Randy Pitchford challenged players to break the Borderlands 4 servers over the weekend, offering free DLC for anyone who takes part
Borderlands 4 is currently the top-selling game on Steam, and peaked at 288,130 concurrent players today. This in spite of the fact that it’s a bit of a stuffer-fest. But while the framerate may be nothing to write home about, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford is so confident in the stability of the Borderlands 4 servers that he’s encouraging players to log on and try to break them.
“I’m telling you that it’s going to be VERY unlikely you guys can be enough people to break the backend and take our game down”, Pitchford wrote on the hatesite formerly known as Twitter. “I know there have been some high profile backend on-line systems failing around big AAA game launches, but not this one.”
Pitchford is so convinced the servers will be able to take whatever gets thrown at them that he said, “I’ll find a way somehow to reward everyone and to make it up to everyone for showing me that it can break.” And even if they don’t break, players who jump in this weekend will get access to the Break Free cosmetics pack.
Free stuff is nice, and so is hearing the hard-working folks behind the servers get a shout-out. As Pitchford said, “our on-line team rules.” But boasting about a game’s online stability when it doesn’t run great even if you’re playing solo seems kind of like pointing out how nice the curtains are while your living room is catching fire.
