Been waiting for the tide to turn on Phil. He's a new breed of shifty corpo and a lot of the communities have been fooled by his "aww shucks, I'm just a gamer too" persona.
You don't get that far at a place like Microsoft without creating some bodies. But, we all want to hope the next guy will be different.
Eternal optimism isn't always a bad thing. Phil played his cards well.
I never really knew or cared much about him until his Giant bomb at Night appearances and he seemed legit during those some 7 or 8 years ago. Considering the clout Jeff from from GB had, Phil got a little of that by proxy from my perspective.