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BudgieMania, do games w Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch

Letting anyone with a "horse in the race" do this would be silly. It would end up like how MSoft recommends you Edge when you interact with another browser, but even more stupid; "Hey you are watching Resident Evil 4! That means you like action games! I have a great one to suggest: CoD MW3!"

Also if you read the thing it gets even sillier

uses that data to dynamically recommend a video game for the user to play, generate a video game for the user to play, or modify content of the video game being played, as the user experiences the video stream or broadcast video.

This has the same DNA of those claims that video game NFTs would be magical things that would be shared between games without any issue. Is it too much to ask that the discourse about the industry is somewhat rooted in actual immediate reality? "oh it sees that you are watching FFXIV and generates a new dungeon in WoW based on what's happening on stream" like no. Come on. Dial it back to the current decade.

More specifically, there is a need to contextually integrate video games being concurrently experienced with a video stream

No. There isn't. Nobody wants to be "recommended" something else while watching their stream of choice. If you want to use streams to bombard me with your "hey hey our game just came out" there is already a way to do it, it's called "pay top streamers to pretend your new game is the best thing for an hour".

Also I was checking what my man has patented in the past and his level of taste and priorities is "Wanted to make a Silent Hill Ascension before Silent Hill Ascension":

Systems and methods for enabling audience participation in multi-player video game play sessions
Patent number: 10596471
Abstract: The present specification describes systems and methods that enable non-players to participate as spectators in online video games and, through a collective voting mechanism, determine the occurrence of certain events or contents of the gameplay in real time. Game event options are generated and presented to non-players. A specific one of the game event options is then selected based on a collective vote of the non-players. Once selected, the specific one or more of the game event options are then generated as actual gaming events and incorporated into a video game stream that is transmitted to the players as part of the gameplay session. In this manner, non-players may be able to directly affect the course of gameplay.
Type: Grant
Filed: August 3, 2018
Date of Patent: March 24, 2020

Like, nah. Go take your cafeteria napkin ideas somewhere else you buffoon.

Zahille7,

The description of the patent makes it seem like twitch chat integration, which is already a thing in a lot of games like Cities: Skylines.

BudgieMania,

Wait you are totally right, I thought it was merely about big time stuff like where the story goes next, but when you look in the details, it is so wide that it is also basically a patent for twitch crowd control style integration:

Optionally, the plurality of game event options include an occurrence of one or more earthquakes, meteor showers, storms, rain, wind, fires, lightning, or other natural disasters.

Optionally, the plurality of game event options include a placement or existence of armor, weapons, treasure, or other resources available to specific players in the gameplay session.

and so on with more of this type of stuff.

Uuuuh didn't Crowd Control launch before the filing of that patent? I'm kinda lost here.

Zahille7,

I found this article about Twitch and Warp World, the company that developed Crowd Control.

This particular bit is interesting to me:

Warp World reported that in October 2017, the month they launched, over a million Bits passed through the Crowd Control Extension.

BudgieMania,

Damn I must be misunderstanding something then because that makes it sound like my man gets to be called an inventor and activision gets to potentially benefit financially for what amounts to describing in legalese the utility after someone else did all the real technical work of making it a reality

which would be kinda fucked

icermiga, (edited )

I would hate it if games changed based on what they thought I wanted - I want to choose my content but if the content morphs underneath my hands according to a marketing algorithm then it’s not respecting my choice. There seems to be some assumption that each person enjoys exactly one emotion.

I’m pretty sure people can like more than one thing. Like if I’m playing Resident Evil and some algo decides that because I watched When Harry Met Sally last week, it should replace the zombies with awkward dates 🤣.

icermiga,

Gaming NFTs are a great idea. If I’m playing chess I want to be able to transfer over my items from other games, like a portal gun, to enhance the experience. NFT technology will permanently improve the gaming industry.

thejevans, do gaming w Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League resurfaces with 20-minute gameplay video
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

Always online single-player is the dumbest thing. It’s disgusting.

RampantParanoia2365, do gaming w Valve says "technology doesn't exist" yet for full Steam Deck 2.0

Back then, we really couldn’t engage with a display manufacturer to do exactly what we were after because they didn’t really understand the product category, or who would be buying the screen, or why it would matter. Now that picture has changed and we’re able to get custom work done.

Why would literally any of those questions be of concern to the screen manufacturer? And I don’t understand, did Valve begin work on this in 1918? How could anyone not understand the product category?

And009,

Understanding a product and having practical knowledge about building a speciality part are different ball games

Chobbes,

Display manufacturers may understand what Valve might want in a screen, but they might not understand how many units of a screen of such a specification they would be able to sell — is it going to be a custom job for just a few thousand of valve’s experimental console (which may have different degrees of success), or is it going to be something that they can sell to more people and a wider audience.

QuentinCallaghan, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy
@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz avatar

He heavily endorsed the bad decision made by Unity and his comments really didn’t help the situation so this is a welcome decision. Of course this will likely not change Unity’s direction.

4am, do games w Cancelled loot shooter Hyenas allegedly "Sega's biggest budget game ever", new report claims

“Gleeful Audacity” is the best way I’ve heard to describe the “Harley Quinninfication” of game characters.

Can we stop with the ultra polished sexy ringleader clown steampunk eyeliner girls? It’s tired AF.

FracturedEel,

How many are there really?

wooki,

I’m curious as well tbh

peasinspace,

tell me where they are so i can avoid them

lester,

I mean, I don’t like this particular stereotype as well but it’s hardly a trend.

ProfessorProteus, do games w Game prices are too low, says Capcom exec
@ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world avatar

As the great Jerma985 once said, “Fuck Capcom!”

ezures,

You listening to a psycho?

Gabu,

Over a company of psychos? Probably.

Jaysyn, do games w Game prices are too low, says Capcom exec
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

If the market could support higher prices, they'd already be charging them.

I honestly don't care what Capcom does. I couldn't tell you the last time I bought a Capcom game.

Gabu,

Capcom lives off of their good IPs from the 90s and Devil May Cry, nothing else.

Poutinetown, do gaming w Dev cancels Switch port of Wipeout-style racer blaming controversial Unity fees

Does Godot work for Switch?

strongarm,

Yes, but you need to work with a porting company or pay for proprietary software

greybeard,

That isn’t for lack of trying on Godots part, but there are parts of making a Switch game that are incompatible with an open source engine. It is possible to have a closed source export profile that targeted the switch, but someone would have to make it, and that someone would charge money for it. Which is almost exactly what has happened.

It is interesting how free it is to build games for consoles these days. Now that everything is on pretty standard hardware, gone are the days of needing a dev kit and special knowledge of how the CPU or other hardware worked. Even the switch is standard ARM hardware, the proprietary part is the OS integration parts, not the hardware.

atocci, (edited )

What the other comment said, but also for an example of a Godot game on Switch, check out Cassette Beasts!

Sharpiemarker,

I’ve had Cassette Beasts in my steam wishlist for a while. How is it?

bugsmith,

It is fantastic. The most polished and stylish monster tamer I’ve played to date. I strongly recommend it to any fan of the genre.

pixel,
@pixel@beehaw.org avatar

I haven’t enjoyed a “pokemon clone” as much in a very long time, coming from both a lifelong pokemon fan and a competitive battler. It respects your intelligence, buildcraft is fun, the monsters are cool, the story is surprisingly good (not incredible but still well done and touching and fun, big pokemon black/white and black2/white2 vibes in that regard just a bit more adult). I loved it

Sharpiemarker,

That’s quite the endorsement! I’m sold.

atocci,

It's so much fun, I legitimately enjoyed it more than the last few Pokémon games. I haven't enjoyed a monster collecting game that much since Heart Gold and Soul Silver. Highly recommend it.

Sharpiemarker,

Brilliant! Thanks for the recommendation.

sadreality, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 developer says pull your PS5 offline to fix sudden crash issue

You pay for PSN to be able to play this thing online... PSN does not work.

What are people paying for?

Also, release the physical copy assholes... You did it in Japan, why is US consumer getting treated like second class gamer?

Blizzard,

What do you need the physical copy for? You will have to download patches anyway.

sadreality,

There are millions of reasons, such as people in rural areas with bad internet can't download large game, none of which matter since I am paying customer lol

I guess if I am alone then fine but I am pretty sure many others wants physical copies of games.

Blizzard,

Oh, ok. I thought you were preparing some kind of internet down / zombie apocalypse scenario. But patches can be big too (I think? Haven’t even paid attention to that for some time).

UrPartnerInCrime,
@UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works avatar

If someone I’d going to spend the money on a ps5, games, and whatnot, they can afford to buy a cheap external disc player sorry

sadreality,

Weird flex, boy, but ok

null,

How do I trade in my digital copy? Or loan it to a friend?

Blizzard,

Ok. I don’t do any of that.

PapaStevesy,

You’re not the only consumer and they don’t all behave like you. Welcome to society!

Blizzard,

I wrote “ok”, didn’t I?

NeuralDissimilarity,

“OK” may not be the concession that you appear to think it is. Perhaps you meant “oh, I see,” but clearly it is being interpreted as “okayyy, what-everrrrr.”

PapaStevesy,

Yeah, you wrote it, but did you mean it? Not from my interpretation.

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m okay with the PSN being down from time to time, nothing is perfect… but WHAT? you can play BG3 offline, but you cant buy it offline? now I am more pissed they won’t sell a disc.

UrPartnerInCrime,
@UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works avatar
Quacksalber,

Also, release the physical copy assholes… You did it in Japan, why is US consumer getting treated like second class gamer?

Japanese people by and large demand physical media. In the US, developers have figured that they don’t lose a meaningful amount of money by only providing digital downloads. The typical US customer doesn’t care enough.

SSUPII, do games w $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet

For the quality offered the cost was very steep, but its also true the Switch doing some major heavy lifting already.

elbarto777,

What does that mean, the Switch doing some major heavy lifting?

SSUPII,

The hardware the game is running is painfully terrible in 2023.

else,

While the OP meant it the way he answered you, the way I see it used most often colloquially is that when someone or something does the heavy lifting especially in gaming, they are providing the bulk of the work. Like doing the heavy lifting in a team game equates to carrying the team, or saying a character does the heavy lifting instead of the player, means the character is overpowered and carrying the player (or vice versa).

nimmo, do games w Ubisoft Montreal's mandatory return-to-office order reportedly leaves staff in "turmoil"
@nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk avatar

I find it quite interesting that Ubisoft Montreal chose the same day as my employer to enforce 2 days in the office every week.

I’ll accept that there is a 1 in 356.25 chance that any employer will pick a specific day to enforce a return to office, but it does seem interesting that there would be 2 employers in different countries picking the same day. Is there something special about that day that makes it a special day to change where and how people work? (I know that there were events on 2001 that took place on this day, but that doesn’t seem too likely a reason to pick that particular day to enact this change)

Dienervent,

It's a monday. So that's already more like 1 in 52. There's been like 5-20 news worthy "return to work" announcements in the past year, I'm guessing half othem have mandatory 2 days, the other half have mandatory 3 days.

Multiply that by the number of things that happen in your life where a coincidence of this level could happen and you should be seeing this kind of coincidence a many times each year.

nimmo,
@nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk avatar

Fair points well made. I thought the 11th was a Wednesday and I’ve been off on holiday for a week or so, so brain no worky so good just now.

I’ll l go back under my lurking rock again.

Oneobi,

Heh, the 2 days will become 3 and then 4.

These idiots are totally destroying work life balance but honestly, they do not care about our welfare or mental health. We are just human machines that they think they own.

What is completely laughable is how they have become advocates of the environment and reducing carbon. Yah, my unnecessary shitty commute is really not contributing! They turn a blind eye to that yo.

sugar_in_your_tea,

We recently went from 2 days to 3 days, and I chalked it up to our new CEO (old one replaced for unrelated reasons). Granted, many departments were full remote, in violation of company policy.

I’m hopeful that we can get back down to 2 days in office. However, if the industry goes for 3 days as standard, the might not be realistic.

zib, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
@zib@kbin.social avatar

As much as I can't stand John Riccitiello, anyone with RSUs will have vested stocks sold on a fixed schedule to cover taxes. They don't get to choose when or how much is sold as long as they have their RSUs configured as sell to cover. The executives are no different in this regard, except they have a great deal more stocks than the average employee. However, this doesn't absolve them of the awful new pricing structure. That shit should have been walked back before it ever left the planning stages.

Talaraine,
@Talaraine@kbin.social avatar

So nobody would ever time such an announcement after such a divestiture.

zib,
@zib@kbin.social avatar

Don't get me wrong, the timing was fucking abysmal. They really should have thought about that ahead of time, but these executives rarely think about anything other than how to line their own pockets.

HeartyBeast,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

So your saying they didn’t time the share sales with respect to the announcement- they timed the announcement with respect to the fixed share sales date.

zib,
@zib@kbin.social avatar

I'm saying they didn't think about it at all because it's easier to blame users for misunderstanding than take responsibility for anything themselves.

Whirlybird,

If you’re selling shares monthly it doesn’t matter when the announcement is, you’re going to have people questioning your sell anyway. They would not have thought about the timing in relation to automated share sells at all because it’s a non issue.

GregoryTheGreat, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

CEO runs his business like a business that makes him money. This and more at 10.

RightHandOfIkaros, do xbox w Peter Molyneux says he regrets over-promising his games

His most recent game, Legacy, is described as a blockchain business sim in which players buy non-existent plots of land with cryptocurrency.

So basically this person and their companies are currently entirely worthless. Got it.

Kolanaki, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
!deleted6508 avatar

Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide were peak Bioware titles, IMO. The absolute pinnacle of their writing.

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