Wow this is great, skillup has been my main source of gaming news for the last couple of years. He and his team does some great work and cover important topics like layoff and point out how nasty some of these publishers are. Love their coverage so this is an easy sell for me!
no rss feed though as far as I can find I found thisweekinvideogames.com/feed by trying random urls and that is a valid url that is accepted by an rss reader and has a name and description but no articles on it even though there’s 10 articles on the site
Strange, he mentioned RSS in hos video so I would assume it should be there. Couldn’t find it either though so it will probably be around soon. Website literally just launched so.
Its viewer funded yes. As described in the video parts of the website will be locked for paid supporters. Imo a solid thing to support these days of AI piss everywhere.
I don’t blame them, I also think the pay wall stops AI from stealing everything as well. I just wish they had a $5 tier. It seemed to be one of the big comments on the video, and I agree with it. Sure its less, but I would imagine the extra people gained from that tier would certainly help since its lost money at the moment.
As someone who works for a paywallled website, that’s hardly a deterrent. If the site is important enough, they will pay for accounts and crawl until the server melts
Is there any true way to block it? Does the crawler literally use the same access (443) as us to scrape content? If so, the only other thing I can think of is to block all known IP’s that AI crap originates from, but that sounds daunting and impossible to catch everything.
There’s no fullproof way. Even if you somehow block every crawling automation, there’s still puppeteering where the bot behaves just like a normal user.
That’s in the home page yeah, it’s makde kind of weirdly yea, with a sorft of fake “pop-up”. But you can still access the News and Features without limitations I think… ?
PirateSoftware used to pop up in my feed all the time, and I’d roll my eyes every time he whiteboarded the most basic dev concepts like they were groundbreaking insights. The tech industry is full of these self-proclaimed gurus who oversell fundamentals and act like they’re reinventing the wheel. I’m glad people are finally catching on to him.
This is in answer to the Stop Killing Games Initiative. He falsely claims that if SKG were successful every game would be forced to do all that stuff. While not realising that what he is describing is continued support for a game, not a dead game that continues to work without support.
It’s just a strawman, incorrectly inflating the costs by claiming continued support is the same as no support.
Interesting video. For people who can’t tell from the title alone, this is Chet Faliszek, who worked for Valve on titles like Left 4 Dead, talking about making the game Anacrusis playable after his company shuts down. The game was meant to be a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead, but was dead on arrival with player counts at all time lows after leaving early access.
I knew game companies license stuff but had no idea just how much content in a game can be licensed. In-game voice chat, art assets, music, and matchmaking all done by third-parties under licensed agreements that were really difficult to work around.
If his company stops paying their subscriptions, then the in-game voice chat and matchmaking stops working. The art assets and music he licensed can only be used in very specific ways and prevent handing over raw files.
It seems like he was able to get past most things by having Steam host everything as well as handle the matchmaking. His company can go out of business but players can still play through Steam (with some stuff removed like the in-game voice chat). Of course if Steam shuts down then the game truly does stop working.
The only way around these issue were if he never licensed anything and did absolutely everything in-house, which would be a huge burden. He just wants to make a game, not worry about load balancing matchmaking servers. That’s why he got another company to handle that part. Making development easier seems to also make end-of-life accessibility harder.
There needs to just be a Mortal Engines game at this point. Like honestly it would translate pretty well to some form RTS type game, what with the whole geopolitical nonsense that’s present throughout the books.
Just saw an interesting exhibit about societal shifts! It reminded me of the pressure cooker atmosphere in Papa's Pizzeria when the lunch rush hits – total chaos! It's a daily class war between hungry customers and my frantic attempts to fulfill their orders. Anyone else ever feel like managing Papa's Pizzeria is actually training for something bigger, like global domination? The struggle is real, folks.
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