Pitchford claims there are ‘stakeholders’ to think of first
After breaking his radio silence this morning torespond to lots of praiseforAliens: Colonial Marines, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford went on a bit of a blocking spree, cold-shouldering yours truly and a number of other people he claims offer nothing but “injury” in their criticism.
In a number of Tweets, Pitchford addressed a few questions on the game, and went so far as to confirm his studio is examining the possibility of maybe explaining exactly what went wrong withAliens, and why the game looked nothing like the advertised product.
“We are looking at that,”he saidin answer to a query on the subject. “Lots of info to parse, lots of stakeholders to respect.”
Another, more interesting statement was made shortly after. In response to one user who suggested he was sitting confidently on his ill-gotten monetary gains from the project, the former magician claimed he was looking to take a financial hit.
“I’m afraid it looks like I will lose a huge amount of money,” he said. “We pay for our education.”
While we wait for more information, Pitchford is apparently entering hisnotorious grandstanding mode, though he’s not quite boasted aboutColonial Marines‘ sales figures quite yet. In any case, his definition of “insult” appears to be quite broad, having blocked myself forasking if it’s a good ideato display contempt for an audience, and earliershutting out fellow critic Robert Florence. Not sure, exactly, what that’s going to achieve (especially whensending me messagesafter I’ve been blocked), but fair enough.
I look forward to hearing whyAliens: Colonial Marines— which isstill being advertised with false footage— was advertised with false footage.
