Time Extension | News Comments https://www.timeextension.com/feeds/comments en-GB (c) 2024 Hookshot Media Tue, 24 Sep 2024 10:20:34 GMT https://www.timeextension.com/feeds dgpCMS/1.0 https://hookshot.media help@timeextension.com (Time Extension) 60 https://images.timeextension.com/site/icon/128x128.png Time Extension https://www.timeextension.com/ 128 128 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 03:48:57 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI The only thing generative AI is capable of is deriving from other sources, and as such can only create derivative content. I can think of no company that provides more value to than EA.

By DemonKow

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8292839 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8292839 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:38:00 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @KingMike
Nintendo asked EA to put their games onto the SNES because a survey found that a third of all US gamers chose their console based on what sports games were available on each console. EA's sports games were selling the Genesis more than Sonic was. Nintendo approaching EA was a game changer.

By UK_Kev

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8292705 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8292705 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:26:54 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @UK_Kev The did publish some SNES games but I'm guessing they didn't do as much with Nintendo as Nintendo was a LOT more controlling in that era. Though it wasn't a whole lot, mostly sports ports, Rampart and B.O.B. are the ones I remember. Also the Strike series but the SNES ports came later.
Also, it has since been revealed in the years since, they were able to get a preferential license from Sega because EA had already cracked Sega's protection on the Genesis and was like "we don't really need a license but if you give us a good deal, we'll play along with your rules and not spoil it to everyone else". They couldn't do that with Nintendo.

By KingMike

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8292573 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8292573 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:53:31 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI Screw EA! This **** is why the SAG-AFTRA is striking. I hope they win!

By MidnightDragonDX

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8288710 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8288710 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:26:10 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @Poodlestargenerica I would hope Trip Hawkins could be convinced EA is not the same company he left.

By slider1983

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8288629 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8288629 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:44:40 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI I have only basic understanding in writing programming code but wouldn't AI be beneficial for the tedious, boring, uncreative tasks that are time consuming? That is the only benefit I see with AI.

By prw_88

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287499 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287499 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:14:59 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI I guess I'm a little confused about the difference between AI and "procedural generation," which is something that has been around for decades in gaming. I guess there's still a human touch in procedural generation, whereas AI is all computer-created?

Anyway, I will echo the sentiment that I have long lost interest in the kinds of games EA releases. Probably have not bought one since the PS2/GC/Xbox generation. I feel like the NFL license was kind of the nail in the coffin. I mean, the games they make no longer interested me anyway, but that was just really anti-consumer. They were awesome back in the Genesis days though. That's for sure!

EDIT: I take that back. Alice: Madness Returns in the PS3 era was legit. And then they refused to work with American McGee on the sequel (or so the story goes). BAH!

By no_donatello

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287451 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287451 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:47:50 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @KingMike
What EA did at the time was for the greater good. Both Sega and EA benefited greatly from the deal they signed. EA were taking a massive gamble themselves by choosing to make games for the Mega Drive/Genesis instead of making games for the NES and SNES.

By UK_Kev

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287400 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287400 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:24:17 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @slider1983 It's sad that all those creatives understandably ended up with desk jobs. A lot of them also have a Peter Jackson/ George Lucas attitude: "This is what we always REALLY wanted to do with games, but didn't have the technology".

By Poodlestargenerica

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287316 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287316 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:10:22 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI I won't reiterate the nostalgia comments here (which are extremely valid) so I will just say that I think in order to turn EA around Trip Hawkins needs to take back control of the company and put someone on the team who likes EA's older legacy.

By slider1983

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287229 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287229 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:43:08 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @NinChocolate So, don't help EA generate a return on their investment is the way to go.

By KingMike

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287088 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287088 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:39:29 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI Electronic Arts is the company who weaseled their way into a preferential license from Sega so they could self-manufacture a version of Populous for the Genesis they knew was incompatible with a number of consoles so they stuck a warning sticker on the box.
(It's because the game lacked a Sega-mandated header which TMSS consoles checked to see if the cartridge was licensed. Something Sega fixed when they published the Japanese version.)
EA, pulling scummy moves since at least 1991.

By KingMike

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287082 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287082 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:14:28 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @Sketcz "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"

By Poodlestargenerica

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287035 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8287035 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:00:14 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI As someone said, it's remarkable how far removed EA is now from how it was started. But that's how corporations are. People change, and different people are making decisions there. The modern EA has a long history of not being a great place to work and for making questionable decisions. In some ways, Steam got to be so successful because of the crazy DRM methods the big publishers were pursuing. EA doesn't have a lot that particularly interests me these days, but I made a conscious choice to not buy anything of theirs again. It did come into play once. I intended to get Mass Effect 3 when it came out, but by that point I was exasperated with EA. Part of that was withholding the game from Steam to push their own distribution. I seem to recall their own platform was a bit of a mess at the time too. Who could have imagined that?(me....many others) I'll just have to live with the Mass Effect sage uncompleted for me. Such a shame because I heard the saga's ending was very satisfying(sarcasm).

By sdelfin

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286863 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286863 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:16:01 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @Sketcz Yes same, I have completed plenty of older games this year then ever before and with this Ai slop on the way I came imagine more will be completed.

By Kay9X3

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286753 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286753 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:09:17 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI So many companies, that turned into *****, when they became huge. EA released so much original content, back in the 80:s-90:s.
Miss games like Archon, Desert Strike, Road Rash etc.
Same with companies like Activision, which was created by the best ex-Atari developers, making the best games for the 2600.
Ubisoft also made some fun stuff, before they got stuck making half broken open-world games...

It already feels like these companies are run by AI.

By Steel76

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286737 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286737 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:45:04 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI This fills me with existential dread. Not just this specific EA example, but the fact this reflects the entire wider world.

In 1999 the internet was fun an exciting. Today it's a wasteland filled with cheap and nasty AI art and text, selling cheap and nasty knock-off products that don't work. I find it depressing to be online.

And now games, my escape from the ills of the real world, are heading in the same way.

I don't want it. Nobody wants it. Can we not, I dunno, just not do the thing that nobody wants to do?

On the plus side, I have more retro games than I can finish in my lifetime. I just hope my CRTs outlive me.

By Sketcz

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286682 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286682 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 14:18:26 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI @Blofse "Wonder how long it will be before we get made up customer sales numbers for products because a company faked the sales by using AI? Can't be far away from that."

Pretty sure that would be considered investor fraud, but it would be an interesting litmos test because yeah, someone will probably try it.

By PXAbstracftion

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286628 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286628 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:43:33 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI Lmfao like this is gonna go well for them

By PinballBuzzbro

]]> http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286519 http://www.timeextension.com/features/opinion-electronic-arts-used-to-empower-developers-now-it-looks-to-replace-them-with-ai#comment8286519 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:40:21 GMT Re: Opinion: Electronic Arts Used To Empower Developers; Now It Looks To Replace Them With AI Yeah, that makes sense

By Zeebor15

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