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Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would like to know if video games journalism is OK.
He is concerned that the “whole space is gonna go away or be corrupted by things”.
“You see it, just like the industry itself.
But I’m just curious, like from where you sit.
How should we feel about the state of people like yourselves who get to talk about video games?
Should we be worried that that whole space is gonna go away or become corrupted by things?
Like people with a real honest voice?
And just who want to kind of talk constructively about an industry they love?
Is there a path for them?”
XboxEra don’t go in for any of that nonsense, he added.
“Yeah, I love that,” quoth Almighty Phil.
And it’s you’re paying on a regular basis for the quality of the dialogue.
“But otherwise it’s just too…. what do they call it?
Search engine optimization or something like that?”
“And I have friends in the industry.
Sorry to make it a heavy question but it is where my head’s at.”
I too miss the days when people paid for video games journalism, regularly or irregularly.
I too dislike writing headlines such as What Is Doom: The DarkSkyrimFor Fortnite Fans Free Horses Fast.
But Phil, this is the equivalent of the high school bully asking us why we are hitting ourselves.
Your company makesbillionsfrom Search!
“Avoiding rage bait?”
“Your company helped invent the concept of “console wars”, Phil!
Talk constructively about an industry we love?
How are we supposed to do that when you keeplaying people off?”
“Help us bring back the glory days, Phil!”
I would shriek, as I disappeared for a third time over the horizon.
“Refound Official Xbox Magazine and donate it to the Internet Archive!
Go pour glue into Copilot’s personality core!
Turn Halo Studios into a worker’s cooperative!
Cede The Coalition to the CBC!”
