PlayStation auto-play patent shows a feature to skip grindy sections of games

Sony is apparently experimenting with an AI tool that will play the game for you when you are grinding away. A PlayStation patent for “auto-play” mode would simulate your gameplay style in certain environments and apply them to skip that section completely. This technology would likely be built directly into the cloud-based PlayStation Network and be a new feature that subscribers would have access to.

[Christopher]

Hah! Either will never happen or publishers will charge you to use this AI. This concept would only exacerbate the problem we already have with GaaS.

[gold_drake]

doesnt that concept already exist tho?

buy dlc to get a ahead in games? money, weapon and exp dlc come to mind but yeh. one more thing for them.to potentially charge for.

[Christopher]

Usually, for GaaS/Seasonal games, you'll have to perform actions to earn specific in-game currency to buy things for events. Then they sell the currency with real cash or a third-currency to then buy the in-game currency items (it's honestly truly bloated to hide that they're cheating you out of money). With this, they'll just give you items if you do something 50 times or the like and then charge you to have the game play it for you. It's better, right? No currency shenanigans, just play the game and we reward you! But, the truth is they'll inflate the amount of times you have to play through content just to get the same thing.

[TallDarknWavy]

I can't remember the name of the developer but they said that if you need fast travel or pay to win schemes in order to not play the game then your game sucks and I completely agree.

[Cacabunga]

A funny one i remember is RDR2 some players bought gold bars with real money to get the high bounty license in RDO and they could use it for nothing because they need to grind like morons to get the bounty wagon which is a must for catching more than one bounty.. people were complaining to R* it was hilarious

[TheKingKratos]

I don't get how anyone would use it ... I mean if i don't myself grind to get what i want in the game and simply skip all that and just keeps upgrading my level to the point of becoming a walking tank... What's the point of playing at all if i am not going to work for it and learn along the way ?!

[Christopher]

You are not like a very good portion of gamers who are influenced by FOMO (fear of missing out).

[jambola]

Why?
Why not just remove the Grindy part?

I hope it's not an excuse to make them worse, but optional if you pay

[mandf]

The Grundy part is how they pad and fill out games. Reviewer would complain nothing to do or game to short

[Eonjay]

This IGN blogger mode will allow 'reviewers' to play games like rest of us.
I will never forget watching GamingBolts spoiler video for Horizon FW and realizing they never played it. Made me wonder if they play games at all.

[Skuletor]

As if most modern games don't hold your hand enough already.

[jambola]

Lol
Spiderman 2 reminding me how to swing 12 hours in

[Christopher]

I'm playing Kingdoms of Amalur again and the Fate mode reminder every time my fate bar is full is extremely annoying and takes up so much space on the screen.

[Profchaos]

Reminds me of those 24 hours races in gran Turismo 4 having your PlayStation play for you.

But realistically if you have to use any of these for Grundy games there's a bigger underlying problem of the game not respecting your time in the first place.

Grind for game length is a real problem in my view

[jznrpg]

If a game is so grindy that I consider using this I would just quit playing instead. I play games for enjoyment and not only to beat them. If it becomes too much of a slog I’ll play something else. Some people have little time for games so maybe they would consider using this. But it’s just a patent and many patents never see real world use.

[Chocoburger]

I'll just skip playing all those Ubi-junk games in the first place. Time saved!

[Software_Lover]

Developers need to bring back non infinite lives.

[spambot0815]

so i could have finished ff7 rebirth with that feature, nice but on the other hand, why AI when you can just watch others do the work for you, I mean streamers for example get paid by companies to do stuff like that.

[z2g]

So most Ubisoft games can just be set to autogrind then, eliminating the need to buy or play them.

[uth11]

Now AI will play your games for you? This is the death of gaming