Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62Q8tHV2c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
Tim wants it removed so he can try and hock low-quality, low-effort, AI-generated garbage games and sell them on a platform people actually want to use. I guarantee it.
It looks like they are going to start building an AI assistant into Unreal Engine, which would mean every future Unreal-based game would be questionable. No wonder he’s pushing this nonsense.
So he knows nobody wants to buy it.
Why does he keep just… I wonder how it feels always being on the wrong side of History.
Probably pretty great, what incentive does he have to be on the right side?
The one thing all of these people have in common is that they are miserable
I want epic to remove CEO
replace it by AI. just for the irony
No, I don’t think so. It’s reasonable to request transparency. It’s not a ban. Let the consumer choose for themselves whether or not they should care.
Game store owner wants owner of other game store to stop doing something so his game store won’t look as bad.
These corporate capitalists are usually deathly afraid of the AI hating invisible hand of the free market.
I think Valve knows how to run a game store a bit better that you do, Tim.
A bit yes, but also not great. See how they treated the horse game, which prob will cause the studio to close. And the whole not standing up against payment providers when they try to ban porn in general. (Think they might have done a small thing, but it took long, and wasn’t coordinated), and then there is the moderation issues, the etc etc. Still Steam is better than Epic, but that is only because Epic is just bad as a storefront. Steam is lucky they didn’t work on that harder than they did and assumed they could just get away with giving free games (it still can’t properly keep you logged in).
I don’t see epic games putting out any good hardware.
See how they treated the horse game,
The game where the preview version they sent to valve had a scene where a little girl asks to ride a naked man? And then rides the naked man? That horse game?
I dont know, as steam has not told anybody why they object to the game. You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.
In an interview he said that they warned him about that scene when they sent the preview version…
While I think the steam monopoly is bad, the developer has acted in bad faith.
From what I heard they dropped that shit, steam still dropped them and didn’t mentioned why, that isn’t bad faith, nobody was saying it wasn’t an edgy game, and the devs didn’t hide that.
You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.
I mean lets not forget there are several sex with hitler games on steam.
You confused me complaining about the process
So what is your complaint? That Steam is not obligated to host every game submitted to them? Or that Steam does not take the time to provide a point by point critique of every game submitted to them?
That they are a bad publisher, don’t provide good feedback, their tools on the developer sides suck (the stories I heard from people who have released things), they don’t help out smaller developers out at all, the 30% fee if you are small less fee if you are big thing is silly, that they are opaque as fuck when dealing with them, their moderation sucks (see how long it took them to do anything about review bombing for example), etc etc.
a point by point critique of every game
nice bit of bad faith there.
How DARE you criticise my dear perfect little baby boy Steam, my lawyers will be contacting you shortly,
One of the things that really weirds me out about gamers is that when they pay 10 bucks for a game they become the most entitled people around (not talking about the people here, just in general, my comments here about steam should also be seen as that), but they never are as entitled towards steam which takes a 30% bite out of that ten bucks for every purchase (*). Even when steam is like all tech companies simply a non-communicative and hard to contact monster of a company. Im still amazed for example that one of my games on my wishlist is simply a grayed out void. (I know what happened and which game it was, a developer who released a game on steam told me how to figure it out, still odd steam didnt tell us why it was removed. Same with the misery debacle (dont get me wrong steam defenders, the dev(s) were at fault there, but steam could have be more upfront about it (they included stalker 2 assets I heard) but it is a similar sort of dmca shit like what is plaguing YouTube).
*: I dont actually know if keys bought from key resellers like humble bundle for example replace that 30% or if they take another bite, replacing it would explain why humble can sell so many keys at 20% off. Not that I dont have a separate rant about humble (which I suspect will not live very long anymore, as it has been acting weird).
Epic is bullshit. Fuck them.
The epic ceo can go fuck himself.
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I don’t think so, Tim.
Tim had always been a dick head. Since that fucking pinball game.
Black Ops 7 sold less than half as much as last year’s Battlefield 6.
That’s definitely a mistype - the previous CoD game was Black Ops 6, and Battlefield 6 was made by DICE and published by EA. Still, makes a good segue into how Blops 7 (which went all-in on AI) compared against BF6 (which released more-or-less AI-free, going by DICE’s own comments).
In terms of sales, Blops 7 sold 63% less on launch than Battlefield 6 did in its opening week, earning Battlefield its first sales victory over CoD in both series’ history, and breaking a streak of #1 sales CoD had held since 2006.
On Metacritic, BF6 got “generally favourable” critic scores in the low-80s, whilst Blops 7 hovers around the 67% mark. The user scores are much more favourable - whilst BF6 is hovering at 7/10 as of this writing, BO7 is currently at 1.6/10, beating the notoriously maligned Modern Warfare III to become the lowest-rated entry in the series’ history.
On OpenCritic, Battlefield 6 earned a “Strong” rating on all fronts (83% top critic average, 90% Critics Recommend, player rating of 90) whilst Blops 7 got a “Weak” rating (65% top critic average, 35% Critics Recommend, player rating of 20).
Overall, signs are pointing to a historic victory for Battlefield over its long-running rival in the FPS genre, and a very public rejection of AI slop in all its forms.
