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webp, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Their games going to be shit 🤣

ArchmageAzor, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

A year from now they’ll be wondering why their games are so buggy.

I_Jedi, 2 miesiące temu

“The players are obviously insane and confused. The AI is always right.”

Grass, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

it’s a bit late in the game to be making idiotic claims but I guess the default state for corpos is being out of touch

mavu, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Well, good luck with that. Software development is a shit show already anyway. You can find me in my Gardening business in 2027.

Rooster326, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

Good Luck. When the economy finally bottoms out the first budget to go is always the gardening budget.

You can find me in my plumbing business in 2028.

I deal with shit daily so it’s what we in biz call a horizontal promotion.

Regrettable_incident, 2 miesiące temu

Market gardening isn’t so bad, people gotta eat. But yeah, if you’re cutting lawns you’re going to suffer when the economy shits the bed.

mavu, 2 miesiące temu

That is a valid point, and I think i’ll preemptively pivot to woodworking.

other_cat, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Was gonna make a post with this article but this is related so I’ll drop it here instead.

“Square Enix is laying off more developers in the UK and US as it refocuses on Japan
The publisher has expressed interest in replacing development roles with AI”

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/square-enix-is-laying-off-more-developers-in-the-uk-and-us-as-it-refocuses-on-japan-201907305.html

MrNesser, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Not buying their next game it will be a nightmare

ghost9, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

That’s a stupid idea. You’re not supposed to QA or debug games. You just release it, customers report bugs, and then you promise to fix the bugs in the next patch (but don’t).

Rhaedas, 2 miesiące temu

No better testing than in production.

FatVegan, 2 miesiące temu

Or do the Bethesda thing and let people playtest their slop and fix it for free.

Flickerby, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

And I thought I had no more disappointment left to allocate

pirateKaiser, 2 miesiące temu

It’s just that you’ve reached your free quota, further disappointments will be charged 0.0937 emotional stability per hour

Bakkoda, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Realistic goal considering they already do so little QA.

JeeBaiChow, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Lol. Good luck!

MourningDove, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

So… no more SE games for me. Not a huge loss to be honest.

pineapplelover, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Sure

Tronn4, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

insert plane crashing.gif

Mikina, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

Large companies probably do that anyway.

Take Blizzard for example. They just released a new patch, where class campaign quests for 8/12 classes do not work. Sure, it’s a remixed version of older expansion, and with all the phasing stuff I can kind of imagine some of the phasing issues being caused by, I don’t know, the player having a weird combination of completed stuff that’s hard to properly catch in testing, since there’s quite a lot of variables.

But the fact that one of the class quests requires crafted items to be completed, while crafting isn’t available by design in the Remix, there’s just no excuse. They either just don’t give a fuck about an issue that’s literally a progression blocker with 100% repro rate (while also being pretty easy to fix), or no one ever tested it even once. And it’s not just some random sidequest, it’s literally the main class campaign, one of the main features of the expansion.

As someone who worked in QA and gamedev, I can’t imagine how could something as obvious as this ever get approved for release. That’s something you catch immediately. Hell, you don’t even have to play through it to realize that this might be a problem.

Rooster326, 2 miesiące temu

Work at a larger company. Most people are so used to terrible Customer Service these days that we just use our customers as the QA. Nobody complains as much as they should. As they say

Everybody has a test environment. Only some are lucky enough to have a separate production environment.

BigBananaDealer, 2 miesiące temu do games w Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027

dont they already have dumbbots in playtesting?

frongt, 2 miesiące temu

The Talos Principle certainly did in 2014.