So, we’re moving on from bribery and straight to conflict of interest?

What does sexual orientation have anything to do with HIV?

Borderlands 2 had an excellent antag with some pretty good writing. With Borderlands 3, the antags were so insufferable, with the rest of the characters only progressing the plot because of stupid decisions, that I really didn’t feel the need to continue.

It’s bizarre they haven’t shut down this .ru domain.

Why is this coming from a Russian site?

Translation: We don’t know how to create new IP, and nostalgiabait sells.

That’s just a wild fantasy that will never happen.

World of Warcraft has battle pets that you can capture by throwing cages at them and then train and fight them against other battle pets.

Which is arguable a more realistic representation of what Pokemon represents: slavery.

This is an incredibly condescending headline, directed at the wrong party. They had every right to blame Funko.

AI could have been a decent bridge for indie developers to fill in holes in their talent pool with something that was halfway decent. After all, if you have two developers, and none of them are good at art or voice acting, maybe they can put enough time and effort to produce actually good AI images and voice work. It wouldn’t be a substitute for real artists and voice actors, but at least they can have something where they previously had nothing. Or artists that use the tech for getting a starting design, and use their own talents for producing the final picture. Or musicians getting a starting idea, etc., etc.

The problem is that all we seeing are billion dollar companies spending even less effort to save money. These companies think they can rush their people into spending five minutes on an AI image, and whoopsie, there’s an obviously bad AI image with 6 fingers and weird background objects.

This technology is not for them. They have the money to spend on this shit. It should be for the people, but now there’s so much bad rep from corpos that it’s ruining it for everybody.

The actual CCG they had was miles better than the one in Witcher 3 as well. I miss that game.

They tried. Starbound didn’t do all that great. Granted, it’s been 10 years.