Developing Asian countries with low income citizens are charged more than the developed world for all things video games. In a place where a single video game costs an entire month's pay, is the industry setting itself up for piracy? Does making gaming such a luxury shoot the industry in the foot?
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.
Interesting. I never agree with piracy, but I see why the writer asks the question.
I remember seeing consoles when I was on vacation in Mexico. The prices were absolutely insane!
While I do agree that the companies are trying to make as much money as they can, we have to understand that each country has its own tax's laws that make the price go even further up....So, its not ONLY the industry, but the governments of these countries being their greedy selves.
Here in Brazil, for example, gaming devices have absurd taxes imbued in their final prices, so much that when launched he price goes up to 10x the final price already converted in BR Real. There are some loby already to make the taxes less abusive on the soft and hardware wise, but god knows how long it will take them to pass...
Piracy is never the solution. It may be a paliative for a problem, and as such, it never resolves it.
I still have friends who look in astonishment whenever I told them price of games that I buy every month. Although they don't cost as much as a month's wage but they are still considered a luxury. Last year I told a friend about the cost of a genuine Windows 7 that I planned to buy for BF3. He barked at me that it would be better to give that money to my parents instead of wasting it on genuine product. Honestly, I was saddened to hear that. Another friend kept "borrowing" my genuine games for year. Account based Steam and Origin DRM rendered his habit useless though. I never told (or ever will) him about Steam's ability to copy and paste folders to any PC.