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Game studios love AI! The gamers … hate it (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

if only the industry could be rid of Ubisoft and EA, we could finally play our AAA live service gacha games in peace, without being exploited for money

if only we could go back to the good old days, when the most prominent people in gaming were:

the out and proud fascist who runs Epic
the out and proud fascists who ran id
Todd Howard
fucking Peter Molyneux
it’s ok, a developer who’s existed since the Amiga days has made a good game!
I regret to inform you that the above-mentioned developer has willingly sold their entire studio to EA in exchange for a sack of money and now the sequel is a live service game with gambling mechanics
at least we’ll always have the Wing Commander guy. I wonder what he’s up to?

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago

look Star Citizen will own

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

notice how Take Two didn't rate the wild response, and neither of the companies in the Aftermath article were EA or Ubisoft

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago

Huh? I’m not saying the past was better, I’m saying the present is better. Stardew Valley is still #25 on the Steam top seller 100. Balatro, Factorio, Rimworld, Baldur’s Gate 3, Clair Obscur, all proper no ai/nft/blockchain grift products by decent studios in the top 100. The top 2 spots are free-to-plays with various monetization schemes: Counter-Strike 2 & Dota 2. Not my cup of tea, but nevertheless: they’re from Valve. Valve is not exactly known for embracing genAI. It’s simply not gaining traction in the gaming world at the same speed it’s creeping up into Ubisoft & EA.