Speaking for the first time about the subject since Gearbox was dropped from the Aliens: Colonial Marines lawsuit to Games Industry.biz, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has said that the lawsuit against Gearbox for the false advertisement of Aliens: Colonial Marines was ” a huge waste of time” and that their standing up against the lawsuit was “all it took“:
“That whole thing was a huge waste of time. The market proved it was doing its job perfectly. The market is dispassionate – rewarding what it likes and punishing what it doesn’t. There is an objectivity and fairness in the open market’s harsh, firm justice.
For every place the market succeeded, the legal system failed as it was being manipulated by what appeared to me to be essentially mafia style extortion tactics. Sadly, the manipulation would have actually worked, as it had in other cases with those same guys and to the detriment of the industry and gamers and actual, you know, justice. But those guys made a mistake in naming us as defendants because we stood up to them That’s all it took – someone to stand up yo them. And so they lost since they didn’t have a legitimate case.”
What do you guys and girls think of Randy Pitchford’s comments? Is he right? Thanks to Destructoid for the news.
Pitchford is at it again! We're all sadists out to crush his sandcastle for hating on Colonial Marines.
Ah Colonial Marines......at least the Wii U escaped this mess!!!!! The only version to rightly get cancelled! Shame Sega didn't give this to Rebellion or Creative Assembly :-
Got anything you'd like to #AskRandy ? Lmao. I'm gonna get a kick out of this Twitter thing for a while!
He lied. They pawned development off on smaller studios with fewer resources while Gearbox pumped out more paid content for Boringlands.
He's lost all of my respect and continues to show that he has little, to no respect for the Aliens IP, fans or gaming community. I won't support an of their future projects as a result, this as someone who owns two Borderlands games on PC and 360 (hypocrite, I know), and pre-ordered Aliens: Colonial Marines as soon as it was available. Not how to handle a controversial situation, Randy.
should step in dog shit and slide into oncoming traffic is more like it
oh and, INB4 the lock
But seriously, screw Pitchford, he's so full of it! He knows what he signed off on. He's scum. Not one shred of remorse? He was best to keep his mouth shut.
Just makes me want to continue to boycott this POS company. The man just has no shame; no remorse for purposefully lying to sell his product! He's a child that can't handle criticism when he's called out on his reprehensible bullshit!
If he couldn't afford a rich-ass lawyer, and if the court system was TRULY fair, he would be out of the job, or everyone who bought this shite based on his LIES would be getting our money back.
The people who stood up to Shitbox should be applauded. Pitchford is the rich corporate asshole who stands over others and throws money to game the system.
F*ck you, Pitchfird. F*ck you!
But seriously though, people should stop pre-ordering....
You people charged full price for a game with no multiplayer or resemblance to the demo a game people waited ages on and have the balls to say "all it took was to stand up to them" its more like all it took was to "stand on TOP of them with a rich ass lawyer" that is all that is. At least tell it straight...nahh keep lying to keep your job and get promoted. Randy is like Burke from Aliens. lol this story is better than the one in the actual ACM game. lol at least people are giving this story more attention than the actual game. smmfh :- :- :-
They sold a generic shooter with an Aliens mask I think we spent more time shooting Weyland Yutani personel than we did the title monster which became increasingly removed. I mean the promised footage from E3 was incredible that sold the game to pretty much everybody but we didn't get it and then Pitchford is surprised when people get angry with him. He knows he's guilty he even began blocking twitter users for saying they disliked the game even if it wasn't blaming him and just a simple statement of not being a fan of the game.To criticise the legal system from a viewpoint that holds no ground to do so is simply moronic. I know that legal system have their flaws (I work in that sector) but to say that people creating a lawsuit against him goes against justice is a f*cking joke.
I love how he thinks the justice system was bribed to hear the case because the claimants were using mafia tactics seriously what the f*ck? I appreciate I don't know every fact to do with the case but "mafia tactics" is he high? Rather than start bashing the people criticising him he should respect the criticism and work out what he was doing that was wrong, admit it (I know it's difficult for him) and work to right those wrongs. Randy Pitchford is a child who can't stand being told his creation sucks and thinks no one can say anything because his company created the successful Borderlands games which personally I'm not really a fan of but that's going off the point. I've read a load of stuff saying that Gearbox was pressured into the release and hadn't fully decided on the story when they released it.
Granted studio pressure is going to have a knock on effect but usually at that stage of development it probably won't affect that much of the finished product and more importantly given the amount of time Gearbox had been developing the game for and as it was building off a cancelled game but using similar mechanics and that cancelled game had produced footage itself I mean what was Pitchford and his team doing all this time? Sitting around and w*nking every time Bill Paxton said something funny in Aliens most likely. As you can probably tell I'm not too happy with Pitchford getting away with it nor am I impressed with the bullsh*t that spews from his mouth when he's criticised. The fact of the matter is whether he is CEO or whatever of Gearbox or not he should count himself lucky he still has a job following this.:-
I will however be honest and tell you all that i still play it, not because its an amazing game but because i like the setting and seems a lot of fun to play. Its a mess and looks nothing like what we all expected but i still see the potential to what it could have been.
Now if we could only get someone like "the creative assembly" to give us an "aliens colonial marines". I still now that it can be done, but we can thank Sega, Gearbox,Nerve studio and timegate studios for the fact that this will proberly never happen now.
To randy himself all i can say is F**K YOU. You lied to all of us, along with all your co-horts. You lied to the gaming press and here is the worst part you all pretty much got away with it.
You were all busy pointing fingers at each other and not taking any responsibility yourselves.......
But on a positive note, alien isolation was a pleasant surprise that came out of nowhere and exceeded my expectations!!
-Windebieste
Sorry to disagree with you but it was a bad game. AvP2010 was a game that alright but fell short of our expectations. A:CM was almost like they WANTED to insult us.
High hopes were crushed and money was spent that can never be refunded. Personally, I love the collectors edition I purchased. I do not regret it. I enjoyed the game to an extent but I realize it wasn't half as awesome as it was promised.
I've said it before, but I'd rather not give any more money to Gearbox. Hopefully, they won't disappoint with the next Borderlands game... otherwise... I don't think they will be able to recover and that will be awful for all the people there who do work hard.
Well said.
SHAME ON THIS!
I will never buy another game from GBX.
The only justice for the fans imho came when Alien Isolation was released. Thank Creative Assembly for doing what GBX was never capable of doing themselves!!
Like the game itself and the six f***ing years we waited for it...
Ultimately, yes, it was insulting to us, the Alien fanbase, for how they handled a franchise we all hold near and dear in our hearts that we didn't want to see massacred anymore. The suit was more on principal and the "false ads" premise was their argument. I'm glad they stood up to make a point but I can't say I was really expected a multi-million dollar company to lose against some angry fans.
That's why I reckon he'd make a great politician.
As for the lawsuit: wrong basis to procecute Gearbox on IMO.