Monday, July 1, 2013

Don Mattrick Leaves Microsoft


Yes folks, in a move that's sure to break the hearts of so many, Don Mattrick, who succeeded Peter Moore in leading the Xbox division of Microsoft, has quit to pursue a job with Zynga.

While in past years my gripes with Mattrick would have been rather unimportant on the grand scale, based mostly around the homogenization of games development at Microsoft Studios, the fact that he was head of the division when they tried to push forth with an awful DRM platform which would have mostly fucked over the Xbox customer base, all the while displaying incredible arrogance and condescension, leads me without any hesitation to say that he shouldn't let the door hit him in the ass on his way out of Redmond.

So farewell to you Mr. Mattrick, you won't be missed.

3 comments:

  1. The (King) is dead!

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  2. To Zinga of all places, lol.

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  3. Even over the last few weeks, I've seen huge developments on Microsoft's part to improve on their past failures with the Xbox One since this development. While that's still not nearly enough to get me to consider buying one, it's certainly one hell of a step after all the ignorance that they were displaying prior (especially from Mr. Mattrick).

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