Assuming this is true (I believe it is unconfirmed), why limit to games?
toomuchtodo•29m ago
Legal risk from Microsoft and other game makers. Path to success will have to be self hosted open weights imho. Big Tech wants a monopoly on AI revenue, they do not want people cloning what they're gating with IP for enterprise value and cashflows.
I believe games is the easy target, but only the first, from a reverse engineering, decomp, and re implementation perspective. They will eventually come for anything that enables rapid, efficient, and effective trivial re implementation.
Remade: Everything can be remade. Discover independent software reimplementations. Request the software you want to see remade next. - https://remade.wiki/
(shades of the Internet Archive attempting to preserve access to culture with controlled lending, and being told no due to copyright law [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789317]; not identical of course, but I see the issues somewhat intertwined as it relates to the tension of knowledge and compute freedom and capital demand for monopolies and moats)
faryoppo•19m ago
yeah your right.we better act now
throwaway27448•10m ago
Hard to imagine this is actually a concern for game makers. Decompilation aside, AI can only produce shallow visual mimicry. If you were to actually try to enjoy these games you'd be miserable nearly instantly.
Rookie move to fight this legally! What replaces it actually will be engaging and competitive. Palworld is just the beginning....
andsoitis•36m ago
toomuchtodo•29m ago
I believe games is the easy target, but only the first, from a reverse engineering, decomp, and re implementation perspective. They will eventually come for anything that enables rapid, efficient, and effective trivial re implementation.
Remade: Everything can be remade. Discover independent software reimplementations. Request the software you want to see remade next. - https://remade.wiki/
Capital Wants a Monopoly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291135 - October 2026
Microsoft and Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271271 - October 2026
Microsoft and Epic Games DCMA AI-Gen Clones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263345 - October 2026
DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163277 - October 2026
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058850 - October 2026
(shades of the Internet Archive attempting to preserve access to culture with controlled lending, and being told no due to copyright law [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789317]; not identical of course, but I see the issues somewhat intertwined as it relates to the tension of knowledge and compute freedom and capital demand for monopolies and moats)