Xbox boss and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer was the recipient of the AIAS Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony last week, and he had some key words for gamers in a post-awards interview.
As highlighted by IGN, Spencer was asked if he had a message to share to the players, and he used the opportunity to suggest that game creators need to be respected and celebrated, which unfortunately isn't always the case:
"[K]eep playing, keep using your voice, understand the power of creativity, the power of community. And the other thing I would just say is, let's respect creators. I think it's very often that creations can be kind of weaponized and used in battles between platforms and other things.
I look at everybody who is brave enough to create something, put it out...have their peers, the industry, players, play and analyze and talk about what they do, and let's just celebrate the fact that so many great games are coming out from so many creators, and realize that's such a foundation for where this industry is going to go."
IGN also pointed out that Spencer spoke about toxicity in general as part of his awards speech at the D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony, explaining that the games industry should be doing "everything possible to ensure that this entire industry is about treating every single person with dignity and respect."
Key words from Phil, then, and we certainly agree with them. The Xbox boss has stated in the past that he "despises" console war toxicity, so his comments don't come as much of a surprise, but they're great to hear all the same.
What do you make of Spencer's message to gamers? Let us know down in the comments below.
[source ign.com]
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Well I hope that once the sale of ActivisionBlizzard is concluded that he will live his own words and cleans house within that organisation. The stink from upper management is pretty overwhelming I would imagine from the perspective of the on the ground devs and other employees.
such a good guy this phil spencer always speack from his heart i think he have also seen alot of toxicity on xbox reviews on the xbox store who doesn't? have a good day everyone elden ring awaits me 😊👌
Good idea. Lets start with the developers and publishers.
"everything possible to ensure that this entire industry is about treating every single person with dignity and respect."
This is the better message. It calls out both the players and the creators.
I know I'm, more often than not, negative towards the gaming industry, but I also know a lot of that scorn comes from areas where the industry disrepects its own workers or their customers.
I mean, the respect really needs to go from the bottom up (customers towards devs and so on) and from the top down (the suits and then studio bosses and creative teams down to consumers). The current debacle regarding updates of Halo Infinite shows that sometimes problems go deeper than fan entitlement and toxicity and it rests in the studios developers or management.
@Agnostic yeah ofc when a fan throws harsh critic at a developer you generally take the whole studio as an entity and often you can't really tell who is really to blame without being in the rooms and halls where the game is being made.
When I’m trashing a game for being awful, my last thought is to go on Twitter, find whoever develops it and give them grief.
I too wish things weren't so bad with toxicity, but also know that that's life and it's easier said than done to fix that kind of issue in the world.
There is only a small percentage of fanboys that are truly toxic. We have to remember that there is now billions of gamers around the world now. Less then 1% are probably toxic. The unfortunate part is that they are very loud and aggressive.
I never got into all that. I didn’t respond to the fanboys of a particular console as I’ve supported them all. I also never got into it while gaming. Probably the reason why I prefer single player games. My youngest gets into with others online and I have to constantly remind him to be nice. He thinks it’s just the way it’s supposed to be when you play Fortnight.
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