Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A nongamer leading a console/studio company… More corporate trash coming our way.
To be fair, my Xbox gamer tag is pretty lacking as I’m mainly a pcgamer and retro gamer. So hopefully that is the case with her.
But to be honest, from my perspective, Xbox is already lower on the scale to me that it can get worse in any measurable way.
Doesn’t matter for the role.
You’re right, my experience as a sous chef does make me a perfect fit for that chief of surgery job I saw advertised. Imma go for it.
Business experience for a business role.
Knowing your product is part of business…
The Xbox team has been full of people that migrated over from T-Mobile for years now. They are full of layers and layers of leadership that has no idea how the game industry works.
If you look at their decisions over the last 5 years a lot of it makes business sense on paper, but look at where it brought them and the industry. A titan that is inept and brings nothing to the table.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s a month old account.
But the biggest redflag is she’s never worked for a gaming company before, she went from AI exec to Xbox CEO…
She literally has no idea how any of it works
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the fundamental problem in the game industry. It became so profitable over the years it attracted the worst kind of people to lead creative endeavors.
Of course I‘m talking about scum from the finance world and big tech that we‘ve all grown to despise over the years. They don‘t know the consumer or the product. They‘re in it for the money and we can see that in mass layoffs, predatory monetization practices that make other entertainment industries blush and insanely bloated budgets for projects with no vision.
They‘re disgusting parasites. They‘re killing games and that‘s why I play so much more indie and retro games than AAA.
BaroqueW@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is a fundamental problem with all industries. Management rarely has any idea what their industry is about and are just there to make numbers go up no matter what by pushing buttons/people.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Might be another time to push Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act, in which workers of a company must vote in a show of support for a large number of chair members. That would likely help a lot of industries get perspective below the sacred MBA.
redsand@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Literally Jeffrey Epstein. He helped push microtransaction.
mrnobody@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Oh she’ll be prefect then! She will spend a minimum amount of time pretending like she’s a gamer to relate to the gaming scene and then because she knows it all, base all her decisions on her profound knowledge!
/s
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d be a better fit for the role. I’ve never played XBox, but neither has she, and I’ve been a gamer since 1985.
I’d LOVE to get in there, and do something with Rare.