Gearbox Eulogy

slipsius

Totally stole this from Adam's twitter, but wow. Class act, Gearbox. Class act. The soundclip at the bottom of the post made my eyes water. Love you, Gearbox, and RIP Michael John Mamaril.

http://www.destructoid.com/gearbox-to-honor-late-fan-as-an-npc-in-borderlands-2-215160.phtml

oh, and apparntly i missed this back when it happened... but i just laughed my ass off in the middle of the office.

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/04/claptrap-has-a-proposal-for-you-tora/

Seriously, LOVE borderlands, but doing both those, gearbox is definitely one of my favourite studios

ambershee

For a moment I thought this thread was related to some comments about players 'not understanding' Duke Nukem Forever.

Very cute though

Mark Dygert

Well done Gearbox, hats off to you guys.

LRoy

Wow really touching. Gearbox goes the extra mile.

EmAr

Wow, very kind of Gearbox. Michael definitely had some good friendships RIP

PixelMasher

thats awesome, seemed really genuine and heartfelt. good on you gearbox!

[HP]

Very awesome.

skylebones

That is awesome of Gearbox. Quickly becoming one of my favorite studios.

Sandbag

A nice gesture for sure.

It almost makes me forget how much of a colossal douchebag Randy is and the whole "fire half the staff before royalties come in, then re-hire after they're distributed" thing they have been known for always doing.

Dont want to be the Debby Downer, but of everyone I've known who's worked there I've never once heard a kind word about the place. Being nice to a deceased fan doesn't really make all of that go away.

Mezz

Wow, that was very touching, really great to see them going out of their way for their fans.

Also, the proposal video was HILARIOUS! Really cool of them to put that together for the guy.

dpaynter26

That was great, the fact that they took the time to do this, even just the first bit from claptrap was such a heartfelt response, it's amazing that they even read the email let alone actually responded back in such a way, that was very nice of them

on a side note to the second video, anyone know if the lady said yes? lol

LRoy

Sandbag wrote: »

A nice gesture for sure.

It almost makes me forget how much of a colossal douchebag Randy is and the whole "fire half the staff before royalties come in, then re-hire after they're distributed" thing they have been known for always doing.

Dont want to be the Debby Downer, but of everyone I've known who's worked there I've never once heard a kind word about the place. Being nice to a deceased fan doesn't really make all of that go away.

Yikes.

dpaynter26 wrote: »

That was great, the fact that they took the time to do this, even just the first bit from claptrap was such a heartfelt response, it's amazing that they even read the email let alone actually responded back in such a way, that was very nice of them

on a side note to the second video, anyone know if the lady said yes? lol

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzOIns-CyM"]Ben's Proposal - Borderlands Style - YouTube[/ame]

dpaynter26

Awesome lol, thanks for finding that lol i was wondering