Don Mattrick? Know the guy? Gamers certainly do! He’s reportedly Microsoft’s now ex-head of entertainment!
The big news circulating today is his exit from Microsoft and his new move to another video game focused company – ZYNGA! Twitter cut Mattrick no slack during his defense of the Xbox One’s former “online-only” practices. And now the social media juggernaut’s may users cut him no slack when the news about his apparent move to Zynga came out.
Here’s the top 20 funniest tweets we’ve caught circulating about this big bit of gaming/tech news.
Whoa. Don Mattrick leaving Xbox to work for Zynga. How't the saying go? "Out of the frying pan, into the… flaming garbage toilet?"
— Max Scoville (@MaxScoville) July 1, 2013
Don Mattrick's probably gonna make all of Zynga's games require a persistent internet connection now too.
— Max Scoville (@MaxScoville) July 1, 2013
Don Mattrick leaving MS makes me wonder if he was fired or sabotaged MS before he left.
— Ryan Burch (@IncrediBurch) July 1, 2013
I want to be on Don Mattrick's level of drunk.
— Sofie vas Normandy (@sofiesheik) July 1, 2013
Poor little don mattrick went from Xbox to Farmville LMFAO
— NemohhTv (@NemohhTv) July 1, 2013
Again: Xbox One boss Don Mattrick abandons ship. Resigns from Microsoft & may work for Zynga! Thanks @darkxshinobi pic.twitter.com/uJjHp0Rf4f
— ◢████◤ (@VirtuaMe) July 1, 2013
We can all make jokes about Don Mattrick all day long until you remember his house is bigger than the town you grew up in. ;)
— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) July 1, 2013
So Don Mattrick is leaving the wreckage of the xbox empire behind, apparantly to get a job at Zynga. Sounds like the right place for him.
— Boogie2988 (@Boogie2988) July 1, 2013
Don Mattrick returns to the hell womb. The walls are Farmville players melted into one heaving mass of flesh. WE ARE GAMERS, they scream.
— Gavin Logan (@tamewhale) July 1, 2013
don mattrick has left microsoft and joined zynga. so basically he went from being a captain of a sinking ship to a admiral of a sinking ship
— Ulysses (@AskHimRef) July 1, 2013
Don Mattrick left Microsoft for Zygna because he knows the #XboxOne is going to flop.
— Billy Sosa (@CatFishBilly_) July 1, 2013
Don Mattrick leaving Microsoft for zynga…that's like leaving the heat and signing for the bobcats…..
— Chris Bayless (@Mr_5minfreshnup) July 1, 2013
So Don Mattrick is leaving Microsoft…and going to Zynga. the jokes write themselves.
— Mister Chisuun (@Mr_Chisuun) July 1, 2013
Can't wait til Farmville requires daily internet log-in's and an always on kinect camera. #Mattrick
— Gaz Lewis (@kinglewy00) July 1, 2013
Ba-Zynga -Don Mattrick 2013
— Hil Ramírez (@KillHill) July 1, 2013
Don Mattrick leaving (a currently embattled) Microsoft for Zynga is like jumping from the Hindenburg to the Titanic.
— Philip (@ShadowFedora) July 1, 2013
Amazing that Don Mattrick and M$ parted ways this morning… Still not buying an Xbox 180… Evil bastards
— Ronald Rodriguez (@guano) July 1, 2013
sony should hire don mattrick he sold so many ps4s
— Smokeydogg (@Smokeydogg7) July 1, 2013
I was thinking about Don Mattrick today when I had a sudden empty feeling in the pit of my stomach now I learn he's quit i feel much better
— adm (@adm_punk) July 1, 2013
Mattrick, verb, ("doing a Mattrick"): fucking up a global company then legging it.
— evilution (@Evilution_6_6_6) July 1, 2013
