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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 46_and_2@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

She completed Firewatch to 100% on January 20. Titles like What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, and A Short Hike also had higher completion ratings, indicating Sharma may have a preference for emotionally charged narrative games.

I don't know what your takes are, but these are some of the best games in their genres that she completed, I wouldn’t say no to more of that, especially a bigger "A Short Hike" game.

Obviously she's not into bigger gaming timesinks, but different people have different preferences, I'd give her the benefit of doubt, because I don't know much about her managerial skills. And that should matter more about her job than what your free time preferences are.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Who cares

[–] arcine@jlai.lu 1 points 12 hours ago

I've never cared for Xbox but at least it had a personality before Xbox One. An annoying, idiotic personality that I thoroughly disliked, but it had a personality nonetheless. It was the "fratbro" of the pack.

Ever since Xbox One though, the fratbro graduated and suddenly became the most bland and boring corporate guy you've ever heard of. And as every corporate guy nowadays, he now has caught the AI brain rot.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Former Xbox leadership Phil Spencer, whom Sharma was succeeding, was a prolific collector of achievements with a rich gamercard that was a popular subject of discussion among Xbox communities.

Scrolling to the bottom, Sharma's very first achievement was unlocked in The Master Chief Collection and was the aptly titled "Your Journey Begins" on January 15 of this year

SYAC

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If anything this proves that the correlation between active gamer and competent gaming CEO might not be that strong with how awesome Xbox is currently.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

I think being an active gamer is an important quality but it certainly doesn't guarantee success. Certainly having never played an XBOX before in your life is a BAD BAD quality for XBOX leadership.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's like they sought out the person who would most precisely piss off Asmongold.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s hard to do much worse than Spencer but I’m sure she’ll manage.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago (3 children)

A nongamer leading a console/studio company..... More corporate trash coming our way.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 points 10 hours 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 1 points 1 day ago

Literally Jeffrey Epstein. He helped push microtransaction.

[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 10 points 2 days 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 5 points 2 days 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.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] foodvacuum@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

If you're offered the job, take it I guess because no one expects you to succeed. If the internal expectations are to focus on the following: Minecraft, CoD, Diablo, WoW, Overwatch, Candy Crush, then maybe this person will excel in that direction. Also all those being video games that found success before Microsoft

Actually trying to make Xbox a success, it's been nearly 13 years of trying to course correct and probably a good amount north of 100 billion dollars and still no strong consistent lineup of new releases. Fable can knock it out the park but that would just be one single player AAA game hit for Xbox after 13 years. So I imagine her expectations are going to be in managing what's proven profitable and winding down what's been proven to be outside of what they're good at

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago

Ah, the funeral director has arrived!

[–] HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On the one hand I see the reason for criticism, when a person that apparently never touched a video game becomes a XBOX CEO, on the other hand does her account really read like a real one, and I think this is great. I think there is nothing easier for an Xbox CEO than to have a fake account created going back 20 years and showing thousands of hours of gaming or have somebody game for you Elon Musk style.

This reads like someone that is actually preparing for the new role she has to fill and making her own gaming experiences and listening to community feedback.

Is it as good as having someone as CEO with a long history in gaming? Probably not. But I think this might be the next best thing.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Red flag is that it is an AI person hired for a game division who can't even be trusted if any of their statements were generated through copilot, and they are nothing but a physical placeholder to mouth off copilot commands.

And this hiring coming from the company that has decided shoving copilot into as many different Microsoft products like notepad is the way forward. So a game account is nothing but meaningless fluff when even boomers play games on their phones. Playing games doesn't show any signs of qualifications that indicate consumers will be better off.

Just more moves towards trying to shove AI integration to draw in investors.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

"She has zero experience but at least she's not lying, I guess?"

Yeah I don't get what you're trying to say here at all.

[–] glitzer_gadze@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

Wow she made her first MCC achievement on january 15 of this year. Wtf? 18 hours in Infinite. I have like 200 and i despite this game. How can one be the CEO of a gaming division, when your not a gamer? Every news from Xbox is just evolving from bad to worse.

[–] mcforest@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of a company having a CEO with no clue about their product either. But how much worse than Spencer can she really be? Maybe he should have focused more on his job than his gamer reputation.

[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Phil Spencer merely did what his higher ups told him to do, she will do the exact same except caring less about video games.

[–] mcforest@feddit.org 0 points 1 day ago

So you agree with me that she won't do a worse job?