The Activision Leaks Came True, Key Creatives Are Quitting

Id like to see a change but itll never happen. Somehow COD kept up its success after black ops 2, it started being slop then but it has steadily climbed in sales. the stupids will keep buying this series no matter what.

Any dumbass can count fingers, so I don't understand how that stuff gets through. They could literally have some barely paid intern screening the images for them. Not that I advocate they do that, I just don't understand why they aren't.

Welp, I havent actually touched CoD in a hot minute. Even the title screen was giving me a bad feeling cause the motion felt eerily close to those ai generated videos I've seen but looks like this is the final nail for me to uninstall and not touch anything Activision again

Any publicly-listed USA-based company will enshittify themselves as shareholders demand -- with threat of lawsuit -- infinite growth of profit. They will layoff their employe if necessary to increase their profit margin, with zero frick given for long-term survivability.

When -- and not if -- the company has been ran aground, the vultures -- shareholders, CEO, etc -- will go find another USA-based publicly-listed company to again be sucked dry.

I love it when companies use AI to dump on uppity “creatives”. I don’t play modern AAA games, so it’s all just comedy on a stage for their betters hahaha

I will buy AI-generated video games if the developers accept AI-generated money.

I think the great thing about AI slop like COD is that it's now day one on gamepass because there's no way in hell I'd pay $80 for that game. Lol

A part of me hopes an artist purposefully didn't correct that extra finger on santa to help raise awareness. It could be a way to protest. I think the biggest risk is if its traced back to the particular artist that did it and they are fired. Either way I'm happy we're becoming more aware.

Norbert Wiener predicted all of this.

I wonder how many BS Activision has to make for people to stop giving them money.

I am not doing micro transactions ever

You may be in denial if you think that AI Bel wasn’t spot on my dude.

So just make AI copy of CoD?

i dont, and wont buy AAA anymore, i dont want to play games made with ai, i want hand crafted games made by people

To be fair, moore's law isn't talking about performance but about the number of transistors in a chip. The performance didn't particularly improve in terms of actual number of instructions doable in a second by a single core. Instead we tried a lot of gimmicks and more specific approaches, like more cores, hyperthreading, different types of specialized cores, different types of specialized chips, specialized instructions etc... All of this yields diminishing returns as: not everything can be done in parallel, not everything is suitable for gpus or npus, not everything benefits from hyperthreads, not everything can take advantage of SIMD instructions in CPUs and so on.... we can see the same trends in Language models just as you said, The models can get more parameters, but that doesn't strictly equal performance, we added chain of thought tricks, but that doesn't help everywhere, we added "reasoning" which is really just chain of thought baked into the training data (very similar to hyperthreading lol), but those are only marginal improvements over CoT (mostly just simplifies the use and costs)... it's all very marginal steps. Certain tasks can benefit greatly (like counting the number of Rs in a word I guess) but other tasks get little benefits (even for slightly more complex coding tasks the reasoning models start plugging in defaults and assumptions that are wrong and confuse themselves more than if they just use your initial prompt)... So the wall is there. It's not gonna be a hard hit, like it never was with traditional chips, but it's going to be exponentially harder and harder to squeeze more out of the core tech (NN/transformers right now). Some people think we're in the middle of the innovation wave when it comes to AI, but technologically you can see that everyone is already struggling to come up with anything substantial. Even if Sam Altman is trying to hype up everyone over and over again, the truth is revealed every time they do a release of their new model, showing that it's barely anything different.

Pirate everything that isn't indie, period. Modern "AAA" gaming is garbage--stop giving these slopmongers money for live-service diarrhea games.

How to fix AAA gaming:
1. Give video games back to the nerds instead of shareholders
2. Remove censorship and stop caring for people's feelings
3. Stop releasing shit that's not finished
4. Stop with the massive micro transactions
5. Listen to your fans
6. STOP BUYING THEIR GAMES.

Ok so I keep activision on my global ban list, got it.

To be clear… because you seem to have a misconception here… studios have to outsource content. There’s no way to keep a studio of 2000+ people for the duration of a project. So it makes sense to utilize studios from outsourcing companies that spin up as required. And before you equate outsourcing with offshoring - that’s not technically true. Plenty of studios are in the US, UK, EU, Canada, Japan, Australia - and they tend to use the studios in the same time zones if possible. Sometimes that’s not possible - because you struggle to find the skills in that area. But it’s not just that companies are shipping all their work to India for instance.

The thing is that activision can get away with overt contempt for their own gamers because, let's be fair - their customers do not have a spine and will not demand better. They may complain, but they are so deeply addicted that they are not going to quit and they are going to find ways to rationalize why spending money on CoD's other monetization is fine.

Lookin forward to plugging an AI Core into my pc and gaming with it.

AI is going to hit a wall. No it wont. Google just invented a quantum chip that calculates and processes in 1 second what the strongest pc would take 360 million years.

easy easy to figure out if SAM is an AI: AI can't be copy written so use the audio in some other work

Just opt out. Other than graphics improvements game design peaked a long time ago and there is a huge library of retro games out there. What is harder to replace is the online multiplayer aspect. Most old games have no servers and no players.

Dude I can’t draw absolutely nothing but I still feel terrible and sad that the artists are being disrespected like this

If you're not willing to stop paying activision, then you're part of the problem.

They used AI to generate a picture, did not spend 2 seconds to look at it and count fingers, and now they want us to pay money for it.

as a professional in different field, im enthusiastically waiting when i have to move my work from computer back to pen and paper, just so that the company wont train some AI daily from my work routine to replace me with my own copy of AI. ...though bit scifi today, its imho more or less a matter of time when it starts to actually gradually happen.

It would be weird situation when we have a society build around consumerism, yet more and more people of all levels of expertise and job fields start to be replaced by AI ...in large scale the only alternative is some sort of universal income, but imho even if we made it somehow economically work that people mostly chill - i dont think that as individuals and as society we could handle it.

Its weird to think ill likely still get to experience this switch in my lifetime, however it will end up.

hopefully we see more and more AI being used, this is the way to get cheaper games

I would love if we gamers as a collective would support good developers. Bud sadly people are generaly very dump and will funnel their money into the next Call of duty AI Warfare

Im just saying people who buy call of duty every single year also spend a ton on mobile games and are the reason mobile game ads are so wild

The thing I will never understand about generative AI is why it's so obsessed with depth of field? Whenever it has the chance, an image generator will blur parts of the image to give a circle of confusion effect. It's immediately identifiable because it's almost always physically inaccurate, but developers just thought it looked cool, I guess??

Honestly, AI could be an incredible asset if used properly, but companies like Activision are doing the complete opposite. AI should be used to support or replace jobs and make products cheaper and easier to produce. Except products are more expensive because greed.

People who say "AI is stealing art wahh wahh." You're wrong. If AI is stealing art, then artists are also stealing art. AI creates brand new art using other art as a base. Literally, any artist who had an inspiration does the exact same thing. Now, if an AI was literally copying someone's art exactly, then it would be an issue. It is possible to get an AI to make something that looks exactly like someone elses art, so i will give them that. However, as long as you dont use it that way, it's just a tool to make things better. Currently, AI is not good enough to compete with artists (other than in the eyes of greedy companies), but once AI is good enough to not make mistakes, then it should replace human artists. If you can't keep up, then you should just take a seat. If you can't make something that looks better, then you're just not as good.

Similar thing with AI voices. Do you know who else can sound just like you? MY MOM! But fr humans can do the same thing. it's called impressionism. I do think that maybe people should be paid if an AI version of their voice is used, but even then, i can do an impression of vegeta and use it in my game. Im not stealing someone's voice because im literally using my voice. You dont own your voice. There's garunteed to be at least one person out there that sounds just like you, and there's likely someone out there that looks just like you too.

Laws really need to be put into place, limiting the use of AI in commercial product as jobs are being lost cause of AI, if it is used it should be by law clearly stated that its AI. Cause right now its getting out of hand.

Cod is trash 😂

Wow I'm so glad that I have a student loan for $30 000 to study 3D animation to make videogames and wasted 7 years of my life just to have dummies push buttons and do shit in 2 seconds -.-

I liked the video cause you said skibidi.

People say that ai would kill creativity but does creating art in bulk for cash grabbing low effort balls deep management gamble like "games" is really what need creativity? Personally I fully support decision of ea management team, let this shit sink and free labor for real artists

I stopped buying ea games at assassin's creed 4 because it felt soulless and i decided that this tha way their games would be from now on. I tried modern iteration of battlefield (giveaway) tho, played for less than 10 hours and never touched franchise ever since.

Why do folks even buying ea games?

Number go up and that’s the bottom line

It seems that the Warframe is the best live service left out there, and it is only growing

Activision has been making the same slop every year since the early 2000's and its called the Call of Duty series.
This is what you all get for throwing money into that corporate shithole every year. I hope you all have nothing else to play for the rest of your lives and you keep paying 70 dollars every year for the same game with slightly worse mechanics and slightly better graphics.

So sad many people are hostage to those "Big Corps"...

Shit. Now I have to fear my game companies doing this. Fromsoft please don’t. I wanna play Nightreign with no guilt