They didn't react because of Helldivers 2, it's because of their upcoming PlayStation to PC ports, who will feature enforced PSN linkage and they now noticed, "oh fuck, so many people won't like it and this will cost us sales", right now only Helldivers player were angry and boycotting, soon it will be every possible Steam customer, who has to decided pro or against getting a mandatory PSN account, for stuff like Ghost of Tsushima and more.
I would like to contribute to open source but I'm not confident enough or understand git properly. As solo dev I only have to fulfill my boss's standards, they seam to be low.
Your comment reads like rambling, unless you're so much smarter than anybody else. I couldn't make out many cohesive thoughts, merely guessing here.
First of, our universe doesn't change the moment we touch something, else any interaction would create a parallel universe, which in itself is fiction and unobservable.
Then you talk about removing persistent information. Why would you do that and how would you do that? What is the point of even wanting or trying to do that? An AI robot talking and moving isn't that different than when we had non AI, case based reasoning. Even the most random noise AI can produce is based of something. It's a sum of values. We didn't and don't generate a computerized random number any differnt.
You can't proof that our universe is or isn't simulated, simplified the simulation would only need to stimulate your life in your head, not more. Actually what your eyes see and what your brain is receiving, is already a form of simulation, as it is not exact.
No Man's Sky is using generic if else switch cases to generate randomness. Else you'd get donut planets for instance or a cat as planet, but you never will in infinite generations. Just because there's mathematical randomness by adding noise, doesn't make it change much about its constraints.
Even current AI is deterministic, but the effort to prove that isn't realistically approachable. I personality believe even a human brain would be provable deterministic, if you could look into the finest details and reproduce it. But we can't reverse time, so that's going to be impossible.
However we can only observe our own current universe. So how would AI change that now? Also our universe is changing even when you yourself interact with nothing.
It would help if your were more precise in what you're implying. What change of anyone's perspective? Doesn't seam to be any different to the past, unless you mean tech illiterate, like people would react on seeing a video/photo of themselves for the first time. It's not like AI can read your mind and interact with things the same way you would, nor even predict or do the same as you.
AI is just guessing and that's often good enough, but it can be totally wrong (for now) by doing deterministically things with only one solution. It can summarize text but will fail by simple math calculations, because it's not calculating but guessing by probability, in its realm of constraints.
I got a hit hung up on the headline take. Risk yes, but differently.
Games could use more risk, but making games is expensive and you just need a few bad risky ideas to tank it. Sometimes bad timing is enough, but that's another topic. Before I'd go big risk though, I'd involve the community via early access. Every single successful early access game I own has been successful because of them listening to the players.
I'd go as far and say, before EA there should be some public alpha, until the game is beta ready for EA. Because a lot of people don't realize, even the EA games we see, have been in development for 2-3 years already and that's valuable time and money.
For a few indie games however, I've noticed they take too much time in the public alpha and they miss the jump into selling their game via EA beta. Happened to me for example with Cosmoteer and maybe Beyond all Reason (if they don't hurry up with their EA release asap!).
You could argue, them never releasing the game out of EA, could be another issue, but thankful the good EA games do release for the most part. While the risk for the consumer is pretty low, as long as the base of the game is already decent.
I mean if you buy 3 indie games for 25 bucks and one fails, you still have 2 great games, while a single bad AAA title offsets you 75 to 100 bucks easily, without any guarantees the expensive game is good.
Honestly, I think China is going to do some stupid shit in near future. They know the US can't battle China on one front and supply Ukraine on the other. Both China and Russia can throw bodies at the meat grinder without remorse. So they'll get nervous to do something now and abuse this situation. Even more sad to see Europe react so slowly.
And as we know companies prefer to provide a service with a loss, for decades. Name a company that can make -31.5 billion and keep going.
Or maybe the data went to google, where they made the money.
Covid has shown the world that we can drown the world in bullshit. Before that, people used to care more and companies had a name to lose, now there's just apathy and greed left.
As if we needed any more reasons to hate Nestlé. If they ever find a sugar that's as addictive as heroin, they'd sell it to the world without telling anyone.
They didn't react because of Helldivers 2, it's because of their upcoming PlayStation to PC ports, who will feature enforced PSN linkage and they now noticed, "oh fuck, so many people won't like it and this will cost us sales", right now only Helldivers player were angry and boycotting, soon it will be every possible Steam customer, who has to decided pro or against getting a mandatory PSN account, for stuff like Ghost of Tsushima and more.