Its just business, man! What kind of manager just assumes work is being done? And signs off on payments for it blindly? If they are that fundamentally incompetent and disinterested what makes you think they aren't equally useless in other areas? Areas that, you know, might actively impact the smooth development of a title...
Honestly, the degree to which people are bending reality in order to blame Gearbox for everything here really is something to behold. Sega is being personified as some kind of doddering codger outwitted by delinquent Randy and his gang of crafty dodgers...
/facepalm
Clearly Gearbox aren't so thoroughly useless that they can't get a quality FPS out in a timely fashion (evidenced by 2 Borderlands titles), yet suddenly they turn to shit when dealing with Sega... hmmm...
The bolded I can easily accept, after everything that's gone down. If you really think Sega is at fault the most, you can not buy anymore games they publish while probably me and others avoid Gearbox.
Only thing I was interested in in regards to Gearbox was Aliens:CM. The way people talk about Borderlands, I can see there a competent developer on some level, but I'm pissed that Aliens of all titles had to come out the worst, especially when Aliens if done right (or at the very least by the standards of the very-toted demo), their profit and reputation might've gone even higher than before.
Now...?
And between AVP2010 and Aliens: Infestation, for me, 2 out of three ain't bad in Sega's corner, as an Alien franchise fan. Meanwhile, Gearbox seems 0 for 1.
Randy Pitchford = Carter Burke (screwing people over for a percentage)
I don't know why, but the first part of Clear's post seems Burke-ish too.
"It's just business!" What happened to the "We're all fans of Aliens"?