Booooo EA Suuuuuuuuucks, it’s always sucked, it’s always gonna suck. As far as my purchasing power goes, this changes nothing. Rot in hell EA
LOL these people are geniuses! I thought I’d never want to have anything to do with EA Games and they managed to find a way to make it easier.
I have not given EA my money since Sim City. They should have died after that point, yet the lifeless beast lumbers on.
Stable Diffusion made one blip and the technology, everything it stood for was a joke before and after that that single blip. The fact that someone gave that tech the time of day is ridiculous.
oh great since humans wont be working on it there will be no reason for it to cost money right?
We are entering the dark ages of AAA games. They are going to be shallow ugly, buggy and dumb.
Support indie devs.
Support the open source devs. Spring engine games!
They are going to be shallow ugly, buggy and dumb.
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀🌚
Clearly the fix the AAAA games.
This is actually kind of interesting. This gamble is very likely to fail, EA could finally die, and its valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them.
The only wrinkle in this is that Trump’s son in law owns EA now, so if it does end up failing, they’ll probably find a way to get US tax payers to bail them out.
valuable IP sold off to companies that would actually make better use of them
More likely snatched up by VC to put them on (fuck) ICE or passed around to other AI companies until they’re really good and dead.
yes ea please kill off your whole company, good riddance.
Just so people know, you can ignore games by publisher in steam by searching their name in the store, clicking their page, then click the gear icon to ignore. EA who? Ubiwhat?
I’ve had EA on ignore for years (whenever they demanded we switch to Origin) and they still showed up on my front page during the last sale !
Ubishit.
fuck ea I should have stop buying years ago
For those that don’t know, Stability AI is already a zombie, even in the local ML community. SD3 was a flop, they shed all their devs/projects worth anything, and now with Qwen/Longcat SAI is beyond obsolete.
Apparently EA didn’t get the message. They invested in a broken, burning company who’s only decent results are free and old?
…Sounds about right.
FLUX.1 and WAN were already miles beyond Stable Diffusion a year ago. While America has been pushing capitalistic goals with LLMs, China has been releasing banger model after banger model, all as open-source.
Downside is it’s China and comes with their own biases, both with image generation and politics within its text models. Fortunately, some of that can be re-trained back to normal, but the technology is moving so fast.
I can’t start boycotting a company that I’ve been boycotting for well over a decade.
Last thing I bought from them was Mass Effect (only the first one) circa 2008 I think.
Carry on, sir.
Double boycott
So, repeatedly buy and return games?
Will my steam account get banned if I pre-order every one of their games, click play for 5 minutes then instantly refund? I have my faith, but I don’t know if they’d see that as abuse of their refund policy.
Why punish valve? Do that shit through origin.
Idk it’d be pretty cool to see steam go “sorry, your games are too unreliable and too much of a risk now.” And stop offering them. And then they’ll go out of business when the only people buying their games are the 10 people with origin installed.
I don’t want to punish my computer by installing origin.
The industry finally embraces procedural textures, in the dumbest way possible.
This will suck so fucking hard
The tagline of everything EA has touched for years now.
I mean it’s definitely gonna be entertaining, but I’ll watch that embarrassment from afar.
It wont if you dont buy their shit.
Just look at skate. Now imagine that but somehow worse and even uglier
For them
They’re going to overuse and replace humans, but a measured use of AI in typically procedural content would be nice.
