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The glory days of Epic Games are long gone and Tim Sweeney is a god damn moron.

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[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course epic doesn't understand empowering consumers with information. They don't care about consumers. If they did, they'd maybe try adding some long requested features to their storefront.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sweeney's customers are the shareholders. Not the gamers.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

And that's why he'll fail.

[–] _Nico198X_ 133 points 2 days ago (2 children)

definitely keep doing it then. Sweeney is consistently on the wrong side.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days 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.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sweeney has to answer to his shareholders.

which is like 40% tencent.

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I think I just understood why UE5 sucks that much...

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[–] Xotic56@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Shit like this is why people only use that storefront for the free games. Completely out of touch.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago

Tum Sweeney: "Please stop labeling all these turds, because everything will be made with shit at some point"

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man… the future is going to be BLEAK.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Are you kidding? I might actually stop buying new games and make it through my backlog now! This is great!

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 71 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Beyond just Tim Sweeney sounding dumb, there's something truly evil and malicious about this framing.

His response was to a tweet that said: Steam and all digital marketplaces need to drop the "Made with AI" label. It doesn't matter anymore. (Emphasis mine)

All well and good for that guy maybe, but why do they need to drop it and why does Tim Sweeney agree? Why is less information for the people that want to have it a necessity. And WHY does he feel compelled to comment on the behavior of his competitors in this way.

Fucking ghouls, the whole lot of them. I hope their AI creations destroy them and they suffer even a single moment of hubris.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)

People that are wrong this often and have the amount of power a CEO can exert over their company never ever realize they are wrong.

Because of this, they never experienced hubris or any kind of personal growth for that matter as long as it's coming from this dumbfuck endstage capitalistic nightmare pipeline.

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[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago

Worry about your own fucking storefront. There's a lot of worrying that needs to be done.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His expectations are just Unreal.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Bullshit translator: "I want to sell more AI made games, so i can reduce costs by firing everyone, and being held accountable for using AI is gonna prevent me from bilking idiots to increase my fortunes by another billion or 5"

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Epic Games had glory days?

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Unreal Tournament 2004 was a spectacular arena shooter back in the day before Battle Royale and MOBAs completely took over. Aged like fine wine too.

Yeah, I'm old.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 days ago (10 children)

ut99 > 2k4! But it is a close call, admittedly.

But also, epic released some absolute bangers in the 90's, though admittedly as a publisher. eg. Castle of the Winds, One Must Fall 2097.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Epic Megagames certainly did.

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[–] mohab@piefed.social 36 points 2 days ago

This is like Jared Leto giving Daniel Day-Lewis acting advice 😂

Go back in your hole, Tim.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

Some of us want quality over mass produced crap stolen from others.

[–] RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's right IMHO.

You can make hundreds of AI slop games in the time you can make one game that is a creative work of art.

It would be waaay easier to police 100 games with a "No AI" label, than making sure 10000 slop games have a "Made by AI" label.

Maybe you think something like "but the ratio SHOULD be the other way around", but to that you honestly have to deal with the answer "should could woulda".

That's not his argument, tho. He's saying all games will be using the slop machine. And hopefully he's wrong, but if not, there's plenty of already-made games to go through.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 days ago

Anyway, here's a userscript/browser addon to make Steam's AI warnings into a popup: https://github.com/seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

If Tim has no haters I'm dead

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

He doesn't sound very epic to me.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

These suits are all out of touch morons

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