Gamers have to be one of the most interesting groups of people. I'll define "gamers" as people who spend more than 40 hours a week playing games, and probably overlaps significantly with streamer consumption.
Extremely needy, demanding, and simultaneously spineless.
Riot releases a $500 skin and make a million dollars, GTA6 has a $400 edition that doesn't include the game, and of course the OG horse armor.
Outrage after outrage, yet they keep on buying.
Additionally, 99% of them have no clue how hard it is to build a game, at any scale really. They don't understand where corners have been cut, and that it's possible to use AI without cutting corners.
They quite literally demand the world despite having never created a single thing themselves, blindly consuming, never producing.
Personally, it makes no sense to build a game without AI. A lot of code is needed and you need to iterate on it, perfect use case for AI.
Art, buttons, sprites, and models, often need rounds of iteration, why not start with a basic set and work on it?
There's nothing wrong with iterating, there is plenty wrong with slop (like the 6 fingers in the trailer). So let's be mad at the slop, not the AI itself.
If people put up with horse armour but not gen AI stuff, that means there's a big difference in their perception. If you don't see that difference, don't assume it's their skill issue and not yours.
> They quite literally demand the world despite having never created a single thing themselves, blindly consuming, never producing.
This is referring to the people who object to writers and artists getting ripped off, right? Not to the people who built giant systems to slurp up all the things they haven't produce and can't produce themselves, to produce an average approximation they then think they "made"?
So iterate then. Make things, then train software on the things you made to made more things like that. Nobody would ever get "mad" about that, at worst they wouldn't like it.
bearjaws · · focus · HN ↗
Extremely needy, demanding, and simultaneously spineless.
Riot releases a $500 skin and make a million dollars, GTA6 has a $400 edition that doesn't include the game, and of course the OG horse armor.
Outrage after outrage, yet they keep on buying.
Additionally, 99% of them have no clue how hard it is to build a game, at any scale really. They don't understand where corners have been cut, and that it's possible to use AI without cutting corners.
They quite literally demand the world despite having never created a single thing themselves, blindly consuming, never producing.
Personally, it makes no sense to build a game without AI. A lot of code is needed and you need to iterate on it, perfect use case for AI.
Art, buttons, sprites, and models, often need rounds of iteration, why not start with a basic set and work on it?
There's nothing wrong with iterating, there is plenty wrong with slop (like the 6 fingers in the trailer). So let's be mad at the slop, not the AI itself.
customguy · · focus · HN ↗
> They quite literally demand the world despite having never created a single thing themselves, blindly consuming, never producing.
This is referring to the people who object to writers and artists getting ripped off, right? Not to the people who built giant systems to slurp up all the things they haven't produce and can't produce themselves, to produce an average approximation they then think they "made"?
So iterate then. Make things, then train software on the things you made to made more things like that. Nobody would ever get "mad" about that, at worst they wouldn't like it.