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.

These corporate capitalists are usually deathly afraid of the AI hating invisible hand of the free market.

I think Valve knows how to run a game store a bit better that you do, Tim.

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.

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.

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.

I want epic to remove CEO

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.

No one gives fuck what Whiny Bitchford wants.

So he knows nobody wants to buy it.

David, did you mean to say last year's black ops 6 rather than battlefield 6? I believe the latest battlefield came our earlier this year, whereas the sales figures/performance you go over in the article roughly line up with the previous call of duy black ops installment (at least from what I've seen).

Tim had always been a dick head. Since that fucking pinball game.

Why does he keep just... I wonder how it feels always being on the wrong side of History.

relevant: a firefox extension for the steam shop pages that highlights the use of generative ai.

Lol manipulative shitweasel

He can fuck off.