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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 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'

Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

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www.pcgamer.com /gaming-industry/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/

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I'm sure he'll do it right after launching Hyperloop

Elon's companies have been successful despite his input, not because of it. If you're interested, do some reading on how middle-management protected their teams from his nonsense in both Tesla and SpaceX, basically just feeding him bullshit that sounded good and ignoring him whenever possible. Those people are why the companies have thrived.
Shit, just look at Twitter before and after. The valuation difference is staggering.
- twitter is probably the best thing to happen for spacex, testla and other companies lol. He just spends all his time shitposting.
  
  Not to mention all the preference he will show his own companies because of the appointment buying Twitter got him.
- I tell people this all the time. There are people who have the job of distracting musk like a 3 year old. They don’t believe it and continue to worship him. They act like he personally invented everything and refuse to accept the truth. The only thing he actually invented was the cybertruck.
  
  Did he actually invent the Cybertruck? He drew the world’s shittiest picture that was all straight lines and then made a bunch of toddler-level claims about its abilities while demanding results from the teams of real people that actually had to make his nonsense even somewhat functional.
  People who deserve the title of inventor actually do the fucking work. He just said “and it’ll be invincible and climb over mountains and can pull GOD and be SO COOL”
- It's risk assessment.
  If you have a startup and someone offers you 9 figures so they're the CEO and you still run the day to day...
  You'd be an idiot to risk it, because any number of billion dollar companies can fuck you over thru innumerable ways.
  So every once and a while someone with shit tier risk assessment lucks out and suddenly becomes unimaginable rich. And those are the people making offers on the next generation of startups.
  The system is set up so the worst people possible run shit. Because no sane person would keep "letting it ride" to the point they make billions, and a crazy person who does becomes too big to fail. And once they get to that point, they've convinced themselves no one else is smart enough to play Russian roulette 100 times in a row.
  At that point they've conned themselves into really believing they're geniuses who know more than anyone.
- I had a boss like that once. Yes, it can be done.
  But the bottom line is they still think they're great and everything will go on.
  That is very harmful to society.
- Shotwell is an amazing person for operating SpaceX to such success, despite all of Elon’s efforts to the contrary, like trying to cancel Falcon Heavy.

...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.

So the next greatest game will just be "around the corner" and "nearly complete" every year for decades then?
- Don't forget, he knows more about ~~manufacturing~~ game development than anyone currently alive on earth.
- Him and Todd Howard would get along
  
  I know Todd gets a lot of hate, and some of it is deserved, but... c'mon. Just no.
- I mean, it sounds like he might've found the industry that really matches his way of ~~not~~ working.
- Cyberdaikatana

How about we hang that fuckwad in a public forum instead?
- "Can I take your coat? your shoes? your... swastikas??"

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
- Saving Private Gunther

He is the most unlikeable twat on the planet.
- From one of the most respected individuals to an absolute joke of a man in a few years.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- Somehow, simultaneously “The world’s little brother” and “the most divorced man, ever”

Doesn't he know Epic Games studio already exists? The market for grand-standing self-righteous game-makers is pretty tapped at this point.
- They might actually get along. The CEOs of both happen to be hypocritical asswipes who think providing a worse product and complaining about competition will give them the monopoly they're pretending to not want.

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.

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 ~~tokens~~ cosmetics.
- Considering the growth he's experienced from his 20s to now, he'll probably try and make a Quake 2 clone.

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.

He should make a meta verse. I still won't buy it, but having 2 of them completely fall flat because a billionaire thought they knew what entertainment was would almost be as funny as that time Sony re-released Morbius in theaters.

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.

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

Talented people fail to make a career in gaming. Idc how many mines his daddy owned, he's not going to make a good game. Although we should encourage him to do it. Making games would obviously waste the time he uses to harass people.
- Let's not forget: he's not making shit. He's gonna pay some poor fucks a pittance (if he decides to pay them at all) to make a lousy fps or whatever
  
  Sure but he is also a micromanaging dipshit, the more bullshit he has the less focused he is overall.

Looking forward to Diakatana2, now with more neon frogs!
- "Elon Musk is gonna make you his removed."
  But this time, actually true if you buy his games.
  
  Suck it down™

https://xkcd.com/927/

mgga?
mgga please. that shits dumb af.

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

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.
Edit: /s obvs
- 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.

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"

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

What a gigantic turd.

I wish he would just die off and spare us the pain of his stupidity.

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.

Star Citizen to the power of Musk.

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.

So Hatred's gonna get a sequel?
- Payday 4: stealing from gamers

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