The voice actor behind Baldur’s Gate III character Karlach has slammed gaming CEOs for their application of AI in development, saying they simply want to save money even if it means destroying their reputation in the long run.
Speaking with EDGE, Samantha Béart also touched base how actors will react to the continue push for AI in gaming, feeling they won’t simply back down while the technology effectively takes away their jobs.
'If the big companies dictate what games can be created, I don't think that will advance the industry.' -Shihei Yoshida
🙄 same guy who said 80$ is a steal lol and according to him M$ shouldnt put good on a services🤣 wtf
Subscription services have f***ed the movie industry and it's work force, caused massive studio buyups by companies like Disney consolidating huge parts of the industry under one roof and have creatively sterilised the IP's they've gobbled up. The same thing is happening to gaming, MS being the main greedy piggy.
I get what he's saying, but I don’t think we need subscription services to see a lot of the problems he's pointing out. All we really have to do is look at the gaming industry over the last two console generations. Even without subscriptions, the big AAA publishers have already been moving in a direction where almost every game feels like it's built from the same template. It’s all about streamlined, safe design choices that are meant to appeal to the widest possible audience. At this point, you could probably ask an AI to make a AAA game from a certain publisher and it would spit out something pretty close to what they’re actually making.
Now, about the whole “walled garden” thing... that’s not some future problem, it’s already here. Consoles have always worked like that. Their entire business model is based on controlling what gets released on their platforms. Sure, maybe they’re not as locked down as the extreme examples people bring up, but the end result is similar. If you’re not making the kind of game the platform holder wants, you’re probably not getting through the door. We’ve seen it with Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, even Valve does this in its own way with Steam. So yeah, the issue isn’t new or exclusive to subscription services.
Would a subscription-only future make that problem worse? Sure, it definitely could. But I don’t think we’re heading in that direction anytime soon. Unless physical hardware truly becomes a thing of the past and everyone switches to streaming games, I just don’t see subscriptions becoming the dominant model. They’ll stick around as an option, but I doubt they’ll take over completely.
Now, what will take over completely is digital media, and that’s a whole different issue that’s going to hit us a lot sooner. PC and mobile are already basically 100% digital, and that makes up around 70% of the gaming market. The remaining 30% is consoles, and even there we’re seeing the shift. Sony’s removing the disc drive from boxed consoles, Nintendo is releasing just one super expensive 64GB cartridge for their new system, which means almost all third-party publishers will end up going digital and Microsoft is mostly digital already. You either get a digital-only or a physical box with disc that only acts as a activation key. So yeah, that future’s already knocking on the door and the damage will be enormous.
Right, because then you can’t sell individual games at $80, which is an incredible value for the consumer!
It's now easier than ever to make "broad incorrect assumptions" about how games work.
Stop releasing broken games that need 6-12 months of patches/updates and while waiting for those patches/updates if gamers complain we are lecturer by game developers and community managers on how we don't understand how hard development is. First of all we are gamers we don't need to understand we are paying money to play a game and at the very least we expect a working product
Games cost 80 now and in few years will be 90 and within 10 years will be $100. So is it really asking for a lot to say please release games when they are in a stable playable state? Release now fix it later, release it now get some criticism but later when we will fix it gamers will praise us and call us great and our game sales will rise again. It's the same cycle. Just look at cyberpunk 2077 and how developers hid the actual console footage and reviews were using footage provided by CDPR and gamers were mad and now many of those same gamers praise CDPR for the job well done. This is why gaming is where it is today and developers know they can release unfinished games
Most drivers don’t know how cars are made, but still expect the car to be good quality and reliable.
It doesn't matter. I don't know how a good risotto is made, but I know when it tastes like sh$%.
Vapourware can end up being the stuff of legend, like Rockstar's Agent, Star Wars 1313, or StarCraft: Ghost. Without ever seeing the light of day, these games never risked the possibility of being played and forgotten, and instead live on forever as the subjects of lengthy YouTube essays.
Still, Molyneux's most notable lost game (or tech demo, depending on who you asked at the time) was arguably Project Milo.
I can see the potential of the kinect hardware... its rather impressive tech, but it was just not meant to be for gaming. If anything, MS had a huge missed opportunity to have used it for the AR/VR projects.
"Unfortunately, as we were developing Milo, so the Kinect device was being developed. And they realised that the device that Alex Kipman first showed off would cost $5,000 for consumers to buy.
"So they cost-reduced that device down to such a point, where the field-of-view...I think it was a minuscule field-of-view. In other words, it could only just see what's straight in front of you."
Hmm, exactly what tech was in it, that was cut, affected the development? It was only ever interpreting visual and audio inputs right? The xbox was processing those inputs.
Nor do I see how the field of view thing is relevant to the discussion.
Crazy though because destroying their reputation will turn people against them and you'd get more people overtime who will just not buy their products meaning less money.
So by "saving" money they end up losing it along with any good will they had with their audience...and i's not something you can get back so easy.
But I thought people keep saying AI is garbage and it won't take any jobs..?
Yeah, pretty sure those who had jobs doing adult calls are out of a job, like those you used to see on late night TV.. Plus numerous other *ahem* adult entertainment stuff.
They're already starting to use robots on car assembly lines. Not just the standard robot arms like you see in factories, but full humanoid robots, Mercedes included, not just Tesla.
So things are going ahead.. To be honest I kind of want a huge change anyway, we haven't had anything earth shattering happen for a long time, yes we've had powerful computers, smartphones etc..But this will be bigger than anything we've ever had if it continues to advance at a rapid pace over the next decade or even before that.
David Bowie saw something in an interview from 1999 : https://m.youtube.com/watch... I know anyone can make predictions or whatever.. still makes you think.
If someone’s voice is used to create an AI voice performance, that someone should have royalties for the usage. It’s the same with someone’s image.
The advent of AI shouldn’t be just another way the ultra rich get richer in the expense of ordinary people…
CEOs don't have good reputations that's why people want em dead. Don't think they'll care much.
I know this sounds heartless, but if it cuts down cost and dev time, and I can’t tell it’s an AI voice, I honestly vote for AI.