Review Bombings Make Things Worse For Bordelands 3 On Steam

Pitchford is absolutely right. If Steam is going to permit its fanboy client base to publish defamatory and harmful reviews that have no nexus with the quality of product, then developers absolutely should take their business elsewhere. Also, Steam is pretty stingy with the revenue distribution. If another sales platform can offer more favorable terms, the company owes it to its investors to explore those alternatives. These entitled fanboys believe that developers should just keep throwing money at Steam because.......I don't know. I can't quite figure it out. Money is money and if a better deal can be had elsewhere then Steam needs to adjust its revenue sharing model and take a more active stance against review bombing. Simply discounting review bombs is not enough. It should be obliterated and the perpetrators should be banned. The entire review process should be reconsidered, in fact, user reviews are generally so lacking in objectivity that they can't reasonably be relied upon anyway. Fanboys and haters tend to move the needle too far in one direction or the other.

*sits back and awaits the hate*

So now Pitchford is threatening not to come back to Steam and punish everyone for what a handful of jackasses did? I think I'll pass on BL3 altogether. I sank nearly 800 hours into BL2. That's enough for one series.

I will not use the epic store. The Chinese are heavily invested in Epic and I prefer to continue buying games where I choose. Without Fortnite the epic store world be done. A single game is giving them the ability to be jerks about exclusives. No thanks. There are many games out there. I don't care if I miss a few.

People bitch about Steam saying they need to have competition(which they have plenty of), but support Epic getting exclusive releases that literally give them no competition.

The irony is astounding.

I for one am over steam ever since they opened the floodgates to utter trash games

Steam needs competition.

This will benefit everyone in the long run.

Games are not exclusive they are still on pc.

Stop being lazy

About time someone said something

I just can't wait for EGS to start having the features I want (all seem to be roadmapped by June), so I can buy the games there instead of Steam.

Yes, having them all on the same platform w/ the same features, profile info, etc would be AMAZING. But I've accepted it just wont happen. WoW, OW, Apex, BF, ME, DA, etc aren't coming to Steam.

Now I try to focus on just the quality of the platform. Once EGS improves, I'll gladly help the publishers out and avoid giving my $ to greedy Valve. I'm already trying to use Humble over Steam as much as possible.

I don't blame them going to Epic because of the deal they received from Epic was just to good to not do. And I also don't blame his response because some people can't accept change or there are multiple platforms to get games and than some throwing tantrums. But I really don't get why people complaining, its like going to a store to get a specific brand of item, but it only sells at Best Buy or that product only sells at Walmart. Guess what, people want the game, they are going to Walmart.

can't blame him for getting annoyed about gamers throwing tantrums over minor shit every other week

Right, so I will be back in 2020 to buy it then. Maybe

Randy, pouting because you dislike dissenting opinions from the long suffering fanbase you're abusing is not a good precedent. Certainly this was not the way to express their dislike, but note that it also worked. You paid attention, and your response was no better than the situation at which it was directed. There's a clear problem here and a childish retort won't fix it. Best of luck to you in doing so, but...I don't know how much good will is left for you at this point.

Cant wait for the same boss to start crying about unfairness of pirating soon enough.

poor victim...who had no choice in this matter at all except maybe not being overly greedy.

I could care less how they sell their games, frankly the Borderlands IP is not remotely interesting to me, but what is interesting to me is seeing a game exec taunting an upset segment of his company's fanbase. It is simply bad business practice to taunt your customers, ever.

I see some shills have arrived. Perhaps they can help Randy explain what happened to that $12 million?

So, in Randy's tweet, he explains the reasoning for going with Epic had to do with them offering better cross-platform support which I suppose might apply to cross-play support. He also implies that there may be extra bonuses involved with the game. He might just be talking about pre-order bonuses, bonuses to the Steam version, or his payment.