shikamaru317 said:
Maybe the backlash is having an effect and they are starting to reconsider it and having more internal meetings. Supposedly that is why an Xbox employee leaked this, they wanted the fans to be aware of what the Microsoft execs were planning, in the hopes that the fan backlash would cause them to reverse course, much like when they tried to double the XBL Gold price back in January 2021, and then reversed course after the intense fan backlash. |
I think it is very unlikely they will reverse course though. It is not a simple pay rise but the entire future direction of the company hinges on this and it has clearly been in the works for many months. They also would be mad to not expect the backlash would happen, they must have known.
The worse hardware sales got and the more MS invested into software the more likely this scenario was going to happen. This quarter MS are again predicting Xbox hardware sales to decline YoY. It definitely seems like there is some internal struggle but I feel like the ones that have the real power are the ones pushing for this.
