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Forums - Microsoft - AllThingsD: Don Mattrick is leaving Microsoft, possibly joining Zynga as CEO

crissindahouse on 01 July 2013

would be good for zynga. most gamers in forums probably hate him but his vision of the gaming future is great for a company which doesn't have to deal with physical media. for a digital only company his ideas will be good. for a market which won't accept digital only yet, he doesn't seem to be the right guy.



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LiquorandGunFun on 01 July 2013

now if M$ could get kevin butler..... :)

i just hope its not the guy that did the tv presentation, he sucked! and that phil guy, he would be better sweeping the floors than anything else.



 

MoHasanie on 01 July 2013

Well, I don't think he was a bad man, but his handling of Xbox One was terrible so its good that he left.
Still don't understand joining Zynga though, cause that company isn't doing well at all. The fact that he joined Zynga shows that MS were going to demote him and he left quickly before it happened.



    

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Proxy-Pie on 01 July 2013

companies are like their heads-in-charge, that's why Nintendo are Sony are likeable companies while Microsoft is, well, crappy :P



S.T.A.G.E. on 01 July 2013
Xenostar said:
Called him being fired the day after E3, and yes this is him being pushed out quietly so as to save face, screwed up xbox one policies and launch so so badly. This is only a good thing for xbox going forward.


He wasn't fired. Pachter was predicting he would leave way before the Xbox reveal.



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AZWification on 01 July 2013
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
happydolphin said:
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
i am glad this douche is finally where he belongs.

Don Mattrick isn't a douche as much as Jack Tretton is. That and the girl in your avatar.

lol is this thread about jack tretton ? or that is some small attempt to upset me

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          No offence, but the girl in your avatar looks like she had her first orgasm in her life. Not trying to be a douche, but it does kinda look like that.



                
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Slimebeast on 01 July 2013

Personally I liked the guy, but he was bad or Xbos.



oniyide on 01 July 2013
tres said:
oniyide said:
happydolphin said:
tres said:
happydolphin said:
He will be missed. I liked his vision for the future, that's why there are many consoles. Would've been nice to see the advancements of an always-on console, but alas.

the bible says in habakkuk 2:2 - "write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it" or from the NLV "so that a runner can carry the correct message to others."

his vision was as blurry as an old man with cataract in one eye.   while if you only look through the good eye you can see the benefits but its like they threw sand in the good eye forcing you to look out the bad.  how many mix messages did we get?  how many no messages did we get?

The reason for that is because it was still early and they were being secretive, and some of the stuff you need to see it to understand it, like the advantages of the cloud and the financial benefits of DRM (for MS and publishers).

Lol @ ClassicGamingWizz thinking I'm butthurt.


THen they are a bunch of fools, a console reveal is NO time to be secretive, E3 is NO time to be secretive. That doesnt even make any sense, not if they are trying to sell their machine to people and its the most expensive one to boot. Need to see to understand? Most people are not trying to hear that noise, they want to see what the machine can do off the bat. If MS couldnt show the advantages of the "cloud" and DRM. Then either a, they are a bunch of fools that didnt know what they were doing or b, there were no advantages and they were treading water hoping people would just go along. I think its a combo of both leaning more toward b

well when youre constantly dealing with negatives its hard for positives to get traction.  but the biggest question what really going on with xbox one.  are they having yield issues.   they still havent announced a date.  will it be released this november?  


well then they need to stop doing negative crap, its really that easy.



tres on 01 July 2013
oniyide said:
well then they need to stop doing negative crap, its really that easy.

some of the stuff  people were so deranged about was totally blown out of proportion



the2real4mafol on 01 July 2013

would anymore really want to employ him after all this mess?



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