{"id":40999,"date":"2012-07-09T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40999"},"modified":"2012-07-09T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:12:23","slug":"borderlands-2-represents-gearboxs-renewed-commitment-to-pc-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40999-borderlands-2-represents-gearboxs-renewed-commitment-to-pc-gamers","title":{"rendered":"Borderlands 2 represents Gearbox’s “renewed commitment” to PC gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a hard time to be a PC gamer, but your time will come again. It will come again<\/em>. Maybe. My Magic 8-Ball says “ANSWER UNCLEAR. ASK AGAIN LATER”, so maybe not, but until you reclaim your throne at King’s Landing with sword and blood and dragonfire, Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox will treat you right.<\/p>\n

“We develop on the PC, it\u2019s how we make games,\u201d Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford told attendees at Rezzed. \u201cEven our development kits for console are plugged into PCs. However, we are developers and we take a lot of things for granted as most of us aren\u2019t worried about dealing with our network configurations and things like that. So, we\u2019ll do it and not worry about the consoles. But what we learned after shipping Borderlands 1, was customers who play on the PC expect better treatment within the game itself.”<\/p>\n

“If you look up that Claptrap love letter you\u2019ll see some of the things we\u2019re doing. It shows a renewed commitment to not just ourselves, but the customer side of the PC game.”<\/p>\n

The “Claptrap love letter<\/a>” is a letter recently released to PC gamers by the studio<\/del> Borderlands corporate mascot Claptrap, reaffirming his love for you, baby, and how he’s gonna do everything right by you, baby. Yeah. Untz<\/em>. That includes big promises for the PC version of Borderlands 2, like:<\/p>\n