GTMAM writes:
"Last night I got reacquainted with an old friend like never before. Except instead of sharing stories over a beer I was jumping over alleys and dick punching bad guys. Okay, Ill admit I was drinking but the old friend I speak of wasnt a human being (for I find them repugnant) no this was a game, one of my favorite first person experinces in the entire ‘verse: Mirrors Edge."
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.
This and a new star wars:battlefront are the games I want so bad that I know will never come. sigh*
Another E3 down and the EA conference left me hanging again. Why no,EA I don't like sports games(that doesn't make me fat)or military shooters(I used to love but there's just too many now).
Your sci-fi bullet-oriented games have me a somewhat more intrigued but they're both second sequels for god's sake and ME can't get just one!
I'll be quite now.
Loved Mirror's Edge; this series needs to be taken seriously. Gaming isn't about what will sell, but we'll never get through to these blockbuster publishers.
I got baited hard, I was not paying close attention to what they were saying and the screen went dark so I was expecting a new trailer. It was the beginning of the Most Wanted demo where it shows a first person view from a skyscraper, then turns around falls off the building and the camera lands above a car as it drives away. Never in my life have my hopes be raised so high then crushed that fast.
I would love to see another one. Pure art in my opinion.
Instead they gave us more shooters. Screw you, EA.