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moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

“Most of level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they’ve spent months building tools to craft levels quicker,” said one employee. “Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly, the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those individuals have been creating.”

Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.

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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
These games should be illegal anyways. They’re basically creating an algorithm that inhibits you to influence you to pay anyways. Not a game with gameplay but an actual business and this is just the business model layered like a game.

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- TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I was looking for some games to pass time in waiting rooms etc and was disappointed to see even Bejeweled has ‘contains ads’ & ‘in-app purchases’ warnings on play store. Why can’t I outright buy it like I already have on Steam?
  
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  - Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    i used to play that on my pc like 10 years ago.
    
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    TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    People still do.
    
    steamdb.info/app/78000/charts/
    
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- moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.
  
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