EA Is Getting WORSE Somehow...

[@candyyumi]

Sony - You guys don't have any PSN Account?. Microsoft - Fuck you studios. Nintendo - I will takedown Nintendo content. Ubisoft - I don't know man, You don't own games frfr. Blizzard - All your beloved games??, I killed it. Warner Bros - Suicide Squad and Batman VR funny. EA - AI and Ads are cool af. Battlestate Games - Pay us 250$ for a "D̶L̶C̶ Game", if you do you're a true believer.

[@DanTheReaperMann]

Bethesda - it just works.

[@candyyumi]

@@DanTheReaperMann I forgot about this lol.

[@therwfer]

Valve - pass the popcorn?

[@Dunkopf]

​@@therwfer valves just sitting there doing absolutely fuckin nothing. . . And its working.

[@luciusjuniustavianus7540]

@@Dunkopf cs2 replacing cs go no way to play the original and its with less content

[@LucaAmbrosino-fh4wv]

If i wanted ads in a game i'd play any game on my phone. Fuck ea

[@foxskyful]

Do you think they are placing ads just because of you

[@svon1]

they could be doing the smart thing and put the coca cola logo on in game tin cans but something tells me they ain't smart enough for that

[@Mark-bo2pb]

Look how UFC 4 accomplished with ads. It used to pop up in the middle of a fight.

[@Spectrum0122]

I don't mind if it's like a billboard in a raving game or a coke vending machine, but you know they will have a straight pop up video

[@grimey666]

@@foxskyful1 IQ comment

[@cyberwaste]

CEOs will be in love with AI until they realise that the least creative and most replaceable person in the organisation is them and they're about to be replaced by one.

[@xandolio865]

There will always be a head honcho. Only way they get fired is with a golden parachute. There's no risk for them.

[@TehGhostWhoPlay]

The whole entire point of a ceo is not the creative but to simply guide the company to make as much money as possible.

[@ShiningDarknes]

@@TehGhostWhoPlay Yeah, which an AI can defiantly do for way less than they pay those monkeys.

[@crashstudi0s]

@@milkiessssssssssssssssssssssss I mean, I would laugh, but right now room temperature is around 100ish degrees qhere I live, so... Not the insult it used to be

[@colt7526]

@@milkiessssssssssssssssssssssssmy company’s CEO was literally just replaced lmao, the CEO/creator of the Wendy’s biggie bag, just became the ceo of the company I work for

[@Achillez098]

"Are you concerned about the recent increase in artificial intelligence?" "I'm more concerned about the recent DECREASE in ACTUAL intelligence..."

[@natharoonytoony6632]

Based comment

[@laurentitolledo1838]

I present to you the CIA...

[@Ori_Kohav]

bruh, this comment deserves a pin

[@Silverblade416]

Finally, a comment that has never been more factual. . . The excessive reliance on artificial intelligence in certain fields will kill human creativity. And lack of creativity is the decrease of human output. I'm kinda scared of it actually. A.I. really might takeover, but it might not end like Terminator. The dwindling of morals, rationality, and creativity that only us humans possess is what will likely end us. A.I. wouldn't actually be wholly at fault, it would just cushion it before that happens, because if we become apathetic to the good qualities we possess, A.I. will not be able to totally compensate for those. Tl;dr: What would possibly destroy us won't be A.I., it's the greedy and those with no creativity that rely upon it too much that will.

[@devinloew7681]

Triple entendre, nice

[@YaBoiEye]

>Be Gaben >Do Nothing >Competition keeps shooting themselves in the foot

[@RIISK04]

>Never release a game with the number 3 >Win

[@HER0_]

>announce TF2 2 >IDK

[@zoura_3025]

What is this business strategy called?

[@redowanuddin8569]

​@@zoura_3025it's called don't do shit and profit

[@duckfilms3662]

​@@zoura_3025"Lugi wins by doing absolutely nothing"

[@didi7074]

Born too late to buy a house in 2008, born too soon to see flying car but born just in time to see most jobs replaced by AI and bg corporations become richer.

[@benwelter8890]

Man I wish I was born in like 1940, and be ready to die right about now 💀

[@HasturBeta]

If you haven't seen a flying car yet, then you just need bigger ramps

[@Diffussy]

If you bought a house in 2008 that would have sucked. The better example would have been buying in COVID lockdown times and gotten a 1.75% rate.

[@falloutfreek1992]

You don't want flying cars

[@Kirby370Z]

​@@falloutfreek1992exactly... I don't trust most sober drivers on a moped... Now imagine a shit driver in a fucking flying car.

[@6esd]

If AI is so good, let AI replace CEO’s

[@PrimroseParadox]

The one job a chatbot ""AI"" could actually do well in

[@GullySyde28]

​@@PrimroseParadox😂

[@Sett86]

CEO is one job that AI absolutely could replace, and eventually will

[@inferndragon]

Well it is already there. Android Wilson is the ceo.

[@MrIlleatyourcookies]

and what a massive cost cutting move that would be

[@WickedCowboy]

EA is like watching a show that gets progressively worse each season as you sit there and think “How the fuck can it get worse?”

[@PSiGaming]

Sooooo Walking Dead?

[@slickfox33]

Lost 😂

[@JayTechZM]

Velma?

[@ThatDevilBrony]

Riverdale?

[@Matanumi]

LOL I worked on Riverdale it was fun but yeah the writing got God awful

[@andrewaoun7611]

Pirating EA and Ubisoft games is ethical practice at this point.

[@Mysticgamer]

Do they have games worth pirating anymore 🤔

[@XD-sc4ix]

​@@Mysticgamertheir old games

[@Mysticgamer]

@XD-sc4ix True, they haven't put beyond good and evil one the newer generations.

[@Diffussy]

@@XD-sc4ixwhich id still pay money for. Paying for an AC game set in ancient Japan, where the protag is a gay black dude, is ridiculous. Not even worth the torrent tbh.

[@XD-sc4ix]

@@Diffussy honestly even ignoring the drama a black guy in ancient Japan would stick out like a sore thumb

[@kkay000]

The CEO of EA does not look human. He somehow manages to absolutely look like the CEO of EA.

[@roflBeck]

That's why they call him Android Wilson lol

[@bnuuyrabbit]

Lmaooooooo

[@Bryanneo1]

​@@roflBeck doesn't even talk like a human being most of the time

[@KevinMaloneforPresident2024]

so like a lizard zuckerberg before the last face reveal

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

@@roflBeckDude is literally David from Alien:Covenant, actual android behavior

[@DOOMStudios]

Electronic Arts to Electronic Aids.

[@Spectacular_Insanity]

Soon it will evolve into Electronic Cancer.

[@GummbiDammit]

Hahahahaha

[@qhu3878]

Analogue Executives

[@TheHK_47]

Electronic ads more like

[@andrewstaples5862]

How about electronic ads

[@nathansamuelson]

Unionize the games industry. I studied it in school and it's been "this is our best year, half of you are fired" every 6 months. How do they see this as even short term sustainable?

[@Falcone45]

Exactly. I'm surprised I haven't heard this. I've heard about activism being used, which will hep, but unionization will definitely bite into the ceos profits.

[@matthewlucent7645]

It's too late for Tango Gameworks to unionize.

[@SuperHorsecow]

Unsustainable capitalism is unsurprising

[@DawnmanDX]

They are missing what Iwata once said " On my card, i am a Ceo, at work i am a developer, and at Heart i am a gamer."

[@calluxdoaron1903]

Pilestd, the CEO of Helldivers is now demoted... To get into game producing and bug fixes himself. What a chad.

[@OutsiderLabs]

@@calluxdoaron1903 Dude replaced himself with a Paradox shill, he's just trying to divert criticism away from them for partnering with Sony.

[@cymikgaming1266]

@@calluxdoaron1903 he said "fuck it im doing it myself"

[@linkkhanato6320]

Duality of man right above me

[@MightyManotaur22]

The problem is that these game execs are neither developers nor gamers. They are sales people.

[@Draqziifying]

EA aren't the only ones. Literally most major gaming publishers are like this too. They are so out of touch its unbelievable. "Tremendous live service" "Largest developer team ever" "Insane realistic graphics" etc. Hearing these things about games just instantly turns me off

[@bigboybastard7162]

1. Most people want a finished game 2. Too many cooks in the kitchen will spoil the broth 3. Graphics mean absolute shit when your game sucks The AAA gaming industry needs to learn this so badly

[@effexon]

nothing changed from 90s box texts :D now "bigger, better" means devs gonna crunch even longer and be souldead. back in the day those were just words, devs made smart decisions to limit scope for their sanity.

[@MaxisRichtofen]

doesn't help that these ceo's make 200m a year

[@aceclover758]

Well blame the consumers for enabling this

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@effexon they absolutely changed, nobody bragged about the size of their team or their budgets on the boxes of games in the 90s. they bragged about big levels, good graphics, dozens of weapons to choose from, etc. things that were actually relevant to the game

[@drayshawnc10]

Stop playing EA games... simple

[@nathanputz40]

I’ve stopped playing almost everything besides MCC on occasion and indie games. I can’t justify the money anymore

[@RukaGoldheart]

​@@nathanputz40 the amount of actually good games available on PC is unimaginable. I have a 100+ games backlog to go through, big companies like EA and Ubisoft hurting themselves will not harm the broader gaming market in the slightest. In fact, it will have the opposite effect.

[@RipleyGlass]

Tell that to all the meat heads playing sports games

[@lucazani2730]

​@@nathanputz40I swear to god the difference between 10 years ago indie games and today AAA games is astonishing. I just bought for €2,50 Undertale (it was on sale) and I'm currently playing it and only after an hour and a half or so I was completely immersed in a game in which the story, the setting, the music are so well balanced together, they gave me chills really. How the fuck a single person managed to produce something like undertale and the biggest companies in the world with billions of dollars like EA and Microsoft produce insignificant repetitive boring games like Starfield?

[@lucazani2730]

​@@nathanputz40I said "ten years ago indie games" because I have yet to purchase contemporary indie games. I'm waiting for the steam sales

[@thsxi]

That increased battlefield team is like 10% devs and 90% corporate bureaucrats

[@ΌνομαΕπώνυμο-ο1τ]

Not on the loop with these studios but at least it's not ubisoft's teams that are 95 percent divercity hires

[@nightblade628]

Maybe so, but the annual bonuses won’t spend themselves!!

[@DarkVoid-gp6qq]

Literally Everyone: This route is going to hurt the gaming industry! EA: Well the chart says…

[@bigboybastard7162]

Its amazing how much that they forget about the fact that there needs to be consumers for there to be profits, and that this shit will chase away all but the most brain dead consumers

[@ImperialGuardsman2]

EA: The line keeps going up

[@USS_Sentinel]

"Business Education" does not equal smarts or even common sense.

[@corruptedpoison1]

All they care about are their garbage sports games.

[@ssebasgoo]

Well, I don't want to talk in their favor but money talks. People are still falling for their scams.

[@CharityDiary]

I still remember Battlefield 4, finally unlocking the SUAV, flying that little RC plane around the map and laser-designating targets in hopes that my teammates had guided missile capabilities. So many cool, quirky, teamwork-based gadgets to unlock. So many ways to play. Those times are long gone :(

[@mitri5389]

Lol, arma is better than Battlefailed always has been

[@Bhunky_]

Being in a jet or helicopter and randomly getting the heat seaking sound on a random tank used to give me so much dope. The target painter gadgets really were unsung heroes

[@grasshopper8901]

​@mitri5389 doesarma have good destructible environments, like blowing up a hole in a buildings wall?

[@Mightydoggo]

@@mitri5389 I´m playing ArmA since arrowhead, I dunno what you smoke m8 but it ain´t doing any good for you.

[@crisalcantara7671]

😢

[@enricodesantis1236]

"I was wrong about you EA, you're not greedy..." "YOU'RE BATSHIT INSANE"

[@coralcuriosity2439]

mgr revengence reference?

[@enricodesantis1236]

@@coralcuriosity2439 yes 🗿

[@RandomPerson-cf3gt]

You are all wrong, ea is greedy and insane

[@aperson1754]

Making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack. Can't fret over every egg!

[@jar-jarnotbinks7685]

Growth is the new winning word. Whenever you hear a CEO talking about wanting more growth, expect the worse.

[@TheNobleFive]

You're right. Although it's not new

[@richmountain1128]

True growth only comes from quality on all (or most) sides of the equation.

[@Spike2276]

​@@richmountain1128 But how does that give me more money? I want more money. I *NEED* more money!

[@richmountain1128]

@@Spike2276 More people will buy it if it's good.

[@Spike2276]

@@richmountain1128 But will they buy it over and over? Will every single person buy a 25$ skin? A 30$ battle pass? The 5$ lootboxes? Will every player recommend their friends play the game for hundreds of hours and spend that same money they did? You're not thinking with the stupid part of your brain, that's why you're not an EA executive.

[@cristiadu]

I was laid off by EA last year out of nowhere and had a hard time finding jobs due to the timing of it all. Now with a new job out of the games industry, I will never try to go back into it. It's so volatile and so much "just talk". They treat Andrew Wilson as a god there too because he made them earn millions due to UT, this dude is never gonna leave his position. The bad thing is that there is a lot of very passionate people doing the games they know will not deliver what people want (even though they do wanna deliver good games). It's so sad.

[@Geekezf]

You can look at the guy who done Stardew valley, and the other who did manor lords. They where alone and they manage to earn a lot of money

[@pocketinfinity6733]

in australia, you cant be fired for no reason what so ever, just sounds like the layoffs are easy to do because the system allows it, all these triple a companies blend in after a while

[@mechazeta5567]

Can’t spell Dead without EA

[@lutherloser5122]

Cant spell space without an e and a a.

[@Jmvars]

As if the casuals buying the same sports game every single year isn't keeping them afloat.

[@unbeamablena5948]

Saying casual is crazy stupid yes but casual i dout it consdering they spend hundreds on pay to win card modes ​@Jmvars

[@NotNykoh]

@@JmvarsThat pisses me off even more. The next CFB game, is a legit ripoff from Madden - and I would NOT be surprised if it has less features than NCAA14

[@DubberRucks]

@NotNykoh - you wanna know the sad part? When the trailer for NCAA dropped i checked out the comments and so many were going ham cos "is new game" and "who cares if ultimate team because new game so preorder!!!" - i feel for your real college footy fans if that's what you're up against. You just want GOOD games but too many whales eat up the regurgitated slop year on year preventing that

[@scarecrow2272]

And people thought EA couldn't go lower...

[@foxskyful]

you can thank the gamers most for that

[@arn3107]

​@@foxskyfulyes it's definitely my fault that my favourite game now has horrible sequels loaded with micro transactions this is what i wanted and the responsibility is mine as opposed to the greedy corporate CEOs who made things so bad in the first place

[@respectdat1]

@@arn3107 yeah. It may not be you personally, but people who pre-order without doing ANY research whatsoever, or who buy the "deluxe, early access, season pass, gold/platinum, day 1 DLC, premium" word slop bullshit is enabling these companies to continue this behavior. Vote with your wallet.

[@arn3107]

@@respectdat1 well they saud "gamers" so i thought they were talking about all gamers including me which would be unfair but other than that i do agree with your points

[@zombiemincaftr]

​@arn3107 it is the consumer's fault always. If consumers were smart then companies like EA wouldn't exist.

[@Tyrannosaur6265]

I actually decided to quit my major in Game Design after hearing so many horror stories from my professors. The corporatization of video games has been squeezing the life of Developers for decades.

[@lianmizu2488]

Same, plus my main professor sucked

[@Tyrannosaur6265]

@@lianmizu2488 Most of my ‘academic’ professors were basically frauds, one older woman who taught english subjects would let KZbin autoplay give us lessons while she took routine naps nearly all day. Luckily all of my art-orientated professors were very talented and had tons of experience, just nothing good to say about the industry.

[@bebiswhale]

No you just shouldn’t join a major corporate developer. Studios like warhorse in the Czech Republic are amazing they developed kingdom come deliverance and the second game is coming out later this year

[@Tyrannosaur6265]

@@bebiswhale Unfortunately one has to live in the Czech Republic to work there. Not to mention that a studio’s ability to make a good game says nothing about work conditions.

[@dubmeisterxd2133]

Pirate EA games. everyone should.

[@LifeWulf]

Me: “Oh Jedi Survivor is on Game Pass, I can just play it there.” The EA app constantly logging me out: “allow me to reintroduce myself”

[@Ech_The_Sentiant]

YOHOHO

[@The_Patbey]

Or just skip them

[@Alexroa50]

Nah, the games aren't even worth pirating them, they are pretty boring

[@Sonichero151]

That would imply sports game bros are smart enough to know how to pirate........

[@Anthonydanells]

Over paid CEOs that forget to stay in their lane, let the people do their job creating good games without higher ups meddling and f***ING it up

[@userJohnSmith]

Yes and no. Good leadership guides the people with ideas. These guys just don't understand what their teams actually need.

[@BelBelle468]

It’s funny cuz it’s so hard to get a job nowadays. They’re so particular about who they hire, often disregarding perfectly capable ppl. And Yet they’re constantly overstepping anyway. Why don’t CEOs just make the products themselves?

[@Spike2276]

​@@userJohnSmith CEOs have no relation with the products themselves, other than giving green lights. Andrew Wilson's biggest, and probably only, contribution to gaming was telling Bioware that Anthem sucked but the flying was kind of okay. There are executive and managerial staff who do guide the creativity of the end product, but CEOs tend to not be those people.

[@userJohnSmith]

@@Spike2276 Depends how flat an org is, I deal with my CEO directly as an engineer all the time. And I would argue it's important for a CEO to get ground level information to make good decisions. A good engineer's CEO hires people who can get that to them (good managers), or takes a few hours to go down to the floor and talk to people every week.

[@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches]

@userJohnSmith Exactly. Good CEOs are embedded in their craft, not disjoint from it.

[@victorboechat5370]

Ah, man. I remember when BF3 had the CQB expansion. Maps like Ziba Tower, a crazy chaotic meat grinder of a map... Spent hours overnight playing with friends and that's what a miss, when they gave a crap about making good games.

[@colt7526]

I agree man, I genuinely don’t mind micro transactions if they’re done like how they were from 2011-2015 where it was 2-4$ for map packs, and .99$ for hella skins for your guns and shit. Now it’s $25 for a skin and an emblem. The shit is just absolutely ridiculous. NBA 2k24 myteam mode is the biggest example of how out of control it’s gotten. 200k vc ($40) for a single 99 ovr card. No way to grind for it other than play around 100-150 games of my career.

[@0lD1rtyMustard]

i remember rush game mode where the ground exploded and your team flooded the underground subway station to progress forward. the map changes were sick asf

[@TJD0503]

Stock holders only make money when the stock value increases and stock value only increases with constant "growth", which is unsustainable

[@nef36]

Oh boy, "capitalism is when bad thing happen" spam is here

[@TJD0503]

@@nef36 Did I say that?

[@Mayhzon]

That's not even true really. You can short a company pretty hard or sell puts on it's name and cash on ALL of their losses.

[@kimcartoon69]

Or dividends, which doesn't have to grow it just has to stai at the same lvl

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

@@nef36 Ah I see the excusers are already rolling in and trying to change the subject.

[@spaceperson613]

The bar was already in hell, and EA was like: *Hey. Wanna see something really stupid?*

[@stereokuuji]

The bar: in hell EA: there's levels to this though 😂

[@retroicdescent]

They're on the 5th or 6th level of hell and they're trying to reach the bottom.

[@bobloblaw2958]

😅😅

[@ianrotten4453]

There's a reason why I've been collecting physical media for 20+ years. I was once on-track to become a developer for Blizzard before the buy-out by Activision. But, once I saw the goings-on in the business, I graciously backed out of that industry.

[@Fonky_Fesh]

The collapse of the “AAA Game” concept and the studios that make them is long overdue

[@dislot]

I spent years studying and training to be a voice actor and the second I'm ready to step into the field the robots show up...

[@FunZies.]

I really feel you. I'm looking to become a 2D games animator and it pisses me off that it's the creative roles that are being replaced. Where are the bots to replace the f*cking CEOs? But they're not willing to invest in that, are they?

[@absbabs6153]

Yes but a lot of people can notice when someone speaks in an AI voice (for the most part) and as a consumer I really hate content once I found its made with AI cause I appreciate the hard working human mind

[@marcusgreen8843]

⁠@@absbabs6153a lot of people can notice it Now but think about how much better it’s got within only a couple years. It’s exponentially getting better and it’s gonna be impossible to tell at some point in the near future. It’s a sad future

[@BattierStorm]

Yeah man I feel you. I studied game design for 2+ years Now can’t get a job for shit with all the layoffs. Everyone wants developers with 3-5+ year experience so getting a foot in the door has become incredibly difficult. And AAA companies keep touting Ai has the future and gobbling up studios only to spit them out laying-off hundreds. Still salty about tango game works and Hi-Fi rush..

[@ITSAHARDNUGLIFE]

What kind of games you like to make/animate? I have a couple side scrolling platformer/shoot em up ideas I wanted to do

[@TheScortUK]

Don't forget, Andrew Wilson is the guy who couldn't be arsed to educate his daughter on WW2, so made BF5 the utter tripe it was.... it's like Stevie Wonder drive the car

[@FocussedPlague]

Imagine you're in a game and your characters battle chatter isn't a callout of an enemy but something like "oh, I could really go for a nice cool Pepsi right now!".

[@DubberRucks]

Or you're about to go on a quest and an ad for a new Humvee pops up cos you clicked "fast travel"

[@CrizzyEyes]

need ammo callout: "SERGEANT, I COULD USE SOME MORE MAGPUL(TM) MAGAZINES FOR MY REMINGTON(TM) RIFLE"

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

* uses healing item * Ahhh, the refreshing feel of Band-Aid(TM).

[@andrewstaples5862]

I swear to christ if i have a fucking arbys commercial playing right in the middle of me getting jumped by necromorphs, i will fucking lose my shit.

[@tomcoop9750]

Lmao “We’ve got the meat!” as your being eaten alive lol

[@twinphalanx4465]

That would honestly jumoscare me through tonal whiplash, plus ads tend to be louder than usual

[@Rocketcow-dx1jd]

​@@tomcoop9750ARBYS. YOU ARE THE MEATS!!!

[@S_Black]

That ad thing is so weird considering that sports games are THE best genre for in-game ads. If it's done like in real life. That probably ads to immersion for some people. And nobody complained about the brand names on the floor of the fighting ring.

[@prinzeisenherz4287]

So we replace EA games by AI games...who needs a publisher in these times

[@Spike2276]

We should just replace gaming CEOs with A.I chatbots.

[@chromasus9983]

Their minds will be blown once they realise they could have the gameplay done by AI as well, once they find out that auto-play games exist.

[@therwfer]

Executive Alpha, programmed to like things it has seen before. Executive Beta, programmed to roll dice to determine the fall schedule. Executive Gamma, programmed to underestimate middle America.

[@Robert-fr9wl]

STOP BUYING EA, UBISOFT/ MICROSOFT GAMES IN GENERAL😮😢 THEY GONNA KEEP DOING THIS AS LONG AS WE BUY THEIRS FVCKING LOUSY VIDEOGAMES GODAMN IT. THIS IS A CONSUMER BASED ECONOMY AND WE THE CONSUMERS ARE ENABLERS IN THIS GREAT GAMING DARK AGE😫

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

@@chromasus9983 Idle games:

[@RomnysGonzalez]

Andrew Wilson is not excited about AI. He's exciting about the potential labor cost being reduce so he can get even biggest bonuses while also paying even LESS for workforce

[@princezephra]

7:02 to 7:25. Yeah I am someone that went and got a degree for 3D art and animations in order to make video games, I graduated in 2017 and back then I was able to see the writing on the wall with how volatile the industry was. Instantly backed off of it and went into just computer building, diagnosing, and repairing. Very happy that I did.

[@donniebell7887]

Someone once said it will be years before ai can replace you but your boss thinks it can today.

[@toknowwhyuneed3593]

But it WILL happen. People need to prepare for that future, because unless you're 60 it will happen in your lifetime. If the new Sora video generation is real, then AI will absolutely start eliminating artists jobs everywhere. If you're an artist you better learn a new skill.

[@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches]

@@toknowwhyuneed3593 Actually AI has provably been getting worse. This is because with the influx of AI art, the training set for newer art AIs is getting contaminated so we're getting a sort of 'in-breeding effect', capitalizing on any AI artifacts. Also we're more and more clearly seeing the drawbacks - e.g. LLMs are horrendously bad at anything that requires even a small degree of enbodiment or understanding. So no, the technology is reaching a plateau.

[@Ozdical]

​@@toknowwhyuneed3593you're forgetting that Ai generated content *cannot* be copyrighted unless you have the legal right to the training data, which most people who use Ai don't have. By large, AI content is not defended by copyright. And you know how corpos loooooove their copyright

[@jmsp000]

@@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches Wonder when everything AI cooks up will start getting the Habsburg chin

[@mitri5389]

​@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches there is no inbreeding people who say that are halfwits who have no proper understanding.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

EA... EA Never changes

[@retard-qf2ze]

why is anyone even surprised at this point, everyone been screaming the same shit since battlefront 2 xd

[@loyaloneshot5874]

Actually, they do change... for the worse.

[@MauseDays]

your choice of video game is polotical understand that

[@KevinMaloneforPresident2024]

gaming has changed - Solid Snake

[@ShellShock3]

Greed…Greed never changes

[@Mr.Neko1]

EA CEO is spewing and chasing the hottest buzzword of the day to get investors who don’t understand anything about tech or gaming excited to invest more into the company. Basically, he’s doing his job. It may not the best thing to do but it’s par for corporate executives.

[@regular_mason8082]

Imagine a world where post game lobbies are interrupted by an ad for Mountain Dew.

[@KarltheBarl]

Mw3

[@PrimroseParadox]

You're optimistic.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Imagine a world where the final multiplayer boss fights are interrupted by an ad for [corporate product placement] or [political party ad the publishing company's CEO endorses].

[@amharbinger]

They're trying to turn all their games into Madden. They tried with Star Wars Battlefront 2 and failed, and now they're trying again.

[@CrizzyEyes]

I think they've been trying to do that since the 90s. They were known for their churn of studios; they'd buy a decently successful studio, try to force them to make a game every year, then shut them down when that inevitably didn't work. Many times. Westwood, Bullfrog, Looking Glass, Microprose... these are just a few of the great studios that EA killed.

[@TheRealRuddRants]

14:42 here are my thoughts: " thank you electronic arts (or should I call you electronic aids plus cancer) for making more reasons why I not buying your game. Please accept your inclusion in the blacklist".

[@BrandonCRFC]

Americans have been told for 50 years that technological develop will only lead to more prosperity for each and every citizen...we are seeing the exact opposite across all industries, and now gaming.

[@SgtGudda]

Always has been. More technology doesn’t mean better. Ex: printing press consolidated

[@kurrwa]

If not technology you would be using stone and sticks. What are you using? What you have in your hand is not only phone anymore it’s mini computer

[@spao9411]

Maybe americans should realize that capitalism does not care about people

[@seaweeb2258]

It literally has lead to more prosperity. While it is being abused by the suits and our own Government, but you aren't complaining about non invasive surgeries, cures to diseases that previously were death sentences, the phone you are likely using to write this bunk, cars that won't kill you if you rollover, as well as not blow up into a ball of flame when hit hard, and computers that are capable of doing many things at once, while still being taxing on the hardware of old. Even the clothes on your back are nearly impossible to make, unless you are wearing clothes that were hand stitched. The problem lies within the corporate part of America. If corporations weren't treated as an individual within our own laws, with more laws that basically protect this circle of this cycle based on a defunct theory of constant growth, that has no bearing on anything other than the shareholders and the value of their shares, then you get what we are seeing. It's unfortunate that it has lead to control freaks getting to have their kink of control lavished by this system.

[@immortal_shrooms6757]

@@kurrwait's honestly double edged sword

[@snackette]

Indie and small studios are the future. Invest in what you like, not what you used to like.

[@nemesisofeden]

Nice shirt Act Man! You are the only other person aside from myself (that I've seen) to have the Kanto starters as Ghostbusters, who are busting a Haunter. It's one of my fave shirts!

[@JordTheeNord]

Andrew Wilson and Bobby Kotick are f***ing monsters. Those two are singlehandingly corrupting the gaming industry.

[@michaelkean5969]

They are just two examples of the typical Boss, There is a reason why I don’t trust anyone in the workplace that is above you even just a simple line manager I don’t trust

[@effexon]

let xbox buy them and close in 5 years.

[@MauseDays]

videogameing is inhently polotical now. What you play does show who you support and what your polotics are. so keep thta in mind

[@LetYahArisee]

​@@MauseDaysNo, it doesn't. You are being political forthinking this way

[@fledthehunter5293]

@@MauseDays It's not political, you are reaching way too far.

[@EmoSupremo-h9f]

Ill take "Unsurprising Headlines" for $1K.

[@WholeHolyHole]

r.i.p. Mr. Trebek 🫡

[@thegovenor6166]

Daring today aren't we?

[@TheSacredSavior]

Experienced DMs/GMs in Tabletop RPGs like D&D can't predict their players. How can AI? My dad quit DMing for a few years because he put an apparently amazing dungeon in front of us. Our entire party prioritized to do our paid "Escort the Princess from this city to this city to get married" quest first. With how much we had diverted previously, he though we would again. When we didn't, Dad effectively said "I give up".

[@ccmonty994]

What the hell is going on this month with game companies going mask off anti consumer

[@rileymachelle4088]

I mean, none of these companies have ever been pro-consumer or pro-worker. They're publicly traded companies. They literally aren't allowed to be pro-consumer or pro-worker the same way that non-publicly traded companies like Arrowhead and Larian are.

[@ccmonty994]

@@rileymachelle4088 I know that but they still usually try to at least pretend they care about the consumer

[@ThaKoalaKing]

Their stock and sales are leveling out after a spike during covid and it's got them all freaked out. Since they're stupid.

[@ARStudios2000]

Been like it since last year. Every major entertainment company out there just suddenly went full dumbass mode

[@omarmks6670]

Let em. The money will talk in the end. Like always People have gotten way more tight about their funds these days. Rightfully so. These companies will either adapt to that or lose money and feel the pain of their incompetence I have no doubt the next battlefield will be a tremendous failure and cause an absolute storm then. I bet money on it. Should be common sense to avoid live service plans at this point

[@Evamme534]

And here I was thinking it was going to be about ea "accidentally" removing games from people's libraries without telling them.

[@Skrenja]

My friend had almost every Battlefield game and got banned from accessing _any_ of them for "hacking." The guy has never cheated in his life and barely even played the games.

[@faerieknight2298]

I remember when Crytptic and NCSoft added real world advertising via in-game billboards to City of Heroes/Villains. I remember how that initiative got canned within a month of it going live.

[@nathanwilliams1143]

Maybe these veteran game developers leaving the studios end up making new studios comprised of only veterans, maybe they end up blowing these EA games out of the water with a better battlefield

[@supertrampsupreme1955]

As a great TF2 character from Boston once said, “Look at you, it’s like watching a car crash in slow motion!” We are on a warpath towards another video game crash of 83’.

[@roflBeck]

I'm waiting for it. Let's see it happen.

[@supertrampsupreme1955]

@@roflBeck I can’t wait to see all the major, like 3, publishers get their shit rocked by their scummy practices.

[@JackdotC]

I am unironicly looking forward to it. Games companies are too big. It sucks for all the devs that are going to get laid off bc their bosses are chasing the meta, but the big studios need to collapse

[@supertrampsupreme1955]

@@JackdotC Amen to that

[@Rocketcow-dx1jd]

​@@JackdotCMeanwhile my gane im developing solo will have. *○16 levels at launch that both main characters can explore. ○All character side stories, Playable Villain characters and main game expansions completely FREE ○A free prologue side story free of charge anyone can play without owning the game that includes both main characters ○Co-Op and versus race update completely free of charge since i am still trying to figure out how to code that. And by the time support ends the full gane will be x3 the size of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. This is how AAA studios should treat players and im just some 1 person indie dev living in a closet who loves players.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

CEOs aren't creative types, they aren't programmers, they manage finances. And they've been trained to see the employees who create the actual products the company sells as "superfluous salary takers". CEOs have no clue how A.I. works, or writing, or game design, hence they are salivating at the idea of just having to press a button and the "magic algorithm" will magically spit out free artwork and complete games and movies the CEOs can sell to pay for their big CEO bonuses that they believe they absolutely deserve because they carry so much "responsibility" (at no personal risk or expense) and worked so hard firing all those employees. In their mind, this is even better than "community-created content", because community content creators still want to get paid a percentage. What corporations like is "user generated content" that is free to them, to feed into the A.I. for free, to sell it back to the consumer.

[@FalconPLT333]

Something people have to realize is that an AI is a tool that takes data in, and puts a result out. Give it shit, it will output shit. And, well, seeing EA studios' recent track records... I think you get where I'm getting at

[@PSiGaming]

Boy howdy. I was already ignoring everything from EA, but this decision solidified my personal stance in ignoring them until the heat death of the universe.

[@RikuSora456]

It is literally like Player One where people are constantly bombarded by advertisement while in game 🤣

[@lavalord96]

The irony of the name Electronc """ARTS""" is being put on full, glorious, and embarrassing display.

[@pitchayudhleewanich2747]

I suppose they are gonna be renamed to electronic AI. Also RESPAWN WHERES OUR TITANFALL 3?! WE WANT OUR BT BACK!!!

[@Dunkopf]

​@@pitchayudhleewanich2747 TITANFALL MENTIONED?!!?!!!

[@pitchayudhleewanich2747]

@@DunkopfYEE TITANFALL!

[@allacasam]

I read in a book somewhere that a large percentage of corporate CEO's displayed traits indicative of sociopathy. It kind of checks out. . .

[@darksidegryphon5393]

I heard that on the news. That's one of the professions/positions that attracts psycopaths.

[@callmequaz9052]

That's because to get into such a position you typically need to either be a sociopath or born into it. It's rare someone works their way into such a position.

[@KrazyEngima]

I told people this was going to happen. I am an artist and from the last decade of selling my art, as well as wanting to be a concept designer at one point, has shown me that corporate settings want machines to work for them. Even 10 years ago, your life had to basically become art to make it in the industry. People get burned out. AI can go on forever. That's all they see

[@landracet]

The triple-A videogame space's slow-motion collapse is a force that no man or machine can hope to halt. So it has been written, so it shall be.

[@arn3107]

reject AAA embrace Indie we have Titles like Hollow Knight, Terraria, Undertale, Cuphead, Dead cells, Inscription, Shovel Knight, Geometry Dash, Stardew Valley and much much more the devs of these games put their heart and soul into the games and with such limited resources and the end result is way better than anything Corporates can produce Indie devs deserve your support and you deserve quality games made with passion

[@rileymachelle4088]

That's semi true. As long as AAA game studios that work under companies like EA are publicly traded companies, it was always going to happen this way. Game studios that aren't publicly traded, like Arrowhead and Larian, don't have to deal with that shit. That's why their games are so good, and why they don't try to suck money out of our wallets. It's the developers in charge, not some rando shareholders forcing them to ruin their games and workplace culture for a profit margin. A publicly traded company just simply isn't going to be able to hold a candle to them

[@arn3107]

@@rileymachelle4088 what does "publicly traded" mean?

[@KeehlaSelai]

well said

[@mantheman11]

@@arn3107 you mentioned the most boring indie games, how about manor lords, kingdom come deliverance literally anything better than that lol

[@treeseis9]

Literally saw a screenshot of Google AI claiming that doctors recommend smoking 2-3 cigarettes while pregnant while watching this. nuff said

[@darksidegryphon5393]

Also: glue the cheese to your pizza.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

Doctors also recommend eating small stones daily. According to AI.

[@M3di3valG]

Thank God for the Indie Scene. I haven't bought a AAA for some time now. AAA Publishers literally turn my stomach! I hope they all go bankrupt!!

[@Manykrc]

I still hate the fact that they didn't let American Mcgee do Alice asylum. I HATE EA with all my guts.

[@WeedShaggy]

RIP the Alice series

[@Glitchedpixel5]

I can only pray my man can buy back the IP when the AAA industry starts collapsing

[@puddlez96]

The last EA game I actually bought with real money was Alice 2. I've boycotted them since then for countless bullshit decisions. It seems like it was justified. Except even the devs who made the games I enjoy (Arrowhead, Battlestate) have recently had the veil lifted and we can see how bad they are too. Seems any game that is a huge hit is a mistake or it's a really small indy dev that is just passionate about creating a unique fun experience.

[@marshallmills3296]

Considering how insidious and downright nasty AI is, I think it's for the best - I know it sucks that American McGee can't make a 3rd Alice game, but I'd rather THAT be the case than have it infected by AI

[@CrizzyEyes]

@@puddlez96 I don't think Arrowhead is that bad yet, they are just a bit misguided for shackling themselves to Sony. Battlestate is irredeemable however.

[@ddiver7908]

I have a degree in Liberal Arts and couldn't find a job..so everyone said 'learn programming,,learn programming". So i learned programming and now i'm getting laid off..wtf world 🤷‍♀

[@michaelkean5969]

Welcome to the modern world ruled by corporations where you are screwed over at every corner.

[@Andrew_460]

Go to trades school. Become a plumber and make 6 figures. Its not hard.

[@pliat]

learn stem.

[@CyanRooper]

​@@Andrew_460All fun and games till you come across a turtle and feel a strong urge to crush it...

[@enriqueperezarce5485]

@@CyanRooperWtf is this comment

[@MrWhiskers65]

Thank the good lord for Asian games, movies and TV!

[@TheHipisterDeer]

It's like Ubisoft and EA are trying to fight to see who can out shit each other.

[@Marksman3434]

EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, Embracer… Almost all major AAA publishers are trying to outcompete each other on who can be the shittiest company

[@CyanRooper]

Ubisoft removed the game files for The Crew 1 from the players' libraries after shutting down the servers. Imagine buying a new phone and one year later someone from the manufacturer shows up and smashes your phone because they have a new model they want you to buy. That's basically what Ubisoft did. EA hasn't done anything like that (yet).

[@CriticalThinking88]

Hmmm, a gaming awards show called "The Annual Shit Off Awards" and the trophy would be a giant gold dildo.

[@AntwaineHorton]

Act man: "What if Ubisoft used a.i to make side quests in AC Shadows?" Me: "I'd be surprised if they didn't."

[@Spike2276]

They might use AI to generate voice lines, but realistically they'll just copy and paste the same formula they've been using since AC Origins, it's not that taxing to make the same content over and over again with largely procedurally generated objectives.

[@pedrojustice]

-"Hey, look our last reports." -"Yeah, big numbers again, line go up on Fifa and NBA." -"Yeah.. even if our writing is attrocious and we dont do anything new or creative." -"They eat everything, dont they?" -"They sure do. But good god. Its really bad... I dont even know why we pay writers if they do that much garbage of a job" -"Yeah.. we could fire them and pay better writers.... Or replace then with automated tools." -"huh... Which one is cheaper I wonder.

[@rudyhernandez3834]

Just when I thought EA was getting a little too quiet.

[@test-rj2vl]

They were just preparing to roll out with next low.

[@DanTheReaperMann]

Calm before the storm.

[@BestCommissarEva24]

I swear if the next cal kestis game come out years from now, and theres a crazy moment in the story where it genuinely looks lt looks like hes about to be killed or one of the other characters only to then be interrupted by an ad for burger king, i will LOSE it.

[@bnuuyrabbit]

AAAAAAAAAAA that would make me fucking mad and sad😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@lutherloser5122]

Would be funny not gonna lie

[@bonjour2838]

Why does EA's CEO look like Homelander? That smile...

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size for CoD MW3 Remake means it has a complete campaign, right?" Activision CEO:

[@DanTheReaperMann]

It's getting to the point where I need a sperate hard-drive for each new game that comes out.

[@herpesisnice1443]

This is why I've more or less checked out of gaming; things aren't going to improve because the money just won't flow in that direction and I've got more fulfilling things to do than give money to people who hate us.

[@pressmorebuttons]

Specifically out of AAA gaming, right?

[@herpesisnice1443]

@@pressmorebuttons mostly; but with corporate pressure most indie or AA developers don't last long so ya gotta enjoy them while they last

[@albinobigfoot1]

The pots been boiling for over a decade, but it feels like nobody even cares anymore with how everyone keeps the fire burning. At this point I can't understand how anyone who pays attention to the industry can look at anything AAA and not just be totally repulsed (outside of it being part of a job anyways). I wonder when enough will be enough in the eyes of the public? What would be the line which can't be crossed without tangible repercussions?

[@Matanumi]

This shit with "gain most profit cut more costs" is becoming atrocious

[@z1kmund]

Umm sorry, sweetie but the stonks line must go up :)

[@BabyKrogan]

As much as I hate these greedy corporations, I hate the lack of willpower most gamers have even more. They couldn’t get away with this crap if so many people weren’t letting them.

[@CMM_1]

The battlefield 1 music at the end hits hard...

[@cotc4x153]

what is good is that veterans who leave major companies often make their own indie studios and in general indie studios offer much better working conditions and are much more rewarding to work in than large companies like ea microsoft and most AAA devs

[@DanTheReaperMann]

Problem is because they don't have the major AAA company names backing them a lot of people either don't notice them or when they do pass them over for just another indie dev.

[@gopnikprince8000]

Companies that admit they learned something never actually learn from their mistakes.

[@TheTobiasandersen95]

Almost as if there is a pattern in all this *blink blink dead stare*

[@Thunder93ita]

We can complain how much we want. But in the end they’ll do it sooner or later. Because the majority of people love to complain but then buy the product anyway. If anti-customer practices damaged a company’s revenue they would have done so by the time live services became a thing. But here we are, with games costing 80€/$ and rising, adding 30-40 more for “3 day early access” and 20 monthly for battle passes. People complain, but “”somehow”” these companies make record profits. There is no future for the gaming industry.

[@DanTheReaperMann]

It's sad but so true. 8 friends of mine all were bitching and complaining about EA a few months back & how bad they are while playing 2042 then 2 of them procced to buy in game items with real money....... Stop buying the game products if they are so bad.

[@A1stardan]

I'd blame the normies/casuals and the whales. 1 whale = 100 normal players

[@absbabs6153]

Yes but there's been signs that consumers do have the power. Like with Helldivers 2 and the community negative review bombing and making their voice heard changed a huge company like Sony's decision. And then same thing with Stellar Blade and removing the censors they added earlier. If gamers come together as consumers we can make a change. BUT we need to convince the diehard EA players who will buy any game that they need to boycott with us or else it won't work

[@JacopoSkydweller]

@@absbabs6153 I don't think it's die-hard EA gamers, I've never really seen or heard anybody who loves them. I think it's more kids with parents credit cards, kids don't know what games without microtransactions and 25$ skins are even like. They don't remember "before" that.

[@ctg9]

They're also planning on opening qa offices in Barbados and Colombia after firing nearly all of their local qa because "cheaper"/ more value per dollar. There's also a sizable group working on AI content-generating efforts (some against their wishes), and all the training data is, you guessed it, code/assets/content made by previous artists/programmers/content developers. And good luck trying to include a clause in your contract that states that your work will not be used for AI data set training. They'll either say they're not doing that atm, or will make it painfully uphill of an effort to dissuade or deny people from placing that in their clause

[@kurrwa]

It’s really hard to understand that thet are business ? Of course they will go where is cheaper labor 😂 if you think games are made for gamers you are delusional person

[@ChromiumDome411]

You know people think you’re crazy when even articles are talking about the bong rip hitting when referring to YOU.

[@diclonius7]

From someone who remembers playing BF2 and Bad company 2, it's depressing watching how far Battlefield has fallen.

[@LucasGhazarian]

I did write and record music for a game jam recently and it was a lot of fun. But looking at the state of the video game industry now, I do not wish to work for any of the big publishers or any studio that they own.

[@lawrencebermudez7056]

I miss Battlefield 1 so much. None of my friends played so I played by myself and had so much fun every time.

[@connormccrea9887]

I love how the people who write these articles have just stopped caring about what they put in their titles and just lash EA for everything as fast as possible

[@robfarrell9104]

Man, if they aren’t remastering/rebooting a once beloved classic or beating a dead franchise further into the ground, they have nothing to offer nowadays.

[@spencerhagel6129]

Meanwhile fromsoft board room “So how do we make our game the most worthwhile experience it can be?”

[@RedHunter2296]

My favorite part of the news about the next battlefield is that there is a jury that it will be out in 2025 no matter what, while they are still looking for a senior Frostibite programmer to create the necessary tools for the next game (the same super popular engine that everyone uses and studies but that only uses the battlefield franchise).. It's like saying you have a car factory, you have to sell cars next week no matter what to make investors happy, but you don't even have the engineer to draw up the plans for the factory construction in the first place, or buy the land.

[@WolfDarkrose]

plus with all these ads and mtx.. seriously. what company is wasting money showing shit in a game that no one will buy. literally. ads in video games are a striaght up waste of cash. honestly wouldnt surprise me if a hunk of cash these companies are wasting is on ads alone.

[@MavLabelflash]

4:30 hits hard…

[@jurassictyrantkingYT]

We're in the Dark Age Of Gaming....

[@bnuuyrabbit]

fr😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@NexusKin]

We've been in the dark age of gaming since the end of the 7th generation after 2013.

[@croncorcen]

for AAAs. For indie games we are in the Iron Age. Great prices, value, variety and true passion! No regrets since i effectively switched.

[@DanTheReaperMann]

@@croncorcen Only black mark currently are the Early Access abusers trying to make a quick buck.

[@imtheonewhoknocks4230]

1:34 EA has... fans? Like...cooling fans?

[@moitey4074]

you know i’m starting to rethink my majoring choice for college, i wanted to get into gaming design, but recently i’ve just been hearing more and more bad news about gaming companies in their direction and choices they’ve been committing and it just makes me sad, im genuinely starting to lose hope in this industry

[@ezio_auditore5425]

"bro act man bro you don't get it bro AI has so much potential bro" - Andrew Wilson, the most evil CEO in gaming