Everyone knew about that policy already, though.
So we all would of just shrugged.
Honestly that's the kind of comment I was expecting instead of this swipe about "third-party exclusives".
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Phil Spencer Discusses Why FFXIV Isn't on Xbox (Contradictions?)
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Everyone knew about that policy already, though.
So we all would of just shrugged.
Honestly that's the kind of comment I was expecting instead of this swipe about "third-party exclusives".
Just say something like "we would love to have every game on our platform and I'll definitely look into getting FFXIV on our platform." Whether you actually do or not who cares?
DannyDanger
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Majornelson gets on here right? You think he'll get this reference?
Nightengale
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Well, deceptiveness in this case paints them as heroic and noble compared to slimy Sony.
I don't really mind PR bullshit from companies so much because that's how corporate works, but I'm not a fan of how Phil has been more nudge-nudge-wink about "deals" on Sony's side of the camp.
I don't get it. Want to explain?
Sigh, What I meant to say is that Sony and Nintendo don't fuck up as royally or as often as MS does and therefore don't need to resuscitate their PR (edit: This gen.) Add that to the fact that when ms DOES try the PR speak they sometimes end up making things worse
family_guy
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Blatantly telling lies is slimy. Although it's not just Phil doing it. Sony reps have said a bunch of BS too over the years.
I don't see how Shu would know about any information going on between Squeenix and Xbox over the year, I doubt he's kept up on it's other platforms when the game was already coming out on PS3/4.
Should've been 2nd post.
Veritigo_X
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DannyDanger
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Yeah kinda how I see it. I'm one of those that don't like the dude. He seems way to much of a PR piece without his suite but even the best trained one will forget things.
He's probably a decent fella.
DAMMIT JAPAN.
AmethystEnd
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Lolol, rekt.
This gif just made my night.
Was referring to the ff14 director, Naoki Yoshida. I think he originally gave the reasons why it wasn't coming to Xbox One in 2013 and (I think it was him) again in 2014.
Spencer's job is PR; he's only going to explain things if that will help with his goal. If obfuscation is better for PR, then that's what he'll do. The same is true for executives of other companies as well, but it certainly feels like Spencer does it more.
akilshohen
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I needed this for my phone Bruh. Should have been first post.
You expect IGN to do so? Lol...
This is coming from the head of the platform that's marketing EA Access as exclusive, still strict on cross-platform play for the most part and will dissuade on its indie policy. They'll take whatever they can get and love it. They will do consumer oriented PR when they don't. Nothing wrong with that but anyone can see through it.
EA access is exclusive? Or not?
The way you posted it made it sound like he was lying or sommit.
Why wouldn't he talk up EA Access while they have it to themselves? That's not a bad thing to do at all.
#PhilSpencerTweets
Why is that put like that is a bad things like the other that indeed are bad things.
Pretty sure he's a fan of EA Access when he's running paid ads on TV about it. Not to mention his servants on the lower echelons throwing shade at Sony. Mind you, it's fair game after Sony called it out "poor value" but still...
They play the game just as much.
Sangetsu-II
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Well, how Spencer puts it is like EA Access was always their deal from the beginning and how they love working with EA Access when in reality if Sony would have allowed it, he couldn't say shit.
By that's how everyone talks when it comes to marketing. Why would they say otherwise?
"EA said Hey, you want this stuff and we were all Whatever, put it there if you want."
What he said isn't a slimy thing to say, even in the business world.
Head.spawn
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How would that change anything? Spencer would still have been the one to help get EA Access off the ground and running on the Xbox platform first. If it came to PS4 afterwards, that still wouldn't change any of those facts.
Indeed, and it's no different to Sony saying things like "Battlefront is best on Playstation" or similar for their marketing deals.
Business have to play up deals, or else the deal wouldn't be worth it in the first place.
lol
It's not the misinformation, it's the trying to paint the other guy as worse for it that makes it ridiculous.
You'll excuse me if I don't believe that he doesn't know about the exclusivity status of a hugely successful MMO from one of their major partners.
...A partner who, hey, they just paid for an exclusive.
You'll excuse me if I don't believe that he doesn't know about the exclusivity status of a hugely successful MMO from one of their major partners.
...A partner who, hey, they just paid for an exclusive.
Neuromancer
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Spencer being willfully misleading again? Well I never.
hosannainexcelsis
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Have you ever seen... this before?
thank god someone did it first
Dreadx_Jecht
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It makes sense. He doesn't want the Xbox community getting wrecked in PvP by jrpg veterans.
/s
What's with the weird outraged response to that post? You even responded twice to it.
Edit: yikes, missed tag
Dreadx_Jecht
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NinjamicWZ
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This guy's interviews are just saying things at different times that please different people, operating on the idea that the majority of people pleased by other statements will likely never encounter contradicting philosophies spread across multiple articles over the years.
Depending on what stream you've got your ear to, based on your interests and ideals, you'll hear the things you want to hear and not the things you don't. If you have your ear to all of it, then you'll see all of it as hot air.
Everyone does it to some extent, because that's their jobs. Phil Spencer is just really tactful with it even if it looks ridiculous when taken as a whole.
Depending on what stream you've got your ear to, based on your interests and ideals, you'll hear the things you want to hear and not the things you don't. If you have your ear to all of it, then you'll see all of it as hot air.
Everyone does it to some extent, because that's their jobs. Phil Spencer is just really tactful with it even if it looks ridiculous when taken as a whole.
Neuromancer
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I always value your insight and personality. I hope you reconsider and stick around for a while.
Dreadx_Jecht
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There's always a crapgamer podcast you can go to. I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms. Lmao
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