THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Human Snorenado on July 01, 2013, 03:26:21 PM

Title: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 01, 2013, 03:26:21 PM: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/07/01/microsofts-don-mattrick-leaving-microsoft-for-zynga

Guess you can't fuck up THAT MUCH without some consequences. Goodbye, you smug looking motherfucker.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 03:27:33 PM: From one sinking ship to another.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 01, 2013, 03:28:22 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 03:27:33 PM
From one sinking ship to another.

Is it wrong for me to want him and Peter Moore to end up working at the same place?
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Sho Nuff on July 01, 2013, 03:29:13 PM: Cliff Bleszinski ‏@therealcliffyb
We can all make jokes about Don Mattrick all day long until you remember his house is bigger than the town you grew up in. ;)
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Himu on July 01, 2013, 03:33:42 PM: Quote from: Sho Nuff on July 01, 2013, 03:29:13 PM
Cliff Bleszinski ‏@therealcliffyb
We can all make jokes about Don Mattrick all day long until you remember his house is bigger than the town you grew up in. ;)

I have never wanted to murder someone digital so much as I do CliffyB.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 01, 2013, 03:38:57 PM: Cliff has to be trolling... right?
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Himu on July 01, 2013, 03:40:44 PM: given his recent posts in the past year, i'm guessing no.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 01, 2013, 03:48:14 PM: Cliffy is right in the sense that people are making it sound like Mattrick has been murdered in the digital realm, but in reality he is doing something the average person cannot do: fall upwards. You might say "bubbububu Zynga is a burning ship!" and you'd be right...but he's going to be their CEO. He'll make even more money and bail out with a golden parachute when the shit finally hits the fan.

In short, I'm not going to laugh at Mattrick, he won. I'm going to laugh at MS because they lost.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: cool breeze on July 01, 2013, 03:56:28 PM: Mattrick did good at his job, right? wasn't he the top guy when Kinect gave 360 its second wind?

I mean, he's off-putting on stage but so are most people; except Peter Moore, like the time he ruined that Rock Band demo and didn't give a shit. After he left MS should've hired a washed up actor like the guy from avatar or hulk hogan to host public events.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Barry Egan on July 01, 2013, 03:58:57 PM: Quote
We can all make jokes about Don Mattrick all day long until you remember his house is bigger than the town you grew up in.

I agree that the issue of over-salaried high-level executives is no laughing matter, and should be a cause for serious reflection by an informed citizenry. A Good Twitter Post.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: maxy on July 01, 2013, 04:11:23 PM: Good for Zynga.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: ToxicAdam on July 01, 2013, 04:13:45 PM: I read CliffyB's response more as a corporate whore that is so afraid to bad mouth anyone in his industry because he doesn't know where his next paycheck may come from.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: huckleberry on July 01, 2013, 04:55:53 PM: Cliffy B is the center square in the Hollywood Squares of VideoGames Edition.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Bebpo on July 01, 2013, 06:02:03 PM: Wait, you guys know that Cliffy has been trolling people on purpose since E3, right?

He's just trying to get the biggest reactions and attention right now.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: thisismyusername on July 01, 2013, 06:15:08 PM: Quote from: Sho Nuff on July 01, 2013, 03:29:13 PM
Cliff Bleszinski ‏@therealcliffyb
We can all make jokes about Don Mattrick all day long until you remember his house is bigger than the town you grew up in. ;)

Internet and Himuro status:

[ x ] Fucking told

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on July 01, 2013, 03:48:14 PM
Cliffy is right in the sense that people are making it sound like Mattrick has been murdered in the digital realm, but in reality he is doing something the average person cannot do: fall upwards. You might say "bubbububu Zynga is a burning ship!" and you'd be right...but he's going to be their CEO. He'll make even more money and bail out with a golden parachute when the shit finally hits the fan.

In short, I'm not going to laugh at Mattrick, he won. I'm going to laugh at MS because they lost.

Quote from: Barry Egan on July 01, 2013, 03:58:57 PM
I agree that the issue of over-salaried high-level executives is no laughing matter, and should be a cause for serious reflection by an informed citizenry. A Good Twitter Post.

Real talk, both of you.

I'm just glad he's gone. Maybe MS's PR won't be a total disaster and maybe they'll get an exec that will go "no, fuck you" to Ballmer's decisions and rightly so.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: AdmiralViscen on July 01, 2013, 06:36:35 PM: $400 One with no Kinect?
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: thisismyusername on July 01, 2013, 06:42:43 PM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on July 01, 2013, 06:36:35 PM
$400 One with no Kinect?

Unlikely given there's only 4-5 months left before launch to rework the dashboard but could be possible if the replacement has the balls to stand up to Ballmer and the other higher-ups and go "no, people don't want that."
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 01, 2013, 07:34:34 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/D3UJpHS.png)

NEXT
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: chronovore on July 01, 2013, 07:41:46 PM: Quote from: Arde0 on July 01, 2013, 04:55:53 PM
Cliffy B is the center square in the Hollywood Squares of VideoGames Edition.
So he's Paul Lynd? Because he fer shure ain't Whoopi Goldberg.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 01, 2013, 07:55:22 PM: BRING BACK J ALLARD
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: headwalk on July 01, 2013, 08:22:26 PM: Quote from: MCD on July 01, 2013, 07:34:34 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/D3UJpHS.png)

NEXT

"hey guys, if you could give me your best "i have no idea how to run a lemonade stand, letalone a multi-billlion dollar corporation" face, that'd be greeeat."
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Himu on July 01, 2013, 08:26:36 PM: ANDREW VESTAL, WHERE ARE YOU ON THAT PIC
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 08:34:09 PM: Quote from: chronovore on July 01, 2013, 07:41:46 PM
Quote from: Arde0 on July 01, 2013, 04:55:53 PM
Cliffy B is the center square in the Hollywood Squares of VideoGames Edition.
So he's Paul Lynd? Because he fer shure ain't Whoopi Goldberg.

CliffyB's gotta be Bruce Vilanch, center square or not.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 01, 2013, 09:13:02 PM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 08:34:09 PM
Quote from: chronovore on July 01, 2013, 07:41:46 PM
Quote from: Arde0 on July 01, 2013, 04:55:53 PM
Cliffy B is the center square in the Hollywood Squares of VideoGames Edition.
So he's Paul Lynd? Because he fer shure ain't Whoopi Goldberg.

CliffyB's gotta be Bruce Vilanch, center square or not.

Uh. CliffyB is obviously Jim J. Bullock
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 10:26:46 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/1caKB9z.gif)
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: huckleberry on July 01, 2013, 10:34:45 PM: Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on July 01, 2013, 09:13:02 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 08:34:09 PM
Quote from: chronovore on July 01, 2013, 07:41:46 PM
Quote from: Arde0 on July 01, 2013, 04:55:53 PM
Cliffy B is the center square in the Hollywood Squares of VideoGames Edition.
So he's Paul Lynd? Because he fer shure ain't Whoopi Goldberg.

CliffyB's gotta be Bruce Vilanch, center square or not.

Uh. CliffyB is obviously Jim J. Bullock

Bullock is who I had in mind. Upper left square for the win.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 01, 2013, 10:36:25 PM: Quote from: MCD on July 01, 2013, 07:34:34 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/D3UJpHS.png)

NEXT

How come there's no brothers on the wall?
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 01, 2013, 10:45:37 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1I7ZxeCg8

Because they are doing god's work where it matters.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: mjemirzian on July 02, 2013, 01:16:54 AM: Takes credit for 360's rise, bails out when his Xbox One ideas fail. Smart move.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 02, 2013, 09:35:25 AM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmPkyKbksk
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Sho Nuff on July 02, 2013, 12:00:59 PM: (http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/07/E256-cover.jpg)

Don saw this cover and cried and left
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: magus on July 02, 2013, 12:04:53 PM: Quote from: Sho Nuff on July 02, 2013, 12:00:59 PM
(http://media.edge-online.com/wp-content/uploads/edgeonline/2013/07/E256-cover.jpg)

Don saw this cover and cried and left

that's a weird looking pc
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 02, 2013, 06:36:04 PM: Francis weighs in :rock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynx8rjpZ19E
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 02, 2013, 06:40:25 PM: :lol
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Great Rumbler on July 02, 2013, 06:53:56 PM: :bow

Francis isn't the loud, overweight, angry gamer we deserve, but he is the loud, overweight, angry gamer we need.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: drew on July 02, 2013, 09:00:32 PM: heading to borders right now

shit it's almost 9 NEVERMIND
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Sho Nuff on July 02, 2013, 09:50:46 PM: http://www.businessinsider.com/don-mattrick-zynga-ceo-2013-7 (http://www.businessinsider.com/don-mattrick-zynga-ceo-2013-7)

Here, read about how COOL Don is

Quote
Mattrick loves spectacle--he wears rainbow-stripe Paul Smith socks

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and flies a private jet to work

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e2/Captain_Planet.jpg/250px-Captain_Planet.jpg)
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 02, 2013, 09:54:59 PM: Dat XBL Gold money
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: D3RANG3D on July 03, 2013, 09:20:55 AM: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=612086

:what :ufup :paul
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Himu on July 03, 2013, 09:23:15 AM: :rofl
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Sho Nuff on July 03, 2013, 04:59:44 PM: $50 million dollars

For being SO COOL
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 03, 2013, 05:13:28 PM: Quote from: D3RANG3D on July 03, 2013, 09:20:55 AM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=612086

:what :ufup :paul

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 03:27:33 PM
From one sinking ship to another.

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Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Steve Contra on July 03, 2013, 05:20:12 PM: Quote from: Sho Nuff on July 03, 2013, 04:59:44 PM
$50 million dollars

For being SO COOL
"Wow, that Mattrick can really create buzz! Did you see all those X-Box One articles during e3? I didn't read them, but wow what press!"
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: D3RANG3D on July 03, 2013, 06:25:44 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on July 03, 2013, 05:13:28 PM
Quote from: D3RANG3D on July 03, 2013, 09:20:55 AM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=612086

:what :ufup :paul

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 01, 2013, 03:27:33 PM
From one sinking ship to another.

.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=612706

The sinking ship is might be rescued.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/09/jallardinterview.jpg)
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Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: mjemirzian on July 03, 2013, 07:01:19 PM: All I can think of when reading the Xbox One disaster is "Windows is next". :(
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 03, 2013, 07:31:51 PM: BRING BACK VELOCITY GIRL
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: cool breeze on July 03, 2013, 08:01:09 PM: Some of those ideas were cool. 7 years later and Steam is kinda doing it with workshop, but I don't know if you can sell your creations. Maybe next gen we'll see the lofty promises come true, like 720p.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on July 03, 2013, 08:39:38 PM: Quote from: D3RANG3D on July 03, 2013, 09:20:55 AM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=612086

:what :ufup :paul

The person in charge of the Surface?

Holy shit the Xbone is fucked.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 03, 2013, 08:44:14 PM: Surface is awesome :(
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 03, 2013, 08:44:54 PM: Quote from: fryinghigh on July 03, 2013, 08:01:09 PM
Some of those ideas were cool. 7 years later and Steam is kinda doing it with workshop, but I don't know if you can sell your creations. Maybe next gen we'll see the lofty promises come true, like 720p.

Yeah, people gave Allard a ton of shit over that stuff, but just about everyone is doing it now.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 03, 2013, 11:32:56 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on July 03, 2013, 08:44:14 PM
Surface is awesome :(
So is Windows 8. Sinking ship lol.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 03, 2013, 11:41:47 PM: That's where Android patents comes. /MSpatenttroll
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: MCD on July 03, 2013, 11:44:30 PM: And she isn't the one behind Surface:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/12/4086434/microsoft-surface-concepts-prototypes-photos
http://www.core77.com/blog/core77_questionnaire/microsofts_ralf_groene_on_building_the_surface_experience_stepping_away_from_the_canvas_and_the_joy_of_fast-and-crappy_prototypes_24953.asp

It's Panos Panay and Ralf Groene.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 04, 2013, 12:11:43 AM: Maybe Nintendo will buy the Xbox division.
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: Brehvolution on July 26, 2013, 03:50:21 PM: (http://i.minus.com/iXg73bVLlyNqU.gif)
Title: Re: Mattrick sleeps with the fishes
Post by: chronovore on July 26, 2013, 09:55:43 PM: He's got a Tom Cruise vibe about him; something about his nose-to-teeth ratio...