A new study attempts to prove gamers aren't sold on AI, but I didn't think the effects were this significant
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A new study from Game Oracle demonstrates the negative effects the use of AI can have on sales (and reputation). There's a lot to unpack here, but the main message is resounding: we're not yet ready for the future of gaming.

It’s a different story for the more established studios with an existing following and previous titles. Game Oracle found that the use of AI by these studios resulted in a significant 40% to 60% drop in sales.

That’s a huge difference. AI stigma seems to hit competent developers with a lot to lose the hardest, and I’m not sure that game studios are ready to accept it.

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    The only AI i want in games is the kind of AI needed to make the NPC countries in EU5 not act absolutely stupid

    I spent like 3 hours last night trying to get a Granada playthrough going and it would have been SO SIMPLE if Morocco and my vassal Algiers would just fucking put their shit fucking armies into boats and bring them to Iberia but instead they literally just spent 4 in game years running around northern Africa. What the fuck is that shit

    I eventually won but only because I got Tnuis to blow up their navy so i could drop 2000 dudes into northern Spain, occupy stuff and run away x1000 until I barely managed enough war score to get what I needed for it to be a victory

    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Yeah I mostly stopped playing Stellaris because the AI was so frustrating, I tried playing with the Federations DLC exactly once and my allies proceeded to do fucking nothing and refuse to goto war with the militaristic xenophobes that were knocking on my door.

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        It’s just nuts that the only way I can win a war with castile is to cheese the AI so bad. Like literally i just carpet seiged the unfortified parts before they could get my levies, disbanded them, then re raised them while their armies were on the other side of the peninsula. I shouldn’t be allowed to do all that but I HAD TO because every single war i ever fight my northern African allies just run around doing nothing

        I just don’t get how the fucking game devs look at this and don’t think, wow, this needs to be our highest priority to fix