Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'
Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'
Krafton (the company behind PUBG, InZOI, and other games) is now an "AI-first company" & will spend $70M on GPUs
We are going to have a new generation of games that are really gonna suck!
Good news! You're allowed to skip them and instead play the hundreds to thousands of older games you'd surely love, but that slipped under your radar at the time. Plenty to hold us over until publishers and studios learn their lesson.
If it's AI, don't buy.
There will always be passionate developers eager to put down the work and make good games. There will be a lot of shit they will try to shovel down our throats, but it's just as easy to ignore it.
I don't really mind if AI is used in a crafty sort of way. But let's be honest here, that never happens.
I think it will go the way of the NFT. People who don't understand tech will hype it beyond belief and then the actual developers will go "this is useless" and not use it.
Well, maybe not exactly like NFTs because NFTs were actually useless while AI looks like it might have some actual niche use.
honestly for most people i feel like AI has already a solidified use, "the magic thing that answers all your questions and generates pretty pictures"
compare that to NFTs which had strictly no use for the average person. i think what we’re seeing with AI is quite different
will the hype maintain itself when the AI bubble bursts, the VC money dries up, free options get removed and paid options significantly ramp up in price? that remains to be seen
(the fact that the answers and pictures are often garbage is irrelevant. as long as they’re good enough often enough, it has value to many people)
Wild. Sounds like Subnautica 2 dodged a bullet. Hope they sue the literal pants off them and then build the spiritual-Subnautica-2 we all always wanted with the damages awarded and the Early Access money that they know we're going to give them the moment they announce it.
And RIP Inzoi, we barely knew you before you got infested with AI bullshit and it sounds like that's only going to accelerate to hyperspeed now.
Inzoi was dead on arrival in terms of quality already. It’s so half baked and barebones the AI crap only served as the moldy cherry on top. Some players have pointed out it was obviously a K-Pop idol simulator before they marketed it as a Sims game. There are still a number of interactions in that AI slop for an excuse of a game that only make sense in this context. Oh well, luckily we live in the golden age of Indie games and don‘t have to put up with this.
Ehh, I wasn't worried about that until the AI stuff happened. Even a K-Pop idol simulator would've been an interesting start. Filling in the content to a level that creates compelling stories and gameplay takes time. It takes years of expansions for Sims games to start getting decent levels of content and stop feeling soulless and shiny and bland compared to the previous game (arguably Sims 4 hasn't even gotten there yet but that's more of a Sims 4 problem).
Once Inzoi started trying to fill in the content with AI they thought they could rely on that to shortcut their way to success but I knew it wasn't going to work. It needs the human touch, it's gotta be quirky and have its own individual character. K-Pop idol might've been exactly what it needed to stand out if they had leaned on that instead of trying to fill in the gaps in content with bland and soulless AI, which is exactly what life sim games DON'T ever need more of.
$70 million on gpu cluster + $21 million yearly on employee AI tools and training. They could fund 21 $1 million indie games per year with zero expectations, but no push the money to the slop and get nothing in return. Fuck them.
And I will continue to not play their games.
So this is what the money was for ‽‽ Not even proper AI, but an "Agentic AI" ‽
Fuck you krafton. Rest in pieces.
Not saying krafton deserves the benefit of the doubt but:
Understand that "agentic AI" is almost entirely a buzzword that means "Microservices with an LLM somewhere in the mix". Which... is what people are already doing.
Yes, there are some (idiots) who think that means EVERY single node in the graph needs to be an LLM and fuck the planet, Jensen needs a new zipper. But, by and large, what that means is they are using the exact same infrastructure they were last week but MAYBE added an LLM for preprocessing or postprocessing. It makes management happy because "We are using AI" and it makes everyone else happy because they can keep using the tools that actually work.
I guess the original Subnautica was lightning in a bottle, maybe someday another studio will make a game that feels like Subnautica
Welp. I was thinkingabout buying a game from them about an hour ago. Definitely won't now.
Anything for the shareholder value. Are they even a game company now?
They are a company run by individuals who haven‘t booted a game in this millennia and are only in it for the money.
Hell no bruh
Wondering what they meant by "agenic" AI, I looked up the definition of agenic. It is "relating to agenesis."
Okay, so I look up agenesis. "Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization."
....
Yeah, so I'm still wondering what they meant by agenic AI.
AgenTic, not Agenic. As in, an AI that acts as your agent. Meaning, the goal would be to have an AI model that you could direct to perform certain tasks in the background while you focus on other things.
For example, youre in the middle of doing something or another when you remember that your oil change is due. You pull up KraftonAI and tell it to "book me a service appointment for my vehicle at the dealership this weekend". The AI proceeds to work on that task in the background, only prompting you for input if it meets a road block it doesn't understand.
Subnautica 2 is so screwed.
Hi-Fi Rush 2 is so screwed.
Last Epoch is so screwed.
Bruh, I still haven't bought the first game because I don't wanna give money to Microsoft… now I won't buy the sequel because I don't wanna give money to Krafton. Madness.