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I'm sure this is a load off the minds of Gearbox employees. Pitchford still seems like a piece of work, though.

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and former lawyer bring end to messy legal dispute

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford and the Borderlands studio's former general counsel Wade Callender have agreed to bring the…

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Pitchford and former general counselor Wade Callendar have "resolved their differences." Sounds like an out-of-court settlement to me (edit: some are reporting it as such), but it's all under nondisclosure.

To recap:

Gearbox sued Callender (a close friend of Pitchford's for over 40 years) for allegedly failing to repay a $300,000 USD cash loan intended to help finance a new home purchase...In retaliation, Callender countersued...That suit accused Pitchford of breaching his fiduciary duties...suit also claimed that the Gearbox CEO owned a USB drive containing a "personal collection of 'underage' pornography"

(The USB drive was left behind at a Medieval Times.)

It's important to note that it's not just the parties dropping charges against each other. The court concluded: "Upon review of all the evidence in the case, it was of the opinion of counsel that the evidence exonerated Randy Pitchford from the allegations against him."

Make me your magic trick if old

 

[johntown]

Of course it did once he got his Borderlands 3 windfall from EGS he paid off his accusers.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. But is it a worst case scenario? Well, not if the allegations were true. At least this way he keeps his liberty, even if he has surrendered his reputation.

 

[FMXVII]

Of course it did once he got his Borderlands 3 windfall from EGS he paid off his accusers.

"Bonus Content."

"Balance ""Fixes?""

Did due process get hit with a nerf alongside GitM?

 

[Spukc]

I knew could pull it off randy

 

[FMXVII]

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. But is it a worst case scenario? Well, not if the allegations were true. At least this way he keeps his liberty, even if he has surrendered his reputation.

His reputation is synonymous with "borrowing" money from Sega meant for Colonial Marines.

You can't toss shade at a blackhole.

I mean, sure, the misallocation of Sega's funds got us more Borderlands, but, at the end of the day... Borderlands 3. :/

 

[joe_zazen]

Of course it did once he got his Borderlands 3 windfall from EGS he paid off his accusers.

all that money he saved by not hiring actual writers and union voice talent.

 

[joe_zazen]

His reputation is synonymous with "borrowing" money from Sega meant for Colonial Marines.

You can't toss shade at a blackhole.

I mean, sure, the misallocation of Sega's funds got us more Borderlands, but, at the end of the day... Borderlands 3. :/

that money went to that shitty overwatch clone...battleborn or something.. 2k paid for bl3

 

[MMaRsu]

I knew could pull it off randy

What

 

[FMXVII]

What

Probably a reference to an underage girl's panties.

Randy gonna be Randy.

No rest/jail time for the wicked, I guess.