cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53117760
Epic Games has reportedly delayed a shooter based on Disney’s Marvel and Star Wars franchises, with its developers told to use more AI. According to Bloomberg, the yet-to-be-named game was supposed to be released in March of 2027, but its launch date has been pushed back to an unspecified date. Aside from that, the company also told the people working on the project to switch to an “AI first” production model. One of the game directors was quoted telling staff that there will be “no more handwritten code” and that the game’s art would now be “generated with full AI workflows.”
Even if AI had good results, forcing the employees to use specific methods/tools against their will is always a sign of horrible management.
The fact that all these AI companies are so unprofitable despite this kind of nonsense happening just goes to show how big this bubble has gotten.
Our comp has a 100$ claude license. A colleague ran it in a loop one month. If it was tokens (instesd of subsidized subscription) it would cost 10k that month.
Some people are so shortsighted it makes me want to shake them. They are not only themselves becoming reliant on something they could never afford, they are adding slop into the organization that they can’t maintain, and exfiltrating all possible trade secrets the org has to Anthropic in the process.
Unless you work for the mythical good corpo or a worker co-op, then that’s not the employee’s problem!
It’s a little surprising it wasn’t pure ai drivel from the get go given that a Star Wars/Marvel shooter game sounds like the kind of lazy IP mashup garbage that gets AI sloppers excited.
How does Epic give away free games, give devs a bigger cut of earnings, and make game dev way more accessible, while still constantly making everyone hate them?
Wtf are you buying all that good will for if you’re just gonna make everyone hate you anyway?
I’ve been using Epic for years, and my library is hundreds of games at this point. I have not given them one single dime and I never will. Like you said, all the good will in the world can’t make up for being a dog shit company.
This is the way, I like the cut of your jib.
I’d sooner pirate the games than use epic
At least if Epic gives you the game for free, the dev gets paid. If you pirate the game, the dev doesn’t get anything.
Free games all subsidised by the Fortnite cash cow, which as far as I can tell is from children spending pocket money so their parents can get some peace. Devs being given a bigger cut of earnings I don’t believe is being done in good faith and would be reverted if they’d managed to challenge Steam. Besides which, what does it matter if you get 20% more of $0 in sales?
Game dev more accessible = Unreal engine has a good ide? Or are you suggesting that slop coding makes game dev more accessible? Am not with you there.
Gabe Newell and Tim Sweeney are both wealthy men. Gabe keeps on making decisions that challenge monopolies and are pro consumer choice; you may argue that that’s ultimately in his selfish best-interest but for now Steam is the best store front for gamers. Tim is like a weathervane for spouting the tech-bro fascist quote of the day, props up monopolies and doesn’t see any value in people that create games for the love of it. There is quite a difference between them.
you may argue that that’s ultimately in his selfish best-interest
Also known as “Everyone good is bad actually, no I don’t have anything useful to say, why do you ask?”
Hate when people make that argument lol
It is in his best interests to not be a piece of shit because gaben knows full well what will happen if gamers turn on him. There will be no digital market anymore.
Imagine a world where pc gamers all lose faith in the only service worth having faith, that makes us happy. People would pay for nothing. Literally nothing.
That’s the world that gaben knows before steam. And it will be the world again when steam exhausts its karma and peoples libraries are threatened or seem threatened. Gaben knows this all too well and puts his best efforts into appeasing the animalistic machine and unbridled freedom and power that is pc gaming.
As a demographic, it’s the richest and most entitled and most skilled at piracy and getting what it wants. That’s the nature of the platform and the people drawn to the platform. It’s literally the master platform where the gods that create live and work and play and breathe and die. I’m not joking. People don’t develop on a ps5, they develop on a workstation pc for the ps5.
Well now I’m not gonna buy their games even more!
If AI is faster, why is it delayed?
If real coding is worse, why do they have to ban it to get developers to use AI?
