Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"

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Larian Studios' Michael Douse chimes in on the controversy

A mask in front of flames during the upcoming PS5 game, Borderlands 4.
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Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford has found himself in hot water this week after saying that real fans would "find a way" to buy the upcoming Borderlands 4, even if it did launch with an $80 price tag. But it's not just fans who are reacting badly - Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director Michael Douse has even chimed in on the "gross" comments.

To quickly catch everyone up, last week, Randy Pitchford responded to a fan worried about whether Borderlands 4 would also adopt the $80 pricing of Mario Kart World. "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen," the executive said, before recalling the time he spent $80 on a Sega Genesis game three decades ago - a purchase that was probably more affordable to the son of a US intelligence system tech senior in 1991 than it is for the average gamer in our cursed year of 2025.

Kaan Serin
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Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.

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