Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' ( www.pcgamer.com )

GhiLA , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

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.

Furbag , 3 months ago

AI slop coming to ruin your favorite IPs in the very near future.

AceFuzzLord , 3 months ago

Cannot wait for him to start putting out soon to be classic titles like "Ethnic Cleansing", "Concentration Camp Simulator", and "Deportation Station" to counter the woke libtards.

/S

ivanafterall , 3 months ago

Star Citizen to the power of Musk.

forensic_potato , 3 months ago

Then let's get ready for a ww2 game where you save Nazis instead of killing them. And then you shoot the American troops and call them "woke libs" /s

ivanafterall , 3 months ago

Saving Private Gunther

SpitSalute , 3 months ago

How about we hang that fuckwad in a public forum instead?

Clinicallydepressedpoochie , 3 months ago

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.

GoodEye8 , 3 months ago

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.

iAvicenna , 3 months ago

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.

JakenVeina , 3 months ago

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.

shasta , 3 months ago

Really? You think that behavior is any better at the existing game studios? He found an industry that welcomes his behavior

hoshikarakitaridia , 3 months ago

Good thing I've always wondered "what if someone did an Activision, but worse?"

Dogiedog64 , 3 months ago

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-serious-highfive-are-you-serious-gif-5916191

slickgoat , 3 months ago

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.

ramble81 , 3 months ago

Just when I thought he couldn’t get any edgier with a black MAGA hat, I noticed the font he used….

b161 , 3 months ago

The “yes I’m 110% a Nazi in case every other time I told you I’m a Nazi didn’t come through” font.

Grandwolf319 , 3 months ago

I mean, sure, go ahead.

It’s one of the most benign things he does and it’s not like it’s gonna affect existing good game.

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

...wait, actually this has the potential to be amazing! I remember the early days of online gaming, and gamers for the most part were some of the most welcoming and friendly people I've ever been around.

Something changed, and 'gamer' became a toxic word, and all but niche gaming communities kinda went to shit.

If Elon makes some cringe-ass MMO or something, it will act as a sponge to soak up all the toxic assholes from other gaming communities.

Do it.

SwordInStone , 3 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f25147e8-ce7a-45a3-9529-74f7115c553d.jpeg

andrew_bidlaw , 3 months ago

So Hatred's gonna get a sequel?

Cold_Brew_Enema , 3 months ago

He is the most unlikeable twat on the planet.

Milk_Sheikh , 3 months ago

Somehow, simultaneously “The world’s little brother” and “the most divorced man, ever”

x00z , 3 months ago

From one of the most respected individuals to an absolute joke of a man in a few years.

iAvicenna , 3 months ago

yea I guess at those times he wasn't very present in social media and everything we heard about him likely came from his PR team.

acosmichippo , 3 months ago

there were red flags. Like calling the mining accident rescuer a pedo and trying to insert himself in the rescue efforts.

iAvicenna , 3 months ago

see, havent even heard about this. when the frequency and exposure increases you start noticing. when was this?

acosmichippo , 3 months ago

2018

Aceticon , 3 months ago

He was always a "lie, lie and lie until you make it" kind of guy, it's just that in the last couple of years he's been doing it widely enough and long enough that the real results of enough of his lies came though and enough people started suspecting his words and looking at them more carefully and spotting the lying early.

As the saying goes, "you can deceive some people all of the time or all people some of the time, but you can't deceive all people all of the time" - and at some point, when he became more widely known, he seems to have gone from the first mode to the second and by now he's run out of time.