I think purchasing them was actually the bigger mistake then selling them. If you’re selling hardware at a discount because you plan on making money via the games then you probably want a lot of independent studios paying you to make games on your platform. Maybe offering special incentives for exclusive titles or something, but realistically having some flagship exclusives that may be in house and a healthy 3rd party dev community seems like it makes the most sense. You can sit back and print money once the console is made just by owning the platform. One company cannot realistically oversee the development of enough studios to make that model work. In my opinion, you need a lot of studios to make a lot of games to make your hardware compelling. I’m sure some people use their console as a dedicated COD or 2K or [insert game here] machine, but I no longer buy consoles because there just wasn’t enough to play on them to make it worthwhile for me.

I don’t know why steam won’t let us opt out of seeing AI games. (It’s because they’d make less money presumably).

I know that might lead to less games disclosing AI use, but steam should permaban devs that don’t disclose, issue refunds to purchasers, and be done with it. People should also be able to report games for AI and there should be a review process.

I bit the bullet and clicked through. The article cut off, but the headline seems a little misleading. They didn’t reject a finished game because it didn’t have enough slop. The devs said it wasn’t ready and they were told to ramp up AI use because people think more AI means faster turnaround.

Someone who has access to the full article can correct me if I am wrong.

Just looked this up and for anyone wondering: The pornstar is Bonnie Blue and it was actually a gambling company that bought naming rights. The gambling company is naming the child after itself. Bonnie said she was going to look into the company, and as of now there is no evidence that the child has actually been named that. Gambling companies are doing lots of weird viral marketing lately, so it’s possible this whole thing was prearranged.

Unfortunate that this junior employee is apparently anonymous.

Yea, those are often sus to me. Like why would you only use AI for the steam store page details? You’re gonna put all the effort of making a game in and can’t write a paragraph about it or throw some screenshots together? Seems unlikely to me.

What new video game have you paid north of $100 for? Was it a deluxe version or something?

Local subreddits used to have lists of things like top restaurants or little known museums etc. if your area has a community on Lemmy you might be able to contact the mods and see if they’d be interested in a sidebar link for it or something.

Instacart confirmed that this campaign marks the first time Instacart made its first-party data available for a brand outside of the consumer-packaged goods category to use on NBCU inventory. (Papa Johns is technically in the quick-service restaurant vertical.)

I don’t use instacart, but my understanding is that there is a fee for that service or some kind of minimum purchase agreement with stores. If you’re paying for a service it should be illegal for them to sell your data.

I didn’t see a direct link in the article, so here you go (seems to be Japanese only, which is understandable): https://gokilove.jp/

Some of my favorite games were early access and I’ve played them the entire time really reveling in new features as they come out. Unfortunately, I think Paralives is going to be too buggy on launch even for me. I’m used to buggy life sims in general and I’ve done alpha testing of games, but from what I’ve seen I might wait for a bit. On the plus side, the dev team seems really dedicated. I’m sure they’ll keep working on it, it might just be years before I personally decide to jump in. I also don’t think a price has been announced. If it’s ~$20 I might go for it regardless because I’m sure I’ll get $20 of enjoyment out of it even with the bugs. I think $40 is likely and it’s not a bad price, but I’ll definitely wait for a few more months of fixes at that price point.

Oh! Happy early Pfingsten!

Yea, I’m expecting actual sales patterns to differ a bit for this one because it’s a cozy game. A lot of cozy gamers might not use steam regularly enough to warrant wishlisting a game. On the other hand, it’s releasing in early access and I’m not sure if enough cozy gamers want to play this as an early access game. InZOI was another early access life sim that was less anticipated than Paralives and it sold about as well as Forza 6 (on PC) though it’s not as widely played. I think they are releasing on Monday because it’s going to be pretty buggy and don’t want people playing all weekend and running into a bunch of bugs. That plus they can address bug reports as they come up during the week instead of doing it over the weekend. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on how it sells and player stats though.

Interesting, thanks for posting! Monday is a holiday in the US and Paralives (a highly anticipated life sim) comes out then. I wonder if it’ll have any impact. In my gaming bubble it seems like everyone is going to get it and play all day on launch, but in reality I don’t know how interest stacks up against Sub or Forza.

The issue is that would impact Congress members that are actually fighting for the average American the most. Those Congress members would theoretically be elected due to grassroots support and are not trust fund babies that have wealthy donors able to keep them afloat. Your McConnells and pelosis could happily outlast the more progressive members.

People (not me), seemed to really like Thank Goodness You’re Here. Undertale is a popular one. Date Everything seemed funny from what I saw of it, and if playing with friends things like peak, baby steps, or getting over it. Lots of different genres there, but steam also has a tag for comedy games. Even if you don’t end up buying it on steam, you can always check that out in case you don’t get enough options via comments.

Exactly this. There was a pretty infamous outage in 2024 and a couple smaller ones in 2023. I don’t think I know a single working adult that hasn’t had at least one payroll delay for some stupid reasoning. I helped someone troubleshoot an issue that caused all of peoples second paychecks to be delayed. During onboarding they’d tell people to expect a delay in their 2nd paycheck and people just never complained for years. Banking is such a fragile part of infrastructure. It’s strange to imagine someone quitting the second the paycheck didn’t hit their account. I’m anti capitalist as hell and companies are not your family etc etc, but at least make a phone call or something first.

Devastating that Apple did this and still manages to have the worst AI out there. Was really hoping it was so far behind because it only used “ethical” or licensed data. I guess it’s bad just because. That’s extra embarrassing.

Oh, I’m aware of that. Just that courts will not rule against things that involve the use of AI in general. You cannot take the output directly from, but once a human gets involved they will allow it. There’s too many monied interests to allow the restrictions.

The question should be whether the final product is worth what was sacrificed to make it. That line is different for everyone, but it’s important to keep that in mind. Plenty of companies I boycott make acceptable products but are supporting a genocide.

I don’t think generative AI use is worth it however it’s employed and regardless of the quality of the final product. If enough people agree maybe they’ll stop using it.

This would never hold up in court, in part due to regulatory capture, but I think this is the only thing that would stop them.