• brsrklf@jlai.lu
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    15 hours ago

    Really? Was that a long time ago?

    Seems to me he and Gearbox have been in lots of shit for a while now (the infamous USB drive, serious plagiarism accusations when Borderlands did an artistic 180 during development, Alien : Colonial Marines released broken as hell after funneling its funding to make BL2, Duke Nukem Forever…)

    And every time Pitchford’s (mostly unnecesary) public answer has been terrible.

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      As far as DNF goes, it was probably an easy profit for the company. They bought it from 3D Realms and patched it up into something releasable. I doubt they spent a lot on the deal. It didn’t have to sell many copies for them to hit break even.

      Not a bad business decision, and I’m glad that development story had a definitive ending.