I was imagining Oblivion with AI elements, but yeah! Open world RPGs seem particularly suited to this kind of thing.

I’ll add that a blanket ban isn’t necessarily a positive thing, either. AI could be a component of developing unique NPCs, evolving bosses, changing economies, missions/quests, or procedurally generated levels (for example).

Obviously, at least some of that content would still need to pass human play testing, so it’s not like humans would be completely removed, but imagine if players had gameplay experiences that were entirely unique to them or changed based on non-RNG factors.

I agree, though, that reporting the use of AI and how it’s utilized is important for people to make informed decisions about how they spend their money.

And by the time Destiny 2 was near, Destiny 1 had grown into one of the best games I’d ever played. Then Destiny 2 came out and it was like they completely threw out everything they learned fixing and growing Destiny 1.

Thanks for the reply! I remember reading some stuff from D1 players who were bemoaning the power creep and ridiculous level cap increases with each new installment. They talked about how it felt like a real achievement to max out a character in D1, whereas in D2, you could get to max level in a week.

I never played D1, but I gave D2 a try a few times, and it just never felt like a full game to me. It felt like a demo for a game engine, and I spent a good part of the time going, “Why am I doing this? This doesn’t feel like it matters.” I was never enticed to spend $30+ for the DLCs, so they even failed to create a free experience that drew me in.

Wait, fr?

I tend to agree with you, and he probably thought he was acting in the company’s best interests, but I also think there’s an argument to be made that he was negligent in doing his market research to ostensibly prevent what transpired.

Additionally, this wasn’t his first time toying with that “pay to buy, pay to use” model. He’d expressed past desires to implement that model, so it could be argued that this was his pet project that he wanted to see happen, and his hubris blinded him to the dangers.

So, I don’t get it. Is it going to be F2P and live service like Destiny 2, or do you have to pay for it and it’s live service?

Either way, hard pass on that software model.

I hope those workers can sue John Riccitiello, because he’s directly responsible for fucking up the company and them losing their jobs as a result.

I’m sure it’s great for people that want something like this, but it should be illegal for laptop makers to claim it has a 4070 inside, when it’s almost certainly a cut-down 4070, so they can limit TDP and not melt the laptop.

It was kind of the same for Photoshop. Once it (and similar tools) became accessible to everyone, everyone was a “graphic designer.”

I don’t know if it’s a great analog, but I expect a similar revolution in a lot of fields, with the experts who are able to wield it effectively being the ones making the big bucks.

I do QA for a living, and that was an interesting read.

…VR is constantly innovating. But the work conditions for QA folks who learn the inside out of these technologies rarely are.

Welcome to the world of QA, where upper management is constantly asking, “What is the point of your department? Why shouldn’t we just roll this into Dev’s workload?”