Yeah, makes it sound like princesses are going to battle it out.

Except that that would be actually semi-creative instead of yet-another-hero-shooter in the year 2027+.

It's Marvel and Star Wars, so not that unusual aside from it being a crossover.

Disney games do tend to feel generic.

I thought they achieved that with fortnite.

You can't have a cheating problem if nobody plays your game. *taps forehead*

I can't think of any Disney game that became really famous/popular.

...and Unreal is pretty well known for just jamming characters into Fortnite.

The fact that it'll be AI is probably the only way it's going to get publicity.

They are consumers not investors (I think). The bubble bursting will kill a lot of the frontier companies and their investors, but not directly consumers. At worst consumers have to make do without AI for a while, but more likely they will simply have to switch to a different LLM provider. Or maybe by the time the bubble bursts we have models good enough on hardware cheap enough to self-host them / run them locally.

you mean 6 AI (after intelligence)

Good. I'm tired of epic games existing. Shame they're private, I'd love to short them. Easiest money ever.

I don't think we have to worry too much. I don't see how such a system is sustainable. AI requires references to work with. So if humans quit making those references, at best, it seems like AI generated products will become stagnant fast and at worst AI will fall apart feeding on itself.

Idk. I'm curious to see where this goes. Not sure why. Like fuck AI in many realms, but for gaming, I'm curious. Game developers were already in danger. For the past 10 years I kept hearing high turnover rate and poorly treated.

Shoulda been doing that already tbh

If real coding is worse, why do they have to ban it to get developers to use AI?

Our comp has a 100$ claude license. A colleague ran it in a loop one month. If it was tokens (instesd of subsidized subscription) it would cost 10k that month.

You will eat ze bugs and use ze AI

Free games all subsidised by the Fortnite cash cow, which as far as I can tell is from children spending pocket money so their parents can get some peace. Devs being given a bigger cut of earnings I don't believe is being done in good faith and would be reverted if they'd managed to challenge Steam. Besides which, what does it matter if you get 20% more of $0 in sales?

Game dev more accessible = Unreal engine has a good ide? Or are you suggesting that slop coding makes game dev more accessible? Am not with you there.

Gabe Newell and Tim Sweeney are both wealthy men. Gabe keeps on making decisions that challenge monopolies and are pro consumer choice; you may argue that that's ultimately in his selfish best-interest but for now Steam is the best store front for gamers. Tim is like a weathervane for spouting the tech-bro fascist quote of the day, props up monopolies and doesn't see any value in people that create games for the love of it. There is quite a difference between them.

I’ve been using Epic for years, and my library is hundreds of games at this point. I have not given them one single dime and I never will. Like you said, all the good will in the world can’t make up for being a dog shit company.

Because all of those are either marketing or a lie

Their regular slop has sadly been massively successful for decades