The launch of SimCity has me worried about the future of shared singleplayer experiences, like Watch_Dogs and Bungie's Destiny.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
So sick of EA and their stupidity they still dont get that most of this DRM crap doesnt bother pirates at all but legit gamers. It was easier for me to get a pirated copy of Dragonage 2 to work on my pc then the legit copy i bought in the store. Same goes for Ubisoft and Uplay with the assasins creed series lost 7-8 hours of game time because the cloud save service went down.
Im now just avoiding EA games like the plague i really wanted Simcity but im not gonna support the always online BS like i did with Diablo 3. Which helped nothing against gold farmers,bots or chat spammers. Plus i hate origin i already have steam dont need more digital distribution services.
I know it's hard for some of you guys, but just don't buy games that do this, at least that's what i do. VOTE WITH YOUR WALLETS, and the companies will listen, it's really the only way to get their attention.
Notice how Since Resident Evil 6 didn't get the expected Sales numbers that they wanted, Capcom have opted to release RE: Revelations, the Resident evil game with higher critical acclaim than 6.
Same thing with Ubisoft, Remember the Hard time PC gamers gave Ubisoft about DRM? Now look at them.
No matter how their staff puts it, I see no logical reason as to why the entire game must be always-online.
Most games that will came out are never going to have it. Didn't Ubisoft say they were going to stop using DRM?
I have a plan to combat these things you guys hate; don't buy the games that use them.