For better or worse, EA has been at the forefront of implementing machine learning technology in game development, and its investment in AI isn't about to change as the company soon comes under new ownership. With $20 billion in debt looming as part of that big buyout, EA has now announced a collaboration with Stability AI to implement a range of new AI technologies in its development process.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
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Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
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Just one more reason not to get any of their games if they're dedicated to using AI.
Lol. They really are the Sears of gaming. They don't realize how done they are.
the one thing EA delivers on better than ANYONE else, is giving me more and more reasons to not buy EA games.
So they weren't in debt and only got into debt because of the company that bought them out and part of the deal was they'd be responsible for paying it back. I'm no business man but that ish sounds absolutely effing STUPID. They basically screwed themselves over and by that I mean their employees. The lack of financial security in this country is embarrassing. You're screwed if you don't work but even more so if you do cause the company you work for is doing the screwing.
If you support EA financially, you are part of the problem.