Splitgate 2 dev snatches defeat from the jaws of victory, channeling Borderlands 4's Randy Pitchford by upsetting fans even when his FPS is looking pretty good

Splitgate 2 actually looks pretty good, , has some pretty solid momentum behind it. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Borderlands 4, a fellow FPS, also looks pretty good, and definitely hඣas momentum b🐟ehind it. And yet, the men heading these things simply cannot get out of their own way.
澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:This week, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:in the weeks before, it was Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford's numerous and enormously unpopular comments on game pricing. Tonight, at the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Summer Game Fest live show, it was the painfully avoidable division stirred by 1047 Games cofounder and CEO Ian Proulx, who managed to piledrive Splitgate 2💝's discourse into the dumpster in a matt♈er of minutes, stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.
Proulx says he made his FPS because he♚ hates Call of Duty, loves Halo, and wants Tit⛦anfall 3 – and reckons Splitgate 2's new battle royale mode is "f***ing awesome." We're going to ignore the irony that Splitgate just dropped a battle royale and that Titanfall 3 do🦂esn't exist in part because EA told Respawn to instead keep operating the battle royale money machine that is Apex Legends, because it's really not the biggest problem tonight.
It's hard to overstate how thoroughly and widely Splitgate 2 is getting dunked on after Proulx's SGF appearance. The reaction hasn't 🦩been universally negative, of course; are simply celebrating the surprise update, and . It's not like Splitgate 2 is going to 🍒keel over because of this.
But if an Imagi🔯ne Dragons remix in your battle royale trailer is the last criticism on peoples' minds, you may, perhaps, have messed up. Across , , and , and both in and out of the game's immediate communities, Splitgate 2 optics are measurably worse than they were about 10 hours ago.
"Hat was cringe as hell," on the Splitgate Reddit. "This was just๊ cringe," of the game's SGF slot.
My favorite🐷 part was when the Splitgate dude said he wanted to "Make FPS Great Again" and then announced a battle royale mode with Imagine Dragons playingꩵ.
-splitgate 2-guy announcing is wearing a "Make FPS Great Again"-trailer plays Imagine Dragons pic.twitter.𝐆com/mHAV0uLaQY
splitgate 2 pic.twitter.com/HYbDErdpD3
Okay i will not be playing splitgate 2 lmao pic.tw🅺itter.cꦡom/YQ5VAryUNv
"If I was a dev and I had spent years working on a game and my boss went on stage and looked like this much of a jackass I'd be ꦓso pissed," .
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"I now feel embarrassed for liking this♛ game," another Splitgate Redditᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ post .
"As a Splitgate 1 fan and a founder pack owner for Splitgate 2, I can't believe how HORRIBLE of a fu𓆏mble I just witnessed," . Posts just like this are coming up faster than the mods or auto-mods can delete them for purportedly being low-effort.
And, I mean, if you've lost the dꦿad hat enthusiasts, what else is t♊here to lose?
Congrats on absolutely fucking nuking the landing of your game my dude, i'm sure the ༺team is so happy you went on stage and made a complete ass of yourself. pi🧜c.twitter.com/C9iIO1sWjN

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