Is this the release where they add vampires?

I actually wasn’t that invested since I couldn’t have gotten a bonus. The bonus required a certain amount of hours worked, but I always finished my work early.

I was on a team, not in the game industry, where they promised bonuses if the team worked hard and met certain milestones, but then they reneged on the promise after the work was done.

I have never seen a team implode so quickly. Nobody did work anymore. People were actively searching for other jobs at their desks.

Everybody good left the company. Everyone who was at least mediocre switched teams. The only people left on that team were the absolute dregs. And the product wasn’t actually even finished at the time. This was a mid development bonus.

Is pacifism ever about practicality, though? The issues you describe sound like the normal issues that always accompany pacifism.

Seem like an easy solution would be to have certain transactions be nonrefundable.

I say easy, but I guess it would involve quite a bit of software changes, and then you’d also have to deal with angry customers who ignored numerous warnings that a purchase would be final.

I read a story recently about how a graphic designer realized they couldn’t compete anymore unless they used generative AI, because everybody else was. What they described wasn’t generating an image and then using that directly. They said that they used it during the time when they’re mocking up their idea.

They used to go out and take photographs to use as a basis for their sketches, especially for backgrounds. So it would be a real thing that they either found or set up, then take pictures. Then, the pictures would be used as a template for the art.

But with generative AI, all of that preliminary work can be done in seconds by feeding it a prompt.

When you think about it in these terms, it’s unlikely that many non-indie games going forward will be made without the use of any generative AI.

Similarly, it’s likely that it will be used extensively for quality checking text.

When you add in the crazy pressure that game developers are under, it’s likely that they’ll use generative AI much more extensively, even if their company forbids it. But the companies just want to make money. They’ll use it as much as they think they can get away with, because it’s cheaper.

Those splice type of cheats require a highly skilled player who can play well for short amounts of time.

This was probably over 5 years ago.

I say “money”, but it was some sort of subscription. Like, become an X member and unlock the entire game sort of thing.

This is an ancient project. At some point in the past, I went to this site and it was intentionally broken by its developers, such that it would only guess from a small subset of possible targets, and if your character was outside of that, it would act like it knew the answer, but wouldn’t say unless you gave them money.

I don’t know if that’s changed since then, because that experience ruined it for me, and I won’t be going back there.

Are they even trying to change that reputation? The last I heard was that if you published a game app that was any sort of popular, you could expect it to be stolen and resold in China.

I also generally find it hard to trust any software produced in any totalitarian state.