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Epic Games reportedly delays Disney shooter title so it can pivot to AI coding — staff allegedly told 'no more handwritten code' with art 'generated with full AI workflows' (thelemmy.club)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53117760

Epic Games has reportedly delayed a shooter based on Disney’s Marvel and Star Wars franchises, with its developers told to use more AI. According to Bloomberg, the yet-to-be-named game was supposed to be released in March of 2027, but its launch date has been pushed back to an unspecified date. Aside from that, the company also told the people working on the project to switch to an "AI first" production model. One of the game directors was quoted telling staff that there will be “no more handwritten code” and that the game’s art would now be "generated with full AI workflows."

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[–] 30 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

How does Epic give away free games, give devs a bigger cut of earnings, and make game dev way more accessible, while still constantly making everyone hate them?

Wtf are you buying all that good will for if you're just gonna make everyone hate you anyway?

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  • [–] 21 points 17 hours ago* (3 children)

    Free games all subsidised by the Fortnite cash cow, which as far as I can tell is from children spending pocket money so their parents can get some peace. Devs being given a bigger cut of earnings I don't believe is being done in good faith and would be reverted if they'd managed to challenge Steam. Besides which, what does it matter if you get 20% more of $0 in sales?

    Game dev more accessible = Unreal engine has a good ide? Or are you suggesting that slop coding makes game dev more accessible? Am not with you there.

    Gabe Newell and Tim Sweeney are both wealthy men. Gabe keeps on making decisions that challenge monopolies and are pro consumer choice; you may argue that that's ultimately in his selfish best-interest but for now Steam is the best store front for gamers. Tim is like a weathervane for spouting the tech-bro fascist quote of the day, props up monopolies and doesn't see any value in people that create games for the love of it. There is quite a difference between them.

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago*

    I don’t believe is being done in good faith

    you may argue that that’s ultimately in his selfish best-interest

    These are corporations we are talking about, no shit nothing is done in good faith, if either company could make more money be squeezing devs harder, they would.

    Game dev more accessible = Unreal engine has a good ide?

    Its a hell of a lot better than what I used back in the day, and Epic puts it in front of so many people who might be intimidated.

    Or are you suggesting that slop coding makes game dev more accessible?

    Good lord no, they have templates and examples that will get you 90% of the way there and you'll end up with code you actually can maintain.

    If epic provides gen AI tools, I was unaware. I just knew Sweeny had said dumb shit about not wanting customers to be able to filter slop games.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    you may argue that that’s ultimately in his selfish best-interest

    Also known as "Everyone good is bad actually, no I don't have anything useful to say, why do you ask?"

    Hate when people make that argument lol

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    It is in his best interests to not be a piece of shit because gaben knows full well what will happen if gamers turn on him. There will be no digital market anymore.

    Imagine a world where pc gamers all lose faith in the only service worth having faith, that makes us happy. People would pay for nothing. Literally nothing.

    That's the world that gaben knows before steam. And it will be the world again when steam exhausts its karma and peoples libraries are threatened or seem threatened. Gaben knows this all too well and puts his best efforts into appeasing the animalistic machine and unbridled freedom and power that is pc gaming.

    As a demographic, it's the richest and most entitled and most skilled at piracy and getting what it wants. That's the nature of the platform and the people drawn to the platform. It's literally the master platform where the gods that create live and work and play and breathe and die. I'm not joking. People don't develop on a ps5, they develop on a workstation pc for the ps5.

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    I’ve been using Epic for years, and my library is hundreds of games at this point. I have not given them one single dime and I never will. Like you said, all the good will in the world can’t make up for being a dog shit company.

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