Just as Call of Duty’s AI slop causes refunds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B62Q8tHV2c&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251127-epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures - podcast
time: 6 min 58 sec
Epic is bullshit. Fuck them.
Just wait it out you fucking assholes. You’re all gonna use AI, we’re gonna get in a huff, you won’t stop, we’ll eventually tired ourselves out and then buy your stupid AI games. It’s the same song and dance everytime corporate America does something horrible that makes them more money.
It’s so fucking exhausting.
I don’t know what we’d do if we didn’t have corporations to tell us what it is that we want.
Black Ops 7 sold less than half as much as last year’s Battlefield 6.
That’s definitely a mistype - the previous CoD game was Black Ops 6, and Battlefield 6 was made by DICE and published by EA. Still, makes a good segue into how Blops 7 (which went all-in on AI) compared against BF6 (which released more-or-less AI-free, going by DICE’s own comments).
In terms of sales, Blops 7 sold 63% less on launch than Battlefield 6 did in its opening week, earning Battlefield its first sales victory over CoD in both series’ history, and breaking a streak of #1 sales CoD had held since 2006.
On Metacritic, BF6 got “generally favourable” critic scores in the low-80s, whilst Blops 7 hovers around the 67% mark. The user scores are much more favourable - whilst BF6 is hovering at 7/10 as of this writing, BO7 is currently at 1.6/10, beating the notoriously maligned Modern Warfare III to become the series’ lowest-rated entry.
On OpenCritic, Battlefield 6 earned a “Strong” rating on all fronts (83% top critic average, 90% Critics Recommend, player rating of 90) whilst Blops 7 got a “Weak” rating (65% top critic average, 35% Critics Recommend, player rating of 20).
Overall, signs are pointing to a historic victory for Battlefield over its long-running rival in the FPS genre, and a very public rejection of AI slop in all its forms.
No one gives fuck what Whiny Bitchford wants.
That’s Gearbox, not Epic.
No, I don’t think so. It’s reasonable to request transparency. It’s not a ban. Let the consumer choose for themselves whether or not they should care.
These corporate capitalists are usually deathly afraid of the AI hating invisible hand of the free market.
David, did you mean to say last year’s black ops 6 rather than battlefield 6? I believe the latest battlefield came our earlier this year, whereas the sales figures/performance you go over in the article roughly line up with the previous call of duy black ops installment (at least from what I’ve seen).
