▲ 496 ▼ Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production (share.google) submitted 9 months ago* by OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world 166 comments fedilink hide all child comments The glory days of Epic Games are long gone and Tim Sweeney is a god damn moron.
[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 137 points 9 months ago (2 children) definitely keep doing it then. Sweeney is consistently on the wrong side. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world [S] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children) Bingo! Valve is one hell of a monopoly, but they don't totally fuck their customers. Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders. Those are the real customers; not you and me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 child) Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders. which is like 40% tencent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago Not 10%? I thought tencents thing was they just have a 10% share in an absurd amount of stuff permalink fedilink source parent [–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 5 points 9 months ago* Both Valve and Epic are private companies and thus have a bit more of a say over what they do than public companies would. Sweeney actually just answers to himself, and I mean that pejoratively, otherwise he would have invested in EGS more to compete with Steam and focused more on Unreal Engine’s near-monopoly in the AAA space. Instead, he focused on “owning” the metaverse, and courting crypto. If I were a shareholder, I would say he wasn’t acting in my best interests. permalink fedilink source parent [–] harmbugler@piefed.social 11 points 9 months ago And if it’s as he says, and eventually all games get labeled that way, what’s his problem with that? Man just doesn’t want to compete. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world [S] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children) Bingo! Valve is one hell of a monopoly, but they don't totally fuck their customers. Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders. Those are the real customers; not you and me. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 child) Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders. which is like 40% tencent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago Not 10%? I thought tencents thing was they just have a 10% share in an absurd amount of stuff permalink fedilink source parent [–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 5 points 9 months ago* Both Valve and Epic are private companies and thus have a bit more of a say over what they do than public companies would. Sweeney actually just answers to himself, and I mean that pejoratively, otherwise he would have invested in EGS more to compete with Steam and focused more on Unreal Engine’s near-monopoly in the AAA space. Instead, he focused on “owning” the metaverse, and courting crypto. If I were a shareholder, I would say he wasn’t acting in my best interests. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 child) Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders. which is like 40% tencent. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago Not 10%? I thought tencents thing was they just have a 10% share in an absurd amount of stuff permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 9 months ago Not 10%? I thought tencents thing was they just have a 10% share in an absurd amount of stuff permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 5 points 9 months ago* Both Valve and Epic are private companies and thus have a bit more of a say over what they do than public companies would. Sweeney actually just answers to himself, and I mean that pejoratively, otherwise he would have invested in EGS more to compete with Steam and focused more on Unreal Engine’s near-monopoly in the AAA space. Instead, he focused on “owning” the metaverse, and courting crypto. If I were a shareholder, I would say he wasn’t acting in my best interests. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 11 points 9 months ago And if it’s as he says, and eventually all games get labeled that way, what’s his problem with that? Man just doesn’t want to compete. permalink fedilink source parent