VGC’s Person of the Year: Phil Spencer | VGC
The Microsoft exec brought transparency and excitement during a challenging year for the industry…
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Phil Spencer really saved XBOX. Really Happy for him
ThisBiggest loss of E3 was Spencer not on the Giant Bomb After Hours couch.
Big time. Those are great.Biggest loss of E3 was Spencer not on the Giant Bomb After Hours couch.
Not to pry or anything, but what did transistor say? I stayed away from the last thread because ik how most like that would end but did what he say cause that much backlash?Official Staff CommunicationAlright let's try this again. We've had to lock two VGC awards threads in recent days because people haven't been able to act like adults. For the record yesterday we reviewed the Phil Spencer thread and issued a large number of bans for Sony console warriors who derailed it – what we found was that the thread was fine, initially, and nobody cared about Transistor's lukewarm take about PR until some usual suspects decided to turn the thread into a battleground. Those usual suspects are now banned.
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Biggest loss of E3 was Spencer not on the Giant Bomb After Hours couch.
Biggest loss of E3 was Spencer not on the Giant Bomb After Hours couch.
Really can't wait to see more about Avowed. As a big RPG fan I'm so hyped for all the rpgs that are gonna come in the next few years.Phil will always be the GOAT for buying Obsidian and giving them budget.
Also, I'm pretty sure the 7 billion spent on Bethesda was just to get a Fallout New Vegas sequel. Bless him.
As I've mentioned in the other thread, I don't really have much issue with Phil Spencer, but I'm less interested in awards like this being given to executives and such over developers.
pretty much. it'd be hard to name a single developer who's had as much impact recently, or to single out a developer out of a whole team.It's hard for an award like this to skew towards individual developers, since it's supposed to be around being able to make a sizeable impact in the industry.
How would you even be able to drill down to one specific developer out of a team of devs?
what about things like game pass, accessibility with the adaptive controller, promoting cross play, bringing XGS games to other platforms, turning around an almost dead platform, do those not count?I dont think spending billions of dollars on studios and games on gamepass is deserving an award tlike thus. We have been hearing a lot of stuff from him yet Ms, unlike Sony and Nintendo, releases just a few good exclusives every year, if any at all.
I don't know the exact wording, but the gist was that Phil was a glorified PR person. Others took that idea further.Not to pry or anything, but what did transistor say? I stayed away from the last thread because ik how most like that would end but did what he say cause that much backlash?
That's a very loaded spin on what he said. He said something to the effect that Phil is a PR person, and while that's not strictly true in terms of his job title and the stuff he does that we don't see, he does a lot of PR and the things he says in interviews are indeed PR.I don't know the exact wording, but the gist was that Phil was a glorified PR person. Others took that idea further.
He said that Phil is a PR person and that the award should go to someone championing accessibility in gaming lmao.That's a very loaded spin on what he said. He said something to the effect that Phil is a PR person, and while that's not strictly true in terms of his job title and the stuff he does that we don't see, he does a lot of PR and the things he says in interviews are indeed PR.
This was hoping they would have at least done a zoom but I guess it's just not the same.Biggest loss of E3 was Spencer not on the Giant Bomb After Hours couch.
He is set on delivering E rated and japanese games nexxt, it will take time but I think he will deliver.Phil is what the gaming industry needed. The moment he was handed the reins to the division, he went into overdrive--Game Pass, adaptive controller, buying out all the Fig.co devs, Bethesda...and now Xbox is on the most frightening and exciting upward trajectory it's ever been on. It's going to be wild to look back on all this once the pipeline's completed a full dev cycle. He turned around a brand that seemed like it was trying to tank itself and it'll be almost impossible to ignore in a couple years' time.
It would require a developer to make an impact that matches the title. Don't think any did in 2020.As I've mentioned in the other thread, I don't really have much issue with Phil Spencer, but I'm less interested in awards like this being given to executives and such over developers.
He games a lot actually. He is always playing Destiny. I am sure he had a personal hand in getting D2 to GP. And before all of this he was a developer so he is legit in my book.I mean, in terms of video game personas, I can't really think of anyone who would really take his place this year (maybe Geoff Keighley or Druckmann, but they haven't done as much) so this makes sense. Phil is a spokesperson as the head of Xbox and definitely seems like the direction he is taking the Xbox brand is working (sucks that there were no real exclusives for launch, but games take time to make). I am curious how much of his talk of being a gamer first is PR talk versus actually from the heart, but the reality is that Gamepass and his general direction for Xbox has been great for many people.
It wasn't meant to be a loaded spin at all. It's about what I remembered. I don't think I said anything inflammatory in my quick synopsis of the post. If you'd like to dig it up and post it then please feel free to do so.That's a very loaded spin on what he said. He said something to the effect that Phil is a PR person, and while that's not strictly true in terms of his job title and the stuff he does that we don't see, he does a lot of PR and the things he says in interviews are indeed PR.
Truth.Biggest loss of E3 was Spencer not on the Giant Bomb After Hours couch.
Last year's set of awards did not include Person of the Year.Is this VGC chronicles first person of the year award? If not, I'd be interested in seeing past winners.
Anyway, Congrats Phil.