Gamepass removed as KPI for Nadella

[the-pi-guy]

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-gaming-64e9570e-2f97-4e8f-9e49-53673b3c221a.html

Details: For 2023, the portion of Nadella pay relating to Xbox content and services revenue, was tied to a growth target of 4.4%, but the division achieved growth of 0.7%, when adjusted for currency exchange rates, according to a new Microsoft filing.

Other sections of Nadella's performance-based pay came closer to their targets or exceeded them, as was the case with goals tied to total LinkedIn sessions and growth in Microsoft Teams usage.
Nadella's overall cash and stock compensation for 2023 is listed by Microsoft at $48.5 million, down from $54.9 million in 2022.

As it failed to hit targets for the third year.

[Legend]

On one hand, might be the end of microsoft buying everyone. Yay!

On the other hand, might be the start of Microsoft clamping down on their teams and cutting people. That will suck.

[kitler53]

I wish in my job if I was failing I could just change the goal to ensure i am succeeding

On one hand, might be the end of microsoft buying everyone. Yay!

On the other hand, might be the start of Microsoft clamping down on their teams and cutting people. That will suck.

pure speculation on my part of course but...

...not sure I would take this as not wanting to grow in gaming so much as acknowledging the growth won't come from gamepass.  

what I would ask is if this is a precursor to a change to how gamepass works.   

specifically,..  will ALL first party games still hit the service day-1?    I could see especially the big games like CoD being excluded if they no longer expect sub growth.