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Throughout my teens and young adulthood I immersed myself really deep into drawing and writing. But as my own life has started to form around me, I got a partner who I might have kids with, friends I care about. Ive slowly come to your pov too, and Im wishing I spent less time doing art in the past
The market for consoles would still exist. It would just be that the bar for console manufacturers would be set higher from "make a good console then extract value" to "make a good console, then make the best digital marketplace for it, then extract value" which seems fair to me. Make the big three sweat a lil.
I can play piano and I'm still kinda tempted.
honestly I think a gratuity model may become dominant with or without any legal changes at this point
you'll often see on YouTube patreon revenue equally or dwarfing ads the reliance of the music industry on merch seems similar too*
I think people are more willing than you'd think to pay for art simply because they understand it won't exist without money.
*(if that sounds like a stretch, consider if in a world devoid of copyright, whether a Walmart printed band shirt for cheap would be equivalent for most purchasers to the same shirt sold by the actual artist )
The only professional art assets I'd imagine you could substitute with AI work might be textures, which already tend to be found in libraries rather than handmade. Actual spritework is still quite far off and 3D Models even more so. Not to mention an AI definitely can't do much for art direction or getting your assets to actually look good put together.
Music and Writing seem too far off right now to even consider, let alone design work. So what essential element is Generative AI bringing at the moment? Skipping out on Voice Actors? (I don't believe it's on par with professional work on that front either but it's closest and people aren't as discerning.)
The most I can see besides that is it could speed some parts of art concepting and save you a buck on texture licensing.
Revolutionizing the programming part with copilot or such seems more believable, although since Steam isn't barring use of AI code (How would they even know?) I don't think that's what you mean.
Altho, actually going to check my assumptions.. I found that out of 200-ish randomly selected steam games. I could find about 5 that were singleplayer, genuinely unpopular and looked good in screenshots/descriptions. Out of those only 2 didn't review poor to middling, and 1 of those passed the subjective test of "Would I play this?".
(The game was rotatePDF: a corporate tale)
So it's really difficult for me to see myself, so to speak in a lot of writing about gamedev. Which mostly-and especially here centers around the coding.
Sometimes I wonder if I have more the soul of like a webcomic artist but games are just so much extra clickety clackety...
Its anecdotal for sure (maybe I just got lucky? maybe I had more sense than the average kid? maybe the shift is US/Western Nation localised?), but I don't think the internet has gotten worse everywhere at once.
Physics is helpful because it limits possible positions to those you would actually be able to produce in real life.
But then again my use case is mainly RPGs rather than board games.
Although I suppose its dubious whether real world money gambling (valve) is more or less exploitative than the gambling directly implemented into game design that the rest of the industry took up.
I like to think we're striving in the right direction too. Just at a different stage.
Isn't valve the only company that lets you resell cosmetics?
Given that I only really use this and Discord, there might be a correlation there?
Interesting that it seems to be coming back in popularity.
I feel like this phenomenon sorta extends past code in a way too, I would also find it a bit weird seeing information on my other hobbies that's not in English.