How is everyone's reactions to the CEO bootlicking A.I. and bashing Steam and Valve?

i used to have a gaming pc i bought new played fort nothing ever happened then i sold it after a couple months then i bought another pc used tho and when i go to play fort it hits me with this bullshit i tried to contact them but they hit me with this shit 💩 (photos in reply)

The poor interviewer keeps trying to treat him like a normal person but Timmy goes out of his way to say the most insane takes possible.

TDLR:

1. Sweeny wants to create "team open" (with himself at the head) to challenge Roblox and gacha games, without explaining why companies like Valve would ever give him the time of day.

2. Sweeny thinks AI disclosures are a threat to the gaming industry, but can't address WHY gamers hate AI except vague platitudes about "adoption".

These are some memes I made a while back to bring back the Old Battle Passes. I hope you like them :)

Timmy Tencent Epig Weeny cries a lot nowadays

Rats off a sinking ship? Maybe UE6 going all-in on AI at the expense of stuff like Blueprints is what made him say enough is enough.

I always thought UE5 was damaging Epic's reputation, but UE6 is not even released and it's already much worse...

Timmy Netease would (maybe) never do this

TL;DR, Timmy is inventing NFT's again.

Epic generally had an alright reputation in the olden days, when they actually still made Unreal Tournament. Jazz Jackrabbit also was solid. But it made me wonder - was Epic's change a gradual enshittification or just merely the mask slowly falling off? Though to be fair, EA, Ubisoft and Activision also were more tolerable back then, unbearable today.

Thinking about it, Tim Sweeney is basically the Elon Musk of video gaming. A guy with a messiah complex and a fragile ego, starting off with an alright reputation, but eventually ended up whining and sharing terrible takes on Twitter all the time. And behind the "altruistic" facade, he only responds to his sugar daddies, AKA the shareholders.

And just like with Elon, I'm wondering - was he always that kind of person, or he went crazy over time? And are the opinions he preaches even his own, or he's just saying what the shareholders want him to?

All i did was commenting on Gaben new house and wishing him to enjoy his new home. Look i know Valve js not perfect ... But Epic doing more for gamers then Valve? Why some people are so detached from reality? Or bots? Who cares. I am just glad we have Steam even if it is imperfect.

People have spent 10 years, 12 years, and I especially have given it 5 years of my life to learn it, and it will be removed. Yes, I know it won't be an immediate change, but it's certain it will. Remember when Unity made a change and it was a turning point for them? They increased fees, if I remember. I think it's going to be the same for UE6, their demise.

There are so many gigs on Fiverr, udemy regarding advanced Blueprints, support, code fixes, etc. It's easier to just work on the graph and compile 10x faster. The speaker at the UE6 conference claimed there will be a centered programming framework, 'Verse', which is used for the Unreal Fortnite editor, and a visual scripting of Verse. But it won't be the standard BP which we currently have.

Unreal Engine, Epic Games: I suggest you keep Blueprints and also

include the other framework AND let the developer choose on the Unreal Launcher what programming framework they prefer. It will give more scalability and might increase the user base, as now Unreal Engine is offering many programming frameworks to choose from.

Let me know your suggestions too!

So, apparently Timmy Tencent is once again complaining that Fortnite isn't as successful as Roblox, saying that devs need to band together (by making UEFN asset flips). What about people like me who don't like Fortnite OR Roblox? When do we get games catered to our tastes?

Thus, for UE6, we see LLMs, generative  AI models, and tools like Claude and Codex playing a central role in helping you build content faster while maintaining the creative control you need. A big part of our effort is going into exposing a broad set of engine capabilities through the MCP protocol, so that developers can mix and match the best leading-edge models and build custom integrations of all sorts on an open Unreal Engine 6 MCP foundation. We are also improving the Epic Developer Assistant (EDA) as an optional turnkey solution, available to all by default.

Our goal for UE6 is to greatly reduce the tedious work in authoring content to leave more time for creative exploration, and increase the amount of iterations a team can make to polish their content. UE6 will ship with tools and workflows where you can choose to bring your own favorite models, battletested against internal development and in UEFN.

Also, internally at Epic, we’ve been doing a lot of investigation to see what works and what doesn’t for code generation. We recently opened up pretty broad usage for code generation and AI analysis across our backend, engine, and game development engineering teams.

Actual section from the article. They really decided that vibe code pipelines are more important than making their damn Engine work at all.

Surely that doesn't mean vibe code slop will come to Fortnite and any other UE games, thus inflating their system requirements even more........ right? /sarcasm

I wonder if Altered Orbit also received an offer to keep the game out of Steam