The British government has decriminalised online video game, music and movie piracy, scrapping fuller punishment plans after branding them unworkable.
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.
Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.
This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
Hahaha,
Law suits and the like are way too time consuming. Not only are they costly, but they'd need to bring in all sorts of evidence including ISP representatives to essentially "dob" their own customers in.
Personally, I don't believe it to kill the industry... It actually strengthens it.
The only people losing out in the music industry are the record label, the bands earn more from a tour then MP3 downloads from iTunes.
Movies... are already losing out to streaming... but to be fair... everyone hired to make a movie is contracted in.. so they're paid a sum regardless. It will just be publishers that get spanked... and to be fair... they still make a mint whether pirated or not.
Surely gaming is similar... Activision (for example) will lose money... but the developer actually making the game will get his/her paycheck regardless.
As well they should!
This cannot be a good thing. IM guilty of pirating movies, but it doesn't mean I think its right, it isn't.
If people are allowed to pirate everything why will developers/publishers/director s etc even bother?
As for games this may force more developers into pricing games more like a continuous subscription, like a service.
I'm sure data caps will keep those pockets lined!
Shops selling second hand games is basically the same thing