How the video game industry’s most progressive exec is forging Xbox’s future.
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra recently suggested an interesting concept that has sparked a debate among gamers - the idea of being able to tip developers after completing a game.
If I had a 100% way to be sure that this money would go to a fund or a reserve dedicated only to the guys who develop the games, be them designers, artists, programmers and so on, I could think about it.
But we all know that this 'tip' would only end up in a publisher's CEO pocket to buy a new yacht, so, no, I ain't tipping anyone anytime soon on this industry
So they eventually don't pay their workers and depend on our tips to pay them like the case with waiters!
Is this a joke? How about the big wigs giving up some of their pay for their hard working developers.
"The company was unable to focus enough on its main hope"
Nope. Going back to the 32X as the reason Sega lost that generation doesn't go back far enough before the Saturn.
Sega executives need to blame themselves as to why Sega lost that generation. Not Saturn. Not 32X. Not Sega CD. Nope. Executives were the reason why. It wasn't the hardware. Those devices were either dropped early or released to soon resulting in a developer backlash the hurt the game catalog. They really shouldn't have been made at all because they should have planned their next move more carefully. It has nothing to do with the devices. Poor leadership decisions and lack of unity within the company are what happened.
Love how blame is always shifted away from what is the truth. Writing a book placing the blame on the 32X isn't the truth.
Chris D. Spoke with the Chiodo Brothers at PAX East about Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game and their Career.
He steered Xbox in the right direction. He has been the most progressive person in Xbox history with Gamepass, Backwards compatibility, the addition of 9 Xbox studios, Elite and adaptive controller and the future Xcloud.
Now, all we need from the Xbox game studios are the games.
A slick oil salesman as well. as a savior
a talking head?
Flim Flam.
If a car is about to go off a cliff because the driver fell asleep at the wheel and you as a passenger grab the wheel and turn it, that don't make you a hero and great race car driver.
You didn't want to die.
Xbox was about to go off a cliff trying to remove game ownership away from gamers. It only made sense to make a course correction or die as a brand.
But as passenger, Phil was in the same car. So he was along for the ride with DRM2013. He's lied and mislead gamers by not telling them scale bound was canceled until after Christmas sales. He lied and mislead with the power of the cloud with Crackdown 3. Mislead gamers with Hololens at E3. He lied about "high fidelity VR." Was part of the misleading E3 with "world premiere exclusive," "launch exclusive" and just what "exclusive" means when games are going to PC.
He's just going to keep lying and misleading and telling gamers to give them time and wait. This Gen has shown that some gamers aren't willing to wait and made an exodus to PlayStation, Switch and PC. Wasn't Don Matrick that did that above. That was all Phil. Putting your future trust in him is like dancing with rattlesnakes. You're going to get bit.