The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI.
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Best of luck. Cheers.
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King? Or Microsoft?
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While most companies replacing employees with AI usually ends in failure for the company, I believe AI will be able to make games like this just as effectively, if not more.
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I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol
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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.
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There are still human there?!
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I don't see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it's dead easy to rehire talent. /s
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Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.
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"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.
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That tracks, it's already slopware.
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I am confident that this will go poorly for them and will be keeping a supply of popcorn handy.
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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.
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There are still human there?!
Only in a biological sense. Their sold their souls a long time ago.
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They're getting candy CRUSHED
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Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.
Normally I'm not a fan of AI slop, but it feels like a perfect fit here
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Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.
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Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.
Already happening.
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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.
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Heh; I remember when Candy Crush was just one guy and an Apple Developer account.
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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.
I was looking for some games to pass time in waiting rooms etc and was disappointed to see even Bejeweled has 'contains ads' & 'in-app purchases' warnings on play store. Why can't I outright buy it like I already have on Steam?
