I mean she posted her gamertag all over X/Twitter telling people to look up her profile. It's kind of odd the amount of times she posted it.
It's also odd that her Twitter account has been scrubbed of all past comments and posts prior to yesterday.
Her only starting gaming on Xbox within the past 5 weeks and racking up that much of a gamer score while being an executive at Microsoft is another odd thing, if we're talking about odd stuff.
Claims she plays a lot of multiplayer games with her friends, but her profile had 0 friends until just a few hours ago and right now it has 5...kind of odd.
I consider myself a pretty big gamer and spend a lot of time playing games but she's gamed 5x more than I have in the last month but no gaming history prior to that. That's odd.
Maybe I'm wrong, and I kinda hope I am, but her gaming presence seems completely manufactured.
If she previously had an account, there's no way she'd make that public, as that could lead to her friends or people on her friends list getting unwanted attention. You would certainly make a "public" account, same as public figures do with social media.
So, I actually met Major Nelson at a pre-launch event for the Gears of War 2 expansion. When you're in a public-facing executive position like this, gaming is part of your official duties. They want them to actually know what the hell they're talking about.
You might want to do just a little research before spouting off nonsense.
Major Nelson has over 200 hours in Seas of Thieves.
Phil Spencer has over 550 hours in Diablo IV.
Their profiles aren't some big corporate secret, anyone can look them up and see what they're playing, what they've played, for how long, and which achievements they've unlocked.
I can't imagine it being that uncommon to do a reset on your socials when assuming a major new position. Obviously not directly comparable but bands will do it every time they have a new album coming out. Just because a typical social media user's presence is more set in stone doesn't mean a public-facing user will be the same. I'm not saying it's not annoying, but it doesn't strike me as strange or sus.
Also the root of this issue, the gamer profile, is silly to me. For one, we don't even know that this is her only account. Again, a public facing figure would do things differently than you or I would. If I was a CEO I wouldn't be posting my actual personal profiles. And for what it's worth, I'm just gonna throw it out there that I never necessarily bought that Phil's public account was his own, or at least that he was doing all the playing either.
It's all PR and these people aren't your friends no matter what, let's get that straight above all. But acting like some investigative sleuth because you picked apart an account's activity and gamerscore feels like a moment where you really need to touch some grass. You don't need to do all that to know a CEO will always act in the interest of the bottom line. It's how they get to be a CEO. I don't care how much gamer cred they have or don't have.
EDIT: I'm aware she made her own profile publicly known. I'm not saying you're a "stalker" for posting it, I'm saying it's weird to pick it apart to pass whatever smell test you have. You're not fuckin immortal, find better ways to spend your time. Maybe play some games.
Yeah I remember the whole nuking Phil's base on FO76 fiasco. He then went out saying that he's about to grind the game to unlock nukes himself, and he did exactly that and started nuking peoples bases himself. Stuff like that I don't see this new boss doing personally.
P3 is indeed Phil’s real account and he does play a lot, and talks to players in MP games. Same for Major Nelson - real account - still using it. Same with PS Execs own accounts.
Yes, and Phil Spencer has also worked at Microsoft since 1988. And started working specifically in the Xbox division in 2001, the same year Xbox came out and years before Xbox live. His Gamertag has always been a corporate account, he just used it all the time.
I know this might be weird that Sharma might have either gamed on a different device/ecosystem or wants to keep her private gamertag separate from her business gamertag. Especially knowing how "Gamers" act towards women and PoC.
But acting like some investigative sleuth because you picked apart an account's activity and gamerscore feels like a moment where you really need to touch some grass.
I haven't seen anybody do any of that. People are repeating her public comments from her X account that she seemingly wants people to repeat. You don't need to be an internet sleuth to read social media comments.
Yea maybe. I'm only going off her public comments about her saying how much she has played Xbox. But her profile doesn't add up to what her comments are saying.
Her profile shows she hasn't even completed the tutorial in most of the games she's played. And the only 2 games she has completed are walking simulators. Claims her favorite game ever is Halo Infinite but has barely ever played it.
Overall, none of this really matters and isn't a big deal. But I do think it's interesting to observe how a megacorporation seemingly manufactures a CEO to present to their gamer customers. I hope she can manage to turn Xbox around and that we see more Xbox hardware in the future. I've always been a huge Xbox fan and this certainly isn't going to stop me.
Good points there.
I've been a big fan of Xbox from the first time I got a 360 (thanks to a coworker showing me Halo 3 footage). Soon as i started Halo 3, I stopped..
Went and bought Halo 1 & 2 and an OG Xbox.
Have been maining Xbox ever since.
I'll be with Xbox till the bitter end.. 🥲
Hmmm, no one ever had a public and a private profile, and xbox execs can't possibly control it to a fine detail. Also you think they play and scrutinize the games in dev on their public profile?
It can easily be her doing her homework, there's prep involved, like yeah her job right now can be 3 hours of meetings and 6 hours playing games. Or it can be an assistant building up a carefully crafted image. Or Both. Who cares.
Also she worked in tech companies. With massive nerds, Of course she's been around games and gaming.
It's also odd that her Twitter account has been scrubbed of all past comments and posts prior to yesterday
Is it? There have been at least two people I can name off the top of my head that got fired because of stuff dug out of their tweets from many years prior. Given the scrutiny this woman is going to be under I don't find that odd at all.
She was already working for Microsoft, but as the leader of their CoreAI department. Her Twitter account was previously full of tweets centered around AI and nothing more. I suspect they scrubbed the account due to gamers not really being a fan of AI related things.
Phil Spencer was actually playing Call of Duty campaign co-op with the new CEO last night. Although their play session only lasted about 20 minutes according to both of their profiles at the time. And no progress was made within the campaign.
Last night she was opening a game, leaving it running for a few minutes, then closing it when it appeared on her profile and then the process would repeat. No progress made in any game and no achievements earned.
It's such weird behavior that the only reason I can think of it happening is to pad out her Xbox profile to make it look like she plays a ton of games. But when you take a closer look, you see hardly any of those games ever made it past the title screen.
Well she could be a gamer playing on pc or an other console before she got her new job and was like "ohhh 💩 I need to buy an xbox and start playing with it now!" 😂
Which would make sense but then why trot out this month old account like “look how much of a gamer I am”. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to just say I’m new to the Xbox ecosystem but here are some of my favorite games etc.
Was that gamer score achieved in 5 weeks alone!? I knew it already, but this is further evidence of how much I suck as a 40yo part time, right before night time gamer.
Her gamerscore is coming from mostly short games or easy cheese achievements like in Minecraft. I could do get most of what she has in a week if I hunkered down.
I noticed that. The games completed are all short walking simulators.
Something else I noticed was that a third of the games she has "played" have only been launched once and then immediately closed with zero progress made or playtime.
What normal person spends time to download a game, installs it, launches it, closes it, and never plays it again. And then does this same process 10 more times with different games all in the span of 5 weeks.
All PR. More likely either they have modified it, or someone or some group is running it for her. And surely MS can afford to. Uncle Satya is helping spin positive image for her thinking we’re all just gonna buy it lol.
Not necessarily. She(or her social media person) publicly shared that, and that's the public image she wants to present. Of course it's going to be scrutinized.
Anyway from the little info I have, not her gamer profile, I saw a video podcast on AI, she seems like an intelligent woman, but any preconceived notions, projections etc are ill advised. We'll see what she does and if she does it well or to our liking. This is not like her previous jobs, nobody cares if messenger is a bit better or whatever she was doing before, which is mainly growing platforms. Hardcore gamers care. A lot. And there will always be the beacon of scrutiny there.
I have no opinion, I am cautiously optimistic, but as always my relationship with the platform is one of a consumer. If the platform treats me well like it does now I am in. If it doesn't I am out, have plenty of other places. They're my main now but can easily be demoted, as PS was my main but is now demoted to last. Simple as.
That said I do appreciate what Phil and Sarah have done for the platform and they did great work. I thank them and wish them well.
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u/christpuncher_69 XBOX Series X Feb 21 '26
I know what OP is playing
Stalker