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.”

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      26 days ago

      Yeah, makes it sound like princesses are going to battle it out.

      Except that that would be actually semi-creative instead of yet-another-hero-shooter in the year 2027+.

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      26 days ago

      They are consumers not investors (I think). The bubble bursting will kill a lot of the frontier companies and their investors, but not directly consumers. At worst consumers have to make do without AI for a while, but more likely they will simply have to switch to a different LLM provider. Or maybe by the time the bubble bursts we have models good enough on hardware cheap enough to self-host them / run them locally.

      • ulkesh@piefed.socialEnglish
        13·
        26 days ago

        If they rely on it so heavily as a part of their core business, then yes it will have quite the dramatic effect.

        • aksdb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          25 days ago

          How? LLMs won’t go away. If they rely on LLMs, they “just” need to switch the provider and potentially the model.

          • Jiral@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            25 days ago

            There is not a single provider that operates on true costs. LLMs won’t go away but they will either get a lot more expensive or worse for the same price.

          • ulkesh@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            25 days ago

            They’re not all created equal. But I’m not here to convince you of anything. Enjoy your day!

  • jve@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    25 days ago

    Absolutely unhinged business decision in this, the year of our lord 2026.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    26 days ago

    Epic are reportedly going all-in on integrating AI tooling into the next version of the Unreal Engine. I wonder if this is a test run for that, and if they’ll backtrack on the idea once this catastrophically fails.

    Probably not. Tim Sweeney is infamously stubborn about admitting his mistakes.

  • Switorik@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    26 days ago

    I assume they are trying to reduce the need for skilled programmers. Over time, this will make skilled programmers near extinct, the pay will go down since the skill ceiling will lower, and there will be less jobs. The general population is doing it to themselves by allowing it.

    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      I don’t think we have to worry too much. I don’t see how such a system is sustainable. AI requires references to work with. So if humans quit making those references, at best, it seems like AI generated products will become stagnant fast and at worst AI will fall apart feeding on itself.

    • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      26 days ago

      Idk. I’m curious to see where this goes. Not sure why. Like fuck AI in many realms, but for gaming, I’m curious. Game developers were already in danger. For the past 10 years I kept hearing high turnover rate and poorly treated.