Dabaus
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Nah, didnt they print xbl gold cards with increased prices like months ago?I am wondering since the decision was reversed so quickly if this was some just kind of reverse psychology scheme, to make Microsoft seem like they really are the good guys who care about consumers. After much deliberation we here at Microsoft have deemed that we only serve the players interest, bluster, bluster, bluster...thanks have a good day.
Fantastic post and i see youre having a string of them! Its probably been pointed out before but XBL gold is like the only thing in the xbox division that consistently makes a profit. If theyre willing to be so careless about their only golden goose, then maybe the assumption that the xbox division has access to all of daddy nadellas money, no strings attached is a bit naïve. Clearly something is wrong money wise behind the scenes if theyre willing to DOUBLE the price of the only thing that makes money. Am i reading too much into that? Maybe.Good guy Phil Spencer is one of the most hilarious propaganda I've seen. People think this guy is their friend and absolve him of all the blame even though he was the head of first party going back to 2008 and the head of Xbox from day 0 of the XBox One gen. Easily the worst gen ever.
I think microsoft on the whole is a broken company. I was watching this clip of Steve Balmer, Bill Gates and a bunch of other MS execs dancing on stage at the windows 95 launch and it just looked like they were completely clueless and in their own their reality. I have seen MS conferences where they have tried to sell me TV, kinectimals, a real life Porsche and Madden Kinect and it's always made me wonder if these people are detached from reality.
That's not to say Sony and Nintendo dont have bad conferences. Wonderbook and Wii Music will go down in history as the funniest and worst presentations ever. But there is always a feeling that the MS execs dont really understand their own market. Yusuf Mehdi, Matt Booty, Phil Spencer, and others feel like they come from a different planet even when they are trying to do something nice like giving us the most powerful console or selling us gamepass. It never feels genuine and almost comes across as them trying to do us a favor.
The fact that Matt Booty went out and said that we will not have any AAA next gen first party titles for the first 2-3 years is so goddamn delusional, I instantly refused to believe it. Many thought he was talking about the 2 years starting from 2019 so we would start getting games in 2021 but Phil later clarified that it will be starting from the Xbox Series X launch. These guys are completely out of touch with reality. They do not understand how to run this business. They dont want to run this business. They want gaming to be something else. Half of the things they do feel like self sabotage. Or things Mitt Romney would do when brought in as a firm to streamline the business and sell off bad assets.
Series S exists because of this mentality. Some exec looked at the $500 price tag of the series X and said 'nope, we need higher market penetration on day one, what else you got?' Gamepass so transparently fits in the services business model of their office and azure services that it's clear they are trying to shoehorn in this model that simply wont work for a myriad of reasons. Doubling the price is so delusional it reminds me of the tv tv tv conference because they are so out of touch with this industry. They want to keep changing it to be something it's not. People dont want to watch TV. They dont want to play Kinect games. They dont want to be forced into buying gamepass. If gamepass was really that amazing, everyone would buy it just like they did Netflix. HBO spent decades building up a portfolio. Gamepass has been around for like 3 years and MS thinks everyone must buy it.
This will never change because the company culture is rotten. These guys chase success and follow trends. They dont innovate. it's why Apple is where they are. I really believe they dont understand what gamers want. We dont want Gamepass. We want games.
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