Musk says he’s going to launch an “AI game studio” at his xAI startup.
I’ll be pissed if elon starts pumping out good games. I don’t count on it but looking at the market it’s not impossible.
I mean he already said the word AI which means he is going to likely favor output volume over the love indie devs and old companies poured into their games. So chances are very slim. Knowing him, I guess the game will be about some genius who tries to save the world and go to Mars and be the sole male responsible for repopulation. So yeah, it might turn into a Larry game which takes itself too seriously.
He’s made it abundantly clear how much he despises the entire concept of labor, of having to pay money to people to do the things that actually make a company work. He will not be able to build a company that actually makes games with that kind of disdain for the single most important resource required to make them. And his strategy of acquiring an existing company and gutting it afterwards won’t be nearly as effective in the games industry, where you have to be continuously producing NEW content.
Really? You think that behavior is any better at the existing game studios? He found an industry that welcomes his behavior
I loved it when Amazon, Google, and Netflix got into the gaming industry and tried to throw billions of dollars and their startup software expertise to “revolutionize” game studios.
Releasing even bad games is already a feat. Considering how Musk doesn’t know how to run a web development company I would be surprised if his “game studio” releases anything. The only way that company releases anything is if Musk won’t be involved, and we know the “expert at everything” will be involved.
Just when I thought he couldn’t get any edgier with a black MAGA hat, I noticed the font he used….
The “yes I’m 110% a Nazi in case every other time I told you I’m a Nazi didn’t come through” font.
Good thing I’ve always wondered “what if someone did an Activision, but worse?”
The good thing about this is that all his money can’t buy a good result. Each game has to stand on its own two feet. If it costs millions to make, and still sucks, it will sink without a trace.
AI slop coming to ruin your favorite IPs in the very near future.
If these people even knew what “Great” looked like they would shut the fuck up, step the fuck back, and let it happen without their shitty input.
What a gigantic turd.
Forget what these folks say; it’s all an excuse to start companies that can be awarded no-bid contracts from the government they “want to dismantle”
I can’t even begin to imagine how fucking lame and cringe a game made by Elon Musk would be. Much less how buggy and unplayable.
You play as doge and collect dogecoins to spend on memes. The game is called X and it runs a crypto miner on your gpu when you play it (you get coins in game, Elon gets coins in real life).
You can pay for X premium for $10/month which unlocks cosmetics and lets you access the members-only chatroom
The cosmetics are all unique and non-fungible, and can be resold to other X premium users for real-world money in the form of credit that can be used to buy different
tokenscosmetics.
Considering the growth he’s experienced from his 20s to now, he’ll probably try and make a Quake 2 clone.
I’m sure he’ll do it right after launching Hyperloop
Looking forward to Diakatana2, now with more neon frogs!
“Elon Musk is gonna make you his bitch.”
But this time, actually true if you buy his games.
Suck it down™
I wish he would just die off and spare is the pain of his stupidity.
Musk should buy Bethesda. Gut it like he gutted Twitter. Start development on something random – the Elder Scrolls VI: Kingdom of Doge.
When it comes out, it will be a horrible, poorly made mess. Just like a regular Bethesda game but extra enshittified. He can charge extra for it to make it seem super premium.
People will eat it up.
Worked for Tesla.
God, that’s how you end up with Skyrim, but with endless AI generated quests with NO continuity or sense whatsoever.
I mean… daggerfall kinda did that.
Ah yes, gaming. That one industry you can’t really fake past a certain point or everyone will boycott, call it boring or go on strike?
Perfect. Good decisions. Waste as much money as possible. I hope Ubisoft is in on it. Take as many shit-for-brains publishers and devs as you can gather. They forget half of the industry is wearing knee-high socks and cat ears. Propaganda games will go over like trying to sell kale to a shark.
