A statement that has raised several eyebrows.
Microsoft is one of the most important companies in our sector, and in the world in general, since it has given us a lot over the years, starting with the operating system that you will be using if you are reading us through a computer, either desktop or laptop, and ending with your console, if you have an Xbox. For this reason, the opinion of people like the president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, who has now made a statement that It can leave many people completely confused..
Specifically, and as you can read in the headline, this manager has stated that Russian intelligence is carrying out attacks on gaming communitiessomething that he says has been discovered by his analysis team, although at the same time he has also defended that playing video games does not have to be a threat to the world order, or anything similar.
The president of Microsoft makes it clear
Specifically, these very particular statements have been made after being asked about the danger that certain video game communities can mean for the world order. You’re probably wondering why this would be a problem, which is that confidential US documents were recently leaked on a Minecraft Discord server, causing quite a stir.
According to the president of Microsoft, the problem does not lie in video games or their communities, but rather in the interference of Russian intelligence in said communities. According to him, his analytical reports speak of the Wagner group, an ally of Russia in the war in Ukraine, and in other kinds of fieldsthey would be infiltrating the communities of different recognized video games, some of them being members of the list of the best multiplayer games in history.
This would have raised the alarms of this company, which is why they would have been, for a long time, advising several countries on this issueto prevent further problems. Of course, although this message is somewhat alarmist, in principle it should not affect us at all as players.