With the news that swimming pools and toddlers will be missing in The Sims 4, EA and Maxis have assured players that those features will not be forgotten in at least one of the fifty expansion packs that will be released over the next few years.
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.
And I bet you that most of these will costs $$ and will be available day 1 to purchase. How the hell is announcing DLC months ahead of game's release an assuring thing? God this company sucks...
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50 Expansion Packs for The Sims 4 is not nearly enough for me. I'll only purchase Sims 4 if it has at least a 100 Expansion Packs, 20€ each.
I'm honestly surprised more people aren't raging over this, yeah it might seem...you know, not the worst news we've had in this industry but it's what this whole thing represents, pure greed as we all know they will add these things into expansion packs for more money.
These are the same developers who screwed us over with Sims City and ruined that sequel for us, they added DRM and stripped it of features we loved in past games before trying to defend the shit out of their actions by lying to us thinking we are all idiots. They should of used Sims 4 as a way to win our trust back and pack it full of content in the CORE game.
HOWEVER
In reality this whole thing shows that they obviously haven't learned their lesson and are trying to screw us over YET AGAIN. As I've said toddlers and swimming pools might not seem like a big deal, I get why people might think that I mean when you say it or look at written down on your screen it doesn't seem like a big deal but at it's core and what the whole thing represents it's a huge deal and like I said after the Sim City situation this shouldn't of been happening.
There should of been new customization options for pools, maybe the options to fill it with lava or acid for people who want their "evil" looking houses to look more badass or to be an evil Sim and throw people into it in typical Sim fashion. For Toddlers like someone else said on here there should of been more life cycles added in the Sims 4, not less of them.
Christ sake...seriously it pains me to see people making out like this is no big deal and that they are going to buy Sims 4 day one because they are "real" Sims fans and that's what true fans do.