Online games news Tedious Retro Gamer, 11-11-2025
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If a company with a reputation as bad as Square Enix reaches the new low, you can count on their new idea being really, really bad.
The CEO of Square Enix just announced that by the late 2027 about 70% of their QA (quality assurance) will be done by AI. Let’s pause for a bit, so everybody can have a moment to think over that idea. Yup, it’s a bad one. And you know it after spending just a tiny moment to think about it. But the CEO of Square Enix, I guess the same who pushed for NFTs as the future of gaming, spent enough time thinking about it that he announced that plan publicly.
Why is that a bad idea? In case that is no blindingly obvious yet. Well, AI could be quite good in tasks that have strict rules and clear logic behind it, like f.e. fixing bugs in the code. Although we already have such tools that worked well enough, debuggers. But QA is something completely different - not only the goal is to fix some problems with the gameplay (and I’m not sure how AI will detect what is or isn’t a problem), but also to spot user interface / user experience problems (and I’m not sure how AI will define the correct UI/UX) and try to cause the game to crash. I mean, you really have to be delusional to think it is possible to achieve, especially in less than 2 years.
But there is another layer to that idea - like I mentioned before, AI could be quite good in tasks that require no creative thinking, tasks that have strict rules and logic behind it. I mean, tasks like budgets, economy, financial side of the business... Hmm, I wonder why so far no company tried to replace their CEO with AI? I mean, you don’t really need any experience, you just need the books to be balanced, a basic calculator could handle comparison of costs to incomes and the CEOs usually make more money that the whole QA department combined, so... Nah, it would make too much sense.
11-11-2025
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