Bu-si-ness mo-del.
Not: genre. Not: content. Not: players. We are talking about corporations committing systemic abuse for profit.
Abuse that’s gouging so hard, you might need FINANCING… to play a VIDEO GAME. How big a hint do you need that something has gone wrong?
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
Ban the entire business model.
But they can’t just patch out always-online DRM! Think of all the no more money they’d lose!
Having watched one (1) video about this game, I’d guess the best fix would be making the combat unhinged. Don’t polish it. Crack it. Make it fit the batshit nonsense story, by being interesting, instead of sensible.
No Man’s Sky did it first.
It’s easy to mock the Xbox brand like it lost a fair fight and is on its last legs.
But this is Sony acknowledging that consoles don’t matter anymore. The war is over. Who won is irrelevant. There’s just color-coded interchangeable platforms now, like releasing on both Steam and EGS. This was always the purpose of the Xbox project, from back before DirectX had a proper name… though admittedly Microsoft assumed they’d still control the PC gaming market.
Whoops.
Buster: “It’s not the pronunciation that I’m worried about.”
… right, and the reason nobody’s done that, despite the aggressive availability of local models, is that even a few static assets lead to shrill backlash. Like this article. My man is frothing at the mouth because a complex systemic city-builder used a program to draw the “you can’t cut back on funding!” guy.
We can assume the same people would screech that any game with generative dialog was “written by AI.” Like a text parser being able to respond to insults means the whole plot came from a ten-word prompt. It’s not a rational environment for selling studios on a multi-million-dollar investment.
I’ve got a few things but they’re not allowed.
Not even the Nazis openly joked about ovens.
Huh, it’s almost like this new tool is fine for placeholder art, and placeholders can be good enough to ship.
Did you know The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” was supposed to have a brass section? That driving riff with the fuzzbox guitar was a placeholder. They released it as-is, the song hit #1, and distortion became mainstream. At what point do we stop lamenting all the horn players who were robbed?
Hard to convince a studio to embrace it if this article is the kneejerk response to some PNGs.
Which leads the loudest complainers to act vindicated, because what could it possibly be good for, except the few PNGs they notice?
“Amazon got Lik-Sang’d” would be a fun note for this shite year.
Copyright is only a monetary incentive. If Riot’s not going to do anything with all that work and art, it should be public-domain.
Have you ever seen a calzone?
Nothing in a video game should cost real money.
Ban the entire business model.
Fuck them kids. Children aren’t why these bastards are offering financing for this industry-swallowing abuse.