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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How do you get to be a CEO while being this stupid? Even if he was right, has he never heard the elementary phrase "the customer is always right"? Or more accurately, thousands of customers?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wealth, high social status... has nothing to do with competence.

It mostly has to do with how much money you start with, who you know, and dumb luck.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget a complete lack of shame!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

Ah, right yes, I forgot sociopathy.

How silly of me.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Much like the disappearing middle class, the game development market has shifted away from firms of every size and scale to two extremes: countless small indie devs and few massive corporations.

The CEO is confident that you can't get what they offer anywhere else, due to lack of competition at their scale, so it doesn't matter how well the game performs: people will still buy it.

[–] falidorn@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You might want to look up the actual meaning of the phrase. It might apply here but not in the way you think. This isn’t early 20th century Sears.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

this is mostly a thing in Western. nobody gives a shit about the customer in my country. they can fuck them

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not even Europe. It's a US thing

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Read the wiki page there is a German and Dutch version in Wikipedia.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just because there are translations, doesn't mean it was common place.

Sure there are some capitalists with that mindset in just about every country, but in Europe if any company tried to enforce it, the unions would squash it immediately. Because it is dumb and hurts the workers.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

This Randy fellow is sure good at public relations.

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 10 points 3 months ago

It's almost like this hasn't happened for the last several Borderlands releases. Like people just keep forgetting the company lies and produces sub-optimal trash at launch.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

That's... a bold stance

[–] Paddzr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Don't play you say? Sure.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I've never understood the massive success of this game franchise. I understand the appeal and that many people find it fun, but it's just never been all that great, IMO. There are so many much better titles out there. I'm guessing it's early success plus huge advertising budget and/or paid-for reviews.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I kinda think there might just not be a lot of good looter-shooters out there. I remember looking for others to play and not having much success.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

It's very easy to mess up imo, or people are pickier with them (or both). Warframe clicked with me, but playing BL2 I just wanted to complete the story as fast as possible and get out. Hard to pinpoint without playing both side by side.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I like them, personally, and there's absolutely nothing else that scratches the "I want to play Borderlands" itch. The quality varies a lot by the game, though.

[–] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the same boat. And borderlands is way better than destiny 2 in my opinion. I really love the gameplay of 3 and 4. I can see myself easily getting my money's worth out of it.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I've never really understood the comparisons between Destiny 2 and Borderlands, honestly. I like both but my brain puts them in very different boxes. Same thing with Warframe.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I mean the graphics, story, and characters are nice.

But the gameplay is so boring when just about every enemy is a bullet sponge and they keep respawning every time you walk between 2 places.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yup. The rapid respawn stinks of lazy level designs. Respawning can be OK when done right.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Today, the gremlin told console players to quit and restart the game, as a fix for the performance drop the longer you play.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

According to Randy, Borderlands 3 is apparently Schrödinger's "Premium Game" - so demanding because it is only supposed to be for "Premium Gamers", but also, we are supposed to excuse having to run it in lower resolutions and with higher input lag because it's not on the level of presumably more premium competitive shooters that do optimize better.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 3 months ago
[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

not to play? lol, not to buy. I'll pick it up in a few years when it's on sale for a few bucks like all the other gearbox games.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Don’t make things the public consumes if you can’t take criticism

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

You know, I specifically remember the first having an awful port and they made an advertising campaign about how the second would be better for PC. Guess that's done.

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Has he accepted what was on his USB that was found?