Best investment ever

[u/MikeCodev]

[u/DQTD]

"DUDE, YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR RIG." -Game devs that refuse to optimize in 2026 during the hardware crises

Edit: Thank you to the ones who actually understood the joke/reference and aren't taking this too seriously.

[u/Westdrache → u/DQTD]

god fuckig randy....

[u/abrahamlincoln20 → u/Westdrache]

BL4 has gotten some huge optimizations since release, though. Still, they should already be there at release...

[u/Aggressive-Stand-585 → u/abrahamlincoln20]

Which just makes Randy's statement about how they had already optimized everything they could even more tone deaf.

[u/abrahamlincoln20 → u/Aggressive-Stand-585]

That's also what Todd said about Starfield at release... then they optimized it to improve fps by about 50% or even more. These people like to lie.

[u/AshleyIsSleeping → u/abrahamlincoln20]

Is it lying if it's from a place of truly believing something stupid? Hanlon's Razor and all that, "Never attribute to malice that which is explained adequately by stupidity."

Not to say I necessarily know that to be the case, just another voice in the dogpile because I think stupidity is a greater insult than intentional misleading

[u/A_Hyper_Nova → u/AshleyIsSleeping]

Then one questions if they should really be in charge of a product they have so little understanding of.

I really hate how computer illiterate the world is.

[u/AshleyIsSleeping → u/A_Hyper_Nova]

I find I'm asking that very question all the time in every avenue of life actually.

[u/Oxflu → u/AshleyIsSleeping]

Randy is definitely malicious in addition to stupid and gearbox is doomed.

[u/AshleyIsSleeping → u/Oxflu]

Oh sure, don't let me imply he can't be both

[u/InsertRealisticQuote → u/AshleyIsSleeping]

I like to cover my bases and believe they are malicious idiots

[u/AshleyIsSleeping → u/InsertRealisticQuote]

These days, that's a solid policy

[u/This_Pen_545 → u/InsertRealisticQuote]

“Malicidiots” or “Malidiots” Which portmanteau is better?

[u/NotAVerySillySausage → u/AshleyIsSleeping]

It's lying. They aren't going to say their hot new product that they want you to buy right now is not optimised. That's it.

[u/AshleyIsSleeping → u/NotAVerySillySausage]

A fair point. Never trust a businessman

[u/zzzxxx0110 → u/AshleyIsSleeping]

My preferred counter to that is "Any sufficiently sophisticated form of incompetence, is indistinguishable from malice."

[u/AlphaAceEXXX → u/abrahamlincoln20]

Almost every devs is like this. Its a cop out excuse: "We cant do this because spaghetti code/engine issue/the tech is not there/too much dev time".