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BroBot9000, (edited ) do gaming w Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States'
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Good!

Its about time someone held these corporations accountable.

For the peanut gallery: it’s not about the violence in games. It’s about not getting data tracked on every purchase. Just because someone bought a violent video game doesn’t mean they should be tracked and exposed to more guns just because the gun manufacturers want to sell a few more units.

It’s exposing the mentally ill to targeted marketing campaigns and pushing them down the extremism pipeline that meta has created.

henfredemars,

Accountable for what actions exactly? Depicting a photorealistic gun in a video game?

Note: not the downvote. Just want to understand.

BroBot9000,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

“In terms of the Call of Duty publisher’s alleged responsibility, the lawsuits seek to connect the promotion of real-world weaponry to “vulnerable” young men who are "insecure about their masculinity, often bullied, eager to show strength and assert dominance.”

“The suits reportedly paint a detailed picture of Daniel Defense’s aggressive marketing, using Facebook and Instagram to “bombard” Ramos with material glorifying assault rifles after he downloaded a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game in November 2021.”

It’s targeted data stalking on the mentally unstable and pushing them to extremism.

There needs to be accountability and a stop to targeting people for the sake of profits.

octopus_ink,

There have been numerous studies debunking links between violent video games and violence. This is the 80’s Satanic Panic all over again with a different wrapper and target.

400 police failed them, not activision. Then they voted for the same leadership at the next election. It’s like everyone from the first responders onward just takes turns reacting to this shooting in head scratching ways.

BroBot9000, (edited )
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not complaining about violent video games like some Christian boomer. I’ve played them all my life and have no issues with realistic violence.

It’s the companies marketing them using data tracking and social media. Them getting directly connected to gun manufacturers through targeted ads is the issue. It’s exposing the mentality unstable to a barrage of targeted ads and pushing them down the crazy pipeline that social media has created.

Meta needs to be held accountable and if it takes M$ and gun manufacturers with them all the better.

octopus_ink,

Ah, I misunderstood the point you were making, I apologize for my assumptions.

Much as I hate ads (and especially targeted ads which involve datamining by corporations), I’m still not convinced this is something that can win in court, but I do see the distinction you are drawing.

mechoman444,

They’re not intentionally targeting the mentally ill to sell them guns so they can perform crimes with them.

What’s happening is this mentally ill person was searching things, the algorithm caught on and sent them advertisements to persuade them to purchase more of the things he was looking at.

The algorithm doesn’t really care what it is as long as it qualifies in whatever marketing parameters they have.

Did the algorithm persuade or affect the person’s actions and promoted the crimes that they committed. Probably not. Do these predatory marketing firms have some kind of accountability? They probably do.

But not for the reasons that you think.

BroBot9000,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

You are literally making my argument.

The algorithm is causing this and it’s creators need to be held accountable. Thats the fucking point.

mechoman444,

And I’m telling you that the algorithm isn’t causing this.

The underlying root cause of these things have nothing to do with marketing or any algorithm that any marketing firm employs.

The underlying issues are mental illness and a lack of mental health Care in America Not to mention the basically suggestions we have for gun control instead of laws.

Marketing firms cannot and should not be held accountable for people freely using the internet or any other service that also have mental illness

The relevant conundrum is that they should regardless take some kind of responsibility for this Even if they have no liability.

The fact that you are even talking about stuff like this even if it is out of ignorance and probably naivety is that you are detracting from the underlying issues causing these things to occur in the first place.

This whole thing is nothing more than a frivolous lawsuit specifically designed to make a little bit of profit from a settlement preying on the grief and torment of people who lost a child in that terrible shooting.

TachyonTele, do games w Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term'

Who’s taking bets on when they’ll buy the next studio?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

After the fight they had to put up for Activision, it will likely be a while.

TachyonTele,

We got one for not in a while.
Who’s got anything sooner in mind?

zaphod,

Activision wasn’t just a studio, it was a huge publisher with several studios, that’s why they needed approval from competition regulators. I doubt they will stop buying studios over this in the short-term.

Kolanaki, do games w 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability
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I just want games made by people who are trying to make a good game, and not games made by people or companies that are only trying to make money. Not one GaaS game is actually special enough to warrant spending more than the base price of the game on (and many aren’t even worth that when their next best competitor is fuckin’ free to play.)

caut_R, do games w Sega sells off Relic Entertainment, will axe 240 jobs

How independent is Relic really if they got bought by an unnamed external investor? Still better than getting axed and hoping the same kinda layoffs won‘t just come later („The studio hasn’t indicated if it will lay off any workers as part of the shift“).

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

The investor has a stake in the company, so they share in the successes and take on the risk of failure, but they provide capital to make this purchase from the parent company in the first place.

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

I mean that’s how most independent studios work. There’s always someone with money investing into the studio, be it an external investor or sometime at the studio.

Omega_Haxors, do gaming w EA will spend over $125 million laying off 5 percent of its workforce

Perfect example of “it’s not about the money, it’s about control”

ilinamorato, do games w W4 Games nets $15 million to help Godot scale exponentially

W4, eh? As in “Waiting For?”

Ab_intra, do games w QA staff at Xbox support dev Experis successfully vote to unionize
@Ab_intra@lemmy.world avatar

And they will probably all be fired…

Rin,

Yeah, unfortunately

Sanctus, do games w Report: Embracer to shut down Free Radical Design by Christmas
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

RIP the studio that brought us Time Splitters 🫡

nightm4re,

Well, the studio that brought us TS had been closed down in 2009 already. Deep Silver had opened a new studio under that name in 2021 (admittedly employing parts of the “old gang”), which is the one we’re now seeing getting shut down.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

After Crytek had thoroughly fucked them, yes. Much of the key people were the same and thats really what I referred to. The Old Guarde did not survive a second fall.

More importantly, people who directly influenced my childhood via Goldeneye and the original TS were in there when it went down again. To them, I give the mightiest of salutes.

avater, do games w Graphically updating the decade-old MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV
@avater@lemmy.world avatar

those images look the same to me.

Carnelian, (edited )

That’s because it actually is the exact same image

Whoever wrote this article messed up and pasted the same image twice for the Au Ra race, which is the first one shown here. The actual before and after shots are pretty obvious

Edit: this is not true, I was recalling a different event. Links are down the thread

MHLoppy,
@MHLoppy@fedia.io avatar

I'm not sure if the image has since been updated, but the horn-y boy before/after isn't the same image twice despite looking very similar. The left image has light-colored areas on the horns and some other similarly minor differences which are more noticeable when flicking between them but kinda hard to spot in a side-by-side.

Carnelian,

Ah, I do see what you mean upon closer inspection. You have a keen eye

However, this is most likely due to the author grabbing the two images from a different source which subjected them to different compression artifacts. They definitely both are the same model, even if the actual image files are not 1:1

I play the game and have followed these updates as they came out, so I was able to tell very quickly from looking at the hair and eyes. But don’t take my word for it: I quickly tracked down the actual before/after shots. Sorry for reddit link

bridge_too_close,
@bridge_too_close@kbin.social avatar

It is the same model, but the difference is in the horns and scales. Those pics don't do a very good job of showing it, though. From the paragraphs right above the pics:

Following community feedback after the announcement of the graphical update back at the fan festival event in Las Vegas, he shared an update of the Au Ra race, whose updated horns and scales had been initially revealed as looking very reflective but a little too much like enamel.

“This reflectivity looked very high quality so it was good for showing off, but it didn't really match our vision of what we wanted the Au Ra to look like from our original design back in 3.0, so we continued tweaking,” Yoshida admitted before sharing a new headshots of a male and female Au Ra where their horns look less reflective and more natural. “This goes for all of the updates for the other races as well. What we showed in Las Vegas wasn't the final product but a work in progress.”

Carnelian,

Well I’ll be darned, they are different.

I found the original keynote from the event, relevant slide is toward the bottom

It’s all a bit tangled up now, but the second set of pictures in the article shows the current in-game models and then the remade models, where you can clearly see the difference in the hair. The first set (the one in question here) shows the remade one, and then the remade-remade one with the muted horn texture.

I remembered this particular Au Ra from the slideshow about 4 months ago, so when I noticed the distinct hair being the same in both and found the original slides I tunnel visioned on that. But in truth, what we are seeing is a second pass after player feedback from the event I incorrectly believed the shots were from.

I apologize for not being as in-tune with the game’s news as I had assumed. I do not play an Au Ra myself so I had been kind of tuning out the drama around the scales and their luster. But it (and the changing of the glowing eye rings) has been an ongoing pain point for many. People get really attached to their look

MHLoppy,
@MHLoppy@fedia.io avatar

Thanks for the extra context!

bridge_too_close,
@bridge_too_close@kbin.social avatar

No worries, it happens.

As someone who has put countless hours into various MMOs (including FFXIV), I totally get people getting anxious about their characters looks potentially changing. I remember when WoW had their character model update as the feedback from players then. Blizzard resolved the issue by adding a client-side option to toggle between old and new character models.

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Aren’t wow players still complaining about the changes to the glowing eyes? Changing people’s characters, however small, always upsets someone.

bridge_too_close,
@bridge_too_close@kbin.social avatar

I couldn't tell you since I quit WoW 5 years ago, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Harpsist, do games w Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper

Take gf to burger place.

Take gf home.

Bang. Restore all health and status ailments.

Except crabs. Your character has crabs now.

How much more intimate do you need?

OfficialThunderbolt, do gaming w Embark Studios' The Finals uses text-to-speech AI for in-game voices

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  • t3rmit3,

    There is a difference between synthesized voices and AI-generated ones. Those old ones were synthesized.

    donio,

    The speech in Impossible Mission was sampled from a human actor not synthesized.

    t3rmit3,

    Hmm, they aren’t clear whether it’s fully voice-acted or whether he provided phonetic sounds for them to synthesize according to the text, but in either case, it’s not AI whatsoever.

    Important to note that ESS Technologies (the company cited there) was literally a company who made synthesized speech for video games.

    Electronic Speech Systems produced synthetic speech for, among other things, home computer systems like the Commodore 64. Within the hardware limitations of that time, ESS used Mozer’s technology, in software, to produce realistic-sounding voices that often became the boilerplate for the respective games.

    shiveyarbles,

    Stay awhile… Stay forever!!!

    DarkThoughts, do gaming w Embark Studios' The Finals uses text-to-speech AI for in-game voices

    I think tech like this makes way more sense for like random ass NPCs. Like the ones cluttering the background of a city or whatever. AI could really enhance them and make them interesting.

    Blackmist, do games w Report: Fall Guys dev Mediatonic "decimated" by Epic layoffs

    I played it obsessively for the first season and got pretty decent at it.

    The second season started, I got disconnected from my first four games about 3 rounds into each. Played it once more on the day that you could cheese the Infallible achievement by running Hoverboard Heroes over and over.

    Never played it again. Certainly never touched it since it went “free”.

    Nioxic, do games w Microsoft's next-generation Xbox pitched as a "cloud hybrid" console

    No thanks… lol

    I want physical media

    Coz i actually own those.

    Megaman_EXE, do gaming w The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East

    I could be wrong here, but this feels like a larger trend of trying to consolidate profits. Cut out anything/anyone “unnecessary”. Similar to the whole AI trend.

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