Lockdown

So by now, much has been made in the gaming press on the topic of the announcements Microsoft made at E3 last week. I’ve been toying with talking about those announcements all week, but I’m faced with several dilemmas.

Firstly, as my work for Xbox Live is not, shall we say, evangelical, I don’t feel that it’s my job to bolster support for their products simply because they pay my rent. That said, being publicly critical of moves made by Xbox Live could be what’s referred to as a career limiting move. This puts me in the odd position of not being able to be completely, ah, free with my words so to speak.

Secondly, while the new Xbox Experience has now been announced, I’m no longer embargoed from speaking about it. I have a lot of thoughts around the plethora of offerings that were announced last week, and what that means for the industry. The problem is that I don’t really know how much of it is mused on my own, and what’s based upon experience from being in there building it. Speaking about it, even though it’s been announced, could potentially cause me to accidentally disclose something I shouldn’t, which would result in very bad things for me.

So for now I think I’m going to have to settle with “I’m really excited to see the reaction to the stuff we’re working on over here” until I’m more comfortable with the limits of what I can say. Sadface.