From the headline I thought they meant finish producing, coding or developing a game.
No, they meant playing
How stupid is this. What's the point?
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If I want to watch a let’s play, I’d watch a let’s play.
You ain't meant to do the fun things in AI era. You only work (for the moment) and do chores.
Just watch a movie, bro
Yeah or a playthrough on YouTube, much cheaper than the game. I wouldn't be surprised these AI helpers would cost extra
I utterly hate super difficult games. I played a bit of Another Crabs Treasure and just couldn't deal with the souls like combat.
There are games that I will just stop playing because I hit a wall and do not want to keep banging my head.
With that all in mind, fuck AI "helpers". Let me fail and give up on my own.
I feels like it's okay to hate on difficult game. I love darksouls and the g-rank/master rank of monster hunter, but i just can't do Lies of P, so i don't. This AI handholding is in respond to that, but i swear watching people stream is free and better than this, this just incentivize dev to skip more of the game test and making sure their game is easily underdtandable.
Right? I’ll just watch a playthrough or read the lore.
Can't wait for the bot to use all my consumables, miss an attack, dive off the edge, and delete the OS off my system.
Congrats Microslop. You patented something useless.
Seriously only Elon and such would put cash down for this
Not to detract from how stupid this is, but I once worked for a big American tech company who paid staff for every patent application they submitted, and again if it passed review and an application was filed. I don’t know if MS do the same, but it’s possible this is somebody coming up with a novel idea just to cash in.
I’d prefer not to speculate as to whether they know that it’s a stupid idea or not. At the place I was at there was a real split between the people cashing in and the people who genuinely thought that they had good ideas…
Who wants this? I bought a game, but I don't want to actually play it??
Rip Gamefaqs userguide with ascii artwork, you will always be in my heart
doesn't even need AI. Every game is built on flags and signals you can just trigger
Dumb. Why are you gonna play a game if AI is going to do it for you?
Kind of defeats the purpose of the word “play”.
People who view in-game achievements and custom gear as status symbols or aren't entertained by games in the same way as others. Some people's enjoyment may come from "having" as much as "earning".
Want a sweet bit of gear for your character that's only available if you grind eight hours a day for a set week in November as part of a charity event? Need to do daily quests of missions for weeks on end to maintain your ranking? Can't find time to sleep and finish timed events?
Different strokes, you know?
For me, I'm okay with not being elite, and letting those who have the time or drive to do extreme challenges have something unique. Then again as I've grown older I've come to resent games with massive time sinks that feel like a second job to me. I just want to relax a little. A game shouldn't consume all my free time just for me to make meaningful progress. But I'm not going to say those who enjoy huge grinds are wrong.
But for others, they may feel left out or cheated when real life commitments limit their ability to do these things and I'm not going to tell that's invalid. It's just games, and if they want to pay for AI to get a special hat for their character, that's fine by me.
EDIT: I will say, for co-op and competitive games, this would annoy the shit out of me, regardless of the AI being good or bad. But then again, I don't really enjoy anything that's online only with a ranking system or forced co-op these days, largely because of vast numbers of people who seem to take them far, far too seriously for my tastes, so that's going to be something I don't worry much about. To each their own, you know? But I get why it would be a pain.
LOL I'd watch a movie if I wanted to be entertained. This is so cursed, and it was a matter of time before Microslop was going to make games sloppy.
Now they just need to insert more grindy bullshit to incentivize using them.
Dead internet theory but it's just bots playing the battlepass for users that never log in
Good news for Elon who can now concentrate on blocking all the direct messages calling him a cunt without having the distraction of a video game needing to be played.
You mean he can save money by not paying someone else to play Path of Exile for him.
something something that one poem about a guy letting ai fuck his wife something something
This is going to be super useful for chuds who want to pretend they have a bunch of achievements but aren't really into it. Looking at you Elon.
I'm feeling better about having sold my XBox and cancelling GamePass for it and my PC.