That attention is the dying embers of the torch he took to his career

Complete overreaction, but I agree that commercial games should not be using GenAI art. If you’re making money out of selling your game, then don’t use something which abused to commons to do so. If you’re making a FOSS game, I don’t see a problem with it.

Never heard of such modules. What are they?

I did not but kinda impossible to miss the similarities :)

Very cool, but, what I found always charming in PoP was the stressful swordfighting as well and I see none of that. It looks like a more platformy/parkour Dead Cells (which ain’t a bad thing)

Daym, I never even heard of this at all. Sounds exactly like my kind of game!

These people know only how to design system and nothing about human psychology and it shows. The people that play these games are never going to do this because you ask nicely or because you scold them. In fact they might go out of their way to do the opposite just out of spite. Smart designers would have introduced a positive mechanic for tearing down one’s base or cleaning out abandoned ones, or as other said, just added a degradation mechanic.

Unintentionally, but yes :D

DN4 was a joke until it got released, is my point.

The Duke Nukem 4ever of the new generation

Isn’t that relative. I.e. “higher” as in “higher than yours”? I.e. the way MMR works in most competitive games like chess?

A friend in the scene is telling me that the hardcore Tekken players are having a meltdown over this, while the casual enjoyers don’t mind it.

Reminder. The price doesn’t matter, it’s heavily manipulated through “stablecurrency” printers and wash trading.

It’s easy to generate something as generic as that, not as easy to generate mechanics. And if you don’t generate mechanics then you’re only doing fluff like I said

Honestly, I’d love that as well, but the problem is that you cannot connect GenAI generations to mechanics because they’re too fuzzy. The best way to use them atm is to use them only for fluff. For example to automatically generate the art for encounters, or the flavor text for card games etc. But even then, they tend to converge into generic boring slop. Still I think there’s some potential there for some creative roguelike devs to do GenAI fluff kinda OK.

If you did it as a hobby, then release it as FOSS.

I ain’t reading all that. Anyway you keep insisting that the world allow you to do what you want to do, I don’t think it’s going to work out the way you expect, no matter how big walls of text you write. Using GenAI in for-profit ventures is going to put you into a specific box. Make of this what you will.

I don’t support the current system whatsoever and aim to dismantle it. But if you do, and you otherwise play by the rules of the system, then you have to accept that your “free tool” that improves your work comes at the expense of the livelihood of artists and creators and is therefore immoral to use in for-profit products. I don’t agree with the scolds who claim that every GenAI use is immoral by default, but I do think that the tech itself when applied within capitalist practices is immoral as it’s meant to deskill and disenfranchise workers.

Anyway, any defense you can make for your “little indie game” can be made by mega-corporations using GenAI just as well.

If you’re making it for profit, and using public resources (like GenAI trained on all the commons), then the game itself should be in the commons as well. (You can still sell it or request donations though) I support the GenAI in FOSS, but for-profit closed-source games should respect their own ideals (copyrights)

Ye I agree with that 5 is best as well. Sadly the formula is overplayed imho. I wish we got more games in the fantasy 4x but with different takes on combat systems.

Get into boardgames. Now you have big-ass nerdy gamer boxes in your library which actually have a reason to exist.

Lol. I still remember the S2 CEO being a complete piece of shit and likewise fostering the most toxic community in the DotA scene, which is an achievement in itself.

It was so toxic, that in my first ever game, in a “new players” lobby, after I announced that I’m a new player. I got flamed for being bad at the game…

Here’s a good start https://youtu.be/v6jhjjVy5Ls

The only thing that’s dumbshit is your simplistic understanding of how the world works and how these systems interplay

Buying them randomly and being able to trade them is the a distinct decision and it powers this industry. They could shut this off immediately if they wanted to, but they profit from it.

Coffeezilla did a 3-part series about how CS2 skin gambling is flourishing and hooking children as young as 12 and Valve is profiting from its inaction to crack down on it.

I insist that this is nowhere near the same as actual gambling with skins on slots and such. Those are much much worse.

Ah gotcha. Thanks for the explanation. I’d argue reselling of accounts is nowhere near as bad as skin gambling though. It doesn’t trigger the gambling addicts.

I know you mean the general gambling of loot boxes, but no, I meant, literal gambling on 3rd party s(h)ites. CS2 skin gambling. Which iirc most other games are not doing.

The dark open secret here is that counterstrike (and potentially dota) made the most money due to being used as a vehicle for gambling

4 but none other than obtaining seems to be getting any updates lately, so kinda moot

These live service games are the “wow-killer” mmorpg of our age. Companies wasted likewise millions on those games and burnt out thousands of people, just trying to make their own golden goose. It keeps happening because Capitalism sucks

I fully expect companies would switch to releasing some bullshit and call the DLC released.

Btw, have you played something like Hades? You’re not technically a wizard, but close enough. And there’s other hades-like games which might be more “wizard-like”.

Oh man, that’s really sad :(

Badass wizard eh? Try Magicka! 😁

It’s an ongoing spam wave

EAC is heaxbear, confirmed!

Omg that logo. GoL is a hexbear confirmed!

It’s been used as a gracious closer, kinda like a handshake in chess matches, for decades now.