This is getting weird.
Getting? It's been weird for a couple weeks now.
This is getting weird.
Getting? It's been weird for a couple weeks now.
I bet he took some of the fall for all the shit going on and told people that he would move on to help take the brunt of the pain. Why Zinga... he is just telling the world that he wants to die and never work on game again. Right?
It makes sense really. It's been a while since Zynga pissed everyone off and Mattrick has been in the zone for like the last month. His first press release will be a retroactive $10/month subscription to Farmville.
I don't know what to think about this. I kind of am glad that he's gone, but apparently he was very good behind the scenes. Also, if he did truly create the original idea of the X1, then he's pretty forward thinking. I just think that that thinking was too ahead of its time. It was something that needed to be rolled out slowly over the course of a few years because, as the embracing of the PS4 shows, the public is not ready for a Steam-like console.
I hope he is successful at Zynga. It sucks, but all this negative backlash probably forced him to leave MS.
It'll be interesting to see where this goes, and whether or not it was a good move on his part. One thing is for sure, I would play FarmVille 2 more if it was on the iOS marketplace. Kind of irks me that its not there already.
Actually, now that I think about it, screw FarmVille. Give me CoasterVille on my iPad so I can stop using their piece of shit Java platform. Still confuses me why I can run large-scale games at 60fps+, but a Facebook Java/Flash game lags like a piece of crap.
Even if Microsoft calls J Allard about this newly opened position, he would be like: "Nah, I'm good. Thanks."
Even if Microsoft calls J Allard about this newly opened position, he would be like: "Nah, I'm good. Thanks."
I still look forward to the day where Microsoft has a press conference and it opens with J Allard riding in on a white horse...that's riding a jet-ski....that's on a snowboard.
Let me keep my dream alive.
Even if Microsoft calls J Allard about this newly opened position, he would be like: "Nah, I'm good. Thanks."
I still look forward to the day where Microsoft has a press conference and it opens with J Allard riding in on a white horse...that's riding a jet-ski....that's on a snowboard.
Let me keep my dream alive.
Think of it this way: Allard is riding a white horse, riding a jet-ski on a snowboard right now. Why would he need Microsoft?
Even if Microsoft calls J Allard about this newly opened position, he would be like: "Nah, I'm good. Thanks."
I still look forward to the day where Microsoft has a press conference and it opens with J Allard riding in on a white horse...that's riding a jet-ski....that's on a snowboard.
Let me keep my dream alive.
Think of it this way: Allard is riding a white horse, riding a jet-ski on a snowboard right now. Why would he need Microsoft?
Because it doesn't make sense.
He needs a giant battleship that has a one to one scale replica of Swiss Alps on it for all that to snowboard down, anything less would be half-assing it.
As much as I really, really dislike Don Mattrick, I'm now 100% sure that I have no idea what XONE is beyond "a more powerful 360."
Microsoft probably asked him to leave after the Xbone debacle. It's a horrible design, horrible features, and alienated the existing 360 fan base. I'm sort of hoping Microsoft will scrap it and rework something that makes sense for next year.
Microsoft probably asked him to leave after the Xbone debacle. It's a horrible design, horrible features, and alienated the existing 360 fan base. I'm sort of hoping Microsoft will scrap it and rework something that makes sense for next year.
There is zero chance that this wasn't in response to the Xbone. From his insults to the military crowd to the panning of the "future" it all had to fall on his shoulders. He was the public head for the xbone and I don't doubt it was similar internally. However It's far too late for that now. They waited way too long to announce it to the public that it's too late to backpedal because of reactions. You can tell this by their plan to rip out all of the online guts from the xbone with out replacing it with anything new. They gambled till the last minute on TV and the CLOUD but chickened out way too late to do anything meaningful to the xbone. Now it's too late for them to push it because if they do they basically hand everything to Sony.
Do you really think they could survive all this backlash and afford skipping out on a year of releases? They have to have something out by holiday or they are boned.
Microsoft probably asked him to leave after the Xbone debacle. It's a horrible design, horrible features, and alienated the existing 360 fan base. I'm sort of hoping Microsoft will scrap it and rework something that makes sense for next year.
There is zero chance that this wasn't in response to the Xbone. From his insults to the military crowd to the panning of the "future" it all had to fall on his shoulders. He was the public head for the xbone and I don't doubt it was similar internally. However It's far too late for that now. They waited way too long to announce it to the public that it's too late to backpedal because of reactions. You can tell this by their plan to rip out all of the online guts from the xbone with out replacing it with anything new. They gambled till the last minute on TV and the CLOUD but chickened out way too late to do anything meaningful to the xbone. Now it's too late for them to push it because if they do they basically hand everything to Sony.
Do you really think they could survive all this backlash and afford skipping out on a year of releases? They have to have something out by holiday or they are boned.
So you think they will snip PS4 release date?
Mattrick is one of the first Canadians I've disliked in a while.
And this explains a lot of his recent comments: http://www.businessinsider.com/don-mattrick-zynga-ceo-2013-7
Mattrick is one of the first Canadians I've disliked in a while.
And this explains a lot of his recent comments: http://www.businessinsider.com/don-mattrick-zynga-ceo-2013-7
That makes it seems hes super detached from the average person who buys video games.
And I still do not get why people are not happy with Ballmer. They need a business man to make decisions on what it said and what info is put out. Not some idiot who spouts out fake pity for the military or people with limited internet.
Or better yet someone who knows when NOT TO SAY ANYTHING.
So why is everyone freaking out Ballmer took over?
http://www.winrumors.com/steve-jobs-describes-microsoft-as-irrelevant-in-biography-blames-ballmer/
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/11/18/ballmer_board/
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/ballmer-must-go-einhorn-says/
Just to link a few articles.
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