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[–] 81 points 8 months ago (14 children)

A nongamer leading a console/studio company..... More corporate trash coming our way.

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  • [–] 71 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    It's a month old account.

    But the biggest redflag is she's never worked for a gaming company before, she went from AI exec to Xbox CEO...

    She literally has no idea how any of it works

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  • [–] 43 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    This is the fundamental problem in the game industry. It became so profitable over the years it attracted the worst kind of people to lead creative endeavors.

    Of course I‘m talking about scum from the finance world and big tech that we‘ve all grown to despise over the years. They don‘t know the consumer or the product. They‘re in it for the money and we can see that in mass layoffs, predatory monetization practices that make other entertainment industries blush and insanely bloated budgets for projects with no vision.

    They‘re disgusting parasites. They‘re killing games and that‘s why I play so much more indie and retro games than AAA.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This is a fundamental problem with all industries. Management rarely has any idea what their industry is about and are just there to make numbers go up no matter what by pushing buttons/people.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Might be another time to push Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act, in which workers of a company must vote in a show of support for a large number of chair members. That would likely help a lot of industries get perspective below the sacred MBA.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Didn't know about that idea but "The Act [...] would give directors a duty of 'creating a general public benefit' with regard to a corporation's stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, and the environment, and the interests of the enterprise in the long-term" yeah that's not passing any vote

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Oh she'll be prefect then! She will spend a minimum amount of time pretending like she's a gamer to relate to the gaming scene and then because she knows it all, base all her decisions on her profound knowledge!

    /s

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    To be fair, my Xbox gamer tag is pretty lacking as I’m mainly a pcgamer and retro gamer. So hopefully that is the case with her.

    But to be honest, from my perspective, Xbox is already lower on the scale to me that it can get worse in any measurable way.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The Xbox team has been full of people that migrated over from T-Mobile for years now. They are full of layers and layers of leadership that has no idea how the game industry works.

    If you look at their decisions over the last 5 years a lot of it makes business sense on paper, but look at where it brought them and the industry. A titan that is inept and brings nothing to the table.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago*

    It's like they sought out the person who would most precisely piss off Asmongold.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    If you're offered the job, take it I guess because no one expects you to succeed. If the internal expectations are to focus on the following: Minecraft, CoD, Diablo, WoW, Overwatch, Candy Crush, then maybe this person will excel in that direction. Also all those being video games that found success before Microsoft

    Actually trying to make Xbox a success, it's been nearly 13 years of trying to course correct and probably a good amount north of 100 billion dollars and still no strong consistent lineup of new releases. Fable can knock it out the park but that would just be one single player AAA game hit for Xbox after 13 years. So I imagine her expectations are going to be in managing what's proven profitable and winding down what's been proven to be outside of what they're good at

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It’s hard to do much worse than Spencer but I’m sure she’ll manage.

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    She completed Firewatch to 100% on January 20. Titles like What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, and A Short Hike also had higher completion ratings, indicating Sharma may have a preference for emotionally charged narrative games.

    I don't know what your takes are, but these are some of the best games in their genres that she completed, I wouldn’t say no to more of that, especially a bigger "A Short Hike" game.

    Obviously she's not into bigger gaming timesinks, but different people have different preferences, I'd give her the benefit of doubt, because I don't know much about her managerial skills. And that should matter more about her job than what your free time preferences are.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    With a KD of 4/18 were fucked. They let the noob run the ship.

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