So here they say that they missed their forecast by 28%. Satya's bonus was missed by 45% in the same FY2022, so we have the difference between internal/Satya bonus now. But wouldn't that imply that Game Pass has stayed at 25m since January 2022? I'm a little confused unless Game Pass has completely stagnated or I'm being an idiot.

Microsoft's 2022 fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. So possible number has grown since.

Microsoft's 2022 fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. So possible number has grown since.

Possible it has grown since June 30th, 2022. But it would still surely imply that since the 25m update in January, if they've missed their 35m target by 10m as of FY2022 then between January - June, Game Pass has had next to zero growth?

Next to no growth with no big releases. Not a big surprise. 

That's true, then I wonder where the fuck Sony got the 29m from, Lol.

Unless I'm misreading something, or Microsoft is being sneaky with the reporting.

Sorry boss! As you're complaining about both off topic and on topic spam, we'll be quiet and wait for your pre-approved list of things that we can talk about!

For real though, there isn't really anymore spam than the previous three iterations of Empire, unless you're that upset about congratulating Gtotheunit on being a dad, wishing each other Happy Thanksgiving or helping each other out (I don't care if Trunks wanted help to improve his YouTube thumbnails for example, it's a nice thing to do and even that is still somewhat related to Gaming).

Lighten up a little, it is an Xbox thread, that is true and like 95% of it is Xbox related news or Gaming news but as I see it and as I want it, this thread is also a community thread as well, a little off topic every now and then is completely harmless, it isn't hard to skim read past it and any major news will be put into the title anyway.

As for the regulator stuff, I will actually say that I can't wait until 2023 for when we have more things to talk about, a large chunk of this year has been about Activision-Blizzard but that's what happens when Xbox has barely any other news for the entire year or major releases, they're to blame. 2023 will be hugely better in this regard though, they'll still be acquisition talk, but it will be broken up better by other news.

But this regulator talk is also both on topic regardless of the above and provides interesting information on a few occasions, it provides insights into the industry and gives us new information on a few companies, such as the post on the previous page, a lot of that stuff we didn't know about and now we do.

Maybe we could panic less about certain updates but the regulator stuff itself is fine. Maybe it's just me but this sort of post annoys me more than the vast majority of "off-topic spam" Lol. Doesn't really add anything except to vaguely complain. This site is on its last legs, I don't think it's a smart idea to constantly police utterly harmless posts under "spam" like the 2014-2015 days.