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ArmoredThirteen, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs

This is such a bad time for me to be trying to get back into the game industry fml

JohnBrownNote,

might be better off trying to make the next indie darling.

Grass, do gaming w I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better

I would feel inclined to use it for some weird shit like if you use an undocumented and never explained method to ask characters questions outside of the choices, they’d pick up their phone and look at you with an uncanny valley/bethesda-like facial expression gain awkward animations and text you the responses even though they weren’t characters you could exchange phone contacts with.

agressivelyPassive,

Not even “weird” shit, just variations of similar sentiments on various characters.

Like, you have a city with hundreds of people on the street, yesterday something noteworthy happened and everyone has an opinion on that. Each NPC gets a bunch of parameters, some pre-defined, some random, and answers based on that.

Philote, do gaming w Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'

I don’t work in the industry and I could be way off here. But aren’t some of the developers hired on as a type of contract worker to finish a big game and well aware that if the next project isn’t lined up perfectly, it’s impossible to house that many employees. That’s how our construction industry is. Companies have to hire on and then trim the fat as needed.

sukhmel,

As far as I know, it’s usually not so in gaming and in software in general. But since software is easier to abandon when you feel like it (I know buildings, too, sometimes stand incomplete for decades) so it is easier to suddenly close the project and say goodbye to everyone working on that project.

MoonMelon,

This is true. Some things are completely outsourced to vendor companies with their own employees. You rarely interact with these people at all, or even know their names. All communication goes through a telephone game. Then the primary studio itself will have contract employees and also “permanent staff”.

Management likes to go on and on about how staff are “family”, but then treat them like shit and lay them off anyway. They also like to be subtly shitty to contract workers whenever possible, like free donuts in the break room! (for staff only)

Really, management is just shitty to everyone. Having been in both positions I honestly prefer contract. At least then I’m not expected to participate in their “corporate culture”.

onlinepersona, do gaming w Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'

How difficult is it to start a gaming company with all those thousands of people who were fired? Can they get together and start something themselves?

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Urist,
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Sadly, they are most likely forced to sell their labor for survival short term and hence cannot even invest their own time for the purpose of making something truly great.

onlinepersona,

Quite depressing, actually 🙁 I’m sure giving a healthy working environment and good pay, they could make really amazing games.

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sukhmel,

On a tangential note, I doubt that the license you include will have any influence on people doing scraping for commercial AI :(

Also, I am not sure what is the default licence the content on forums/lemmy is posted under and if that can be changed by including an overriding licence 🤔

onlinepersona,

I doubt that the license you include will have any influence on people doing scraping for commercial AI :(

That doesn’t deter me. It’s just a keystroke to insert 🤷 If someday I read that the EU or the US decided anything can be used to train AI, then I’d stop.

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Urist,
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I like it. It reminds me that Lemmy is a small space and that people on the internet are not bots, so we have to be nice to each other :) Plus it is always fun seeing you around in different threads.

onlinepersona,

😄 thanks. Lemmy is really small if I’m recognizable just by my signature.

Have a good day!

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onlinepersona, do gaming w Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces

Way to destroy your own event 🧠 What a community.

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aluminium, do gaming w So, looks like Putin's ordered the Russian government to 'consider the issue of organising' domestic versions of the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and Steam itself (with a side order of Steam Machines)

Go to Sjewjerodonezk to claim a free deck

Red_October, do gaming w You can't sue us for making games 'too entertaining,' say major game developers in response to addiction lawsuits

Well, you can sue someone for anything, you just can’t win for anything. For instance, those developers could countersue because the negligence and bad parenting of those parents materially damaged the reputation of those companies.

regul, do gaming w Phil Spencer blames capitalism for games industry woes: 'I don't get [the] luxury of not having to run a profitable growing business'

That’s not what capitalism means, dawg.

wccrawford, do gaming w So, looks like Putin's ordered the Russian government to 'consider the issue of organising' domestic versions of the Steam Deck, SteamOS, and Steam itself (with a side order of Steam Machines)

Oh wow. I can’t wait to watch that shit show play out.

Jesusaurus, do gaming w EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with it

Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V isn’t considered using AI to create a game btw… Someone should tell them that doesn’t count.

Sanctus, do gaming w EA CEO talks AI, says the usual stuff before the bong rip hits and he starts blabbing about a future where 3 billion people are creating EA's games with it
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EA’s games? Thats not a bong, its a lobotomy needle.

Sanctus, do gaming w Hasbro has made about $90 million by letting Larian make a D&D game
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And then they fired the team that helped make it

Mbourgon,

Well, the team that let Larian make it.

solitaire, (edited ) do gaming w Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent
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I’m unironically disappointed. I’d take any new direction at the moment, I’ve already been pushed past the point where it wouldn’t make a meaningful difference to me if it got worse. Even a change with a low chance of getting better is worth it over a guarantee of remaining shit.

gregorum, do gaming w Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent

never, not for a second, did I think this could happen.

7/10 troll though

unexposedhazard, do gaming w MSI's new Claw handheld goes head to head with Lenovo and Asus at $700

So its garbage in terms of price/performance ratio then?

thingsiplay,
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I don't know what you mean. It even has a screen. Not an OLED, but at that price point we can't nitpick, right? The only thing I really like on this device are the builtin Hall effect thumbsticks.

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