Microsoft and its gaming division are a target of the ongoing Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement. Furthermore, numerous Microsoft employees have called for the company to stop supporting Israel during its ongoing war in Gaza, which a UN Special Committee said was “consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”

“We think that Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide, and as Microsoft employees, we don’t want to be part of this sinister project for Gaza,” Microsoft employees wrote in an open letter to the company. “Moreover, we think it’s our responsibility, as tech workers, to raise the alarm, and to ensure that our technologies are used to make the voices of the oppressed heard, and not facilitate their demise.”