Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before"

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How many times do the developers of Baldur’s Gate 3 need to explain the basics of how to make a popular game and we all treat it like deep wisdom?

  I mean, I grew up basically raised by PBS and even saturday morning cartoons and thought that it would be basic, fundamental knowledge in the world today that reason and knowledge are power, that con-men will tell you what you want to hear, and not to believe people who say they’re “the best” and instead look at empirical evidence of all claims.

  I thought “wow the future is going to be amazing, we have all these programs that are telling us kids how to live, how to navigate a complex world, we will have a future of starships and science and wonders!”

  Now I’m here every day talking to the team I manage when they share obviously AI-generated “news articles” about scientists discovering mermaid cities and trying to get permission to spread their essential oil pyramid scheme through the company.

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• 7355608@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Not that there’s anything wrong with what they’re saying. I just feel like it only sounds like deep wisdom because the industry is so fucking broken.”

  -Competent soldiers commenting on the Art of War.

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Truth. A big chunk of that book is explaining to nobels that war is expensive, and maybe you just shouldn’t.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I believe Sven Vincke just likes to dunk on them. Can’t really blame him for it either. I’d do the same.

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• killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thats exactly why, if it wasn’t broken no one would be saying anything.

  its like a bunch of people running a marathon and a few take the bridge across while most others jump into the river because its moving faster

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• eronth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gonna have to do it forever until businesses figure out that half of what makes a game good is that it needs to be a literal passion/art project, and not just a checklist of shit that needs to get done.

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