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PC Gamer - Microsoft's year of shame
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Eh - you know the Israel military thing is the driving force behind this article.
viveks86
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I guess it really takes a games journalist to complain that Microsoft isn't woke enough
HAYA8U5A
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Topher
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I just edited it at the same time you replied. I hadn't seen that stuff.
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Idleyes
Gold Member
At this point GAF has its own version of Godwin's Law: the longer this forum exists, the probability that someone shits on Microsoft or Xbox asymptotically approaches 1 and effectively stays there. GAF needs to add this to the forum header "Days since someone shat on Microsoft or Xbox: 0".
Meicyn
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All these game media sites collectively stroked his shaft, fondled his balls, and then grinned in front of cameras telling us how gamepass was great for the industry actually while we watched his baby gravy slowly dribble down the sides of their mouths in realtime. The man evoked used car salesman misdirection and sales pitches from day one, and unsurprisingly the weak-minded (or the cash-strapped) parroted the corporate messaging. The problem with incompetence is that eventually, the excuses wear thin and you have to produce because results are the only thing that matters.
Phil Spencer's mismanagement of the brand eclipses Don Mattrick's own incompetence, and that's saying something. Phil Spencer absolutely deserves the industry icon award he was given a few days ago, he is definitely legendary for his singlehandedly destroying the last remaining thing Microsoft had that was worth a damn.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Topher
Identifies as young
PC Gamer?
Once great?
The magazine was awesome
Idleyes
Gold Member
Facts! As a PC gamer (I've almost always owned all consoles) it was the only magazine that really offered anything PC related.
ZehDon
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And it'll get a heck of a lot worse before they course correct. They're dangerously close to falling afoul of the sunk cost fallacy on AI. While OpenAI rakes in cash, hand over fist, from every major player on planet Earth, Microsoft is systematically destroying it's core businesses trying to beat everyone to market. "See - AI works! Buy now!". Meanwhile, Xbox is charcoal, Windows is ablaze, and Azure is starting to smoke.
We haven't had the release of their first game with a majority AI-driven development process yet. That'll be an absolute mess unlike anything we've ever seen before, and I suspect it's already in the works. And Nadella will force that pipeline onto Xbox as a whole, whether it actually works or not, so he can fire even more developers. Why? Because Nadella knows if his USD$100 billion (and counting) bet on AI doesn't pay off with literally trillions in revenue, he's cooked. That's a "Steve Balmer laughs at iPhone" level of whiffing and Microsoft's shareholders will want blood.
Can't wait to see what fresh horrors they have in store for 2026.
We haven't had the release of their first game with a majority AI-driven development process yet. That'll be an absolute mess unlike anything we've ever seen before, and I suspect it's already in the works. And Nadella will force that pipeline onto Xbox as a whole, whether it actually works or not, so he can fire even more developers. Why? Because Nadella knows if his USD$100 billion (and counting) bet on AI doesn't pay off with literally trillions in revenue, he's cooked. That's a "Steve Balmer laughs at iPhone" level of whiffing and Microsoft's shareholders will want blood.
Can't wait to see what fresh horrors they have in store for 2026.
I collect VHS tapes
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Topher
Identifies as young
I should Sue
lol....that's been common knowledge for a while bro
Unknown?
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Yes, because he thought of it first!
I collect VHS tapes
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dude will take any opportunity to make a thread about himself
half his posts are him sharing his own posts
he's that guy at a party who somehow makes every story about himself
But all of a sudden the media people are finally calling them out about this year . Last year these people was trying to push the hopes & dreams narrative on us & I called it out then.
I don't go to parties so the jokes on you
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Yeah because MS refused to drop Israel as a customer and now they are 'partners in genocide '
They will throw that in but no this collapse was happening this year regardless & the shills was no longer in the budget
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Also, some of these outlets' strange aversion to working on military projects considering the state of the world is plain fucking weird.
The West is in Great Power competition game with China, there might be a shooting war in Taiwan straights, there is a big war in Europe with Russia, Middle East is a cluster as always.
It would be insane NOT to work with Western militaries.
That said, MS still sucks.
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StereoVsn
Gold Member
Yep, till mid to late 2010s and then it went to shit.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I should Sue
But all of a sudden the media people are finally calling them out about this year . Last year these people was trying to push the hopes & dreams narrative on us & I called it out then.
Unknown Soldier
Member
I mean the 1990's were a long time ago now. Most people on Earth today weren't even born yet back then
Topher
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Gamer_By_Proxy
About to beat off
This actually makes me like MS more, and I'm a hater. Ha! Based Xbox helping the military. Firing lame protesters. 