You understand why they changed those terms, right? Because Mozilla isn’t reselling the data and the data can’t go elsewhere.

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Eve online Star Citizen have very little in common.

I asked the question honestly. I want to know why they care.

The point I was making was a response to the budget statement. Starfield uses an engine that bethsoft first licensed expensively, modified extensively at expense and then bought the company’s assets. The game’s singular budget does not show the development cost. That was my point.

If we’re discussing game dev budgets we’re not talking from an end user perspective.

I do care. I cared so much that I was a games journo for over 5 years. I love gaming. Always have always will.

I’m well over 50. My first gaming devices predate the 2600. Calling this predatory is hyperbole. People are not paying now to play later. They are paying now to play a title in development. That’s not the future of gaming. This is the present. Diabolo 6’s bs isn’t really an apt example. I can give you a much better, more relevant and apt example: Watframe. Warframe used exactly the same funding model as SC and was nowhere near complete for almost a decade - people still played it to the point that it successfully ran its own convention over multiple years. Now it’s feature complete and has dropped multiple addons and expansions. Would that have happened without audience financial participation? I don’t think so. Hell, no studios of scale or pubs believed in it and Dark Sector had to be so heavily bastardised to fit with the FPS warshooter trend to even get published. If Digital Extremes didn’t shift models to crowd funding they would have died. Cloud Imperium are making a very specific game for a very specific audience and they are smart to sell directly to that audience. That money has no negative impact on you and has a positive net effect on the industry - lots of people are being employed across different nations and lots of others are also earning money in audience participation (bloggers, influencers, convention staff etc).

This is the present for this niche audience but if it becomes a way for more games of greater variety to reach the audiences that will pay for the specific experiences they want while being able to avoid all the bs associated with seasonal trends and ridiculous short shelf lives leading to crazily overreaching copy protection and awful cycles of boom/bust hire/fire/studio closure I’m all for it.

That depends on your perspective on the engine and dev tools.

DNF had a 14 year dev cycle and this has already been exceeded by Beyond Good and Evil 2 at 22 years. So no, Star Citizen S42 isn’t going to win that award.

Why do you care?

No I am not disputing the use of intelligent agents in Massive. In this discussion I’m the person who namedropped the tool. What I’m disputing is the interpretation of what WETA did to produce the large scale combat. People have misinterpreted that some mid range scenes used judiciously copy pasted actors and props to mean that’s all they used when clearly Massive was used with entirely digital 3D modeled and hand textured actors and props for longer distance shots when they needed to work at scale.

Massive, like its predecessor “a flock of birds” is a very very useful particle control and generation system and it was definitely in use here with hand modelled and textured characters and props.

No, I understand. You don’t understand how any of the technology works so when you listened to the commentaries you misunderstood.

Here’s one example of Weta showing off Massive used for one of many shots at Helm’s Deep.

You’re not correct.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/features/how-lord-of-the-rings-used-ai-to-change-big-screen-battles-forever/

You can’t understand not wanting to leave but instead voting via democratic process only to be dissatisfied/alarmed that more authoritarian, right wing demagogues are pushing the Overton Window right and eroding democracy?

Do you live on Mars? This is happening everywhere.

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I’m siding with the employee who was treated like a racist because one person who may have been underperforming said he was without any further investigation.

It’s so poignant that you tell on yourself with this statement.

Telling who you identify with.

Simpler thing is simpler. I don’t get the revelation.

That isn’t true.

Phones still do. Xiaomi phones for example.

Lemmy hasn’t been and practically can’t be co-opted by fascist theocrats. Reddit definitely has been.