Gamers slam Borderlands boss Randy Pitchford for sharing ‘sick’ video of kitten being attacked
CONTROVERSIAL Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has stirred up ire online again, this time by sharing a video of a cat being attacked by a large crab.
He shared the video to his 600,000 Twitter followers because he was “curious about how other people react” to such things, he said.
While saying he felt some “negative reactions” while watching the video, he also felt “some other stuff that isn’t exactly negative”.
The eight-second clip showed the creatures in close proximity, and then features laughter when the kitten gets pinched by the crab’s claw.
“What the f*** is wrong with this guy?” asked one gamer. “Scumbag continues to be a scumbag,” said another on popular gaming forum ResetEra.
On Twitter, one user replied simply stating “There is something catastrophically wrong with you”; that tweet has been liked 86 times.
Speaking to his response, another just said “thinking that anything positive could come from this is sickening”.
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Pitchford is known as a controversial figure.
He was recently accused of assaulting a former member of staff, while a contract-dispute lawsuit accused him not just violating contracts but also paying himself a $12 million ‘executive bonus’.
The filings in the case also contain allegations around child-abuse pictures left on a USB drive.
Pitchford claimed the material was ‘barely legal’, featuring a young-looking webcam model, according to Ars Technica.
Pitchford is CEO and founder of game developer Gearbox Software, who are behind the Borderlands franchise.
The company is currently working on Borderlands 3, the latest entry in Take-Two’s biggest franchise after GTA.
Borderlands 2 has sold 24 million copies, with the sequel expected to eclipse that.
We got to play it for the first time this month, and can report it’s looking excellent so far.
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The studio is even considering bringing the game to streaming services like Google Stadia in an effort to get it into as many gamers’ hands as possible.
Pitchford’s latest outburst seems unlikely to help that goal.
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