The Steam game store is 75% to 80% of the market for video games. Since January last year, Steam has had an AI disclosure policy on games. This is instead of just rejecting games with AI in them, a…
  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    16 hours ago

    It looks like they are going to start building an AI assistant into Unreal Engine, which would mean every future Unreal-based game would be questionable. No wonder he’s pushing this nonsense.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    76·
    2 days ago

    No, I don’t think so. It’s reasonable to request transparency. It’s not a ban. Let the consumer choose for themselves whether or not they should care.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 day ago

    Game store owner wants owner of other game store to stop doing something so his game store won’t look as bad.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
    46·
    2 days ago

    These corporate capitalists are usually deathly afraid of the AI hating invisible hand of the free market.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      71·
      20 hours ago

      A bit yes, but also not great. See how they treated the horse game, which prob will cause the studio to close. And the whole not standing up against payment providers when they try to ban porn in general. (Think they might have done a small thing, but it took long, and wasn’t coordinated), and then there is the moderation issues, the etc etc. Still Steam is better than Epic, but that is only because Epic is just bad as a storefront. Steam is lucky they didn’t work on that harder than they did and assumed they could just get away with giving free games (it still can’t properly keep you logged in).

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        16 hours ago

        See how they treated the horse game,

        The game where the preview version they sent to valve had a scene where a little girl asks to ride a naked man? And then rides the naked man? That horse game?

        • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          31·
          14 hours ago

          I dont know, as steam has not told anybody why they object to the game. You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.

          • SpaceMan9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            14 hours ago

            In an interview he said that they warned him about that scene when they sent the preview version…

            While I think the steam monopoly is bad, the developer has acted in bad faith.

            • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
              2·
              8 hours ago

              From what I heard they dropped that shit, steam still dropped them and didn’t mentioned why, that isn’t bad faith, nobody was saying it wasn’t an edgy game, and the devs didn’t hide that.

              You confused me complaining about the process with steam with me talking about the content of the game.

              I mean lets not forget there are several sex with hitler games on steam.

          • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            13 hours ago

            You confused me complaining about the process

            So what is your complaint? That Steam is not obligated to host every game submitted to them? Or that Steam does not take the time to provide a point by point critique of every game submitted to them?

            • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
              2·
              8 hours ago

              That they are a bad publisher, don’t provide good feedback, their tools on the developer sides suck (the stories I heard from people who have released things), they don’t help out smaller developers out at all, the 30% fee if you are small less fee if you are big thing is silly, that they are opaque as fuck when dealing with them, their moderation sucks (see how long it took them to do anything about review bombing for example), etc etc.

              a point by point critique of every game

              nice bit of bad faith there.

              • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
                3·
                3 hours ago

                How DARE you criticise my dear perfect little baby boy Steam, my lawyers will be contacting you shortly,

  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
    20·
    17 hours ago

    Black Ops 7 sold less than half as much as last year’s Battlefield 6.

    That’s definitely a mistype - the previous CoD game was Black Ops 6, and Battlefield 6 was made by DICE and published by EA. Still, makes a good segue into how Blops 7 (which went all-in on AI) compared against BF6 (which released more-or-less AI-free, going by DICE’s own comments).

    In terms of sales, Blops 7 sold 63% less on launch than Battlefield 6 did in its opening week, earning Battlefield its first sales victory over CoD in both series’ history, and breaking a streak of #1 sales CoD had held since 2006.

    On Metacritic, BF6 got “generally favourable” critic scores in the low-80s, whilst Blops 7 hovers around the 67% mark. The user scores are much more favourable - whilst BF6 is hovering at 7/10 as of this writing, BO7 is currently at 1.6/10, beating the notoriously maligned Modern Warfare III to become the lowest-rated entry in the series’ history.

    On OpenCritic, Battlefield 6 earned a “Strong” rating on all fronts (83% top critic average, 90% Critics Recommend, player rating of 90) whilst Blops 7 got a “Weak” rating (65% top critic average, 35% Critics Recommend, player rating of 20).

    Overall, signs are pointing to a historic victory for Battlefield over its long-running rival in the FPS genre, and a very public rejection of AI slop in all its forms.