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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: The Borderlands movie is as bad as everyone expected
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:45:59 +0100
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On 21/08/2024 16:06, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:59:06 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
> <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Apparently even Uwe Boll is making fun of it.
> 
> On a related note:
> 
> Randy Pitchford, CEO Gearbox (developer of Borderlands), tweeted* in
> 2019 that the Epic Game Store "will outpace Valve’s substantially" and
> that "Steam in five or ten years [will] look like a dying store".
> Also, "Epic will inevitably surpass Valve on features and quality of
> service".
> 
> It also amuses me that Gearbox announced "Borderlands 4" yesterday,
> doubtlessly expecting that the excitement about the movie would help
> to hype up the game. Maybe they should have looked at the daily rushes
> before scheduling the game's release date.
> 
> These tweets, the movie, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Duke Nukem
> Forever... you know, it suddenly occurs to me that Pitchford may not
> be the best person to lead a business. ;-)
> 
> * here's an article about this very topic!
> https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/gearbox-boss-randy-pitchford-predicted-that-the-epic-games-store-would-kill-off-steam-5-years-ago-now-the-internet-is-mocking-him-as-borderlands-4-comes-crawling-back/
> 

That's just so horribly wrong it's laughable. Some of the responses 
mentioned in article did make me chuckle though.