It is but even more level-headed concensus is that it’s just not that good or at least not polished and ready enough for release. It’s not fun and needed better collaboration with it’s audience to find the fun.

It’s funny because the argument being made is that what’s being enforced isn’t in their agreement. So removing clauses wouldn’t change anything

Are you complaining that won’t choose to lose money?

Outside of performance, most responses are “it’s alright” it’s not blowing anyone’s mind

It’d be interesting to see your take on FFXIV given that it’s essentially 2 games. One where you have a solo main story and one where you have a bunch of activities you do with friends. One does spawn from the other, but it’s so drastically different from your regular MMO that I’m not sure it deserves the title in spite of the fact that it has a shared world.

By going the route exclusives they deliberately avoided being competition and cemented themselves as the early access platform with no features.

Hades was as good as it was because it had a year to be mediocre on EGS first

Sub is tied to an account that needs to own the games. There might be a way around to trick it, but I’d be surprised if you didn’t need to buy the games twice with that method. You can extend the amount by 15 hours for $3 or $6 based on performance requirements.

Geforce now is for a limited demographic already.

The only people this would affect is those that have the time to hit the 100 cap, and the money to pay for the sub, but either can’t pay for the rig or are using it for remote play. In either case 100 hours a month is plenty, you can buy more and honestly the rate they’re offering is fine considering the maintenance costs likely involved.

I know this is going to be unpopular, but I know people that use it and I genuinely don’t know of anyone actually negatively affected by this. Neither of them have ever managed to hit the 100 hour threshold with gaming as a primary hobby.

Just to point out, LLMs are genAI. Lots of code editors provide code suggestions similar to autocorrect/text suggestions using AI. Strictly I doubt any game is made without AI. Not to say it can’t be deliberately avoided, but given the lack of opposition to GPT and LLMs I don’t see it being considered for avoidance in the same way as art.

So Awards with constraints on “any AI usage in development” probably disqualifies most modern games.

But if OPs purpose is to get achievements then it is a loss.

And social media wasn’t a thing, nor YouTube, nor forms for sharing it really known. Reading the manual on the way home, getting excited to play it was part of the experience.

Super Mario 64 was, by memory, one of the first to have tutorial-like directions and informational instructions in game with more in the first few levels. Even then reading the manual still helped. I was genuinely shocked when Skyrim just omitted a manual entirely compared to the thick booklet Oblivion came with.

Funny I had exactly the opposite reaction. It was far too short in a tiny area, I spent far more time battling the controls than solving puzzles, not that the puzzles were hard. I hated the experience unfortunately. There was so many times I thought, why can’t I do X, I’m a cat, but the game was locked into it’s traditional platforming. I did have a good bit of fun making people do their phones and run away with them, best bit of the game.

Not really. Sub numbers have been falling for a while, game pass value has always been borderline for devs and value hasn’t been increasing that well for gamers. Game pass doesn’t give dlc access, it doesn’t give big enough incentives to buy on the Xbox store.

If they started doing exclusives I’d be a little concerned, but I’m sure they know that would just hurt their already bad numbers.

Right now Visa, Mastercard and Steam are the bigger problems right now. And Steam just because their bubble is popping, their lack of guards has started to be exploited, which is going to mean they’re going to be implementing changes that are bad for everyone, but necessary.

Only in the US and “definitely not related to tariffs trust me” 🤔

Some switch 2 games don’t have physical versions, and I thought I heard they were just download codes anyway, can you even trade those secondhand?

The problem is hallucinations are part of the solution to conversations with LLMs, but they’re destructive in a game environment. An NPC tells you something false and the player will assume they just couldn’t find the secret or that the game is bugged rather than an AI that just made some shit up.

No amount of training removes hallucinating because that’s part of the generation process. All it does is take your question and reverse engineer what an answer to that looks like based on what words it knows and it’s data set. It doesn’t have any “knowledge”, not to mention that the training data would have to be different for each npc to represent different knowledge sets, backgrounds, upbringing, ideology, experience and culture. And then there’s the issue of having to provide it broad background knowledge of the setting without it adding new stuff or revealing hidden lore.

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see this attempted, but I expect it to go horribly wrong.

It’s also obviously not even the same paw flesh-wise

I think it’s well known at this point that grok in particular has been designed to be easy to manipulate by deliberately keeping it in the dark and feeding it only select information so that Musk can make it say what he wants.

There’s a middle ground. Maybe they shouldn’t be trying to release a new CoD every 6 months, but they also don’t need to take 11 years with it.

The issue we’re seeing isn’t really sure to production budget, it’s due to a broad squash on the middle class globally by governments going conservative and wealth pooling in the rich. And this is amplied specifically the response of companies to less people buying less games of increasing the cost of the games.

The reality is the people driving all the decisions just aren’t in touch with the reasons behind market shifts.

You’re against server based Anti-Cheat too?