echodot

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echodot,

Have they fixed the broken AI yet?

When the game first came out you could walk around the corner to hide from the police. And none of the NPCs knew where any of the roads were, so they were just scrape along the side of building for no reason at all.

echodot,

It has a single player campaign that’s how.

echodot,

He knows that. Which is why he’s talking about it and not actually doing it.

He’s basically just whining about it to us.

echodot,

A favourite of reactionist right-wing press.

Are immigrants sneaking into your home in the middle of the night and licking your children?

Well they should be. Lazy bums.

echodot,

The most pirated game is probably Minecraft because people are mad.

I think I slung £6 at them about 400 years ago and I still have access to the game and get all the updates, just doesn’t seem worth the effort.

echodot,

In Mirror’s Edge one of the jumps near the end of the game was programmed to be actually undoable. It slowed you down, just a little bit, so it was now impossible to complete the game.

echodot,

They have over 7,000 employees they need to lay people off anyway. The reason they’re not profitable is because they’ve massively overextended themselves. Why did they buy Wetter, utterly bizarre purchase choice.

If they had a sensible number of employees and didn’t buy random companies every 5 minutes they’d be profitable.

echodot,

I never understood why they even had that clause in their contract. You’re already not allowed to change the terms of a contract after the contract has been agreed (because otherwise what’s the point), you don’t need to independently include wording to say you won’t do it. Equally removing the wording doesn’t allow you to make those changes.

So effectively they had some wording that didn’t give anybody any additional protections, then removed it, thus not removing any protections. They then acted as if that weirdly allowed them to break the law, and then broke the law. Then when someone pointed out that’s not how it works, they backtracked.

Does Unity even have any corporate lawyers?

echodot,

Marc’s response is true, you can stay on the terms applicable for the version of Unity you are using as long as you keep using that version.

Oh shit, our lawyers have just informed us (again, but this time I listened) that trying to change terms of service after they’ve already been agreed is actually not legal and could get us in trouble.

echodot,

Also probably their lawyers told them that what they were trying to do was illegal.

echodot,

For me it was Daisy’s Garden.

I remember my friend at the time made an entire Pokémon game in it, with like 30 different stat modifiers and evolution and everything.

The whole engine fit on a single 3 1/4 in floppy disk. It wasn’t really a very good engine because I seem to remember you had to have the engine to run the games, you couldn’t just bundle them, but if you did have the engine there were quite a few fun things to do.

echodot,

Well yeah.

How is this news?

echodot,

If the technology likenthat is even remotely possible then it’s already being funded you can guarantee it.

echodot, (edited )

Yeah and it won’t work this time.

Unity is B2B, they tried to change the deal retrospectively. That’s toxic to a business relationship, it’s not viable to do business with such a company because they may try to do it again.

The only thing they can do now is fire the CEO.

echodot,

Oh yeah I’m sure that will work

echodot,

They keep making it worse.

Every time it looks like it’s starting to calm down the idiot CEO comes out and makes a bunch of inflammatory comments and tells everybody it’s their fault for being confused or somebody actually asks for an exemption and they deny it on made up grounds.

It would actually be better if they just fired the CEO and try to blame everything on him. That is literally their only move at this point.

echodot,

Somebody’s already asked some lawyers and they’ve already said it is illegal. Now we’re just waiting for somebody to sue them, but it’ll probably take a while because getting all of that paperwork sorted will take some time.

echodot,

Ok so firstly it’s not free, people pay for it, and secondly you act like there’s an alternative. You use the products that are available, if there isn’t a free product available or the free product that is available isn’t very good you don’t have a choice.

For a long time Unity was basically the only game in town other the Source but that was very old no one really used it.

echodot,

That doesn’t make it bad.

It’s a tool that can be used to replicate other art except it doesn’t replicate art does it.

It creates works based on other works which is exactly what humans do whether or not it’s sapient is irrelevant. My work isn’t valuable because it’s copyrightable. On a sociopath things like that

echodot,

Where did the AI companies get their code from? Is scraped from the likes of stack overflow and GitHub.

They don’t have the proprietary code that is used to run companies because it’s proprietary and it’s never been on a public forum available for download.

echodot,

It’s too difficult for you to manage not for it to manage. Keep up.

echodot,

I don’t know if you understand how this website works but you’re not on private IMs

echodot, (edited )

Oh it’s our fault for being confused is it, ok.

What a jackass.

Oh and look at that they are 100% going to increase the price on you down the line.

echodot,

What do you bet they have an actually figured that part out yet and were just hoping no one would ask, and then that they’d magically be able to come up with something.

echodot,

Oh, so is this the result of some negotiation with them, or are they just saying random shit again?

echodot,

They have a deal with the gamedev studio, not the platform owner.

They don’t even have that because they’re trying to back date this shit, and you’re very much not allowed to do that. Otherwise what’s the point in even having contracts?

echodot,

However the amount of negative press is overblown as they are starting far in order to give things up during negotiations. And despite saying it’s only charged on first install; I’ve seen people claim it will bankrupt devs

It’s charged on ever reinstall, not only on the first.

echodot,

Can Godot compare to unity in terms of features? I admit the last time I looked at it was probably over 2 years ago but it was very bare bones and could only do 2D graphics. Since the project I was developing at the time was a 3D game I kind of ignored it after that.

echodot,

It’ll be interesting to see how many games are made in unity. I suspect quite a lot will be actually because developers haven’t had time to learn anything new yet it’s been about 5 minutes. No doing that may screw them over long term so maybe they won’t.

echodot,

These guys are cartoonishly evil. But also completely lacking in any actual common sense.

They literally never seem to think more than one step ahead, it’s pathetic. Sure they might gain some money by screwing everybody over short-term, but long-term they’re going to lose millions when everyone abandons their game/platform for something else. Look at Blizzard, classic example, they’ve screwed themselves over by trying to screw the customer over, they would have made more money if they just kept Overwatch one going.

echodot,

Well it kind of is. Either they can differentiate between a new install and a repeat install, or they can’t.

echodot,

I’m not sure why they hired him.

“Hey we’re looking for a new captain, why don’t we go for the guy who repeatedly sails into rocks? He’ll be good.”

echodot,

There is still a lot of questions. How many components can I change and it still be the same computer and not a new computer? If I replace one component every two months after about a year I’ll have a new computer I’ve kind of ship of Theseused may way to a new rig. At what point would I have to buy a new licence?

If I don’t ever have to buy a new licence in that scenario why do I have to buy a new licence if I buy a new computer outright, it’s functionally the same difference.

echodot,

That’s exactly what they’re trying to do because their CEO is a nut job crazy man who’s grasp of business economics is embarrassing even when compared to my cats.

echodot,

I wish they would just use modern game engine / build a new engine that let people have inventories rather than having to teleport things from chests hidden under the world, and allowed animating of faces.

They keep pushing the engine they have past its breaking point and then it shows.

echodot,

There are random YouTubers who have designed more sophisticated ecologies with functional feedback loops.

The problem is though is that random chance will eventually result in some species going extinct, so either you have to spawn new ones in to replace them, and so have a check for loss of population, or just allow that to happen. The current implementation though is entry level first year student developer sophisticated.

echodot,

The game probably can’t load the levels fast enough to allow ground vehicles. As it is it takes time to load the landing animation.

echodot,

Well yeah. It isn’t an indy title so you would expect them to do something.

echodot,

Nintendo never makes high power consoles that’s not really their area. So I’d be surprised if this is true.

And what does PS5 equivalent graphics even mean? We just talking screen resolution or are we saying it can push the same poly count. I’d be prepared to accept it might get 1080p maybe 4k on a good day, but that’ll only be on low poly assets.

echodot,

As per for Nintendo

echodot,

That’s still way too many people for someone who crashes their country’s economy.

Anyway what’s the alternative not raise the prices? How’s that reasonable, the situation would just continue and they would continue to fall further and further behind on prices, behind the rest of the world, until eventually they decided isn’t worth offering the service in Turkey anymore.

echodot,

I don’t think a Turkish is a race. It’s more comment on international relations.

Also given the reason fact that Turkey tried to block NATO Sweden’s membership, I’m not particularly fond of them either right now.

echodot,

I’m surprised that the mod is even necessary given that the game can run on the Xbox S or whatever the hell it’s called.

echodot,

I would have much rather play in a single star system where all of the worlds are carefully crafted than them having this kind of “infinite although not really” random terrain generation thing.

Even no Man’s Sky has more exploratory options.

echodot,

Well yeah, this game doesn’t have buckets. So that’s helped.

echodot,

I still don’t really know what it is. Because it seems to have random generation so that makes me think it’s just going to be another no man’s sky.

The big problem with randomly generating a bazillion planets is they’re all boring. Random terrain generation will always result in dull terrain because an algorithm isn’t creative, it’s not even AI level aware, it’s just maths.

echodot,

For a while? So are other companies now hustling in on your game.

echodot,

Never ever ever buy a game until after reviews come out. It’s not worth it. It doesn’t matter if it’s from a legendary game studio, they can find all of the developers, they could fire all of the managers, and still be called the same thing. The name is no guarantee of anything.

Pre-ordering games had a point back when they were mostly physical, because if you didn’t, you ran the risk of them running out. Although I didn’t pre-order GTA V, and just walked into a game store on the day of release and bought two copies, so since then I’ve rather been of the opinion that even with physical products, it’s probably not very likely they’re going to run out.

But now everything’s digital there’s 100% no reason to pre-order. Make them make the actual product they claimed to have made.

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