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Essence_of_Meh, do gaming w Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam

It's not like they can really avoid it. AI assisted tools will become a standard in the future ("productivity has to go up" after all) and there's a good chance Valve already received some feedback from AAA publishers on that matter, since they'll be the main players utilizing such tech.

The good thing here is the exsitance of a disclaimer on store pages, as it will allow people to decide for themselves, and the ability to report content straight from in-game overlay.

Full on ban was never a realistic option.

Telorand,

I’ll add that a blanket ban isn’t necessarily a positive thing, either. AI could be a component of developing unique NPCs, evolving bosses, changing economies, missions/quests, or procedurally generated levels (for example).

Obviously, at least some of that content would still need to pass human play testing, so it’s not like humans would be completely removed, but imagine if players had gameplay experiences that were entirely unique to them or changed based on non-RNG factors.

I agree, though, that reporting the use of AI and how it’s utilized is important for people to make informed decisions about how they spend their money.

Essence_of_Meh,

Oh, totally. I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

Personally I'd love to see a new take on Daggerfall using AI for features you mentioned (though it would have to be an "all in" affair as Bethesda's approach to randomly generated content these days is... not particularly impressive).

Telorand,

I was imagining Oblivion with AI elements, but yeah! Open world RPGs seem particularly suited to this kind of thing.

WarmSoda,

You could probably make a case that Oblivion already has AI elements. It just wasn’t advertised as the type of “AI” available now.

solsangraal, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

i don’t like those odds. anything we can do to bump it up to around 75%-100%?

Chakravanti,

Sync Earth’s magnetic union of it’s core a bit finer and it will do exactly that.

burgersc12,
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webghost0101, do gaming w The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games

Archive it before EA finds it. Probably works better than the rerelease.

github.com/voicemxil/TS2-Starter-Pack

scrubbles,
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Archived. Of course they have no legal reason to take it down, but I’m sure that won’t stop them.

Megaman_EXE,

Looks like EA found it already. Damn.

I hate when companies rerelease games in a worse state than the originals.

I was just thinking about going and finding the originals, but of course, the new rerelease is the only thing available to purchase. Is the “athletic lady” site the still the go to place? I have not gone sailing in quite some time

FireTower, do gaming w Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Big win for consumers, at least in the US. People tend to do better in courts here than they do in arbitration (where one side pays the judge(arbitrator)).

wirelesswire, do games w 11 years after launch, 49M people still use their PS4s, matching the PS5
@wirelesswire@kbin.run avatar

The article states that the PS5 is responsible for significantly more gaming hours, so a large number of PS4 users are likely mainly using their device for streaming or similar. Hell, I still have my PS2 and 3 in my closet since they're my only dvd and blu ray players.

Dudewitbow,

the PS5 also has reletively low game ownership rate, so the hours on PS5 are either games given for free/part of subscription, or free to play.

makyo,

No wonder either, there are strangely few games meant just for the new system, and it’s been out for several years.

Dudewitbow,

this generation is odd because the effects of covid are still being felt.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

With or without covid, development times still got to be too long, and fewer games are the natural result of that.

phoneymouse,

I have yet to buy a PS5 because there isn’t a game I want yet. Also, Sony tends to release improved consoles with lower price points and smaller footprints after a few years.

stardust,

For some reason that doesn’t surprise me. When I got a PS4 there were like at least 10 exclusives I wanted. This gen seems it’s mostly remasters and remakes. So ignoring that Sony games come to PC now it doesn’t even meet my criteria of number of exclusives to justify picking one up.

Viri4thus, do games w First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80

Fuck Nintendo.

KoboldCoterie, do games w The $700 price tag isn’t hurting PS5 Pro’s early sales
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social avatar

Well, this all but guarantees that we’ll see more ridiculously high priced consoles in the future, too. Good going, folks!

junezephier, do games w Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and there’s a lot planned for it

ooo i can’t wait for more attempts at owning everyone’s ideas x.x

SiegeRhino,

maybe some more layoffs to round things out!

vzq,

And then some AI generated memorabilia for the low low price of $199+S&H!

capuccino, do games w Why console makers can legally brick your game console
@capuccino@lemmy.world avatar

so, chair makers can unchair your chairs??

kubica,

You should have thought it twice when you used it to reach that top shelf

masterofn001,

Using unapproved polish is against the tos and we have issued a DMCA (the C is for chair) notice of violation.

Your chair has been locked.

If you wish to unlock your chair, go fuck yourself. Pay us for another one.

Sincerely,

Go fuck yourself.

Thorry84, do games w New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3

For people that don’t know about this: If you want the unofficial Portal 3 check out Portal Reloaded. It’s a crazy mod for Portal 2 with excellent puzzles, new mechanics and a really polished feel to it. It’s probably as close as we are ever going to get to a Portal 3.

shrodes,

I recommend Portal Revolution too. It felt closer to a genuine 3 story.

Portal Reloaded was great but also quite complex compared to the first two games and I think most people who liked 1 and 2 would find it frustratingly difficult at times.

MossyFeathers, (edited ) do games w iPod fans evade Apple’s DRM to preserve 54 lost clickwheel-era games
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

That’s great. But how long until I can play Balatro on my iPod Classic?

(I love that indie devs occasionally port their games to nonsensical or obsolete platforms)

Edit: I actually think Balatro would translate fairly well; assuming the iPod Classic has enough ram and CPU to run a visually stripped-down version. When I had an iPod Nano I played solitaire almost obsessively. The controls were a bit slow due to the limitations of using a clickwheel, but they actually worked really well.

On a side note: does anyone know if capacitive clickwheels still under patent, trademark or whatever was keeping other companies from using them? I loved the way the iPod clickwheel felt and it sucked that no one else had a 1:1 replication of it.

mesamunefire,

Portmaster is amazing.

Cort,

iPod mini was the first with the capacitive touch wheel with integrated buttons. It came out in 2004 and patents usually only last 20 years, so it should be fine to use the tech as long as you don’t use an apple logo, or any of the advancements they made in 2005 or later.

Klanky, do games w Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic”
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

I don’t get why anyone pays attention to these wannabe Hollywood producers like him or Todd Howard. The most interesting and innovative things in gaming are NOT happening in the AAA space.

suburban_hillbilly,

Honestly AAA studios don’t even exist anymore. Is there any gaming studio making multipe $60 games per year you can name where you would vouch for the quality of their games solely on the basis of who made it?

Maybe some first party console games(and even then only some series), but nothing for PC.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

I’d be very worried if a studio was pumping out several full-scale games a year. Did you mean publisher? I find following publishers to be pretty hit or miss, they usually deal with a multitude of game studios whose output will vary wildly. The days of EA making a bunch of EA games is over, now people care whether it’s Dice, Respawn or BioWare, and what the specific game is like.

Studios still just making games do exist. Kojima Productions, Santa Monica, Guerilla, Remedy, Fromsoft, Square Enix, Larian, Id Tech, Insomniac, Sucker Punch, CDPR…

They’re just relatively fewer and farther between as so many studios have pivoted to spending years and years working on one live service title or another, and the rest of these you only really hear from once in several years, when a game comes out.

For publishers, Devolver and Paradox come to mind.

osaerisxero,
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Devolver is consistent, but paradox has been all over the place lately

SEND_NOODLES_PLS,

I’d like to think Firaxis and Sid Meier still hold water for Civilization at least, but I do get your point. Most of the games I go back to now and enjoy are nowhere near the ballpark of “AAA”.

OtterFool, do games w First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80

Always loved Nintendo, but this will be a hard pass from me.

MajorHavoc, (edited ) do games w “Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft

Misleading title -looks like all assets, functionality, and code were stolen, not just some HTML.

20,000 downloads at $3

The ripoff artist made $42,0000.00. Apple made $18,000.00.

The original creator made ~$2,000.00, after TikTok comments pointed people to the original.

And

“Apple encourages the parties to a dispute to work directly with one another to resolve the claim.”

Apple facilitated theft, and owes this developer $60,000.00 if they lose in court. But they know they don’t have to lose in court, because they can spend $6,000,000.00 or more on lawyers, forever, to set a precedent to discourage others from suing.

egrets,
@egrets@lemmy.world avatar

The ripoff artist made $42,0000.00

Not quite that much ;)

Etterra, do astronomy w Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032

I’m team asteroid.

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