Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62Q8tHV2c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
Tim wants it removed so he can try and hock low-quality, low-effort, AI-generated garbage games and sell them on a platform people actually want to use. I guarantee it.
It looks like they are going to start building an AI assistant into Unreal Engine, which would mean every future Unreal-based game would be questionable. No wonder he’s pushing this nonsense.
So he knows nobody wants to buy it.
Why does he keep just… I wonder how it feels always being on the wrong side of History.
Probably pretty great, what incentive does he have to be on the right side?
The one thing all of these people have in common is that they are miserable
I want epic to remove CEO
Game store owner wants owner of other game store to stop doing something so his game store won’t look as bad.
The epic ceo can go fuck himself.
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I don’t think so, Tim.
Tim had always been a dick head. Since that fucking pinball game.
No, I don’t think so. It’s reasonable to request transparency. It’s not a ban. Let the consumer choose for themselves whether or not they should care.
I think Valve knows how to run a game store a bit better that you do, Tim.
A bit yes, but also not great. See how they treated the horse game, which prob will cause the studio to close. And the whole not standing up against payment providers when they try to ban porn in general. (Think they might have done a small thing, but it took long, and wasn’t coordinated), and then there is the moderation issues, the etc etc. Still Steam is better than Epic, but that is only because Epic is just bad as a storefront. Steam is lucky they didn’t work on that harder than they did and assumed they could just get away with giving free games (it still can’t properly keep you logged in).
See how they treated the horse game,
The game where the preview version they sent to valve had a scene where a little girl asks to ride a naked man? And then rides the naked man? That horse game?
I dont know, as steam has not told anybody why they object to the game. You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.
In an interview he said that they warned him about that scene when they sent the preview version…
While I think the steam monopoly is bad, the developer has acted in bad faith.
I don’t see epic games putting out any good hardware.
These corporate capitalists are usually deathly afraid of the AI hating invisible hand of the free market.
Epic is bullshit. Fuck them.
Black Ops 7 sold less than half as much as last year’s Battlefield 6.
That’s definitely a mistype - the previous CoD game was Black Ops 6, and Battlefield 6 was made by DICE and published by EA. Still, makes a good segue into how Blops 7 (which went all-in on AI) compared against BF6 (which released more-or-less AI-free, going by DICE’s own comments).
In terms of sales, Blops 7 sold 63% less on launch than Battlefield 6 did in its opening week, earning Battlefield its first sales victory over CoD in both series’ history, and breaking a streak of #1 sales CoD had held since 2006.
On Metacritic, BF6 got “generally favourable” critic scores in the low-80s, whilst Blops 7 hovers around the 67% mark. The user scores are much more favourable - whilst BF6 is hovering at 7/10 as of this writing, BO7 is currently at 1.6/10, beating the notoriously maligned Modern Warfare III to become the lowest-rated entry in the series’ history.
On OpenCritic, Battlefield 6 earned a “Strong” rating on all fronts (83% top critic average, 90% Critics Recommend, player rating of 90) whilst Blops 7 got a “Weak” rating (65% top critic average, 35% Critics Recommend, player rating of 20).
Overall, signs are pointing to a historic victory for Battlefield over its long-running rival in the FPS genre, and a very public rejection of AI slop in all its forms.
