• |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Exactly.

    People forget that the Xbox game division is only a subset of Microsoft so Phil always had to answer to the bigger suits.

    Phil actually made games. Phil came from a pretty cool era and I’ve seen him interviewed over the years by people who you only go talk to if you liked games.

    As far as US game company execs go, Phil wasn’t the worst.

    Also as far as I know, unlike the head of a certain studio who ruined WoW and CoD and more, he wasn’t mentioned recently on a certain set of files that were made public recently.

    I know it’s not exactly a high bar, but Phil actually seemed like someone who cared about gaming in general, but he probably also didn’t get to be in charge by pushing back and sticking his neck out to save everybody else whenever it came to making the Xbox division as profitable as the suits above him demanded.

    Whoever is next will be likely switching from a shovel to an excavator to dig the Xbox brand’s grave.

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      1 month ago

      Also keep in mind, all those Blizzard people are now under Microsoft.

      We need a global boycott of: WoW, Overwatch, CoD, Candy Crush, Elder Scrolls, Halo, Fable, Forza, Gears of war, etc.

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      1 month ago

      If anything Phil deserves his own company. If he made the call I’m sure many he got to know at Xbox and Microsoft would answer the call and make a new company with him

      Hoping he would especially one like Valve. But it all depends on if he would be up for that and if everyone asked him to to show he would have huge support from day one