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D-Joe said:
Sal.Paradise said:

I don't think they'd fire the Creative Director of MS Game Studios if all he did was 1) 'joke' about people with bad internet 2) shoot the shit about an always online console that Microsoft are not actually making.

They will,ask Machiavellian

I am aging myself here but I worked at MS when windows 95 came out.  I seen people get fired over just posting in forums using their MS email address.  If people think that a director who pisses of people on his own twitter account that makes national news will not be under the firing line then a lot of you have not worked for big coporations like MS.  This guy getting fired does not confirm anything.  Him getting fired is because he tweeted about something that does not exist, made a big stink of it and cause MS to look bad no matter what he said.  Him being a director is even worst because people will see this as an official statement, stance and position of MS which might not be the case.

Even if this whole thing did not blow up, MS is very strict on employees making any statements concerning anything MS, their partners or competitors.  The reason why is exactly what we see here.  People will assume this is MS speaking.  They will assume this is MS stance.  People will assume this is how MS works based on one person opinion.  You only have to view this and many other threads to see that people believe that online only is true based on Mr. Orth personal tweets.