After telling Borderlands 4 player to 'game that sh*t', Randy Pitchford finds out that you cannot, in fact, game that sh*t—says 'well, sh*t', confirms it's a bug and that it'll be fixed 'within the next two weeks'

Borderlands 4 patch notes: An upper-body shot of Zane with his hands out to either side and a cautious, uneasy facial expression. — (Image credit: Gearbox)

Randy Pitchford is sometimes known for posting through it—most recently, trying to justify massive performance problems in Borderlands 4, a game I otherwise really like. He's since quietened down considerably, though he did hop in briefly to play CEO tech support, ran face-first into a bug and—to his credit—didn't try to tell anybody it's a premium game made for premium gamers or anything.

For context: In the Borderlands 4 post-game, there's a vendor called Maurice's Black Market, a vending machine that changes location every week and sells a number of legendaries that are rolled on a per-player basis. However, a recent patch introduced a bug that meant players in co-op games couldn't interact with the Maurice machines in their friends' worlds.

It's a so-so system—it can be disappointing to rush to your own personal Maurice box, only to find out that none of the rolls are useful—but Pitchford does make a solid argument that this system lets communities band together to share their rolls and pick a buddy to skim good legendary weapons off. But, like, in gamer vernacular.

"Bro", Pitchford writes, "Get in a group of people who post their rolls every week and jump into each other’s games to get the gear you want. Game that shit!" When X user Gothalion points out that they cannot, in fact, "Game that shit!" Pitchford replies "Well, shit".

And hey, if we're giving kudos where kudos are due, that's character development. No jabs at justification, no comparing Gearbox to the Beatles, just throwing one's hands up and going—well, crap, I didn't know that.

I'm personally not too wrapped up in getting the perfect gun myself—well, I have been grinding a little—but I can see the arguments for and against the way the black market in Borderlands 4 works. It's kinda neat to have incentive to play co-op with your mates by checking in with their rolls, and it'll be good to see this bug fixed so you can actually, uh, do that again.

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Harvey's history with games started when he first begged his parents for a World of Warcraft subscription aged 12, though he's since been cursed with Final Fantasy 14-brain and a huge crush on G'raha Tia. He made his start as a freelancer, writing for websites like Techradar, The Escapist, Dicebreaker, The Gamer, Into the Spine—and of course, PC Gamer. He'll sink his teeth into anything that looks interesting, though he has a soft spot for RPGs, soulslikes, roguelikes, deckbuilders, MMOs, and weird indie titles. He also plays a shelf load of TTRPGs in his offline time. Don't ask him what his favourite system is, he has too many.

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