland they could be microwaved. It's industrialized mass-produced trash pretending to be fun.

 

[PauloRoberto]

Man, this guy must study somewhere... there is no way someone can be so naturally idiot, obnoxious and unpleasant...

 

[Nvzman]

To me, the craziest thing is not UE5 itself, its how absolutely terrible of a job developers are doing to actually optimize with UE5.

Its definitely partially the engine as a problem, but Sonic Racing Crossworlds uses UE5 (no lumen or any RT stuff at all) and runs on a literal toaster (my 9070 on a HTPC setup was only using like 30% of the GPU at 4k 60fps max settings), so clearly shit like Lumen is just a complete performance burden and should be avoided by most devs until Epic fixes how crap it runs.

 

[AJUMP23]

"Hey Randy, we've heard you are a magician or something. Could you show us a magic trick where you disappear for like a month and a half? That'd be great, thanks"

That is what his PR team would love.

 

[Kacho]

Man, this guy must study somewhere... there is no way someone can be so naturally idiot, obnoxious and unpleasant...

It's pure ego.

 

[adamsapple]

For his next trick, Randy will pull out another quote from his ass.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

This is actually the best statement I've heard him make. The premium gamers line sounds bad but in context he was comparing cell phone gamers to someone new pc gamers.

Doesn't excuse his game not being optimized well for the recommended specs of course.

 

[Fake]

Stupid game for stupid people, just like that trash movie.


I really can't stand this artstyle.

 

[Bigfroth]

Can anyone become a premium gamer if they want to?

 

[MiguelItUp]

I can't say I'm surprised by this at all. I mean, it's Randy, it's Gearbox, and it's Borderlands. There was bound to be some stuff, lol.

 

[roosnam1980]

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

This is actually the best statement I've heard him make. The premium gamers line sounds bad but in context he was comparing cell phone gamers to someone new pc gamers.

Can't believe Derrick Henry didn't score a touchdown.

 

[Skifi28]

Someone in his PR department should take his social media away.

I don't think we should take the shovels away from people digging their own graves. Where's the fun in that?

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Can't believe Derrick Henry didn't score a touchdown.

Dude! I'm never picking him again. I just watched the highlights of that game but it looked like they just use him to block.

 

[OLED_Gamer]

Bullshit. I don't buy an Audi RS6 for it to stutter all over the place.

Whats with these execs?

 

[Novaex]

Should have said that he doesn't want unwashed peasants to touch his game.

 

[Eesha]

Is Borderland 4 the new Crysis?

 

[Laptop1991]

I played 2 for a little while years ago and didn't like the cartoony graphics, but i've just seen some gameplay from the trailer of 4 on the Steam forums, i hope his premium PC to play this game didn't cost too much because if it did, he was ripped off lol

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

Finally someone speaking truth to gamers, that's why it hurts so many of them so much, they dont want to accept reality.

 

[keefged4]

I liked Borderlands 2, couldn't be arsed trying 3. Definitely not going near 4 just because how much Randy has demonstrated how much of a colossal wank he is over the past few weeks.

 

[Germuso]

Not cut content here?

 

[Kacho]

Hard to believe Grummz is the reasonable one here

 

[Gamer79]

And it runs like Shit

 

[GudOlRub]

Someone in his PR department should take his social media away.


Someone ask him if he is taking everyone's bonuses again?

He has been like this on social media for more than a decade now and still people buy Borderlands in the millions...

 

[AJUMP23]

He has been like this on social media for more than a decade now and still people buy Borderlands in the millions...

I will get it eventually, because my son and I enjoy playing it together.