If you saw the DICE AWARDS (assuming you didn't because nobody did) you would understand from just the crowd how the DEI and nepotism got all the AAA studios to 1500 people listed in credits when dev babies and pet deaths are also included in the credits.
My concern would be that AI-assisted games have a lot of meaningless content. As an example of that, take No Man's Sky. While some of the gameplay loops are quite fun, exploring randomly-generated (close enough) content gets stale after a while and the NPCs feel meaningless, because they have like five lines and you will only meet them like once before never seeing them again. I'm worried that AI-generated games will feel like this, rather than having well-written stories and characters.
They could alleviate this by giving the NPCs a fuckton of dialogue. Design a character prompt (this character is a shopkeeper, their wife died, their child is terminally ill, they are losing their faith in their religion, they talk with a British accent) and then have AI generated a bunch of dialogue for them.
Judging by what little I saw (the awards were too cringe for me to watch the whole thing), I'm eagerly anticipating the next announcement of layoffs.
yeah luna's ult was "fixed" its now just a really strong heal. so anything that one shots Luna ends it not as oppressive as it used to be. so most ults can shut her down.
Yeah, there's a lot of counters to "invulnerable ults" now. Triple support will have a lot more issues now that their ult charge time is much longer and there's more ults to trade for that result in a +1 for your team.
Something like the annual COD release I can see the credit size being that large, since they have a time schedule to meet. But, no core team has really every stretched over a 150 ppl. Everything else after that is either hanger-ons or what has always been outsourceable busywork. Reality is that a lot of the busy work can probably be replaced by custom tools to create assets. The one that comes to mind is 3D modeling. You have an AI Controller and 2-3 concept artists. They sketch out and layout all of the visual concepts, you have a 3D Model Generation tool that the Controller manages, it spits out the 80% useful model, they verify the model is what they want, then they send it to a 3rd party "3D Modeling finisher". Once you have your core visual design set in, you can probably generate all of the temporary assets for a game in a couple of days, send them to all get polished and have built a very large game world in 3 months.
Jake should stop hitting the crack pipe and his kids and actually finish the game.
as much as the art niiggers moan and bitch about it, that's the future of development. I remember reading how a bunch of "artists" lost their jobs in droves when the first AI models were spitting decent images. These "artists" worked in shitty mobile games. A big chunk of that industry is reskining games and now with AI, they pretty much just needed one artist who doesn't give a flying fuck about the artistry. Once indies stop being colossal fags about AI maybe then they will be able to ship their games this decade and turn a profit.
A lot of people don't understand the stats don't matter for the most part. Tons of damage but no final hits as a duelist means you're feeding them strategist ults. Spider-Man won't be generating tons of damage because he's mainly going for picks on the enemy team's backline. Stats don't track a Peni catching the enemy Strange with a web as he's casting his ult. Stats don't show a Magneto shielding his C&D mid-ult right before the enemy Magneto's ult hits her, preventing her from getting 1-shot.
It always blows my mind when you have the number monkey DPS bragging about their damage, but they have half the kills I do with me playing Psylocke and I did 66-75% of their damage. If you can't secure kills, your damage is worthless.
There's just a lot about the game that people don't think about. Even low last hits are fine depending on what they're doing. Had someone complain about our Mr. Fantastic's low kills and damage but I could tell this gigachad was just sitting in their backline and exerting a shitload of pressure on their strategists, completely zoning them out and preventing them from being able to heal the rest of their team we were fighting. I just threw a Luna snowflake on him and their 2 strategists couldn't kill him between those heals, his inflated state, and shields he'd get from his grab.
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