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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

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.

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!

RamblingPanda, 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

I want the old Blizzard back. The one that didn’t release a game until it was finished. And then kept fine tuning. The one that was ducking great

IWantToFuckSpez,

And sexually harassed women

RamblingPanda,

I’m not sure when this happened. I’m referring to the WarCraft 2 and StarCraft times.

GlitchZero,

So are they.

illi,

I mean… isn’t that today Blizzard too?

unreasonabro,

better destroy capitalism then

Carighan, 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
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Can they please not? I’d rather not have Blizzard stay Blizzard, seeing what they did to WoW, SC2, D3, D4, DI, Overwatch and worst of all, Heroes of the Storm.

AlolanYoda,

And to their employees

NekkoDroid,
@NekkoDroid@programming.dev avatar

Overwatch

Don’t worry, the person behind Overwatch 2 left in 2021 and is still held in high regard by a lot of people :)

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

person behind Overwatch 2

is still held in high regard

Ouff. I guess marketing earned their bonuses, sure.

simple,

Are you talking about Jeff Kaplan…? He was against making a sequel, and was against locking heroes behind a battle pass.

NekkoDroid,
@NekkoDroid@programming.dev avatar

He is the one that still wanted to make Project Titan work. Overwatch was the crawl, PvE was suppose to be the walk and then they’d have the run with the MMORPG.

twitter.com/jasonschreier/…/1771227101112205572

Anticorp,

Have they done something to SC2? I quit playing that game years ago, but it seemed like they were done touching it, and it was still in its original glory.

rigatti,
@rigatti@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah they just stopped updating it and let all their RTS talent go to other companies to make their own games.

redracc,

The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good. Blizzard has been transparent with their changes and have been listening to the community. Recently the alpha for the next expansion has released and seems very promising with positive response from the community.

So I disagree, I’m glad microsoft is letting blizzard developers do their own thing. After the tumultuous expansion Shadowlands, a lot of the old guard for blizzard were removed and the current executive producer Holly Longdale has been doing a great job.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Oh I had not yet heard that they’re turning the ship around. That’s really really cool. After all this time I just stopped following stuff around it since it got so depressing over the years.

She’s the one from WoWC, right?

redracc,

She was working on classic before being promoted to her current position. Regardless, the entire wow dev team has been incredible these past few months. There has been such an influx of news of upcoming content these coming weeks its almost hard to keep up. Hoping that they can keep on the gas as The War Within comes out.

NostraDavid,
@NostraDavid@programming.dev avatar

The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.

Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?

redracc,

Thats a disingenuous question…

I can’t speak to your preferences as there are multiple different ways to play an mmo. I can, however, speak to the community’s perspective and I have not seen the wow community be more positive about the current expansion since modern wow.

NostraDavid,
@NostraDavid@programming.dev avatar

Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?

redracc,

Its hard to judge community response for wrath or vanilla for a game made 16+ years ago (lots of people tend to looks things back with rose-tinted glasses).

I’ve been playing since MoP and started doing high end content in WoD. So from this perspective, I can say that I haven’t seen a more community response for the game since then, including legion. No endless grind for power, blizz being transparent about changes, and they are also listening to feedback.

Additionally, Shadowlands did a number of Dragonflight’s sales but recent reports indicate that more subscribers are coming back to retail wow and the expansion does not have the post-expansion drought of subscribers.

Ashtear,

Not Wrath or Legion good, if the numbers are any indication. While the community has generally been positive, Dragonflight simply hasn’t sold very well.

The expansion’s over, anyway. They have officially moved the expansion cadence to only two major patches from three.

Cybersteel,
@Cybersteel@lemmy.world avatar

The age of empire remasters was pretty so probably nah

ColeSloth, 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

Article didn’t really have any purpose to it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Eh I agree with the reasonable takes here. Nothing wrong with generating that sort of stuff until it starts resembling the likeliness of a real living person. Then I think it’s just creepy; especially if for some reason you are sharing it 💀

SSJ2Marx, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards
@SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net avatar

wow. Imagine burning out your expensive GPU for a fortnite skin.

Gemini24601, do gaming w An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards
@Gemini24601@lemmy.world avatar

What? Seems like porn generation is the new crypto mining.

DudeDudenson,

I’d rather have a wealth of new porn around rather than thousands random Blockchains going around.

At least the porn will probably be useful for someone long term haha

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