Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has weighed in on the latest review-bombing campaign on Steam, which is targeting the original Borderlands games in light of the announcement that Borderlands 3 will be a timed exclusive on the Epic Games Store. If you’re just tuning in, it’s a familiar story at this point: A game is announced as an Epic exclusive, and Steam users vent spleen in the reviews for the developers’ other games on Steam. You may recall earlier this year when this happened with Metro Exodus, and now Borderlands and Borderlands 2 are bearing the brunt of Steam users’ anger. Gearbox developer Scott Velasquez retweeted a post showing the sudden spike of negative reviews on the first two Borderlands games, saying “Not cool at all to misuse a system like this, and shame on @steam_games for allowing it.” Pitchford replied, saying that review bombing was emblematic of Valve’s hands-off approach to store curation. “Ironically, that this misuse is possible and that Steam has no interest in correct this misuse makes me kind of happy about 2K’s decision [to release Borderlands 3 on the Epic Games Store] and makes me want to reconsider Gearbox Publishing’s current posture on the platform,” he tweeted.
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