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As someone still at the beginning of the game it still feels somewhat superficial. I dunno what else I would expect, were it not for the descriptions like the OP, which conjure an image to me of game mechanics involving the freshness of bread, force-feeding geese, and interrupting traffic to play bowls (though on that subject I have found two “pétanks”) not just art and music.

Well you aren’t going to have a mass layoff as an indie studio, you’re just going to fold

Eh?

Are games better if they have great graphics? Not really.

Hard disagree.

In practice it does. There’s a big, entrenched competitor out there already, so that puts a damper on any motivation. If the site just closed down, that wouldn’t be the case.

Even if SteamDB is gradually enshittified, there will still be that competitor that does a “good enough” job for a lot of people, meaning the bar for a new player to come along is higher.

Imagine you have a share in a company. How much would you, personally, sell that share for? Well, it’s a function of what it’ll pay you in dividends over some time horizon. Maybe you’re sure it’ll pay about a dollar this year, and it seems likely it’ll pay a dollar fifty next year, and you’re not really sure after that but probably not nothing. So you want at least $2 for it, but you figure in the most likely case is that it’ll continue to pay out and wouldnt sell it for less than $10.

Now, suppose some news comes out that profits are forecast to be half what you thought, so your estimation might come out at $5. Except now you’re also worried about two other things: first, the company is now more likely to go under before you can get your $5. And also, before you were quite happy that if things went badly, you actually could sell your share for about $10. But now lots of people are trying to get rid of them at once, so you’re worried it won’t be possible, so you decide actually you’re willing to sell at a lower price.

If it were LLM it would be followed by a positive statement like “, just a” :)

Unfortunately I’m allergic to clay

It just doesn’t smell the same

The special ones, yes

That’s why I print out all my downloaded games

What’s the typical explanation?

You can have nice things though. Even if you didn’t get one in the lottery you can buy an equivalent machine for a similar price.

Did you know that for every number there is in fact a larger number?

Imagine how much good will and long-term profit

They’d generate loads of good will, which would be forgotten in an instant as soon as a something better or cheaper came along. Consumers are fickle.

My experience of AI image generation is that there are a lot of controls on style. I don’t really see how art direction is more difficult, in the light of that.

As a gamer (and an artist in my spare time) I don’t think this is true. I’ve played and loved lots of charming games, but I almost never think about the process as an element of that charm. The charm is in the details of the final product - and a perfect simulation from an AI would (by definition, if it existed) perfectly produce those details.

if everybody

Is the start to a pointless sentence.

Exactly.

That is not consistent with what the person above said. They contended that manufacturers don’t want to produce DDR5 “because AI companies will buy it all”. I’m saying that is an incentive to produce DDR5; manufacturers don’t particularly care who buys their products.

You say “it’s a bubble that will pop” and that’s a valid explanation for the behaviour, but it’s a different explanation than the OP’s: you’re not saying “yeah, they don’t wanna do it because they don’t wanna sell to AI companies” you’re saying, “they don’t wanna do it because the demand isn’t robust”.