Jon Gregory

This is one of the most unhinged things I've ever read from anyone in the games industry. At the start of the week I'd have described Tim Sweeney as embarrassing. This is sociopathic. He can't even find it in himself to muster up an ounce of empathy. Even Boddy Kotick could put on an act. Wild shit.

This is one of the most unhinged things I've ever read from anyone in the games industry. At the start of the week I'd have described Tim Sweeney as embarrassing. This is sociopathic. He can't even find it in himself to muster up an ounce of empathy. Even Boddy Kotick could put on an act. Wild shit.

"Hi, yeah, my dad is still fulfilling mail orders of my freeware out of his garage, but I just made a game no one will even think about 10 years from now and I want to say these way more creative and successful people are actually total morons and it's good they closed."

This is one of the most unhinged things I've ever read from anyone in the games industry. At the start of the week I'd have described Tim Sweeney as embarrassing. This is sociopathic. He can't even find it in himself to muster up an ounce of empathy. Even Boddy Kotick could put on an act. Wild shit.

I guess the upside of all this AI slop in Next Fest is that the people making it still don't want to put effort in, so they're all targeting like 2hr games ripped directly off of something that already exists or it's the trashiest multiplayer game that's ever existed.

All of the people churning this stuff out are enthralled by the same nonsense ideas as AAA. Chase the biggest pie, regardless of how saturated the market is. Incremental, organize, cleaning, simulator slop, survival, zombie / horde, deck builder, etc.

I guess the upside of all this AI slop in Next Fest is that the people making it still don't want to put effort in, so they're all targeting like 2hr games ripped directly off of something that already exists or it's the trashiest multiplayer game that's ever existed.

I mean, I'm surprised BioWare lasted this long, but still... Damn.

I really need someone in what's left of games press to get ahold of someone not in leadership at Sony and ask how 3 generations into the modern digital store front paradigm the PS5 can't stream video in HD on a gigabit connection without nearly, and sometimes actually, crashing.

My main job paid me only the small thing I picked up on the side for them this month and not my actual normal paycheck, and they're trying to put off fixing that until they do payroll again on Wednesday... like what the fuck is even wrong with you to even think suggesting that is appropriate.

Was wondering what had people doing doomerism on the site today and then saw the twitter post, meaning the answer is "Bluesky leadership found a new tier of cowardice" which, idk, day ending in Y. They really just thought they'd sticker a new logo over their twitter shirt and do whatever they want.

It's genuinely been a minute since a new group of people that hate the thing they're making and the people they're making stuff for this profoundly. Sure, Twitter and Facebook and the other shit does too, but they get something out of it. Bluesky just gets mean messages for their trouble.

The key here is the reason none of the massive copyright holders are doing anything even though you think they'd glass the earth Sam Altman stands on in an instant is that they all see creatives as an unfortunate reality, and not a people. They're all desperate to remove creators from the equation.

Napster simply cut into their profit margins. If AI were to magically meet its (nonsensically) theorized maximum potential, it would allow all these people to create a closed ecosystem where the only people who get to sell anything are them and their friends and they make infinity money forever.

Me every time someone mentions Obsidian and I'm honor bound to insist Alpha Protocol is the most pure example of how far being sincerely committed to an idea can get you in spite of anything else.

There is simply no reason to trust Epic. I know a lot of people get along with their tools, but they're so much more destructive than a company like Microsoft and they've been transparently like this since well before AI was even spitting out garbled nonsense.