Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh dear, I'm not very good at slang. I can use it, but real words come more naturally to me . . .

You can't throw shade then

Well, no, but I can savagely excoriate or relentlessly critique.

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Not me. Probably a nice game but it's not the headspace I'm in right now.

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Oh dear, I'm not very good at slang. I can use it, but real words come more naturally to me . . .

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Quoting: eldaking

Quoting: pbThe idea is good but some of it doesn't seem enforceable, I'm sure they will be adjusting these requirements.

That is presumably why they are only doing it with selected partners with a proven track record. This is likely going to work more as a friendly agreement than a set of hard rules.

I think you parsed that bit wrong. As far as I can tell, what they're saying is they'll relax some requirements in terms of how specified the DLC are, only with selected partners with a proven track record. So if they know you well enough to be pretty sure you'll deliver something decent with that season pass, maybe they'll let you get away with being a bit fluffy in how you describe it.

I think it's fairly enforceable. I suppose if a developer didn't want to abide by the requirements, they could do a season pass thing without using the new season pass feature, and maybe call it something else. But if Steam has a feature for setting up season's pass things, then it should be pretty easy to flag when someone uses it so it goes by someone's in tray to do a quick once-over.

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Quoting: kokoko3k

Quoting: EhvisBecause the code that you use was written by the company that you licensed the engine from. With AI it is usually unclear what it's from and who is the rightful owner to the source material. Stores are simply attempting to cover their responsibility.

That covers the stores, not people pointing their fingers on this but not that.

I would think it obvious that the potential legal issue also points to an ethical issue, that people might perhaps care about if they, you know, care about ethics. Also, there's an aesthetic issue--people often think AI assets will tend to be bland and crappy, and extensive use of them suggests a developer without aesthetic standards or a vision of their own.

More broadly, some people worry about a kind of economic/ecological impact of widespread AI use. If everyone's using AI for written and/or artistic content, there are two potential impacts: One, nobody will be paying writers or artists and they will all lose their livelihoods. Two, because AI depends on original human writing and art as its source material and seems to get iteratively crappier if it is drawing on mostly AI stuff, the takeover of AI and loss of human artistic production would result in everything getting crappy as AI models are trained by scraping mostly the production of other AIs.

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Quoting: starpolloAll the past games had multiple difficulty settings, so yep, this is bait.

If so, then the person who laid out the bait would be the baiter.
But how good are they at it? Are they a master?

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: BumadarKadokawa is so much more then the owner of fromsoft, its more like the Disney of Japan.

I thought that was Ghibli?

Ghibli makes good movies that people worship (and seems to be kind of running out of steam these days). So, closer to Pixar I guess?

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Quoting: SeegrasOh, I had "The Warlock on Firetop Mountain". As a book, in German.

Huh. I had it as a book too (but not in German).
Come to that, since I hardly ever throw out a book, it may still be around my place somewhere.

Frankly, my recollection is that it was incredibly rudimentary. Those choose-your-own-adventure books necessarily kind of were . . . they were about short-book length, but not only was the effective length of the story shrunk to way tiny by all the branching choices multiplying that you had to fit in that space, but also a lot of what space was available had to be wasted on whitespace between bits. So what you actually had was any given page-through gave you something like a three page long story. A three page long story with a threadbare semi-random plot and no characterization, atmosphere, rising action or most other things that make a good story. Computer games do a much better job of this kind of storytelling--they don't have the same kind of constraints.
So overall, these are an old thing that was around when I was young but I'm basically not nostalgic about them at all--they were an interesting idea that just didn't work out in practice.

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Quoting: Leahi84This feels like it should raise red flags Anti-Trust wise. This would totally be investigated in the US and possibly blocked. But I don't know what Japan's monopoly laws are like, if they even have any. What little I do know about them is that corporations seem to control things even more than in the US.

I'm no expert on this either, but my impression is . . . yes and no. Corporations in Japan are very powerful, but they are probably a little more constrained by norms of behaviour than in the US. Not nearly as much as they used to be, the strong expectations of paternalism that held in the old days have been stretched to breaking point. But there are things companies could do, like probably the kind of stuff private equity gets up to in the US where they do debt-leveraged takeovers to loot and kill the victim company leaving dysfunction and unemployment in their wake, that in Japan would be considered bad and rocking the boat. And if someone tried doing such things, there would be a lot of informal mechanisms to encourage them not to.
But taking over competitors to strengthen your oligopolistic position in the market probably isn't one of those things the Japanese establishment would object to . . . not sure it ever was.

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OK this is going to sound like a minimal point, but I like the art, or maybe more what you'd call the visual design. Normally I'm not huge on visuals, but I've been put off by a few RTS just because they're kind of low-contrast and muddy and your forces don't make an impression. This definitely has that Starcraft "Those, those there--those are my troops. And they look fairly cool. And those others are definitely the enemy" feel.

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