warm

warm, 6 dni temu

Epic Games Launcher would always end up a pile of shit anyway. Tim Sweeney is a fuckhead and he has lots of investors to please.

warm, 6 dni temu

It only applies to Steam product keys though, so developers cannot sell cheap Steam keys on other platforms while still taking advantage of Steam's services.

warm, 6 dni temu

You dont like games that look like you have grease smeared over your monitor?

warm, 6 dni temu (edited 6 dni temu)

Do you have a source for that? All I can find on their Steamworks site is the rules on Steam keys being restricted, not other versions. Maybe I missed that email part in the news.

warm, 11 dni temu

I'm hopeful Valve, and by extension Steam, will be fine. The employees are like minded, I don't see it going public and derailing once Gabe has left.

warm, 11 dni temu

Yeah this is an easy one for Valve's lawyers, what a waste of court time.

warm, 24 dni temu

The final final update?

warm, miesiąc temu

Steam Awards is a popularity contest.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

There's differences in playthroughs, if you choose, but it is linear. The game ultimately railroads you to the same endings.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Yeah, the rest I can understand, Arc Raiders is anything but innovative.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Get a Steam Deck? You can hook it up like a PC, use it sat around. Though its not a powerhouse. Wait and see how the Steam Machine fairs? There's still a good second hand market for parts too.

Its a shitty time at the moment with scumbag companies and AI, so consumers are completely fucked.

Also: Fuck subscriptions.
Plus the game pass versions of games are complete dogshit compared to the Steam versions most of the time.

warm, miesiąc temu

Good thing to get away from CD Projekt, to be honest. I hope GOG thrives more in the future!

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

The guy isnt a publicly traded business though.

warm, miesiąc temu

Trained on stolen art of people who actually spent time making that brick texture?

Games are an artform, AI shouldnt be used at all.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Who made the textures or took the photos that them AI generated ones were derived from, do they get a cut? That justification is even more bizarre now, considering the tools we have to photoscan.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

So instead of buying the textures they didnt want to create, they paid for AI to generate derived versions from stolen art??

Whats the point? Just give the artists the money directly.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

AI isnt needed at all, we didnt need it in the past to create art. And with all the tools and knowledge available online, for free, theres even less reason we need it these days.

I've never pirated a game, but if developers are going to use pirated content to make a game, they cant be mad when we pirate their game.

warm, miesiąc temu

So instead of "Did you pirate this game?", the question should be "Did you pirate this game, responsibly?"

warm, miesiąc temu

In any game, not just indies.

warm, miesiąc temu

You have to draw the line somewhere, saying any game cant use AI is much simpler than an arbitrary definition of what slop is. Also means we reward real artistry everytime.

warm, miesiąc temu

That part is, the next part is who is it going to replace? Which artist isnt going to be hired because they just made something with AI instead? Thats some pure creativity just lost from the world.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

How have we all forgotten that games were made perfectly fine for decades without AI? Better games even.

I'd rather give an award to a "worse" game that didnt use AI, than to a game that did.

Devs can lie, but the truth always comes out eventually.

warm, miesiąc temu

"make a dirt texture"

warm, miesiąc temu

No, that's not the same thing in the slightest.

warm, miesiąc temu

Cool, dont accept awards then. Its not the be all and end all.

warm, miesiąc temu

Why didnt they just buy placeholder textures?

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Yawn. I dont think AI should be used at all and obviously an unintentional use of it appearing in a search result isnt the same as giving money to an AI company to generate textures derived from stolen artwork.

They could have just bought some textures from the large supply there is out there.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Did you even read my short comment? They can buy a brick texture from one of many marketplaces. Giving an artist money directly. Instead of giving money to use stolen assets. So that argument doesnt hold up.

warm, miesiąc temu

Yes, so they can buy some cheap marketplace textures instead of paying to use stolen content. What are we not understanding here?

warm, miesiąc temu

Of course not, big games were ruined before the AI craze, but that doesnt mean they are getting a pass of any kind.

warm, miesiąc temu

It's been proven time and time again that a game doesnt need to compare to AA and AAA shit to be successful. You dont need a big game with a big world. There's an endless list of simple indie games that had a captivating charm that are crazy successful, all without a single bit of AI used.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Why are you being obtuse? If the in-house designers didn't want to make some placeholder textures, they could have used a marketplace instead of AI. Are you just going to keep going in circles?

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Why go through the effort of AI then for them? It's the same amount of work, well less even, you'll get a full pack of textures at different resolutions with UV maps and all, versus AI where you then have to check it and potentially do more.

It says it all, when purchasing a texture is now "stupid busywork". You literally type in what you want, get hundreds of results, buy one, put in the game. They used UE5, Epic Games have Fab and it's integrated into the engine, they even give away lots of free assets there (granted that is probably going to fill with AI slop soon). There's loads of other options out there too.

This argument of "its placeholder textures" is null.

warm, miesiąc temu

The major rub of Gen AI art is profiting off of others work. If you’re never displaying it and don’t ever want it shown then who cares?

This doesnt even make sense, you just answered your own question. The major rub is exactly why we care.

There's no red tape. From the site I provided, the license allows them to use it privately or commercially.
It's placeholder and from all the options out there they could have found something.

There's also all the environmental problems with AI.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Predictable deflection and going in circles again.

They are spending money on AI, more than the cost of a texture :^)

warm, miesiąc temu

Exactly, they can't be angry if we don't pay anymore.

warm, miesiąc temu

They want to argue for AI, they just don't know how. Says it all.

warm, miesiąc temu

It's not indie, it had the full support of a publisher. Indie is a handful of people making a game with their own money, not getting a millions of dollars in investment from a publisher.

warm, miesiąc temu

Cute.

warm, miesiąc temu

The argument for it boils to "im lazy". Which is why they are struggling to come up with anything else that justifies the negatives.

warm, miesiąc temu

It's just a big advertising show yeah. Like E3 but with all the soul and community sucked out of it. I dont know why anyone cares.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

The awards are done by the big studios anyway, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft etc, thats the jury, it always has a bias. Anything else only wins something if its so popular that it has to. It's just a AAA circle jerk mostly.

But its not about the awards anyway, its about advertising.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Not exactly no, they are directly involved in the process. They pick which outlets can vote, so you immediately have conflict of interest.

As a fair awards show, its fucking awful, but as we know, thats just the facade to selling people new products. It's just advertising, hyped up.

Also media publications are often biased anyway as their entire business relies on exposure, which is infinitely harder to get if you are critical of games. Nobody is gonna slap a 5/10 on their product.

Not to mention its always games with money behind them, there's lots of actual quality games released that never get a mention, let alone a nomination, because they simply werent published by a big company. They have fucking DLC nominated instead of games if the big guys didnt release anything that year.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Nah, Larian will jump the gun, release too early and have another bug infested game. They need to reduce their scope, actually take their time and make a great RPG. BG3 was too much for them, a smaller more refined experience would have been amazing, they shouldn't chase "bigger is better".

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Ignoring all the problems, sure. You could get through it, but there were lots of bugs and inconsistencies. I played again recently after all the patches and while it was much better, it still had it's fair share of issues. The overall game, lore and story is very good, though I think DOS combat is far superior for a video game than DnD.

warm, miesiąc temu

Back to back releases isnt the problem.

Remember the "Call of Duty games are DLC" jokes? Well that is literally what they have become. There's no soul in them anymore. They are just a vessel to sell skins.

warm, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

Problem is, Treyarch were the only competent studio after all of IW left. So they have been constantly called in to help to clean up the mess the other studios keep making.

Now development on the games is split across Activision studios all over the world, so the chance of there ever being a coherent self contained experience again is basically zero. Their scope got too big and they couldnt find the right people to take it on.

warm, miesiąc temu

Depends what generation you ask, because a lot of the CoD audience now, never even played Black Ops 2. Which I agree, was the last good game, I'll give credit to BO3 for it's amazing zombies experience, with mod tools on PC, which was a surprise.