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It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (kotaku.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Been waiting for the tide to turn on Phil. He's a new breed of shifty corpo and a lot of the communities have been fooled by his "aww shucks, I'm just a gamer too" persona.

You don't get that far at a place like Microsoft without creating some bodies. But, we all want to hope the next guy will be different.

Spoiler: they never are.

[–] EncryptKeeper 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Truly astonished that literally anybody fell for that nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Eternal optimism isn't always a bad thing. Phil played his cards well. I never really knew or cared much about him until his Giant bomb at Night appearances and he seemed legit during those some 7 or 8 years ago. Considering the clout Jeff from from GB had, Phil got a little of that by proxy from my perspective.

[–] JDPoZ 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My exact same thoughts. Still like him more than Don Mattrick.

[–] NOT_RICK 3 points 6 months ago

A high bar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Man, forgot about that tool. What a joke. He went on to fuck up other game studios IIRC.