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Gearbox founder and CEO Randy Pitchford has defended recent Gearbox setbacks, like the catastrophic reception of the Borderlands film or the inexplicably poor state of Risk of Rain 2's latest DLC, Seekers of the Storm. Unfortunately for Pitchford, he compared the company to The Beatles, one of, if not the most legendary and beloved musical acts in human history, and outraged fans came streaming out of the woodwork.

In response to an X user who questioned the developer's «judgement and shot-calling ability» (thanks, Eurogamer), Pitchford invoked The Beatles, claiming that even that legendary outfit only «had a 25% hit rate.» Further, the Gearbox boss mused: «When artists have a miss, that's when they need fans the most to root them on, so they are motivated to keep creating.»

Sadly for Randy, this invocation of The Beatles appears to have gotten away from him, with Waverunner5642 memorably pointing out that The Beatles never intentionally released an unfinished album riddled with audio issues. Others were outraged at the comparison, still more rattling off the beloved band's commercial statistics and other random trivia.

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Do you think that Gearbox is, in some way, comparable to The Beatles? Does that make Pitchford Gearbox's very own John Lennon? Let us know how you like seeing yourself in the comments below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

Hey, it makes sense in his head, at least……