Are you fucking high?
MS Cancels 1 on 1 Interviews with GB, GI.biz, Tapezilla...MCV?: "Scheduling conflict"
- Thread starter Miles Quaritch
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Are you fucking high?
Not only one scheduling conflict either. I'm sure it's just their excuse for being selective on who to be interviewde by.
They must be suicide bombers then.
Yep. Also, I'm sure these interview appointments were made in advance. How do you wait until now to cancel them?
Green Yoshi
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Major Nelson just tweeted about this. Says it was merely a scheduling conflict and the 1on1's are still on.
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/342727561459154944
So the thread can be closed I guess.
you crazy, son. very very crazy.
AstroZombie
Banned
You can always tell a Microsoft console.
Officerrob
Banned
Who the fuck is Tapezilla?
RedNumberFive
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Sponsored by Internet Explorer.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Heh. That's not how it works at all.
Nikodemos
Member
*standing ovation* Excellently played, sir.
On-topic, it's evident the echo chamber effect is way more powerful than MS's preliminary predictions. Combined with the fact that they do have some problems, I won't find it surprising if they won't hold a pre- or immediately post-E3 presser at all (group or 1on1), but rather spam whatever games they have for the controlled show-and-tell and let the "ZOMGPWN DAY -31 OLOLO" fanboys drown the critical voices with their gushing. They'll bring the pain later afterwards, once they consider the heat has turned down a bit. Were I in their position, that's what I'd go for.
FunkyPajamas
Member
Hahahaha, nice one
Indeed. If anything, things will get gradually worse until the consoles and launch window games are released. Then it'll be chaos.
Looks like their really picky this time.
Not even the roundtable? It's an hour, maybe less, and a chance to give multiple journos access all at once. Ought to be the last one to go in a time-constrained scenario.
Not buying it.
Impeccable
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How often does this happen around the biggest event in gaming? Seriously.
Quite easily?
Hah, someone beat me to it. I do so love watching a nice trainwreck though. They're doing their darndest to derail the hype train after all.
Air Zombie Meat
Member
Major Nelson said it so it must be true. Jury is still out for me.
famousmortimer
Banned
If the scheduling excuse is real it's them basically saying "we have more important shit to do than talk to the press."
Not exactly the message you want out there. So if the excuse is bullshit... that's bad. And if it's real - that's also bad.
fabricated backlash
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A simple fact. Up until the very end of this generation, Sony played third fiddle in terms of market penetration. They have momentum now, but they really need to put in their A game to beat out MS regardless of all their fuck ups.
Sony has a single franchise that sells comparably to MSs juggernauts and that's GT.
Doesn't mean their offerings were of bad quality, just that they had to claw their way back to relevancy over the last 6 years.
Don't get your panties in a twist.
DidntKnowJack
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This E3 is going to be amazing. Sony has the games, Microsoft has the excuses.
ThaiNoodles
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I think it says a lot about the hardcore audiences lack of faith in MSFT that we have a seven page thread due to ONE cancellation due to scheduling conflicts.
Mikey Jr.
Member
SCHEDULING CONFLICT!!!
They are meeting with the Pope. They don't have time for journalists silly questions.
Karak
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Agreed but Adam Sesslers posts on his twitter seem to indicate this kind of thing happens all the time right before E3. Unless I am reading it wrong.
Also it was interesting to read the writeup on Major Nelson's tweet from the first person canceled. But whatever its going to be an interesting time.
Horsemama1956
Member
I don't really see why. It's not like most gamers read forums, or really give a shit what some nerd "journalist" says/thinks.
I think people are way overestimating the ruckus caused by the reveal and DRM that may be coming. WAY overestimating.
anexanhume
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Major Nelson just tweeted about this. Says it was merely a scheduling conflict and the 1on1's are still on.
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/342727561459154944
So "No One on One" gate already over.
I remember when major nelson quashed the beef on all our other issues with the systemMajor Nelson just tweeted about this. Says it was merely a scheduling conflict and the 1on1's are still on.
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/342727561459154944
Major Nelson just tweeted about this. Says it was merely a scheduling conflict and the 1on1's are still on.
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/342727561459154944
Why didn't they reschedule instead of cancelling the interviews with Klepek and GI Biz?
That's how I'm reading it. If there is selective cancellation, that's arguably worse than cancelling all of them.
famousmortimer
Banned
You think the PR guy doing PR deflecting ends things? Really!??!
Sony making games
Microsoft excuses
Nintendo money
Long story short, everything is normal
I guess they have a clear focus on their next gen mentality and they know that whatever they say, they will have a backlash, regardless of anything. It doesn't look like they are solving the DRM issue, therefore they feel that they might as well abandon the gamers market and promote themselves for the average joes and janes.
there i fixed lol ms has lots of money
BruiserBear
Banned
Yeah, this still doesn't jive entirely.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're limiting interviews, instead of outright cancelling them all.
MrCunningham
Member
Even with the bad press MS has been getting lately, cancelling the roundtable event won't make matters any better. Bad move on their part.... and they've been making a lot of those lately.
TBH with you it's probably not "we have more important shit to do than talk to the press.", I would more likely to be "we can't trust any of our execs from the different regions to stick to the script".
Latvian Hitman
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Whatever it is you're smoking, please pass me some.
Sir Garbageman
Member
I'm not ready to grab the torch and pitchforks just yet but what do you expect a MS PR person to say...?
fabricated backlash
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To be fair, do we know when these cancelled interviews are? Right after the cancelled round table?
At this point I don't buy it at all, but schedules get thrown around, and no exec would trade a possibility to meet with trade partners for an interview, that's just plain logic.
At this point I don't buy it at all, but schedules get thrown around, and no exec would trade a possibility to meet with trade partners for an interview, that's just plain logic.
Wickerbasket
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The OP should be updated with all the gaming journalists MS are having "scheduling conflicts" with, and see what their stance on DRM is.
Major Nelson just tweeted about this. Says it was merely a scheduling conflict and the 1on1's are still on.
https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/342727561459154944
Good News. Good right? Right guys? Guys?
Agreed ^
Goodacre0081
Member
ever since the shitty MS press conference and the apparent direction they've been going down for the last 3 years it's fun to watch this trainwreck.
I had hopes they would change things up for a new generation of gaming consoles but it's clear now that MS isn't going after my money. it's not so bad due to the fact most people on my friends list are aware of what MS is doing and are most likely getting PS4s.
I had hopes they would change things up for a new generation of gaming consoles but it's clear now that MS isn't going after my money. it's not so bad due to the fact most people on my friends list are aware of what MS is doing and are most likely getting PS4s.
Green Yoshi
Member
Well if you eat three hours Doritos with Geoff Keighley and then have appointments with CBS, Fox Media and all other media, your day is over.
After all this is still a set top box and no children's toy.
