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Halo Infinite Craig meme is now a t-shirt worn by Microsoft employees
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Why is this so cringe to you all? You realize the people making this game are also people! They just had their game shit on and delayed to who knows when, I'm sure morale was pretty low. Let them have their fun and make light of a bad situation. The devs aren't responsible for the awful decision making at the top.
Guys....being a console warrior is serious business! Gotta keep putting down the other team and elevating yours up!!! Cringe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah thats pretty cringey.
I get it that turning a negative thing of your game looking bad into a funny thing can be a wise approach but you have to know when to stop before its getting embarrasing.
Wearing tshirts is just dumb.
I get it that turning a negative thing of your game looking bad into a funny thing can be a wise approach but you have to know when to stop before its getting embarrasing.
Wearing tshirts is just dumb.
They initially embraced the memes (born from criticism) and that was all fine, people here actually commended them for that and for listening, but now they keep stretching the whole thing, same with the actual Xbox fridge and it feels just kind of desperate, we all moved on from that but Xbox insists on embracing the memes even more as if saying "we were never mad that these became a thing! See? See?".
I won't elaborate further because some mod might think I'm pulling some kind of console wars bullshit which I despise (and anyone can check my posts if they want, I don't hide them), but if after that you still think your comparison is valid, then I don't think there's convincing you otherwise. And as I said, I hate engaging too much into these worthless topics.
Basically this.
Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be an Easter egg tucked away into a corner of a campaign map that's difficult to reach and that your stomach will also settle after seeing it.
Embarrassing to who? They're not selling the shirts. They didn't even post a picture of them. Phil mentioned this in an interview specifically in response to being asked about the meme's impact.
Sad, since this was such a great interview and people are latching onto the most inconsequential part of it.
If you'd actually watch the interview, Spencer talks a lot about the mistake of revealing Infinite when they did. It's not about making people forget.
Some of you really just want the devs to feel hurt, huh? I'm sure they were already aware of every compromise we saw during the game's reveal. But the artists aren't the ones that decide when a trailer or game ships.
As far as Craig, if it was Microsoft posting these on their own social media and actually promoting it then I'd agree however this was from an interview that was only brought up because a question was specifically asked about Craig. They weren't throwing it in front of people's faces and who knows how long ago these shirts were actually made by the internal dev team.
I mean the comment about us having to endure decades of Phil saying "Hey remember Craig? Remember how we were were totally positive about that and made it our own? Wasn't that so funny? Don't you love our PR team? Don't you think we're totally gamers just like you? Remember that guys? Memes, right?"
*looks at thread
Yo, what even is cringe anymore?
Anyway, this could boost the morale over at 343i. Embrace the failure, learn from it, than reminisce on where you were and how far you've potentially gotten.
Yo, what even is cringe anymore?
Anyway, this could boost the morale over at 343i. Embrace the failure, learn from it, than reminisce on where you were and how far you've potentially gotten.
It wasn't 'negative' because the game looked bad. It was negative because it spurred an intensely toxic wave of trolling, fanboyism and attacks on the devs.
You know this. Yet it's 'embarrassing' because they've taken the sting out of it and made it into a powerless in-house joke.
Era: 'OMG game studios treat their employees like cogs in a machine!'
Also Era: ' OMG, why are these people having fun?! Get back to being cogs in a machine!'
Also Era: ' OMG, why are these people having fun?! Get back to being cogs in a machine!'
Its actually made Halo even more popular which wasn't the meme intended effect. This rubbed people the wrong way.
Honestly, I think it's refreshing to hear that a corporate exec is self-aware enough to spin shortcomings into something humorously self deprecating.
I was kinda "eh, whatever, maybe a bit much a bit after the fact (although time is...a thing at the moment)", but considering how it has folks working themselves into a shoot that they can't use it any more, I'm for it.
At the very least, it's no more or less dafter than the "let's have our character recreate this famous reference" gifs
At the very least, it's no more or less dafter than the "let's have our character recreate this famous reference" gifs
Eh, it's not different from what we do using memes as avatars.
Honestly, it could be the path to take the franchise. Less regal and sumptuous and more relaxed and fun. It could revitalize the franchise for younger audiences who doesn't care about it rn.
Honestly, it could be the path to take the franchise. Less regal and sumptuous and more relaxed and fun. It could revitalize the franchise for younger audiences who doesn't care about it rn.
No I don't think they're doing this for marketing purposes. The fridge thing is marketing but I don't think it is possible for anyone to be upset that the XSX is a conventional box. So there's not much of an insult to embrace or whatever. It was at worst a light joke.
Wearing a Craig shirt does not sound like the type of thing a marketing department deploys as part of some branding strategy. It's probably just a few employees having a chuckle. I feel like they're only likely to make a joke like that around the office if they believe the final product will look a lot better, probably best to wait and hear from someone at 343 before assuming the worst though.
Yeah, that's all I am getting out of this.
They're just having some fun, it is not serious business.
This.
It sounds like a good way to boost morale around the office.
By the way, do we have pictures of the shirt?
Yeah, if I was staff I sure as hell would want to be wearing a shirt of a meme jab that helped kill the game's launch and send it into extended crunch time. Demotivating as fuck.
Do... do you think the developers who made the model put time aside to make a t-shirt? You know 343 has a merchandise department right?