pcgamer.com

unreasonabro, do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

They gonna let blizz be blizz, insofar as microsoft gonna keep giving the macroshaft. They gonna fuck you, but when they’re done, they let you keep your ass. Wouldn’t be much use to them without it…

caut_R, do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

Ok, but how much Blizzard is even left at Blizzard? lol

Anticorp,

Around tree fiddy.

NostraDavid,
@NostraDavid@programming.dev avatar

About 2 years ago I wondered the same, so I collected a bunch of data (of ‘who worked on which game’) and used D3.js to make a graph thingy:

https://i.imgur.com/iuCG7wy.png

Downside: It’s up to Shadowlands, not Dragonflight; Also, the few little circles pulled more left are mentioned multiple times in the same Credits, just under different roles.

The thick green circle is Customer Support (though this was before the mass-layoff by MS).

Live version here, but it’s SUPER janky - changing selections will generate a new graph lower down the page.

Raw JSON data here - I had to install Retail WoW (F2P is good enough), dig into the game files to find the .html files that contained the credits and then convert that whole pile of doodoo into JSON.

Pilferjinx, do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

Blizzard has already lost it’s soul to corporate greed a long time ago. Nothing to see here but empty cash grab husks.

PieMePlenty,

We hear you valued customer, that’s why we are happy to announce Overwatch 3! Note: overwatch 2 will be inaccessible when 3 launches.

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

“Coincidentally, Overwatch 3 will also be inaccessible when Overwatch 3 launches, because not enough people will have learned their lesson”

Anticorp,

Finally, Overwatch 3 is Overwatch 2 with an extra map, and a new subscription model.

illi,

But this time we will release PvE for sure (someday)!

Jimmycakes,

That’s Microsoft favorite part. You don’t have to keep selling it

Agora, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

Boring Dystopia

Hadriscus, do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

It reminds me of the line of defense some people have over sexual harassers - most recently Gérard Depardieu “oh it’s Gérard, that’s just how he is, leave him be” when he got sexually explicit in front of a 7yo

Raiderkev, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

You would think they would do this to mine Bitcoin too.

Omega_Haxors,

Whose to say they aren’t doing that on the side?

Omega_Haxors, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

100% that porn is not legal. It’s also pretty easy to tell which demographic they’re targeting with this.

DestroyerOfWorlds, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

explain this to a person in 1998

foo,

Imagine collecting the smartest people on the planet from 100 years ago and explaining this.

makingStuffForFun, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Imagine reading that headline 20 years ago.

Demdaru,

God that would sound so dystopian and futuristic…but to be honest, most articles about AI today would sound like that back then. Damn people would freak out about privacy.

melpomenesclevage,

pretty sure they didn’t.

catloaf,

BOINC came out 21 years ago, so it wouldn’t be that unreasonable.

gap_betweenus, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

Porn will be one of the first applied “arts” completely replaced by AI (including onlyfans like pseudo social interactions), which is great since in general it’s a rather horrible industry.

frightful_hobgoblin,

I love the industry tbh

gap_betweenus,

I enjoy the product, but the industry is pretty fucked.

frightful_hobgoblin,

I’m the inverse; I find the product boring but the industry is mad fun.

redcalcium, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

So, it’s like folding@home, but instead of donating your spare compute to science, you sell it to generate porn?

Someonelol,
@Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Porning@home

petersr,

Can we at least see it?

nucleative,

This… This was inevitable.

fidodo,

“Selling” it for digital copies of images and some variable tweaks

cygon, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

So… this AI company gets gaming teens to “donate” their computing power, rather than pay for render farms / GPU clouds?

And then oblivious parents pay the power bills, effectively covering the computing costs of the AI porn company?

Sounds completely ethical to me /s.

fidodo,

No no, they’re getting copies of digital images out of it. It’s a totally fair trade!

Paradachshund, do games w World of Warcraft boss says Microsoft is happy to 'let Blizzard be Blizzard,' but I'm not sure that's entirely true

And also what does that mean?

ThePowerOfGeek,
@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world avatar

A toxic workplace, almost no customer support, and plenty of micro-transactions?

Anticorp,

It means they’re okay with Blizzard launching expansions on maintenance day, so that nobody can actually play until the day after the game is released.

Mango, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards

Great. Now we’re trading pre-made traditional artwork to kids in exchange for fresh robot porn!

melpomenesclevage,

and the kids are getting the traditional art! would not have called it.

Flyberius, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards
@Flyberius@hexbear.net avatar

I remember when GPUs were used to fold proteins…

Snowyday,

I wore an onion on my belt

SturgiesYrFase,
@SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml avatar

As was the fashion at the time

  • Wszystkie
  • Subskrybowane
  • Moderowane
  • Ulubione
  • giereczkowo
  • Blogi
  • Spoleczenstwo
  • muzyka
  • sport
  • lieratura
  • rowery
  • esport
  • slask
  • Pozytywnie
  • fediversum
  • FromSilesiaToPolesia
  • niusy
  • Cyfryzacja
  • krakow
  • tech
  • kino
  • LGBTQIAP
  • opowiadania
  • Psychologia
  • motoryzacja
  • turystyka
  • MiddleEast
  • zebynieucieklo
  • test1
  • Archiwum
  • NomadOffgrid
  • m0biTech
  • Wszystkie magazyny