And this, Tim, is why I spend most of my money at Steam.
This may shock you, but proudly parading that you want to fuck over consumers at every opportunity is not good incentive.
Fuck you Tim Sweeney. Valve is right for putting that info up so people can make informed purchases.
Transparency so customers can make informed decisions is “irresponsible”? What a garbage take.
If using AI is a “scarlet letter” that makes people hate your game then don’t use it?! The willful ignorance to customer preference is staggering.
Also Sweeney "why do people like Steam more than the Epic store?"
The more I read about Epic Games and their CEO Tim Sweeney, the more I dislike the company and the guy.
The best thing about Tim Sweeney is that he consistently has the most wrong take on any issue. He's like the Lou Gehrig of being an idiot.
"We must do X at any cost to the user because others will do it and get the money"
This mentality has driven the games industry to become psychologically manipulative, subscription battleass and absolutely proprietary.
Maybe the irresponsibility is in ourselves for giving those game companies money.
Super strong “If I told you who I really was you’d never have slept with me!” energy.
It’s called consent. If people wouldn’t want to engage with the content unless they were misled in some way then that amounts to manipulation and a violation of trust. Looks like Epic Games just told the whole world that they would lie to their customers if they felt like the truth would give them too much choice.
Fuck ‘em.
Bitch-boy CEO whining about rival company that epitomizes everything he doesn’t have at every chance he gets, very typical behaviour just carry on
Tim Sweeney with a garbage take, seems like a normal day.
Nobody loves you Epic Games, fuck off.
Interesting that he frames LLMs as both a tool that he needs to use to compete, whilst also framing their use as a scarlet letter that will tank sales if he uses them.
If the game isn't made by people, I wish it a very merry get fucked and die.
What kind of looney tunes universe does this motherfucker think he lives in
I'm making a game and I just ai for parts of the code and and for assets currently. I make it because I'm 43 and been programming my entire life and yet never took the time to make a game.
If I ever were to release it on any store, I'd replace the assets with human made and declare that I've had LLM assistance in coding, no matter if there's a role about it or not.
Basically I know it's important to some people and I don't want them to accidentally spend money on something they hate. It would be like sneaking meat into a vegetarian dish.
Indie games like Stardew Valley and Undertale don't need generative AI, skill issue much?
What next, it's "irresponsible" to mention the system requirements because people won't buy games that are too advanced for their device, which is depriving devs of sales?
Maybe being anti-consumer isn't the best strategy to bring those "consumer" things to your marketplace, Tim.
I wonder why the man who makes money off engine royalties might have a problem with something that can dramatically affect sales after stuffing that engine with the crap people hate.
All of this together is why there is so much media attack on Steam. Just think of the amount of fuckery we would be subjected to, if Steam was out of the equation.
Lol. The slopsmith is upset that you know about his slopsmithing.
Tim Sweeney, the pedophile (protector) who insists that pedophiles aren't using Roblox to commit pedophilic crimes by preying on minors? That Tim Sweeney?
"Oh no, informing people allows them to decide for themselves, we can't have that! I, sweeney whiney, must protect the world from informed decisions!"
It is irresponsible to post such shit from the sweeney son of a bitch
It's really irresponsible for Tim Sweeney to be a such a fucking moron but he hasn't stopped that yet.
"Think of the game-devs needing to make money" says a fat cat talking about a tool forged from game-dev's labour without compensation and disregarding any social contracts (i.e. copyleft software licenses).
Man, Sweeney's been on a roll lately, hasn't he? Too bad I've got no idea what he's talking about most of the time
So they can't not use AI because they'll lose out to studios that do (not sure about that one but whatever) but if they do use AI no one will buy the game.
Pick one
Another choice quote from the original IGN interview that this is from:
Sweeney: [...] The only way that we can hope for new games coming into the market to be able to succeed when there's so much Metcalfe's Law at play and so many captive audiences in the really big games – you know, Fortnite, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, and a few other really huge ones – it's got to be that those games get momentum by connecting to the economies in other games. I think that can really reinvigorate the market if people are constantly looking to new games and sources of new items that they can earn everywhere and be able to really easily move together with their friends.
Guy got talked into the whole blockchain NFT crap so hard that he's still trying to make it happen, as if it was ever a desirable thing that the best way to get some kind of gear or cool cosmetics in game A involves playing game B instead.
What really is irresponsible is using amalgamations of stolen work and presenting it as the future
how about Tim Sweeney disclose of these nuts?
Remember when the Epic Games Store was so bad that anti-virus software was identifying it as a threat?
Got to keep shoveling that minimum viable product slop, but heaven forbid a label which might serve as an indication for it.
Boo hoo
That dickhead wouldn't understand responsibility if it tattooed a scarlet R onto his chest.
If I am buying an "AI" game I'll pay a couple of bucks and no more as there are no labour costs involved. If I'm buying from a company that supports human beings, I'll pay about 50-100 bucks, depending on the game.
Tim Swine-ny can you just stfu for once?
Stfu sweeney
no its not
Rinds me of the EA guy and the Runtime fee in Unity
Wouldn't competition that does also have the same requirements to publish on steam? Wtf is he talking about
He's got it all wrong. We don't want to kill the game, in my case, I just want to kill HIM.
Hilariously, the example cited in the article doesn't seem to actually count towards steams ai policy. Sweeney, you're just so very full of shit.
There is definitely an overreaction to AI use, when specifically games can make very good use of it. Smaller teams can create better games, and using smaller AI models to run on a GPU during playing could enable some amazing new features for dialogue or dynamic storytelling.
If there is any place where an AI hallucinating and riffing isn't a problem it's gaming.
just make a good game. I dont care if it is made with or by AI.
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