Whatever your personal opinions on feminism or sexism in videogames are, the fact that it has become a conversation in the industry is a good thing. There has been a lot of uproar over the feminist frequency video series, the point of view they discuss in regards to videogames, and the media’s subsequent reporting of these stories. If you fall in the camp that was upset with all or any of these, I won’t argue with you, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
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.
Immature people are easily influenced by anything, games movies music tv etc. That's the issue
Yes. Games allow me to release stress, making me a less stressful person.
Video games having a positive influence on skills that improve through use, such as hand eye co-ordination or problem solving, is VASTLY different than video games influencing negative BEHAVIOUR patterns.
An improvement in multi-tasking, or hand eye co-ordination requires nothing but physical activity, absent of a positive or negative context. Influencing behaviour is vastly more complex. It's been widely refuted that gaming influences violent behaviour, which we know thanks to Jack Thompson's rampage against GTA. 9 federal courts threw out his claims, calling them baseless and lacking in legitimate scientific proof.
That is the biggest issue I have with feminists like Anita Sarkeesian and people that parrot their ideas. If gaming causing or influencing violent behaviour has been widely refuted, it should stand to reason that real world sexism and (i really hate this word) misogyny are also not at all linked to gaming.
People who already have behavioural disorders can be influenced by anything, it's simply due to the malfunction in their brain.
Sure they can, there are countless influences around us who can affect our behaviour (positively or negatively), but why do we have a brain to think before we start something stupid? You can avoid many things with some rationality ... don't let influence yourself that easily, use your brain. We're talking about videogames (the word itself contains the word "game") and if you let yourself influence by a "game" you must be mentally instable or stupid.