Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite that recent history, Sharma says in a new interview that she has “no tolerance for bad AI” in game development.
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Meanwhile the head of another Soulless Tech Corporation Hellbent On Dehumanizing Game Development In Every Sense Of The Word “Dehumanize” Possible reminds us…
CEO Tim Sweeney says requiring developers to disclose their use of AI tools is as relevant as disclosing “what shampoo brand the developer uses,”
I’ve always held the opinion that Microsoft has no place in gaming.
Like, at all. It just isn’t their lane.
They did a pretty good job in that lane during the xbox/360 era.
Except for the whole 100% console failure rate and hiding and lying about it to everyone TO THIS VERY DAY.
And introducing and standardizing subscription online services in an otherwise previously free and good-will culture.
And predatory, hostile payment behaviors and many other awful dark patterns.
Microsoft joining gaming might be the singular worst thing to ever happen to gaming.
To this day, they’re destroying everything they touch, and in case you forgot, the AI boom that Microsoft is funding and pushing is the reason nobody can get hardware and is actively making other platforms worse and holding back steam hardware.
Games for Windows live.
Also, anything remotely good they’ve “done” has also been an acquisition and has ultimately rotted under them.