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You are never going to answer that question with math and statistics, and attempts to do so are exactly why the industry keeps tanking studio after studio.

Do you understand why people play games though?

Warcraft 3 multiplayer was peak “matchmaking” in my opinion, where people created lobbies with certain rule sets and anyone who was interested in that type of game could just join directly. It was a blast, playing lots of different game modes all the time and meeting a wide range of player types, instead of having to invest an insane amount of time (3-10 hours, vs less than a minute to find a game in WC3) into one single game mode even before you can actually start playing.

What you have described is exactly what I was talking about when I called it “playing the game like a job,” where you have to invest plenty of time before you can even hope to enjoy it.

You absolutely certain about that reasoning? Because from what I’ve seen, when automated matchmaking is used, you NEED to play the game like a job just to reach your “correct” ranking and actually enjoy the game. People who don’t play it like that are driven away because of it.

I’d like multiplayer a lot more if they still made games with user-driven match making, instead of opaque algorithms hellbent on ensuring that everyone maintains a perfect 50/50 win rate. That and the death of custom game modes/lobbies have really killed all the fun of online multiplayer.

Come home, chill, chop some trees, level some skills, be a mage and kill some bad guys

Well, that sounds a lot like what I found in Albion Online, though I can’t speak for how it’s changed. From what I understand, it has some extensive guild/clan systems too, where you can work together to build larger projects and wage war with rivals.

Bit of an interesting game, when I tried it a long time ago, but it was too much of a grindfest for me. Then again, I never got into Runescape either for similar reasons.

That’s horrible! I can’t believe how these criminals are wasting the money that should rightfully be getting used for cheese pizza and hot dog parties!

If you think this is a partisan issue you are woefully naive to the nature of those people who seek the sorts of powers that big tech promises.

I wonder if you can get it to say anything bad about any specific person. Might just be that they nuked the ability entirely to avoid lawsuits.

Also, I’m shockingly infuriated that the tech workers that would end up being the ones replaced the soonest are so busy licking boots rather than throwing their shoes into the machinery.

Just because you aren’t hearing about us, doesn’t mean we don’t exist. ;)

The really fucking dumb part of it, you can believe me or not, is that this appears to all circle back to ancient misunderstandings about the nature of man, and attempts to create automatons which behave like men but are perfectly obedient. There is a subset of the population which tries this exact same bullshit with every new technology we create.

To be blunt, LLMs are one of the stupider ways to try and use AI. There is incredible potential in many other applications which don’t attempt to interface with something as irrational and unpredictable as people.

so this is actually the best the AI researchers can do

Highly unlikely. This is what corporation’s public facing products can do.

Because being an industry leader is more about controlling people rather than whatever it is that your industry produces.

It’s for those backless wheelchairs, so they have someplace to lean against and rest.

How dare he speak bluntly about having different tastes!

Yea, I’m just waiting for the bomb to go off when Mozilla inevitably ends up following Google’s example.

Forget story and mechanics. How’s the humour? That’s the core of Borderlands.

Not even seeing the movie, just media talking about it catches people’s attention.

its sad that these humans who feel they are accomplishing something dont see the truth; theyre just tools that can be discarded.

They are accomplishing something. It’s just not recognized by the greedy fuckwits exploiting their achievements for profit, other than for it’s ability to convince people to endure their bullshit in exchange for the chance to watch them.