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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 42 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Literal definition of Monkey's Paw:

All the Phil Spencer haters get to rejoice that he is gone. But now he is replaced by a woman who has only ever had AI related positions at Microsoft, and previously worked at Meta.

Even her letter to employees sounds AI generated.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours 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.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago

maybe the woman is actually AI as well