SWM: Are reviews losing their relevance and becoming nothing more than ammo for fanboys to criticize each other? How can reviews be fixed?
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.
I think they have more honesty now, we don't see 9/10 on almost every single game.
A gamer can almost always review a game with more honesty than a high paid professional.
Reviews are a joke nowadays. Either the review is absurdly high or the review is far to low. My major problem with reviews and Reviewers is that they are just worthless opinions.
I know that sounds odd and harsh, but back in the day Reviewers use to review a game based off its major components like graphics, gameplay, controls, etc. When a review was done you could see why a game got a certain score and it made sense. Some places like Gametrailers still do this old practice.
Unfortunately, to many Reviewers have moved toward this practice of justifying their scores with a well written argument that explains why they gave the game a low or high score. Now that might sound like a good practice, but being able to write well isn't the same as reviewing a game well.
For instance, I am a decent writer and I can give you a well written review why Borderlands 2, Half Life 2, or Portal 2 is a terrible game. Everything I would say would be factual, but the reality is that I would be wrong. Now if I have to base my review off of 5 or 6 major elements, like gameplay, controls, graphics, etc. there would be a hell of a lot less wiggle room for me to write a review that makes no sense and is absurdly wrong.
Another major problem with reviews is that they are just huge spoilers. Personally, ever since the Gamespot debacle I no longer trust Reviewers. I make up my own mind by renting a game or watching someone play it. People just need to think for themselves, because nowadays reviews are just a joke.