Phil Spencer blames capitalism for being bad at his job - Kotaku In Action 2

Phil Spencer blames capitalism for being bad at his job (www.pcgamer.com)

posted 267 days ago by triforce28 267 days ago by triforce28 +39 / -0

Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing busi...

Spencer said publicly traded companies have to show constant growth or else nobody will give them money.

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– ModsAreAIDS 30 points 267 days ago +30 / -0

So that’s why I keep pivoting back to: How does this industry get back to growth?

This one is easy. You get back to growth by remembering the demand side of supply and demand. Sell gamers what they actually want rather than dictating what they will get and ignoring all of their complaints about it. You can please your customers and thrive or you can please the ivory tower intelligentsia and die. You can't do both, so choose.

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– triforce28 [S] 15 points 267 days ago +15 / -0

You mean gamers don't want space bullshit that have expressionless characters like Starfield?

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– Lurker404 8 points 266 days ago +8 / -0

That's why they hate capitalism: they cannot push their politics AND run a successful business at the same time, so they choose to run businesses into the ground and blame everyone but themselves.