Quoting: PaldinoX

AI Voice Generation is used for some of the NPCs

OK but like, why though? RtCW and the prolouge episode are fully voiced, what would they have had to use AI voices for?

Decades old raster/bitmap filters are "AI" for years now... someone trying to sell equalizers, audio filters, voice synthesizers as "AI" to get that sweet sweet VC investment...?

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Yippee... gone from day one purchase and getting sensible DLC or proper expansion on later date... to... now can sit in wish list for a while and observer how "partnership" develops over year or few.

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Quoting: williamjcmPirates will literally use every unfair comparison they can come up with just to perpetuate FUD about Denuvo...

Plenty of video comparing (near) last version with Denuvo (other DRM) and first version without it. Depending how hard dev/publisher gone DRM route. Sensible ones - basically no difference in performance, binaries slightly bigger, maybe hick-up at the start/first launch, similar starting/loading times... Extreme ones - binary multiple time bigger, half to near a gig, performance loss well over 10-30% on beefy PC with well over recommended spec machines, min spec unplayable, stutter, slowdowns etc... and multiple variations in between.

Denuvo and other publishers spreading plenty of FUD, likely more than any pirate. Pirates do not have much of marketing budgets.

If perfect DRM existed, had proper demo/test version, hones review, etc... dev/publisher won't get more sales. Paying one would pay, pirates would go do other things. In current world... DRM deliver less.

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Quoting: scaineI suppose they'll have to consider Geforce Now? At least while that's still around.

"Advocates" of subscription bit on re****** side. Normal people, general populous who got (barely afford) low end (sub ~0.5K) PC or even mid range ones (1K+) won't be ditching nice cash (0.1K-0.2K annually, soon more) for subscription. Location important and internet service comes into play too. RAM (hardware) price increase won't drive people to subscribe, just simple BS. People skimping, not double down on spending if things get to expensive.

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So... not enough subscribe to PSN, do not fancy half/close to/over decade old game for full price just because it now have high graphics settings and/or rejecting some other stuff easily fed to console base...

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Quoting: Serg86On top of that Bill Gates supposedly sold his shares in Microsoft...

Just transferred to foundation or some equity and investment management agency/company. Look who biggest shareholder MSFT, then look up who have biggest stake in those shareholder... and so on, peel the onion.

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Quoting: dpanterBan AI-generated everything. Is it optimal? No, but practical and likely the only reasonable option if Godot wants to remain open to new contributors. These AI slop "contributions" aren't contributing to anything positive.

I'm tempted to agree, but this is both impractical and would throw the small percentage of valid cases.

Ban is simple and simple things are practical.
So we need to rid or not put in place some systems, because it (may) hurts small percentage... I agree, first come to mind... vaccination... is both impractical and hurts percentages /s

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Quoting: Tethys84Theres going to be a massive flood of hardware being dumped onto the 2nd hand market when the bubble bursts and the companies are liquidating.

...or will hold hardware for decade till obsolescence, dump/shred/brake so only for electronics waste/recycling...

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Anyone who complaining about 30% or something similar go work at retail or even bigger stinker - hospitality. As someone pointed out - show or prove that service on same level as Steam can operate properly, well below 30%.
... or everyone, just lets go back to 70's-90's and everything will be solved. Printing office and box taking nice cut... not to mention other physical parts, whole distribution and retail. Everyone will be happy, it's just 70%-90% cut or something.

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Quoting: ShadowXeldronhad been estimated in 8 or 9 months of work.

Quite common to hear same or similar lines, decade after decade, specially from corporate/proprietary software side... and some hobbyist programmer do same or better in weekend, while playing quake, scratching backside or something...
Gaming side full of that too... modders fixing crap, adding stuff without having access to source code, documentation, etc., in hours, after yet another buggy and broken releases/patch.

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