Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has allegedly been caught sending hate mail to himself, over the ongoing backlash that Borderlands 4 is receiving.
What was touted as one of the biggest releases of the year, has been struggling severely due to growing performance issues.
Pitchford’s pushback over the same hasn’t made the situation any better because it’s caused massive annoyance amongst the players ever since the game launched.
Borderlands 4 Backlash Allegedly Prompts Gearbox CEO to Send Himself Hate Mail
As shared by Randy Pitchford through a post on X, the mail contained some choice words directed at him for dubbing Borderlands 4 as a premium experience.
However, a post on Facebook claims to debunk this theory by saying that it was Pitchford himself who sent the email.
The basis of this theory is that the senders email reads as “toppdogg1971”. Randy Pitchford is born in 1971, which also happen to be the digits in the email.
As correlation, it’s extremely weak because he’s not the only person born in 1971 and trolls could easily make up such emails to harass people on the internet.
Despite knowing that, the internet doesn’t seem convinced because they believe that Randy Pitchford could allegedly do something like this.
Either way, the situation isn’t very good right now, and despite Borderlands 4 doing some crazy numbers right now according to Steamdb, there’s a considerable amount of resentment within the community.
It’s believed that the game is slowly growing out of its technical issues, thanks to the developers working tirelessly behind the scenes to improve the situation.
What’s worth noting here is that major game launches have fallen into a trope, a pattern where no launch is stable. Products, despite being priced quite high, mostly fail to deliver on launch day, and are sorted out after launch through hotfixes and patches.
It’s a trend that no one likes, but it’s become very common. And in light of such a trend, comments made by company CEOs are distasteful, and don’t sit very well with the community that caters to the games they make.
