No, his job is public relations. He is a mouthpiece for the Xbox business. His job isn’t to listen to the community, his job is to convey to the business feedback from customers. Whether he hears, understands, and empathizes is a personal matter, not corporate. Nevertheless, then the corporate head-honchos decide what to do or not do, say or not say, and when to.

If you’ve never worked for a major corporation, then I doubt you’d understand exactly what role you have in one as an employee, but needless to say the buck doesn’t stop with MajorNelson. With the exception of his personal opinion, which on this matter I think he’s already expressed, the only thing you’re going to get from him is what Microsoft wants to offer the public and my guess is that Microsoft has already said what it wanted to say.
It’s unfortunate that there are people who are either no longer with Microsoft or no longer doing the Inside Xbox videos, but it seems to me, at least in the US, that Microsoft has replaced first-party content with third-party content. So as long as you get similar content from IGN, then why is the lack of first-party content a significant issue?
I personally would rather see more of Naomi than Larry (No offense Larry) but that’s just my personal preference.

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Edit: Double post

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Well I did reply to this post, but it looks like it glitched out or something, so I’ll tl;dr what I posted.

You miss the point, MS are removing features but as long as you get your pathetic IGN app, you’re ok with that, and fine with the fact they’re making employees redundant. What exactly are we getting out of our gold memberships? We’re essentially paying for advertisements now. Stop brown nosing majornelson and MS. You’re on the corporation side not gamers.

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No, you don’t get it.

When Xbox LIVE initially rolled out for the Xbox 360 the intention was for community content. In this case, content generated from media outlets, and initially there were a few videos produced by third-parties. However, nothing grew from it, so Microsoft stepped in when the NXE rolled out.

The intention was never to generate the content internally in the first place, the intention was for respected third-parties to generate the content. The fact that Microsoft is stepping back from producing first party content at this time isn’t taking anything away, because they feel they had a partner in producing content.
I don’t get how my comments can be assumed to be “with” any side. If I have a 12 oz. cup with 6 oz. of water in it, and you a 6 oz. cup with 6 oz. of water in it, we have the same thing. Just because the 12 oz. cup only has 6 oz. in it doesn’t make it any less than what you have in a 6 oz. cup.
If IGN is producing the same amount of content, if not more than was available from the Inside Xbox team, then how is this bad? IGN is an independent third party, they’re less likely to be biased in their opinions. So how is this bad?

I’m not in support of anything or anyone. I don’t see a reason why, at this early stage, to get so bent out of shape.

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No you don’t get it. Your nothing more than a tag along. If Microsoft charged $20 a month you’ll justify it. And stop going on about IGN, you’re pathetic. You sound like a broken record.

Also you have no idea how IGN works either. IGN being less biased? Are you kidding me? Man you’re so full of it, thinking you know how everything works, but it’s quite the opposite.

Yes I know I have the IGN logo as my avatar, but the only thing I actually enjoy out of them is Gamescoop and podcast peyond, and i’m not defending them like you are.

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You don’t think the Inside Xbox content wasn’t advertising?

What do you think the purpose of the videos mentioning new game releases or new hardware were meant for? Inform? One mans information is another’s advertisement.

By no means am I suggesting that the Inside Xbox videos aren’t beneficial to the community, but again I believe that content being lost is replaced or will be by IGN.

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I actually care quite a bit. I am not happy about it at all.

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Brilliant…someone who completely misses the point of what the removal of first hand content by MS means….the question I raised is simple. If MS is saving money by removing the expenditure of removing first hand created content and relying on free 3rd party apps to give the missing content…as well as selling space on the dashboard for non related advertising..where is all that extra revenue going, what is it being spent on because…all i see on the dashboard is adverts, and media apps I dont want or need yet I am paying the same price for less original content

let me know when you have an answer genius

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You’re assuming that there is no expense to Microsoft for the content that IGN is providing. I don’t assume that, I assume Microsoft is paying for it.

IGN will be doing live shows, something IGN didn’t do previously nor did Microsoft, as well as the reviews, guides, news, etc. There is more content being made available to Xbox LIVE members, not less.

Content still costs money. Granted, content through a 3rd party would be less expensive, however it still costs money. Personally, I’d wait before demanding Microsoft answer for where the money went, considering E3 is around the corner.

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Seems my reply either glitched or was deleted

The IGN app does nothing more then bring videos that you can find on its website, twitter or Facebook…its free that way so why would MS be charged for that content when it probably gets a commission from IGN to let them use the xbox and live to use their app over another game media entity

The fact is, Xbox is relying on 3rd party content for practically everything from news to media apps. It sells space on the dashboard for advertising non xbox related products which us as users are forced to see daily each time we go online.

The price of subscription has not come down, but the revenues from subscriptions, marketplace content and 3rd party media apps and advertising are increashing…and the expenditure for Xbox first hand content is being reduced…why? where is all this money being diverted to and spent on cos I dont see it? I see less Xbox branded content and more 3rd party content I can access with a smartphone or laptop anyway…so…ask yourself, what is your subscription given you that now MS have to cut back on expenditure yet still maximising every avenue of money generation?

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Adinnieken – will you ever stop apologizing on here?

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I’m apologizing?

I don’t believe we’re losing content, the only difference is who’s making it.

Microsoft can’t win if they make it, because then they’re biased and it’s propaganda. And they can’t win if they don’t make it, because then they’re taking away from the community and profiting. What do you people actually want?
From my perspective, they’re better off having a third party generate that content.

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