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I think he has also said that there are other people working on the game now and he is mostly focusing on his new game iirc. So it sounds like he has just passed the torch and we’re gonna get more Stardew content forever lol

Well clearly we do when even Clair Obscur gets caught with AI generated assets in a fully released project and gets away with absolutely no hit to their reputation simply because they refuse to comment on it. I would rather more devs come out and talk about their AI use like Swen Vincke has done here instead of keeping it under wraps for fear of the mob dragging their reputation through the mud for daring to even look at the thing. Maybe then more devs would get real information on how useless AI is as a proper creative tool.

Jason Schreier released the full transcript of the interview and Swen Vincke never said they had “placeholder concept art” actually, he said that the artists had used AI to generate images that they then used as reference while drawing concept art. In the full interview he doesn’t even seem particularly impressed with AI, says that it doesn’t improve productivity much and implies that it is disappointing. I honestly respect Larian for actually coming out and sharing their experiences with using AI, even if I agree they should probably stop using it entirely, rather than doing what most other studios do and simply hide it under a rug and refuse to talk about it.

Yup, there’s a reason so many developers are willing to go to Steam despite them taking a larger cut. It was so weird that Epic seemed to market to consumers about how it was so much better for developers while they did nothing to actually make their platform desirable for either.

Yeah it felt like they literally marketed themselves as exclusively pro developers while having nothing for the consumer, which I’ve always thought was a really fuckin weird stance to take if you want to compete with Steam.

I really don’t think we should be using AI, I just think that it’s entirely unfair to describe Swen Vincke as “pushing AI” and I respect that he was willing to talk openly about it. However judging by the rabid hatred from everyone online I doubt he will ever talk about it again. Most developers that are using AI are almost definitely just keeping it quiet to avoid controversy right now. The Clair Obscur devs avoided the controversy of literally launching a game with AI generated content by quickly patching the game and refusing to give a statement to any journalist who tried to contact them about it and I suspect this will be the way going forward.

I really wouldn’t call it leaning into AI, they are using it for doing basic boring work and the CEO has even said he’s not even sure it actually helps that much with productivity. It’s really weird seeing the actual statements from Swen Vincke and then comparing it to articles saying he’s “heavily pushing AI” into employees, that just isn’t what’s happening.

I dislike AI as much as the next guy, but when even Clair Obscur launches with a few AI generated textures we have to just admit that AI is going to be used to some degree in a larger studio. So long as it doesn’t end up in the final product I don’t really care that much, it’s just kind of annoying.

I think with CDPR people had conveniently forgotten how much of a broken, buggy mess Witcher 3 was at release tbh. It wasn’t as broken as Cyberpunk but I think that it was also easily forgotten because people weren’t remotely as hyped for the game when it came out. CDPR actually has always had a track record of putting out really buggy games that get patched into great ones later.

They definitely do, I distinctly remember Stephen King making a big scene because they kept on giving him a verification check he didn’t want

Who is the official arbiter of game genres?

Man, you must have really had some outdated hardware, OpenMW runs pretty damn well even with graphics mods and such in my experience.

I remember Dark Souls 3 coming out on PC and my crappy little laptop at the time couldn’t even open the game. This was after I put dozens of hours into DS1 at 15 FPS so I knew it was a long shot.

More recently I played STALKER 2 for the first time and could hardly run it because my CPU was so bad, that one was a little disappointing to upgrade for…

Yeah they clearly can’t make a good, original game, so they’re just appealing to the dumb assholes who will buy games just because they “aren’t woke”

On the big screen on stage, yup

Do you think all coffee is shit out by cats?

I mean this is basically just how sleep should work. Shame it never really works that well

Streaming costs almost nothing to them comparitively, the expensive part is all the licensing

Oh yes, sorry. Really is my fault I didn’t schedule my fucking emotional breakdown at the proper time.

My habit of calling every person “dude” and saying “man” as just a way to start a sentence regardless of the gender of the person I’m talking to has made awkward moments before lol. I never mean anything by it or even think about it but every so often talking to a trans friend I will go “oop, sorry”