Poll of the Day > Musk:too many giant corps. own game studios, so he wants to...make a game studio

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There is this "Alex Jones vs the NWO" game on steam he can just play that.

he's busy pretending he's the best Diablo IV player

I recall someone looked into it and it turns out that this has a grain of truth. Not the BEST Diablo IV player but he's in like the top 50 players.

The outrage cycle is just really, really focused on Musk these past few months, huh.

I've now had him causing annoyance/real chaos for at least three different parts of my life.

The ire at Elon Musk deserves more than to be called an "outrage cycle." He is one of the richest and most powerful men in the world who is eating up our energy supply, he bought twitter to propagandize extreme right wing viewpoints and now he's being given a top government position.

He didn't earn this, he purchased all of it. He's a nepobaby from a family that made their fortune off of slavery.

I'm not terribly upset at the idea of Elon Musk buying Hasbro because hasbro is crap anyway. DnD was already a sink for bad players and the decent players already moved on to Pathfinder and other games.

I'd be a LITTLE upset about losing Magic the Gathering but it's not THAT big of a loss. I can walk five feet and trip over ten better card games.

No but it will break the outrage cycle. Rather than be upset at tweets, be upset at actual things that have actually happened.

I recall someone looked into it and it turns out that this has a grain of truth. Not the BEST Diablo IV player but he's in like the top 50 players.

No but it will break the outrage cycle. Rather than be upset at tweets, be upset at actual things that have actually happened.

Why does he want to use AI to make a game? AI should be limited to non creative/not desirable ventures

I'm sure the usual suspects will eat this up regardless of whether or not the studio's output is even playable, as they are wont to do whenever they hear anything is "anti-woke" in any capacity, but the rest of us can just keep enjoying the large number of excellent games that keep coming out without having to check a guide beforehand to see if the "anti-woke" authorities say we're allowed to like it.

I recall someone looked into it and it turns out that this has a grain of truth. Not the BEST Diablo IV player but he's in like the top 50 players.

Why does he want to use AI to make a game? AI should be limited to non creative/not desirable ventures

It's funny that most people's reaction to the idea was to suggest he make a publishing company rather than a studio, to support indie and AA games that fit his criteria rather than make games himself.

He's been known to live stream while playing D4. You'd have to pay me to watch someone play that POS game but according to those that have watched it he's pretty legit.

Probably money. Sony wasted upwards of half a billion dollars on Concord and had less than a thousand concurrent players at launch. SW Outlaws cost several hundred million dollars and has just barely cleared a million sales. There have been quite a few AAA game releases lately with sales figures between those two in terms of the spectrum between laughable failure to merely coming well short of making back their budget, but those are the two I know numbers off the top of my head. IIRC someone calculated that SW Outlaws would have had to sell between 6 and 7 million copies to become profitable.

For anyone looking at those numbers, there's only two real options. Either make a game that is guaranteed to sell 10 million copies - good luck with that - or find a way to make similar quality games for under 100 million dollars. Short of AI doing a lot of the work, it's hard to see any other way to make a modern AAA game on that budget.

I think he'd be smart to parse the difference between utilizing AI in some part of game development (which already is the case) and fully AI game studio.

I think even Musk is smart enough to know that he can't just prompt ChatGPT to "make GTA 7" and get something functional out the other end. There's a range of options between that and for example Blizzard using AI to fit armor bits to different character rigs. He seems to want to go to the higher end of that range.

is going to start an AI game studio to make games great again!"

For anyone looking at those numbers, there's only two real options. Either make a game that is guaranteed to sell 10 million copies - good luck with that - or find a way to make similar quality games for under 100 million dollars. Short of AI doing a lot of the work, it's hard to see any other way to make a modern AAA game on that budget.

There's also the super-secret third option of just not making AAA games if you don't have an idea that can reasonably be expected to sell well enough to justify a AAA budget. Not every game has to be a photorealistic cinematic extravaganza with a budget bigger than some countries' GDP, and in fact many of the best games of the last couple decades haven't been.

It's funny that most people's reaction to the idea was to suggest he make a publishing company rather than a studio, to support indie and AA games that fit his criteria rather than make games himself.

Indeed, though there's the tiny issue with that idea that there are already plenty of studios churning out indie and AA games that fit his criteria without his help, which kind of muddies the whole "the industry is overrun by whatever I've decided 'woke' means today and I'm the only one that can save it" narrative he's pushing and therefore isn't something he'd necessarily want to admit to by offering additional support. That route also wouldn't let him take as much credit as if he makes them "himself," and he does rather like being able to take credit for stuff.

He couldn't mismanage the D&D franchise any worse than Hasbro management is currently doing.

He couldn't mismanage the D&D franchise any worse than Hasbro management is currently doing.

He couldn't mismanage the D&D franchise any worse than Hasbro management is currently doing.

Have you heard of all the companies that he has purchased?

Yes, and few of them are managed as badly as the D&D franchise has been. I think the problem here is that you all think my opinion of Musk is too high when in reality you're not realizing how low my opinion of Hasbro is. An inanimate carbon rod could do a better job than Hasbro.

Yes, and few of them are managed as badly as the D&D franchise has been. I think the problem here is that you all think my opinion of Musk is too high when in reality you're not realizing how low my opinion of Hasbro is. An inanimate carbon rod could do a better job than Hasbro.

Yes, and few of them are managed as badly as the D&D franchise has been. I think the problem here is that you all think my opinion of Musk is too high when in reality you're not realizing how low my opinion of Hasbro is. An inanimate carbon rod could do a better job than Hasbro.

If he wants to spend money just to prove he's different than they are at least he can't be bullied like Nintendo is doing to Palworld when a game is accidently successful and shows them up.

Again, Palworld literally copied assets and designs

Nintendo claims pal world copied their patents for various game mechanics, but the patents themselves were granted after palworlds release, filed after palworld had already been announced