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MechaCrash posted:I just kind of have to sit back and wonder what they're thinking. Okay, I know what they're thinking, but you get what I mean. The last AssCreed was apparently their first game to cross $1B in revenue so gamers have not shown that they care about buying the "slurry." Or the sexual harassment, microtransactions, etc. It seems unlikely to me that AI-generated dialogue for NPCs just walking around that you can't interact with are going to be the gamer line in the sand.
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dunno if you guys played Watchdogs Legion, but the NPC recruitment quests already had runtime generated voiced dialogue, whereas AC:V did not I imagine these AI supported techs will get used in "cheap" games, not flagships
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Watch_Dogs: Legion definitely felt like a trial run for this sort of thing and if done properly it could create something amazing. Of course since it's loving Ubisoft, it's going to be used to churn out as much repetitive shovelware as possible.
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Barudak posted:I am confident we can build an AI that exists only to harass other AI We're already well on our way to getting AI to harass itself. https://twitter.com/brdskggs/status/1637114268876144640 Seriously considering doing the same thing myself.
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The CMA has dropped its concern that the MSFT/ATVI acquisition would lead to a lessening of competition in the UK gaming space. Presumably this increases the likelihood of the deal being approved by quite a bit. https://twitter.com/cmagovuk/status/1639237189631373313?s=46&t=IW0MSOWK0Lh4VsB3wVLoOA
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Video Game Writer Chris Avellone’s Accusers Issue Public Statement Retracting Accusations Of Sexual Assaultquote:The parties resolved the matter and claims were dismissed with prejudice pursuant to a confidential settlement that provides for a seven-figure payment that includes the return of the attorney fee award entered against Mr. Avellone in California. welp
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I'm confused, wasn't the case *already* dismissed due to the appeal? How did it suddenly go to a settlement?
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Fair Bear Maiden posted:I'm confused, wasn't the case *already* dismissed due to the appeal? How did it suddenly go to a settlement? He kept filing new lawsuits he couldn't win. I suspect the women kept facing harassment and didn't want to keep getting dragged to court or maybe couldn't afford the legal fees to keep at it. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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Mar 25, 2023 12:52
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loving creep. The small consolation is that he's basically had 0 work in the industry since the story broke out.
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Mar 25, 2023 13:00
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https://www.ft.com/content/4824dae0-847d-46d7-aa85-7a37daf82156?shareType=nongiftquote:UK regulator U-turns on Microsoft’s $75bn Activision deal Good to see the US is not the only country where a CEO can just call a guy and have any court or regulatory decision he wants reversed
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Mar 25, 2023 13:39
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icantfindaname posted:https://www.ft.com/content/4824dae0-847d-46d7-aa85-7a37daf82156?shareType=nongift The CMAs math they were basing their stuff on had some apparently basic errors in math (24% of all PS5 owners switching not 24% of all PS5 Call of Duty players) in addition to incorrect sales ratios between the two consoles.
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Mar 25, 2023 13:47
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Video Game Writer Chris Avellone’s Accusers Issue Public Statement Retracting Accusations Of Sexual Assault Fun fact: that entire article is sourced from Avellone's blog and written by a guy who was constantly batting for him. I suspect a lot of bullshit outside of the actual retraction. The "seven figure settlement" for one.
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Ah drat, I thought Erik Kain did some ok reporting. That article links to an earlier piece, also by him, which is an all-around poo poo piece of journalism. Just unquestioningly citing most of Avellone's blog posts and not including any references or reporting on the accusations. How did that even make it past an editor. E: like there's a difference between not treating accusations as verified fact and unquestioningly backing Avellone's narrative. The article crosses that boundary in so many ways. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Mar 25, 2023 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:Ah drat, I thought Erik Kain did some ok reporting. That article links to an earlier piece, also by him, which is an all-around poo poo piece of journalism. Just unquestioningly citing most of Avellone's blog posts and not including any references or reporting on the accusations. How did that even make it past an editor. I know people can change but I'm not surprised one of the "Gamergate is totally a legitimate consumer movement" guys is unquestionably backing Avellone.
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I wasn't aware of that but I also stopped reading game sites for several years when Gamergate was a thing. Just got a vague idea that it involved gettin all up in someone's business re. a relationship and figured it was absolutely none of my business to know more about it.
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Fruits of the sea posted:Ah drat, I thought Erik Kain did some ok reporting. That article links to an earlier piece, also by him, which is an all-around poo poo piece of journalism. Just unquestioningly citing most of Avellone's blog posts and not including any references or reporting on the accusations. How did that even make it past an editor. If it's on Forbes it's because Forbes is basically a blog and he likely didn't have an editor. Forbes the website is a very different beast than Forbes the magazine.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Video Game Writer Chris Avellone’s Accusers Issue Public Statement Retracting Accusations Of Sexual Assault He's openly admitted to being constantly drunk and aggressively creeping on woman, there was a point he was pretending to be all recalcitrant. Also, Avellone isn't working because he basically nuked his career by airing a bunch of office gossip, accusing high level execs of screwing him over, and in general attacking a ton of people who own companies/wrote his checks as not being grateful enough to him for being a heaven sent writing genius.
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Mar 25, 2023 23:33
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Chris Avellone wrote a Star Wars game where one of the main themes was "charity is bad" lmao
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An article in The Guardian/The Observer about Farming Simulator and Giants (the devs.) The equipment manufacturers featured in the game see it as such a valuable marketing tool that whatever system Giants has for gaining revenue from them is enough to cover the costs of developing the game. quote:How a video game has revolutionised the way farmers are buying tractors They don't actually go into what the process is for generating revenue from the manufacturers but the amount of actual farmers playing, and getting familiar with the equipment manufacturers' names, at the least, must be so valuable to the manufacter that it's a hefty amount of money. And as someone who plays a lot of Farm Sim I don't notice anything overtly "advertising" about it. Sure, not every brand is in there, but there's a lot. I have no clue if the equipment behaves like in real life, or if there are other changes Giants make, but I can't imagine it actually does because it's not a particularly hard sim. It's still a fairly astonishing thing for a business to achieve, with manufacturers being asked to be put in, in return for some kind of monetary aspect, after Giants started out asking manufacturers to agree to a licensing deal.
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https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/1639762248640897032 https://twitter.com/LeenaVanD/status/1639347400249864193 it’s 2023 and this loving poo poo is still happening. what the gently caress!!! it’s got to stop
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you would think the big reveal of blizzard's sex pest infestation would have signaled to the other monsters in the industry that perhaps they need to knock it the gently caress off. maybe quit while they're ahead. tone it down a little, and by that i mean stop completely. but no.
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Kith posted:you would think the big reveal of blizzard's sex pest infestation would have signaled to the other monsters in the industry that perhaps they need to knock it the gently caress off. maybe quit while they're ahead. tone it down a little, and by that i mean stop completely. I mean, what exactly were the consequences for any of those people? There's not really a consistent track record of people being caught out and punished in a meaningful way.
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pentyne posted:I mean, what exactly were the consequences for any of those people? There's not really a consistent track record of people being caught out and punished in a meaningful way. Uhhh wtf? Many of them had to stop tweeting for a few months, some had to leave Blizzard to go immediately make more money elsewhere, a woman got to be paid 70% of what her male colleague was getting paid while getting to pretend to be halfway in charge, and Chris Metzen had to answer a question from his daughter and then feel a little uncomfortable for the better part of an afternoon. The modern game industry utopia is here, and it's like you people can never be satisfied.
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Mar 26, 2023 18:25
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They did rename a fictional cowboy.
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mycot posted:They did rename a fictional cowboy. New thread title
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Even if consequences had happened, "they were stupid enough to get caught"/"they didn't have the right connections" would be the takeaway from anyone who's been doing it for decades and hasn't been called out yet but really mycot posted:They did rename a fictional cowboy. they also replaced the women with fruit
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The 7th Guest posted:https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/1639762248640897032 I don't really disagree with your premise, but I don't understand what the year has to do with the behavior. The industry had been a shitshow since at least the 70s.
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https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1640465809448534017?s=20 Well, there's a twist. I think.
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DanielCross posted:https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1640465809448534017?s=20 This feels like Microsoft leveraging their political connections to put a story in the news cycle about how actually they are the ones being unfairly boxed out and Sony is actually the anti-competitive one in an attempt to get everyone to throw up their hands and say “ah gently caress it let them buy Activision”
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DanielCross posted:https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1640465809448534017?s=20 Interestingly, the actual complaint seems to be entirely about exclusivity deals. It would be great (and very funny) if congress leaned in on this and declared console exclusives an antitrust violation. (Or a violation of our trade agreements with Japan?) quote:Japan allows foreign gaming companies to sell to its market, but U.S. companies have never gained a foothold. Microsoft debuted its Xbox in Japan in 2002, and despite 20 years of investment, still has a negligible two percent share of the high-end console market. Our understanding is that the Japanese government tolerates a range of exclusionary conduct by their domestic companies that may violate Japan’s antitrust laws, and that this inaction by the Japanese government harms the ability of U.S. companies to compete in the country. We understand that Sony – which holds 98 percent of the market – pays third-party game publishers not to make their content available on Xbox and systematically negotiates exclusivity arrangements that keep the most popular games in Japan off Xbox.
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…Does Nintendo just plain not exist in their argument?
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No one has given a poo poo about Nintendo through this whole thing because Sony very quickly made it about Call of Duty and those don't show up on the Switch Nintendo is in their own lane, thriving
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Yeah, all of the regulators have somehow decided that Nintendo doesn't count since it would make the argument that a console needs Call of Duty to survive. Ironically Sony pushing for that kind of classification may end up biting them in the rear end with the way things are looking now.
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Regalingualius posted:…Does Nintendo just plain not exist in their argument? It's a different market. So yes. They do not compete directly in high end console video games. They have a budget portable console.
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Sony makes a big loving deal about CoD because that’s the part of the merger that hurts them (and presumably ~market competition~) the most. I think the UK regulator even said the merger would be ok if Microsoft sold or spun off CoD. Activision Blizzard makes the rest of its money from Warcraft and Candy Crush. Obviously no one has any competition concerns about those games.
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The value of King's data hoarding simply cannot be understated in the mobile/cloud markets. That said, american congresspersons are some of the most braindead shitwits to ever draw breath. How long until Kazama Kiryu is sent in to bring an end to this charade.
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leper khan posted:It's a different market. So yes. I mean even if they did (Wii got a COD or two at some point, right?) presumably they wouldn't come up unless they currently had a COD game, it's not like the regulators would be like "oh no if we let you merge you'll keep not-releasing on the same platform you're not-releasing on" that said switch got diablo 3 and overwatch too and nobody gives a poo poo about those so
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Regalingualius posted:…Does Nintendo just plain not exist in their argument? Sony is also a giant monster of a consumer electronics conglomerate way beyond just gaming. Nintendo... isn't. In an argument on monopoly practices in general, Sony and Microsoft are on a whole different scale than Nintendo and encroach on a much wider range of products and services. Like comparing "total assets" values as reported on Wikipedia for 2022, Nintendo's value is a lot closer to ABK than Sony or Microsoft.
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rn envisioning a reality where the discovery process of a corporate court case requires congresspersons to listen to an idiot explain the origin of the DirectX project/Xbox logo & a bunch of old Adam Sessler material as part of a hearing on why japanese markets don't care about american game consoles
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It's an interesting case because Call of Duty is literally the entirety of what video games are for a lot of people- they buy a console exclusively to play it. And it's been like that since at least the PS3/360 era, two generations ago now. Having that as a console exclusive would be something Microsoft- or Sony- would be crazy NOT to pursue, by capitalist logic. (Or mercantilist)
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