After a PR nightmare for Sony last week, Microsoft has followed suit with the news that they’re closing four studios and laying off hundreds of employees. Now, gamers are seemingly showing their frustration in one of Microsoft’s flagship games: Fallout 76.
Understandably, gamers, journalists, and industry professionals have lambasted the decision by Xbox to cut yet more jobs with even more apparently on the horizon.
While most have been keen to share their frustrations on social media, one Fallout 76 player has taken it one step further and nuked Xbox boss Phil Spencer’s base in the game.
Fallout 76 is an online multiplayer game that takes place in the Fallout universe. In the game, players leave Vault 76, build their own bases, amass an arsenal of weapons, and can even gain access to nuclear weapons.
Seemingly in response to this week’s Xbox news, a player has dropped a nuclear bomb right on top of Phil Spencer, who goes by the handle ‘P3’ in the game.
For those who don’t know, players get to pick the location that bombs can be dropped. If another player’s base is caught in the blast radius, it gets destroyed and that unlucky Wastelander must invest materials in rebuilding their hideout.
Another player spotted this and shared a screenshot of the map to X showing Spencer’s nuked base.
X user @real1090jake took responsibility and shared a clip of the blast and a screenshot of them with Spencer in Fallout 76 as proof.
Over on Reddit, users didn’t offer any support to the Xbox boss. “That’s definitely one way to show customer dissatisfaction,” said one user.
“What a legend,” wrote another.
It’s safe to say that sympathy is thin on the ground for Xbox brass right now. Instead, this in-game atomic obliteration sends a clear message: fans aren’t happy with the direction that the company has taken.
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