Tim Sweeney is Probably Forcing Epic's Studios to Vibe Code
Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 3:25 pm
The man who thinks using Linux is like leaving the United States for Canada, and also refuses to allow Linux gamers to participate in his games (see: Fortnite), also thinks Steam (a platform where Fortnite isn’t listed) should do away with the “made with AI” labeling. Because, nothing says, “We don’t need this, actually!” more than using your platform, as an obscenely rich guy with a massive following, to pressure one of the longest-lasting game vendors to remove a content label.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/stat ... wsrc%5Etfw
Sure do love waking up in the morning with enough money to chill and be cool, but, instead, choose to influence Gamers not to abandon Windows (and all of its spyware and vibe-coded architecture) and to stop using their voices to speak their minds on developers who use AI.
Is what I’d say if I was an idiot named Tim Sweeney.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/stat ... wsrc%5Etfw
I do apologize for making you look at posts from Twitter, and yes, the Linux tweet is from 2018, but it’s quite obvious he’s continued holding these anti-consumer opinions for as long as he’s been losing his hairline.
Here’s a link to a neutral, no-opinions-shared post that does nothing but mention that Sweeney said that the AI tag should be removed from vendors.
To posit that all game developers will soon be incorporating AI into their workflows in game development processes, isn’t something I would call true. I’d call it more like, wishful thinking from Silicon Valley Tech Bros.
Most recently, both the newest Call of Duty (in a line of nonstop Call of Duties that keep coming out so fast that you start to wonder where the fuck that call is even coming from), and Embark’s ARC Raiders, are using AI. Both of these games are on Steam, and both have the AI generated content disclosure. Both of these tags have drawn backlash from players of each game, regardless of the fact that both of these disclosures differ from each other. Differing, in that, Activision used AI to generate assets for Black Ops 7, and ARC Raiders paid some voice actors for the rights to train their voices for player call-outs in-game.
And, do you know what executives, investors, and possibly even CEOs, dislike? Lost sales. Lost sales due to backlash and boycotts.
It becomes clearer pretty quickly why the guy who thinks you should keep using Windows, and refuses to support Linux, also thinks that no games should ever mention whether or not they’ve been developed with some form of “AI.”
Does Embark and Activision-Blizzard’s use of AI mean that all studios are going to suddenly start using AI (with all the public backlash it would come with)?
Of course not.
But would they if a simple tag were removed?
Also, probably not.
Obviously, people are going to continue playing and buying games, and a lot of them are going to just ignore whether they were developed with AI. But some people like to know what their money is supporting, and I don’t think, in an era of the total enshitification of all of the internet, that we should further make it harder for people to know what they support. ChatGPT is doing a good enough job at making it harder for regular people to tell what’s real and what’s fake.
All of that aside ...
Tim Sweeney is a weenie, his opinions are trash, and I hope someone buys Fortnite/Unreal from him, and puts the damn game on Steam.
… And discloses the AI that’s probably being used in its continued development.
I should also mention that I’ve been trying to be a little more chill about AI. Trying not to aim the word-rifle at anything and everything that even so much as slightly resembles generative content. Because, if the bubble doesn’t pop, we’re stuck with it. And the billionaire class that doesn’t care whether their decisions destroy the whole world or not, are doing the best they can to make sure we’re stuck with chatbots who have Twitter algorithms plugged into their brains.
Therefore, ergo, this is me being slightly more reasonable.
It may also seem a little ridiculous, that me, a 40 year old Gamer with no wife or kids, would like to dabble in the procurement of dubs in the Night of the Forts via Steam and Proton, and it is. I pride myself in my own ridiculousness. But, I also pride myself in my basic understanding of Linux, and conviction in that Microsoft is a parasitic corporation that deserves to burn to the ground, and that players of videogames should know where their money’s going, and what it’s funding.
Source: https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/11/28 ... -fort-guy/
Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/stat ... wsrc%5Etfw
Sure do love waking up in the morning with enough money to chill and be cool, but, instead, choose to influence Gamers not to abandon Windows (and all of its spyware and vibe-coded architecture) and to stop using their voices to speak their minds on developers who use AI.
Is what I’d say if I was an idiot named Tim Sweeney.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/stat ... wsrc%5Etfw
I do apologize for making you look at posts from Twitter, and yes, the Linux tweet is from 2018, but it’s quite obvious he’s continued holding these anti-consumer opinions for as long as he’s been losing his hairline.
Here’s a link to a neutral, no-opinions-shared post that does nothing but mention that Sweeney said that the AI tag should be removed from vendors.
To posit that all game developers will soon be incorporating AI into their workflows in game development processes, isn’t something I would call true. I’d call it more like, wishful thinking from Silicon Valley Tech Bros.
Most recently, both the newest Call of Duty (in a line of nonstop Call of Duties that keep coming out so fast that you start to wonder where the fuck that call is even coming from), and Embark’s ARC Raiders, are using AI. Both of these games are on Steam, and both have the AI generated content disclosure. Both of these tags have drawn backlash from players of each game, regardless of the fact that both of these disclosures differ from each other. Differing, in that, Activision used AI to generate assets for Black Ops 7, and ARC Raiders paid some voice actors for the rights to train their voices for player call-outs in-game.
And, do you know what executives, investors, and possibly even CEOs, dislike? Lost sales. Lost sales due to backlash and boycotts.
It becomes clearer pretty quickly why the guy who thinks you should keep using Windows, and refuses to support Linux, also thinks that no games should ever mention whether or not they’ve been developed with some form of “AI.”
Does Embark and Activision-Blizzard’s use of AI mean that all studios are going to suddenly start using AI (with all the public backlash it would come with)?
Of course not.
But would they if a simple tag were removed?
Also, probably not.
Obviously, people are going to continue playing and buying games, and a lot of them are going to just ignore whether they were developed with AI. But some people like to know what their money is supporting, and I don’t think, in an era of the total enshitification of all of the internet, that we should further make it harder for people to know what they support. ChatGPT is doing a good enough job at making it harder for regular people to tell what’s real and what’s fake.
All of that aside ...
Tim Sweeney is a weenie, his opinions are trash, and I hope someone buys Fortnite/Unreal from him, and puts the damn game on Steam.
… And discloses the AI that’s probably being used in its continued development.
I should also mention that I’ve been trying to be a little more chill about AI. Trying not to aim the word-rifle at anything and everything that even so much as slightly resembles generative content. Because, if the bubble doesn’t pop, we’re stuck with it. And the billionaire class that doesn’t care whether their decisions destroy the whole world or not, are doing the best they can to make sure we’re stuck with chatbots who have Twitter algorithms plugged into their brains.
Therefore, ergo, this is me being slightly more reasonable.
It may also seem a little ridiculous, that me, a 40 year old Gamer with no wife or kids, would like to dabble in the procurement of dubs in the Night of the Forts via Steam and Proton, and it is. I pride myself in my own ridiculousness. But, I also pride myself in my basic understanding of Linux, and conviction in that Microsoft is a parasitic corporation that deserves to burn to the ground, and that players of videogames should know where their money’s going, and what it’s funding.
Source: https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/11/28 ... -fort-guy/