King? Or Microsoft?
Good point. This is a pilot program for Microsoft. All negative press gets associated with King. Even the Wikipedia shows “Activision” as the parent company as if to buffer negative news from Microsoft.
Yes
“Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they’ve spent months building tools to craft levels quicker,” said one employee. “Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.”
Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.
These games should be illegal anyways. They’re basically creating an algorithm that inhibits you to influence you to pay anyways. Not a game with gameplay but an actual business and this is just the business model layered like a game.
Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.
I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol
Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.
I am confident that this will go poorly for them and will be keeping a supply of popcorn handy.
Just a few days ago there was the post about a vibe coder where the AI deleted the production database. Let’s hope this will be just as entertaining.
There are still human there?!
Only in a biological sense. Their sold their souls a long time ago.
Heh; I remember when Candy Crush was just one guy and an Apple Developer account.
