PieFed.caTake-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN
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Do AAA game CEOs even realize AI is the main reason sales are down? The very hardware to run your slop has become unaffordable, you clowns! Bloating about AI is about the most tone deaf thing you can do right now.
Besides, we donât want slop in our games. If you actually used your products you would know why.
Look all other AI implementations have not worked out⊠But I am sure this one totally will.
Hand crafted games are boring anyways.
Sorry, Iâm only interested in boutique, handcrafted video games.
Meh. Iâm over it. Shovelware is abundant on all platforms and itâll lead to another industry crash similar to 1983 as soon as the economy chokes.
My Steam backlog will last years.
Assuming those games donât get pulled.
We always got piracy to fall back on if they pull that.
My VPN provider doesnât keep logs soâŠ.
Correct. Lets hope Valve remains a consumer-friendly monopoly for the long term.
Legions of lesser companies have long since enshittified themselves while screwing consumers until they are blue in the face.
God bless Gabe.
So the argument is basically that their company will not be overshadowed because theyâre using AI too, and because the important part of making a successful game is advertising it.
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We are not confused but you are. Quit smelling your own farts long enough to see we donât want and we are not gonna buy it.
Eh, the gaming industry generally feels pretty dry/dead these days to me, even with record numbers of games available. Thereâs just so many crappy half made âalphaâ or âearly accessâ things around. The very small number of âbetterâ games are often marketed so heavily that I find them boring and donât even bother to finish them â like BG3. And a lot of the âtriple Aâ content often trades engaging/fun gameplay for rent-seeking features without regard to actual player enjoyment.
A new tool from Google wonât fix that. So I guess Iâd sort of agree with the take-two guy.
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Oh, Iâm not trying to say there arenât some gems around. Itâs just that the quality options vs the garbage is already at a really bad ratio, and to find something like a âqualityâ indie game, you gotta sift through a lot of junk. And with marketing blitzâs, and the pervasive use of things like influencers whoâll steer conversations on various social media (including reddit, not sure about lemmy yet but wouldnât surprise me if it was happening here too)⊠theyâll hype garbage, or theyâll inundate you with so much marketing stuff that it basically spoils parts of âgoodâ games.
Easy example: the thing I liked most about the old BG games, was discovering/exploring etc. That style of gameplay was obliterated for me by how much marketing / comments / noise there was about that game â noise that was basically impossible to avoid if youâre online at all.
Idk man, could be Iâm just projecting on you conversations Iâve had with myself, but fondly remembering the sense of discovery you had with the Infinity Engine games while being sour on BG3 because it was âspoiledâ for you seems like it has a lot more to do with your sense of nostalgia than any rational critique. Donât get me wrong, Iâm the sorta person who will break out my soapbox to yell about Morrowindâs virtues vs Oblivion or Skyrim, and Iâve also attempted to cajole several friends into giving BG1 a shot in the lead up to and wake of BG3âs release, so Iâm sympathetic to your broader point. I just think, unless youâve been out here reading reviews, watching Letâs Plays, opening discussion threads, and sucking down all in-house marketing Larian did, you vastly overestimate how much of the game is spoiled for you. And, frankly, if youâve been doing all of those things, then the real culprit is how you spend your time online, not being online in and of itself.
Besides, the game is massive. Even watching multiple Letâs Plays of Act 1 would still leave room for discovery, simply because there are so many paths to pursue, many of them mutually exclusive. Hell, my big critique of the game is that I find the plethora of choices to be overwhelming, as Iâm the sort that likes to consume all content in a single playthrough, and thatâs literally impossible.
Eh, take it however you want I guess.
I still find games that I enjoy these days. Two that my friends and I have played through for a while are Valheim and Abiotic Factor. One reason those are more enticing, is that the proc gen on a game like Valheim means you canât as easily stumble across a post saying âGo here to unlock bear porn sceneâ or whatever. And while Abiotic is less random, itâs less well known/saturated by marketing shit, so thereâs plenty of âwait wtf was that?!â and âoh neat, I can do something new that we hadnât realised we could do before!â as we play.
So given that I still find games currently that fall into my preferences from way way back, itâs still something some games are capable of accomplishing. BG3, Iâve basically never made it past Act 1, as I get bored with it and its pseudo predictability and mundane mechanics. Like even the Divinity series from Larian, I found more engaging from the tactical fight POV just because the way they did elemental combo attacks on enemies and interaction with world components far better than in BG3, from my perspective in terms of player engagement â like thereâs still âtracesâ of that stuff in BG3, but its neutered. Plus they were less known games, without a constant stream of marketing shit showing you exactly how to min/max those events.
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