You may remember last week that the Creative Director of Microsoft, Adam Orth, took to twitter to discuss the rumour that the next Xbox will require an always online connection. And by the look of it it hasn’t ended very well for Adam.
As a recap here is the twitter conversation that sparked the controversy
Microsoft quickly posted up an apology for Adam’s flippant remarks
“We apologize for the inappropriate comments made by an employee on Twitter yesterday. This person is not a spokesperson for Microsoft, and his personal views do not reflect the customer centric approach we take to our products or how we would communicate directly with our loyal consumers. We are very sorry if this offended anyone, however we have not made any announcements about our product roadmap, and have no further comment on this matter.”
But the official apology doesn’t appear to have saved Adam who has now quietly left Microsoft. According to sources he has officially resigned and when Gameinformer called the Microsoft switchboard they confirmed that he was no longer with the company.
However neither Adam or Microsoft have confirmed if he voluntarily resigned or was forced to take the walk of shame. His twitter stream has now become protected but it’s a little late for him to realise that twitter is a public platform and when using it you should remember that.
Last Updated: April 11, 2013
Martin du preez
April 11, 2013 at 07:58
CHEERS FUCK NUT! #dealwithit
Ultimo_Cleric_N7
April 11, 2013 at 08:16
Hahaha!! Upvote for this pic!
FoxOneZA - The Chosen One
April 11, 2013 at 11:40
And he’ll still earn more than most of us just by flipping burgers -____-
Jim Lenoir (Banana Jim)
April 11, 2013 at 11:58
I believe he just needs to #dealwithit
Styx ZA
April 11, 2013 at 08:04
Um… no
http://www.vgleaks.com/microsoft-xbox-roadmap-2013/
OVG
April 11, 2013 at 08:12
So the xbox mini is always on-line. I dont fcking know what these cats are up to anymore. Do they need to compete with Apple? Why cant the 720 play 360 games? why does it have to be on-line? Do they care about games or getting MANDATORY Big Brother AKA Kinect 2 to spy on users?
I have lost all interest. Need to buy a couple of Slim 360s to keep me going for another 6 years while all the early adopters pull their hair out with RRRRROD and overpriced multi media HUBs.
Blaghh Gaming has become a joke.
PRESS START
Styx ZA
April 11, 2013 at 08:14
I’m pretty sure if you tie 2 Xbox 360’s together you’ll be sorted for quite some time
OVG
April 11, 2013 at 08:22
Not to mention the back library of over 1000 games that still need to be played from companies that folded and could not afford to develop for the 7th gen. The 8th gen… we will see. While 3% of the market like now only buy games.
140million consoles out there… where is the support for these devs if they only want 3% of us to buy 4million copies to stay alive.
The idea of the console is on its last outing. Before we all realize that the reason why we left the PC to game on the console has been defeated.
HvR
April 11, 2013 at 09:24
Come on, come on back to the PC. You know you want to … gently stroking the mouse, softly fingering the keyboard…. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.
Ultimo_Cleric_N7
April 11, 2013 at 08:20
I am so tired of the industry thinking of Europe and America and nothing else. Always online……the bane of my existence
Rincethis: Spellalicious
April 11, 2013 at 09:44
Why bother buying an xbox mini if you HAVE AN XBOX 360?
Rincethis: Spellalicious
April 11, 2013 at 09:44
Why bother buying an xbox mini if you HAVE AN XBOX 360?
Lord Chaos
April 11, 2013 at 09:00
So… Pretty much as the xbox 360 works now… (You can play offline to your heart’s content, but for online features go online.”
Makes “Always on-line” a bit of a redundant phrase.
Zero-Cool
April 11, 2013 at 08:04
When will people learn that Facebook and Twitter are PUBLIC forums? What you say and do can be seen by anyone and everyone and it stays there possibly FOREVER! Time and time again people have been held accountable for their comments on those sites and companies are taking a real hard-line with their employees posting negative stuff on these sties. Wise up people, seriously!
Jonah Cash
April 11, 2013 at 08:40
Your asking for logic from people…. Yeah that is probably not going to happen….
Jonah Cash
April 11, 2013 at 08:22
Sorry, but I did really just post a dead squirrel on a guys head!!!
Lord Chaos
April 11, 2013 at 08:23
Wouldn’t surprise me if they had boxes with his belongings waiting for him at the office reception.
His alienation of the “non-elite” who live in low internet areas already cost them a chunk of their customers.
Hope the door hit him on the way out. #dealwithit
Wyzak
April 11, 2013 at 08:24
Good riddance, now if only the same applied to EA employees who treat customers like used toilet paper.
Robert Infy Hart
April 11, 2013 at 08:26
Sucks to have an opinion other people disagree with. Xbox will still be always-on… to prevent piracy.
Gavin Mannion
April 11, 2013 at 09:01
I think the only real problem with his twitter posts was the choice of hashtag.. people don’t like being told they have no choice.
In the end Microsoft lost as good employee thanks to Internet rage.. which is quite sad
Martin du preez
April 11, 2013 at 09:13
Good employee? A guy that insisted that people call him “Sweet Billy”? A guy that was apparently the biggest dick to work with? But hey,xbox guys like being treated like dicks by dicks.
Carl Angus
April 11, 2013 at 09:46
I have to disaggree there, if he couldn’t even consider his remarks or tags to be offensive and also cannot concieve of customers having problems with “Always On” devices, then he clearly doesn’t have a good perspective of the market he is trying to target and design for.
Why then should someone so out of touch be lauded as a good employee?
eXpZA
April 11, 2013 at 08:41
What worries me is that MS haven’t come out and said “Well, it certainly won’t have DRM”.
Johann Erasmus
April 11, 2013 at 08:52
apart from the US – do they know about HELKOM here is SA? AlwaysOn is something i can only dream about…
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
April 11, 2013 at 09:13
Ok, while it is sad that someone has lost his job due to the internet rage I continuously ask myself why people who are in the limelight like this chose to make remarks they should have realised would spark outrage.
I am not saying he deserves to be let go, but he must have realised his remarks would reflect on his employer and that he should reconsider saying something that may be taken up as the view of his employers?
People need to learn that twitter is public.
Where is Rincethis? I need a *Le Sigh* picture stat!
Admiral Chief Erwin
April 11, 2013 at 09:49
Be careful what you rant about LC
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
April 11, 2013 at 11:20
Haha. The difference is my rants will never be misconstrued (wow such a big word!) for anything but personal opinion. Unfortunately for public figures their opinions are often interpreted as representative viewpoints of their employer.
Rincethis: Spellalicious
April 11, 2013 at 09:57
Done Sir! And I have to agree. Why people who KNOW others are looking at them as a representative act this way I do not know. I do know though, that if I tweeted shit like this in my company I too would be let go. And let’s be honest here, I fucking rock.
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
April 11, 2013 at 11:19
You sir definitely rock 🙂
HvR
April 11, 2013 at 09:25
Ha ha, hipster douche bag and his loafers got fired..
Sethy
April 11, 2013 at 09:29
It is unfortunate that he lost his job but maybe this will show companies that telling customers #dealwithit just won’t cut it anymore.
Rincethis: Spellalicious
April 11, 2013 at 09:42
I like to think my RAGE last week at this fucking turd had something to do with this. I tweeted the shit out of him too, until he went private. Which is what he is going to have to do with his career now. Moron.
Daryl Eksteen
April 11, 2013 at 14:39
Nice work Microsoft. They don’t need employees like this idiot.
Willem Swanepoel
April 11, 2013 at 17:30
I do not get it. Why would everyone rage about rumours? chill the fuck out guys!!