Talk:Mike Wilson (executive)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:37, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Mike Wilson (CEO) → Mike Wilson (producer) – In light of the subject's interests in film and other entertainment production and no longer in the position of CEO it's requested that the category be changed to "Producer" 66.90.224.84 (talk) 20:45, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I assume that you mean to have this at Mike Wilson (producer).--76.66.188.209 (talk) 00:39, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I assume that was what was intended as well, so I have changed the formatting accordingly. Jenks24 (talk) 08:24, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Gambitious!
He's now doing Gambitious, this should be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.146.128.115 (talk) 21:24, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Tone
This article sounds like a CV. Ashmoo (talk) 11:32, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I wonder if Wilson himself has written most of this. --82.181.62.153 (talk) 03:20, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

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Significant PR influence/bias on this article
As a subject deep in my areas of study, I can immediately sense that this article has been worked over by professional PR. There is a significant amount of flowery, promotional language used to describe relatively mundane achievements, with a complete neglect given toward related known negative consequences that followed. Some examples:

Wilson also led the launch the retail shareware version of Quake through use of encrypted CD-ROMs (and later DVDs), making the titles readily available to all major retailers and, for the first time, 7-Eleven stores nationwide.

The release of Quake as shareware was, according to Masters of Doom, a disaster on multiple levels. First, the shareware model was widely considered dead by this point. Second, the encryption used on the disk was cracked shortly after launch, resulting in a huge loss of money. Finally, the entire gambit was concocted as a somewhat juvenile way to "stick it" to Ron Chaimowitz at GT Interactive.

Wilson served as CEO from December 1996 to the end of 1997, overseeing the company's growth from 8 to 88 employees in under a year.

Referring to ION Storm, which is a well known disaster requiring no explanation here.

Following the platform’s explosion in popularity, Wilson left DWANGO in 1995 to join Doom developer id Software to bolster the company’s first forays into game publishing

Again according to Masters of Doom, Wilson left DWANGO because the writing was on the wall that it was about to fail, as it could not support the internet-based netplay of games like the upcoming Quake. It cratered less than a year after he left.

The article additionally goes in-depth on the subject's advocacy activities, while neglecting any mention of choices which were heavily criticized or controversial, such as hiring of "booth babes" for the Gathering of Developers tent at E3 or participation of GWAR at Microsoft's Judgment Day event in October 1995.

I do not know what formal processes exist on Wikipedia for review of this kind of interference in content. Maybe it can be addressed without such a process if someone has time to de-bias this material.

--QuasarTE (talk) 23:58, 2 December 2021 (UTC)