Oh, there won’t be any install-tracking. They will „rely on users to self-report the data“. Sounds to me like they didn’t have any plan for how to reliably track installations in the first place because this is CEO bullshit bingo that was never cleared with the r&d department. So now „I’m sure the users won’t lie to us“ is their best option.
One of the most controversial elements of the policy concerned how Unity would track installations of its software. Although the company first said it would use proprietary tools, Whitten said Monday management will rely on users to self-report the data.
Do I even need to comment on this or can we just get some popcorn and watch while they find out that self-reporting doesn’t work?
I wouldn’t trust chatGPT on this. Sure, there’s a good chance it gets it right but also a non-negligible chance it gets it catastrophically wrong and you accidentally delete the files or rename them to something that’s even harder to fix.
From reading your comments, I get the feeling you’re not being „suppressed“ for what you say but how you say it. On most platforms, you are very welcome to talk about the topics you mention but you’re not welcome to be rude.
Now, you mention that you are not from the US and I assume that English isn’t your native language (it isn’t mine either) so this might be kind of a language barrier that leads to misunderstandings. Do yourself a favor and re-read your comments before you send them. Avoid excessively long sentences, avoid accusations, avoid swear words. This will make you sound a lot less aggressive and sarcastic and people will be a lot more open to discuss with you even if they disagree with you.
It also tells me that this is the first time their internal devs have heard about these plans. This is the C-level‘s wet dream, not something they have actually implemented yet.
But hey, it can’t be that hard, can it? The code monkeys should be able to get it to work in three months, right?
Don’t Samsung TVs have Steam Link integrated? That would get you pretty far.
I have a similar problem but with an LG WebOS TV which doesn’t get a Steam app without jailbreaking. Currently, I have a Fujitsu Futro s920 thin client(upgraded to 256 GB SSD and 8 GB RAM) which can output 4k but performance isn’t great.
Well, it is a bit harder than that. Most of the games are not mate by Microsoft but by other companies so they can't just decide to give them away for free. And even if they could get everybody to agree to that, they would still need to provide the infrastructure to download them which would be just as much work as keeping the old store running.
When will people learn that LLMs have no understanding of truth or facts? They just generate something that looks like it was written by a human with some amount of internal consistency while making baseless assumptions for anything that doesn’t show up (enough) in their training set.
That makes them great for writing fiction but try asking ChatGPT for the best restaurants in a small town. It will gladly and without hesitation list you ten restaurants that have never existed, including links to websites that may belong to a completely different restaurant.
Not really. It tells you that there’s a druid who can turn into a bear and there’s a romance option for him. That’s it.
Doesn’t mention who he is or how he‘s relevant to the story. Most players won’t even see that scene in their first playthrough unless they explicitly look for it.
I'm actually not too concerned about that. Yes, companies will try it because it saves money. But that will have a serious impact on quality and I still have hope that players will finally learn to just not buy a bad product. Sure, the bigger publishers will be able to sell through brand recognition alone for a while but not forever. This year, we've seen a lot of unfinished games and at least reviewers are starting to notice. The difference is that bugs can be fixed to recover from a bad launch. Bad content not so much.
I think the forseeable future will give us a hybrid solution where a writing team creates most of the content (dialogue for the main story and important side quests, character backstory, distinctive mannerisms) and AI fills in the rest.
One of the main problems with branching narratives is that it makes writing and recording dialogue very expensive. The upcoming Baldur's Gate 3 has something like 170 hours of cutscenes and players will see less than 10% in a single playthrough. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of dialogue lines. Developers have to find techniques to reuse as much as possible which leads to situations where the ending consists of a loosely connected list of applicable scene snippets. Now imagine that AI can fill in the gaps between those snippets to make them seem like a single continuous sequence.
AI can also fill in events that the developers could never anticipate. Imagine you killing a random blacksmith in Skyrim. With current technology, NPCs would either not react at all or give a generic "killing innocents is bad". How awesome would it be if the game would automatically generate a prompt from the basic facts: npc refuses to give discount, player kills npc, npc was blacksmith, player steals dead npc's wares, wares are needed for sidequest, ... and then use that to provide not only companion dialogue but also possible replies for the player. If this happens multiple times, maybe the companion will mention it in other situations or confront the player when they're alone. Imagine if during a long walk through the wilderness, your companions start talking about what happened during the last few days.
With a fully AI-generated character, this would all become very generic and unnatural but if every character can extrapolate from a few hundred handwritten lines to match their tone, this could actually work.
Doesn't apply to this case. This wasn't in a commercial product but a fanmade Skyrim mod.
Apart from that, I fully agree. AI is an amazing tool for prototypes and hobby projects that wouldn't be made at all without it (because honestly, nobody hires artists and voice actors for something only their friends will ever see). Making all AI-generated content public domain seems like a good compromise. Scientists and companies still have an incentive to improve the technology because people still have use cases where it doesn't matter if someone copies what they generate, hobbyists can play around as much as they want and professionals have another tool in their toolbox to speed up prototyping before they start work on the actual handmade product.
A bit different but The Painscreek Killings. You're a reporter investigating an abandoned village where years ago a couple of murders happened. There is no set ending to the game, you can leave at any time and answer a bunch of questions to see how much of the mystery you have solved correctly, a bit similar to what Obra Dinn does. Until then you can more or less freely walk around (there's a rough order enforced by keys and hints) and figure out what's important. I've filled close to 20 pages with notes, relationship diagrams and a few sketches and still feel like I've seen maybe half of what's there.
A tv with integrated Amazon Fire TV. I'd very much prefer some other smart tv operating system but apart from maybe Samsung (which is just way too expensive for me), most of them have a tiny selection of apps. I really love the LG WebOS on my other tv but last time I checked they still didn't have a steam app and I'm really lucky that they have something for jellyfin.
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Oh, there won’t be any install-tracking. They will „rely on users to self-report the data“. Sounds to me like they didn’t have any plan for how to reliably track installations in the first place because this is CEO bullshit bingo that was never cleared with the r&d department. So now „I’m sure the users won’t lie to us“ is their best option.