I’m still eagerly awaiting the delicious schadenfreude moment of a loudly exploding AI bubble.
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As of now it feels like this;
and then you see this;
It is a huge money pit so a bubble burst is imo inevitable.
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Have you tried Fire Emblem? I think Fire Emblem Awakening on Easy/Casual would be exactly what you’re looking for
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So is this thread just open to anything now?
Like videogame recommendations?
Maybe we can start chatting about our pets or the weather or our latest horoscope? Yes? No?
Excuse the sarcasm. Somehow this thread just keeps trending toward the most arbitrary topics over and over again.
And in all honesty folks, if you really need to recommend games (note I do not mean to direct this to anyone in particular), you actually could have opted for a private message to the single person who started takling games.
greetings, Kologe
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That’s not entirely true. There’s also 0 A.D.
It reminds me of how a lot of companies in Hollywood and big tech began chasing streaming in an attempt to become the new Netflix, not realising that Netflix were so successful due to everyone benefiting from the deal and being forward thinking enough to have made streaming a profitable business model. The moment everyone splintered off into different streaming services, the costs of running such a service would increase drastically for those companies as well as the costs of producing content that made the streaming service worth it for customers. Now practically all of Hollywood is up in flames after making disastrous investments into streaming while not even coming close to beating Netflix.
Meanwhile Netflix had a massive head start with a functioning service and with enough capital to start producing more stuff in-house and also outsource from abroad like South Korea, Japan, and more to keep people subscribed more or less. Despite a lot of controversies Netflix were able to ride the storm by having multiple mega hits like Kobra Kai, Wednesday, Squid Games, and more. It’s pretty funny how it’s now coming full circle with a lot of those companies that abandoned Netflix are now starting to crawl back to them by releasing their stuff on the platform again.
Which goes back to the conversation about AI. There will be a lot of money lost chasing AI until someone finally figures out how to make a business model around it that is actually profitable. At least Netflix’s move to streaming made sense as the costs for streaming video had become cheaper by the end of the 2000s and they managed to make a business model that was more enticing than cable TV and physical media at the time. The same can’t be said about AI.
The AI bubble is basically putting the cart before the horse. The companies think the technology alone will make them ultra rich if they are first to out-compete the others, but there is clearly no business model built around it that would fill a need people actually crave for.
AI search is no better than what we had with Google search in the 2000s, with many who even consider it worse. Auto-generated images while a good idea on the surface is too costly to run with servers and the companies who make these services want to control what people make, thus defeating the purpose of giving the users what they want. The data required to train the models is a legal minefield of tons of copyrighted works and data no one would ever want to be seen storing on their drives due to ethical and legal issues. Even so, the data scraped online is starting to run out and the AI companies need new human input just to provide more training data. On top that, the AI tools are killing off businesses like websites where the data is taken from like Google replacing independent websites to get all the profits. Plus, companies that used to cater to professionals are now abandoning them in favour of casual customers who they don’t know if they can even properly monetise, i.e. Adobe.
I don’t doubt that AI will become a part of our daily lives, but the current AI boom is really backwards with how it tries to make a profit. A lot of investment money will be lost before profitability is achieved.
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The benefits of Open-Source games…
- No monetary risk
- No internet connection needed
- Dev builds available
- Forking as a failsafe in case of controversial decisions
- No forced updating
- No surprise additions of lootboxes and other F2P monetization after fooling reviewers
- First class support for mods (that can’t be revoked, see what is happening to Minecraft right now)
- No danger of going ‘Free 2 Play’ with all of the mobile game mechanics
- No buzzword chasing (ie. Fortnite’s sudden shifts in the quest for revenue)
- Community-driven
- Often does not require the latest hardware to run
- No license servers and easy copy/paste to a new machine
- No danger of the studio selling out to a large conglomerate
There are not as many options as the world of paid gaming, but the tales of gamers getting burned by the studios they thought they could trust are growing by the day.
the problem with open source games often isn’t programming but artwork. it’s very hard to have good art direction and a team that can do the same art style without a budget. also game design,…
The question wasn’t “why are FOSS games better”, the question was “what FOSS games can you actually play”, an answer that is conspicuously missing- maybe because there aren’t any?
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