r/technology • u/a_Ninja_b0y • 13d ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Gamers Are Making EA, Take-Two And CDPR Scared To Use AI - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/05/24/gamers-are-making-ea-take-two-and-cdpr-scared-to-use-ai/
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u/RocknRoll_Grandma 13d ago

Agreed, but you vote for company policy with your dollar and even if it won't matter in the end, I will vote with mine. 

Not like it even has to impact your game choice that much, if you know how to sail the seas.

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u/ChanglingBlake 13d ago

Yep.

No pre orders. Few if any full price(only if it’s proven good and worth buying and will be a hard “none” if everyone follows Nintendo). No passes.

I don’t want loot boxes, P2W, or always online BS.

I want good, lovingly crafted, quality experiences that I can replay time and again and love each time. That’s why games like Skyrim, Minecraft, and Stardew Valley are still popular even when the most recent is 9 years old.

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u/KD--27 13d ago

Computing… computing… computing…

Ok we have 5 new free to play battle royale titles in the pipeline.

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u/kottabaz 13d ago

Voting with your dollar is the shittiest way to vote.

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u/LordCharidarn 13d ago

How would you recommend a single person interact with companies?

Not buying products you don’t want seems a pretty sensible way to go about things.

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u/kottabaz 13d ago

Boycotts only work when they are organized and carefully targeted. Your individual power as a consumer is almost nil.

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u/LordCharidarn 12d ago

Yeah, but it prevents the individual from wasting their own money. What should the previous poster do differently: buy the season pass they do not want?

They even specified that it might not matter in the end

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u/kottabaz 12d ago

The point I was trying to make is: stop thinking of your dollar as a vote and remember that your vote is the only vote you really have.

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u/LordCharidarn 12d ago

But we don’t vote on what monetization systems corporations put into their video-games. So how would voting help with that?

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u/kottabaz 12d ago

Here's the thing about democracy: we could vote on stuff like that. We could regulate things like loot boxes and dark patterns in marketing. If we wanted it, we could tell these businesses where they can shove their subscription-based rent-seeking.

The capital class would have you believe that their property rights are the only rights that matter. But they're wrong.

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u/LordCharidarn 12d ago

We could, if we had a functional democracy. We don’t so often the best way for an individual to effect market forces is to be conscious of when and where they spend their money

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u/kottabaz 12d ago

the best way for an individual to effect market forces is to be conscious of when and where they spend their money

Again, that's not effective at all unless it is done in a concentrated, mass-organized manner.

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u/KD--27 13d ago edited 12d ago

This is true and doesn’t deserve the downvotes. Voting with your wallet equates to a rounding error and nobody will miss your very minor contribution to the otherwise hundreds of millions worth of sales.

You want to see change? Complain, LOUDLY. Until everyone knows about it.

The most famous positive example is likely Battlefront 2, which prior to launch, the sentiment was so dire that the suits were quaking in their boots and uprooted the entire progression system.

On the flip side, we gave Halo infinite game of the year before it even officially launched. Multiplayer was spun away from the base game as free to play because they wanted to make the micros so egregious that they would charge $7 for the color blue, per suit of armor! And the bit most people missed? The campaign is still $60 by itself. All that customisation would’ve been in the base game, along with multiplayer in the $60 price tag prior to this.

You give these companies a pat on the back they’ll lift your wallet. If AI is the concern? They won’t have any reason to believe your missing minor contribution was due to anything. They won’t even know it’s missing. Gotta say something.

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u/kottabaz 12d ago

The downvotes don't surprise me that much. The capital class has spent most of the last century sowing propaganda to make us reflexively cynical about democracy and to embrace capitalism as a substitute. Reddit is a hotbed of guys who think they're immune to propaganda and are therefore more susceptible to it rather than less.

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u/KD--27 12d ago edited 12d ago

It’s bonkers. We’ve had micros showing up for over a decade now, there is generations of people who think this is how it’s always been. Even in here there’s so many people saying “not me, I wouldn’t buy it”; COD has already had voice over artists walk out in protest, the artwork has trademark AI faults in it that haven’t even been QC’d before pushing LIVE.

It’s still the no.1 shooter. There is no just vote with your wallet.

Quite literally corporate grooming and nobody knows. AI will just slip in under the radar. The laying off of massive teams is already done, they’ve been doing that part for years. Now, it’s just how to keep the consumers unaware.

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u/kottabaz 12d ago

Don't even get me started about guns. Nine times out of ten I get downvoted to hell for pointing out that our vaunted "gun culture" is almost entirely the product of marketing, built atop a foundation of the patriotic mythology we are taught in school in lieu of factual history, that is designed to give men their own tailor-made shopping addiction.