Borderlands 3 fans are staging a Twitter boycott of the game with #boycottborderlands3 after representatives from 2K games allegedly accosted a YouTuber for using development stream codes that have been publicly available for months. The story was reported by Borderlands content creator SupMatto, detailing the presumed events.
According to SupMatto, the confrontation began on April 29 when the official Borderlands 3 Twitch extension was announced on official channels prior to the game's gameplay reveal. The clip inadvertently featured the names of tester accounts, which many fans of the series subsequently followed. They provided leaked details which were later covered by Matto and fellow content providers.
The story contends that, on Thursday July 25,
SupMatto was approached by two private eyes contracted by 2K while at his home. They allegedly questioned him about various leaks and other gameplay details that emerged from the findings. "I was very tense, as many of you could imagine, having two people in suits you don't know show up at your home," he recalled of the incident.
Matters got messier when Matto allegedly received seven copyright strikes on his YouTube channel the following day from sources within 2K. Only one remains at the time of publish, with channel uploads still active. His Discord, on the other hand, is shut down for being "involved in selling, promoting or distributing cheats, hacks or cracked accounts." Given these events, Matto has suspended his own Twitter account in an effort to curb rampant speculation.