Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

Musk says he’s going to launch an “AI game studio” at his xAI startup.

    • JakenVeina@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      He’s made it abundantly clear how much he despises the entire concept of labor, of having to pay money to people to do the things that actually make a company work. He will not be able to build a company that actually makes games with that kind of disdain for the single most important resource required to make them. And his strategy of acquiring an existing company and gutting it afterwards won’t be nearly as effective in the games industry, where you have to be continuously producing NEW content.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I loved it when Amazon, Google, and Netflix got into the gaming industry and tried to throw billions of dollars and their startup software expertise to “revolutionize” game studios.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I mean he already said the word AI which means he is going to likely favor output volume over the love indie devs and old companies poured into their games. So chances are very slim. Knowing him, I guess the game will be about some genius who tries to save the world and go to Mars and be the sole male responsible for repopulation. So yeah, it might turn into a Larry game which takes itself too seriously.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Releasing even bad games is already a feat. Considering how Musk doesn’t know how to run a web development company I would be surprised if his “game studio” releases anything. The only way that company releases anything is if Musk won’t be involved, and we know the “expert at everything” will be involved.

  • slickgoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    The good thing about this is that all his money can’t buy a good result. Each game has to stand on its own two feet. If it costs millions to make, and still sucks, it will sink without a trace.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Just when I thought he couldn’t get any edgier with a black MAGA hat, I noticed the font he used….

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I mean, sure, go ahead.

    It’s one of the most benign things he does and it’s not like it’s gonna affect existing good game.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    …wait, actually this has the potential to be amazing! I remember the early days of online gaming, and gamers for the most part were some of the most welcoming and friendly people I’ve ever been around.

    Something changed, and ‘gamer’ became a toxic word, and all but niche gaming communities kinda went to shit.

    If Elon makes some cringe-ass MMO or something, it will act as a sponge to soak up all the toxic assholes from other gaming communities.

    Do it.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      From one of the most respected individuals to an absolute joke of a man in a few years.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        He was always a “lie, lie and lie until you make it” kind of guy, it’s just that in the last couple of years he’s been doing it widely enough and long enough that the real results of enough of his lies came though and enough people started suspecting his words and looking at them more carefully and spotting the lying early.

        As the saying goes, “you can deceive some people all of the time or all people some of the time, but you can’t deceive all people all of the time” - and at some point, when he became more widely known, he seems to have gone from the first mode to the second and by now he’s run out of time.

      • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        yea I guess at those times he wasn’t very present in social media and everything we heard about him likely came from his PR team.

    • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      Somehow, simultaneously “The world’s little brother” and “the most divorced man, ever”

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Talented people fail to make a career in gaming. Idc how many mines his daddy owned, he’s not going to make a good game. Although we should encourage him to do it. Making games would obviously waste the time he uses to harass people.

    • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Let’s not forget: he’s not making shit. He’s gonna pay some poor fucks a pittance (if he decides to pay them at all) to make a lousy fps or whatever

  • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Doesn’t he know Epic Games studio already exists? The market for grand-standing self-righteous game-makers is pretty tapped at this point.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      They might actually get along. The CEOs of both happen to be hypocritical asswipes who think providing a worse product and complaining about competition will give them the monopoly they’re pretending to not want.

  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Forget what these folks say; it’s all an excuse to start companies that can be awarded no-bid contracts from the government they “want to dismantle”