Age ratings tell parents what’s in a game so they can make informed decisions for their kids. These AI statements are just as partisan as mandatory political essays or forcing developers to list their voting history to drive cancel campaigns and public struggle sessions.
Absolutely fuck this fucking guy.
Honestly, could we have those too? I would love to have that.
Capitalists - consumers guide the market by making informed ethical purchasing decisions.
Also capitalists - labeling requirements? Absolutely not.
I might be from that stain but I am knot a capitalist to my guillotinism.
It’s a great “better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt” moment. He can’t help himself, it’s like the more power and money someone has, the more time they have to imagine how they’re victims.
But I like to know who is an awful person so I can avoid them, so thanks Tim.
Since when the fuck has AI been partisian? It sounds like he’s trying to make it partisian. In reality, everyone hates the data centers. The only thing that’s partisan-adjacent is that the Trump administration (Trump specifically) loves it, but that’s just because he’s a boomer and boomers, for some reason I do not yet understand, tend to like the shitty photo/video generative AI more than others.
People like this have two reasons to make it partisan:
- It’s a way for them to stay delusionally self-victimized since “AI would be a total success if it weren’t for that group of haters” and it’s convenient to make the haters the political out-group, since typically these people already view themselves as tragically oppressed politically (while somehow having all of the power and being the only oppressors themselves).
- If they succeed in making it partisan, that means they gain about 30% of the population as supporters via political team sports, versus 90% bipartisan hate right now.
The only reason Trump loves it is because it’s propping up our entire economy.
AI companies are also paying for tons of political advertising, and republicans are using it most to create their ads too.
Boomers like AI because they’re mostly fash. And the fash LOVE AI.
As aggravating as this might be to hear, there is at least one state where workers unions have been pro-datacenter under the belief that the work to build them will at least bring them some contracting/construction jobs. Some states are destitute enough to accept anything, even if it’s only a short-term bandaid for their economic troubles.
Just as partisan as these things I have made up in my head!
What a crybaby.
He calls it an “anti-technology smear campaign”, and claims that it’s akin to Valve forcing developers to list their political affiliation, i.e. whether they vote Republican or Democrat
Billionaires and false equivalencies, name a more iconic duo
I mean, if we’re going to compare apples and oranges, how about with a metaphor that makes sense? Like how if you sell food you have to list the ingredients used
Also, I would honestly cheer if valve made all the companies disclose campaign donations…
I would very much like to filter developers by affiliation and not give fascists money, actually. Thanks for the idea, good guy, Tim Sweeney.
This. He wants to fabreeze a turd and sell it as sausage.
At least Gabe, a billionaire, doesn’t do that.
Bombs and painted “truths”?
Does everyone remember how Steam banned NFT games and Epic allowed them and how that absolutely catapulted them into success over their competitor? … no?
OK, well, but maybe this time?
There’s a real economic cost to [blah blah crybaby way of saying AI disclosures]
Yes. There is. Because informed consumers vote with their wallets. As it should be. Moron.
I notice slopcoders often maintain that “slop code is just as good as code written by humans- in fact it is better!” while also refusing to clearly label their output as slop.
At this point he has whined about it so much that everyone’s going to know the game uses AI, even if they don’t disclose it. He would have genuinely being better off shutting up about it.
The Epic Store has always been anti-consumer so it’s no surprise he defends that kind of practice.
Every 10th item on rhe epic store is soft core FMV fantasy girlfriend porn.
I’m not sure what your point is because Steam is absolutely flooded with porn games, especially since the rise of genAI.
It’s not about availability, it’s about marketing. I don’t stumble across porn games on steam, but I regularly do on Epic.
You have to opt to see NSFW stuff on steam.
Really? They’re all over my Steam front page. And I’ve never bought a single one.
Do you have adult games toggled off in Steam settings? That may be why you never see them.
It gives consumers free games and takes a smaller cut from the developers than steam. All corporations have mutually exclusive interests with the consumer tho.
They do that to try to gain marketshare. They should try to just stop being shitty instead and improve their client. And get off Xitter.
They do that to try to gain marketshare.
This is every single action any entity which exists to extract profit from you that isn’t immediately increasing revenue or decreasing expenses/wages.
They should try to just stop being shitty
Once again, this is done to gain marketshare
It’s weird as fuck to see people with loyalty to one corporation or another.
Sue. My point is they’re not doing it out of the good of their heart. They’re doing it in lieu of actually making it a good platform to buy from.
No corporation has ever done anything out of the good of its heart because they do not have hearts, you are still treating them like people instead of entities that exist exclusively to extract money from you while giving as little money to its workers as possible.
They’re doing it in lieu of actually making it a good platform to buy from.
Nah, giving the workers more money and me free games does more to make a platform viable than features. But doing shit everyone hates like filling your store with slop games that can’t be identified until you’ve already paid is a dumb decision.
You’re an idiot that only cares about getting free stuff. You are arguing against people having “loyalty to one corporation or another” while endlessly defending the objectively worse company simply because you like to get free games…
Step 1 of the enshittification timeline, yes.
It gives consumers free games
Wow, amazing. Nevermind that most those giveaways are on sales for peanuts anyway. And you get them on garbage launcher.
and takes a smaller cut from the developers than steam.
Great, they take smaller cut. At a low, low cost of being a black hole of exposure. But hey! They do take a smaller cut from the two copies you do sell.
Lol, they offer competition, take less money but apparently they might as well not bother
At this rate, all games made in Unreal will automatically need AI disclosures.
I don’t think that everyone uses Ai, even with Unreal. Unless there are features that has to be used and are basically Ai components.
Tim Sweeney owns the Unreal engine, so I think their point was that Unreal itself is going to be so AI slop-coded that games made on it will need disclosures because they came out of the Unreal bucket.
Ah, I see. Well I didn’t think of that one. Yeah, that’s a valid point. If the Engine itself is vibe slopped, well then the game developed with the Engine is basically Ai assisted / partially generated.
He is a great example of CEOs who would help their company image more if they never made themselves known.
More he talks the more insufferable he comes off and in return so does the company.
If it weren’t for how he chose to make his personality so prominent, Epic would probably not be as hated among PC gamers.
You either get ousted a gaming hero or stay on the board long enough to become the CEO villain.
I think only Croteam has managed to exist as long as they have without going evil or being bought out*, but they’ve never quite been successful enough for that to happen.
edit: Just remembered that Croteam’s publisher bought them, but they were at risk of shutting down and Devolver Digital seems like one of the good publishers.
As I like to say: Sucks to suck.
ROFL Given the vibe-coded disaster of the Epic Store on Linux, he has bigger things to be concerned about. Like fixing his own mess. By hand, with actual humans programming and resolving issues. Catching a vibe won’t save Epic, real human effort will. What a loser.
Idiot could have made bank on goodwill if he donated to Heroic development, but chose to shoot himself in the foot with a hallucination gun instead lmao
Well, he’s a dumpster fire capitalist, there was no other outcome for him. Just another cooked in the head CEO that worshiping a nonexistent God to gain infinite wealth, which happens to be the idea of AI. Trying to manifest so hard he can’t think of intelligent business strategies…
He just had to be quiet and not say anything for Epic to be seen in a positive light. He hasn’t caught on to how much charima he lacks and how offputting he comes off as a person.
Can someone ask this dumb fuck if he’s also this upset about ingredient labels on food?
News flash, Timmy: people want to know at least a little bit about how the sausage is made, otherwise we’d all be forced to eat Soylent Green by greedy, unethical capitalist billionaires like you.
Valve understands what the customer wants, Epic simply does not.
Valve doesn’t give a shit either
Fuck Tim Sweeney.
I’m rather not, but you do you :3
with a salty cactus
Tim Sweeney billionaire weenie. Even fucking rhymes.
Go away Sweeney-weenie. Go away.
Sweeny-weenie take your beanie and quietly floss away
Tim Sweeney is a professional crier.
It does seem to be his main job now. Who they got running the place while he’s on his “whine to the press” tour?
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“Why do we have to list ingredients, you can’t even taste the poison!”
Now you just made me think that at some point, there’s going to need to be a The Jungle for gaming. There’s going to be some kind of exposé on different major game developers and how they use AI and other shitty practices to make the most addicting games.
Him complaining is all the proof we need that even he doesn’t believe in his “fight”.
Because he wants to be able to reap money from the ocean of slop games but he doesn’t want his store to be the only one trying to hide the sloppiness of it.
Hey asshole, you’ve got your own store, and you can do whatever you want with it. But no, you can’t expect to drag your competition with you at rock bottom because you think being better than you is unfair.
Valve is the big meanie that continues to give their customers more value, and they heavily invest in research and development which benefits the consumer. Steam link, steam controller, steam deck, Proton… all of these were part of Valve’s sinister plan to continue serving customers.
This concept stands in the way of Epic’s business model, which does not include giving value to customers, they just see games as a commodity like wheat.
Steam Frame is an awesome piece of kit too.
I’m talking about the service/products that Valve makes that expands the value of what they offer… adding additional value to customers for “free”
Steam link let you take your entire Library to a different location to stream… It brought the PC experience to the couch (and you did not need their dedicated hardware, you could use your own hardware and their app). The Deck makes your entire Library portable and you do not have to repurchase on different platforms. Family sharing lets you “give” your games to friends for nothing. Proton brings almost everything to Linux.
Although the frame is a fine product and people love it, it’s not what I’m really talking about. It is a very fine doodad but it does not belong on the same shelf as the other customer service achievements that I’m crediting Valve.
The Deck makes your entire Library portable and you do not have to repurchase on different platforms.
The frame also does this.
They also developed Steam VR to work with other headsets, not just the frame (or index, or vibe)
If the deck is relevant to the discussion, frame is just as relevant, and none of the words you typed seem to suggest otherwise.
You like your steam frame. Got it.
And you like to pick fights. Got it.
I’m sitting here agreeing with you, and you’re picking arguments. Very cool pro-social behavior.
