Grim

>>714464323 (OP)
When they removed the ability to pin folders to the side of the desktop in those little nested pop out menus. I put up with them for a long time after but I shouldn't have.

>everybody being asked about AI tells them to fuck off
Ah who am I kidding, nothing's gonna happen

>>714464323 (OP)
When the Kinect was revealed

>>714464323 (OP)
When they started charging for online gaming, when people already pay for internet.

>>714464323 (OP)
Windows 8. After that debacle I knew never to trust them ever again.

>>714464323 (OP)
>streamlining game development is bad because... because it just is, ok?!
Look, fuck MS, but I don't really blame them for wanting to cut down these lengthy development cycles.

>>714464323 (OP)
when they released windows 8

>>714465269
I will never buy AIslop, so AIslop takes infinite more time than non-AIslop to get played by me. That's not cutting down.

in the 1980s when they lobbied the US government to classify a japanese research project as an "economic threat", and subsequently US officials pressured jap officials to shut it down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project

>>714465412
That's utterly disgusting.
So much for competition being healthy for capitalism.

>>714464323 (OP)
When Bill Gates wrote a simple software and asked money for it.

>>714464323 (OP)
For a company with such huge resources, Microsoft is surely extremely incompetent, flop after flop, constant layoffs, shit OS and now AIsloppa, the fuck are they doing with their billions/

>>714464323 (OP)

>>714465772
had his IBM exec mom on the board fund his company*
strange that IBM happened to have the hardware and M$ conveniently had the software at the perfect time to take over the 1980s and 1990s

>>714465590
Government regulation is good if it benefits corpos.

I worked in MS up until recently (not the gaming division though).
They are going in hard on AI tools, requiring Copilot integration in every MS product and requiring devs to use as many of them as they can. MS is probably the most AI obsessed company outside of the AI developers (OpenAI etc)

>>714464323 (OP)
When they started calling it "This PC" instead of "My Computer".

>>714465269
It's not streamlining, it's jeetification

>>714465269
30 years ago, games only took 1-2 years to make, tops. It used to be several sections of a company making different games, now you have several studios working on one single game.
Here's an idea, stop paying 60 people to spend 5 months on grass textures or one singular "woman's" peach fuzz. Just make a fun fucking game. Holy shit.

they were always bad for the industry
they are why we all pay monthly fees to use our own internet access on consoles
entire generations of idiots who gladly paid for it, so now we have it everywhere. thanks xbox

>our studios are trash what do we do
>let's buy 20 studios and give them as much freedom as they need
>announce 20 games and everybody is hyped
>5 years later
>those 20 studios have spent those 5 years doing jack shit
>microsoft breathing down phils neck
>quick lay off all the idiots and hope it's good enough

Xbox doesn't realize that there is no sure fire formula that produces great games. They thought that if they give their devs blank cheques they would use that time to make amazing games but instead they were just bumbling around day dreaming, cooking up design documents and prototypes that never went anywhere.

>>714466894
Grim. Fuck JeetSoft.

>we fired 10k people so we could hire 15k jeets and do more ai!
I don't know why any of you are surprised by this. The whole company has been subsumed by them, they're just doing what they always do.

>>714464323 (OP)
Almost 30 years ago

>>714466894
No wonder they put a copilot icon like in 3 places simultaneously in the browser

>>714464323 (OP)
When the Xbox 360 had detachable hard drives, but they were expensive, tiny proprietary models you had to buy instead of plugging in a SATA HDD.

>>714464323 (OP)
A long time ago but it really sank in when Bill Gates started building weather control devices.

>>714464323 (OP)
lol every company is going to use AI at this level you are expendable clearly that what these companies are telling you

>>714465269
how fucking odd back before every developer could just download an engine and slap it on and use assets and ai and all this fancy technology to cut corners with 7000 employees games came out way fucking faster

>>714464323 (OP)
All corporations are "the bad guy." The idea that one is good and another is bad is planned by all of them to keep out any possible competition.

>>714468509
>implying they wouldn't do that if the CEO were not a poo

>>714468509
Whites are still too naive about the rest of the world

>>714464323 (OP)

Remember when /v/ decided to collectively start loving Microsoft and Xbox because one time Sony hurt their feelings by not porting a game? You fucks were acting like everything Microsoft did was great and holy and they could do no wrong and how they were going to smash Sony to dust.

I told you Microsoft were just as bad as Sony, but you retarded fucks couldn't get over having your feelings hurt by Sony for 5 minutes to even realize this.

>>714474030
I don't remember that, helldivers 2 maybe? I thought nobody actually cared

>>714474163

Was around the time the series X/S was released. For a good 2 years /v/ was a Microsoft/Xbox board and if you even mentioned a Playstation game the threads would be flooded with SNOY.

>>714469095
I had a cheap chink drive. It was like 300gb for $50 or something

Redpill: modern gamedevs are largely scum and deserved to be replaced by AI

>>714464323 (OP)
When win7 came are out and they had all the same menus but reorganized to be less efficient than winxp

>>714464525
And you're the first one to do nothing, slimy faggot

I think every studio should whole throatedly adopt AI because the fallout would be so funny.

>>714474367
They deserve to be because they can be. No innovative artistic vision, just fotm slop.

I'm sorry was there ever a point in time where we acted like Microsoft wasn't the bad guy?

>>714474686
The series is considered better bang for your buck than the ps5
Gamepass gives you a lot

But it's all outclassed by PC/retro so it was a moot point

>>714474367
Redpill: I don't deserve the vidya industry to become unplayable AIslop as far as the eye can see. I deserve to play good vidya.

>>714474790
it won't be noticeably worse than the current AAA slop

>>714466894
>They are going in hard on AI tools, requiring Copilot integration in every MS product and requiring devs to use as many of them as they can. MS is probably the most AI obsessed company outside of the AI developers (OpenAI etc)
I work at a german multinational company and its the same thing here.
AI is just highly beneficial and you would be retarded not to use it to do your job faster.
Literally every single company on earth at this point has AI written code in its products now, artists and faggots are fighting an already lost fight.

>>714474865
It absolutely will
And worse than that, it will affect indie vidya too

>>714474790
>AIslop
reddit is that way

>>714464323 (OP)
>When did you realize Microsoft is the bad guy?
In 2006, during an investor report that contained their declaration of commitment to consoles, and a promise that within a 5 year horizon, gaming will be entirely removed from the Windows platform.

Anyone who thought microsoft is anything but a bunch of absolute cunts after that is braindead.

>>714474787
>Gamepass gives you a lot
I think it's been a few years since everyone reached the conclusion that subscription services are basically never worth it, don't promote the creation of good, new media and only exist to drive better competitors out of business or run a stock market scam.
At this point it would be like unironically saying "Why are you criticizing this product? It's free." in 2020.

>>714464323 (OP)
When I tried a mac for more than 15 minutes.

>>714464323 (OP)
think MS will just get rid of their games division and just invest in bitcoin instead? lots of companies are doing that now

>>714474937
it won't, sorry Mr Gamedev but you suck and will be replaced

>>714464323 (OP)
A lot of this AI stuff feels like MBAs desperately trying to find problems for it to solve rather than a natural use of new technology. Next they will be adding quantum processing units to the stack before realizing they don't do anything yet,

>>714464323 (OP)
Would this happen under a non-Indian leadership?

>>714464323 (OP)
Like 20 years ago, when I first got into computer stuff

>>714464323 (OP)
They've always been, but at least in the 90s and 00s they made decent quality software.
And some absolute turds like GFWL.

>>714475005
It will. Algorithms do not replace creativity. Proompters do not replace craft. You are drinking from the poisoned chalice without realizing it.

>>714474952
Yeah, maybe you should go back there

>>714475232
Neither do most gamedevs, the talented and hardworking ones will find a way and the trash will be washed away

>>714464323 (OP)
>noo think of the poor software devs
AI and vibe coding is simply the next stage of de-nerdifying and un-elitizing programming.
>80s
arcane languages, physical doorstopper manuals, only absolute nerds could be programmers and they were rightly paid very well. software engineers were definitely engineers.
>90s
simpler languages, first public websites, still a job for nerds and a bit overpaid. software engineers were still sort of engineers.
>2000s
high level languages, easier to use IDEs, forums and boards become ubiquitous. a job for smart people, not necessarily nerds and quite overpaid. software engineers were not really engineers anymore.
>2010s
extremely simple languages, stack overflow to answer any question, Intellisense doing your job for you. a job for midwits and definitely overpaid. software engineers are definitely not engineers.
>2020s
AI prompts replace programming languages entirely, research is automated, all you have to do is take a cursory glance and fit pieces together. a job for pretty much anyone, extremely overpaid right now but wages should drop like a rock. calling a vibe coder an engineers is like calling pouring milk on cereals cooking.

>>714468092
Funny enough most of the studios they bought did released game or even 3+ games already
The studios that can't release shit are the one built from the ground

>>714475232
>It will. Algorithms do not replace creativity. Proompters do not replace craft.
instead we get beautiful handcrafted experiences like pic related

>>714474881
Great now even more company's can tell us how great it is to eat small rocks. Ai is so shit

>>714475297
Gachaslop has taken over
Procedural generation has taken over
Live Service has taken over
Plenty of techniques from the old days have been washed away because they weren't supported over slop, so there was no one interested in learning them
If you support AIslop, you're assuring the same happens to actual creatives in the industry

>>714464323 (OP)
Do these people ever shut up about AI? Microsoft spends billions and billions and yet can barely shit out a functioning game. How about master the fundamentals first.

>>714464323 (OP)
Around the time when I was 12 and installed Linux for the first time.

>>714475506
not my problem, if you want to make a good game go do it, don't make excuses

>>714475256
chatgpt could write a more creative reply

>>714475368
You in 1983
>LET'S KILL VIDYA, THIS SHIT IS WORTHLESS
>WHAT? YOU WANT TO KEEP IT? LOL HERE'S WHAT YOU'RE DEFENDING, BRO

>>714475389
what the fuck are you talking about retard

>>714475568
It is your problem. You are considering spending money to make the industry untenable dogshit.
You are literally paying to get cucked.
Not me, though. I will never support AIslop.

>>714475582
>>714475641
you gonna cry, lil game dev?

>>714464323 (OP)
Somewhere around 2015 when they cancelled a bunch of Xbox exclusives, started porting exclusives to PC, introduced gamepass and more powerful version of xbox one.

>>714464323 (OP)
fake ragebait

>>714475353
>"I like to comment that EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself," Zeschuk said. "And what I mean by that is you have to learn to work within the structure and I think we did quite well, if you look at the Mass Effect [trilogy that] came out of there. It was actually a pretty successful run.

https://www.eurogamer.net/bioware-co-founder-reflects-on-mass-effect-3-ending-controversy-life-under-ea-and-the-worst-advice-received-from-xbox

And by rope Zeschuk is talking about freedom that AAA-tier resources and timetables bring. Developers are VERY prone to day dreaming. They love nothing more than sitting around, talking to each other about all the features that they want to implement and the size of the world and cast of characters that their dream game is going to have. Then they take those lists and cook up prototypes and scrap what doesn't work and implement more stuff and scrap more and that goes on for years. That phase is called pre-production or pre-alpha. On a well structured project with strong management and a focused team that phase takes about 6-8 months. On Xbox/Bethesda/Bioware projects it can easily stretch to 5-6 years.

>>714465772
He bought... not wrote.

>>714474881
>Literally every single company on earth at this point has AI written code in its products now
Going to be fun when we start feeling the effects of that

>>714476461
>Going to be fun when we start feeling the effects of that
that already tells me you never worked a dev job in your life
its not like the code isn't reviewed or tested
it just means that somebody didnt have to manually write out 4 unit tests but instead got AI to do it then just skimmed over it

>>714477753
work on this *farts in your face*

>>714477797
reddit

I didn’t
Snoy is the bad guy

>>714464323 (OP)
a long time ago but OP pic is not related, that's one of the few based things they've done

>>714478918
When did you realize you were the bad guy?

>>714465269
When dev teams were much smaller and technology "worse", games could be made in 2 years.
These retarded nu-devs relied way too much on automation even before AI became a thing and the games they shat out lacked more and more of that human touch, which ultimately made them worse.
Now with them using AI and bought store assets, we're getting some absolute mega slop like E33 and The Alters.

>>714465936
Delete this.

>>714466195
this

Most people have no idea about what actually happened

>>714464323 (OP)
Once they stopped trying to court Japanese developers for exclusives and unveiled Kinect.

>>714465341
you will, like you didn't even noticed that you are surrounded with bots.