Phillip W. Spencer III:"Xbox’s aim with Call of Duty is to give players choice, not "do slimy platform things" that make one option more appealing."

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For people that want a recent example this is from 2017 and the words are coming directly from Phil Spencer's mouth



Ohh they cared so much for exclusives until they realized it did fuck all for making them relevant.
 
ManaByte said:
Except it's not.
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Dodged a bullet....Thanks M ManaByte Now get out there and find some entertainment news.
 
Both were scummy practices, Phil isn't innocent nor is Microsoft but same goes with Sony and Jim. Let's not forget all the Destiny garbage dlc that was held off Xbox for a year or more.

No ones innocent, Phil should just hush when it comes to timed exclusive bullshit.
 
So exclusive maps are slimy, but buying out publishers and making their otherwise multip[platform games exclusive isn't.

If that's not hypocrisy I don't know what is.
 
Well let's see the choice here
Me who subbed to gp cheap at 120 dollars for 3 years gets it day 1.
Or pay 70 dollars for the game
Nice one phill nice one.
 
This is certainly a spin. Wasn't it just half a year ago that leaked emails show Spinster (thanks for this name DeepEnigma DeepEnigma ) and company talking about buying things to crush the competition? Now he's acting like they're for the players?

Phil, some of us remember the Xbox E3s that were full of big flashy letters saying "Xbox Exclusive" and the money hat changed from buying a game's rights to buying a publisher. You're only doing this because even with ABK, even with Bethesda, even with the prices slashed to half off on the Xbox, you guys still couldn't beat Switch and PlayStation.
 
Sounds like the loser complaining at being beat out of their own practices.
To the point they needed to make acquisitions to try and monopolize- as Microsoft does.


If you been around this industry long enough- most of the douchebaggery started with Microsoft. You could look at XBox Live as one of the first "deals" with pay to play online.
 
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Why is he pretending he hasn't done "slimy platform things" himself? Timed exclusivity for Game Pass and Xbox has been a thing for a while now.
 
The guys a con artist. An expert in spin and deception. A charismatic charlatan.

Second hand car salesmen have more integrity.
 
It's a choice. We didn't say to anybody 'you have to subscribe to play'. If you want to buy Black Ops 6, that's great. It's great for us, it's great for the developer. If you want to subscribe, it's also great. I want to give you the choice on how you play your games, and who you play with, and not try to do slimy platform things to force you to do what I want you to do.
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After all that came out with the ABK acquisition along with the cancellation of PS builds of games, he's still trying to come across as 'good guy Phil'. Warrior that he is, he's seemingly incapable of understanding that passive-aggressive comments about Sony and his own disingenuous statements haven't and will not make the slightest bit of difference.
 
cjp said:
Didn't Xbox kick all that shit off in the 360 days with the timed exclusive map packs?
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No, you must have a short memory. Sony started the practice of paying to keep games off other platforms during the PS2 cycle. This partly killed Dreamcast. You are forgetting about final fantasy, GTA and other games getting deals to not appear day and date with other consoles (or not at all). They also would force smaller developers to add content to their games at no cost to Sony themselves. In order to just have concept approval so you could release on the platform. if a game appeared on Xbox first, that company was blacklisted for a few years, and or forced into a long ""maybe if you add this..." cycle. It was a different case in Europe as Sony was sued and lost the right to prevent games being approved.
So no MS didn't start the practice with Xbox 360.
 
I would love if Sony brought EA Games besides sports but have some games as Multiplat the likes of battlefield etc and have other big games exclusive like they did with starfield like MoH and command & Conquer if they made it
 
Punished Miku said:
Call of Duty for everyone with more choice than ever before. Play it on PS5, Xbox, PC, or subscribe. Soon Switch 2. No timed exclusivity for betas or perks of any kind.

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Its the hypocrisy though. Like we know Microsoft originally wanted to make all these games exclusive and only reversed because of xbox hardware sales tanking and regulation stopping them. It's the having one side behind the scenes and a totally different and fake side to the public. Its just so fake because we know how Microsoft truly feel. I'm not blaming Phil spencer specifically either because he's just a talking head for higher ups. He has to say what they tell him to and has been trained to speak like that in public.
 
oldergamer said:
No, you must have a short memory. Sony started the practice of paying to keep games off other platforms during the PS2 cycle. This partly killed Dreamcast. You are forgetting about final fantasy, GTA and other games getting deals to not appear day and date with other consoles (or not at all). They also would force smaller developers to add content to their games at no cost to Sony themselves. In order to just have concept approval so you could release on the platform. if a game appeared on Xbox first, that company was blacklisted for a few years, and or forced into a long ""maybe if you add this..." cycle. It was a different case in Europe as Sony was sued and lost the right to prevent games being approved.
So no MS didn't start the practice with Xbox 360.
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Obviously he is talking about the practice in regards to Call of Duty. Both companies have a long sorted history of shitty deals outside of that. Microsoft practically invented half the slimy shit that these corporations engage in back in the early Windows days.
 
So videogame execs are just politicians at this point. They can revise history and say whatever they want cause their loyal fanbase will eat it up and support them regardless.
 
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