geriatricguy's comments

On: GTA 6 Developers Unionize

[geriatricguy]

My guess would be that game prices haven't dramatically changed in 20-30 years and development costs have skyrocketed. Easiest way to save money is on payroll.

[jampekka → geriatricguy]

Game sales have skyrocketed though. Inflation corrected revenue has increased something like 5x in the past 30 years.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/video-game-industry-revenue...

[lrae → jampekka]

Where are you seeing a 5x there? I see a 2x over the last 30 years for PC & Console - which are the expensive platforms to develop for. (If you're AA(A).)

[asdff → geriatricguy]

This forgets about microtransactions.

On: The dead economy theory

[geriatricguy]

>article complaining about AI destroying the economy >includes 2 dozen AI generated images in the article

[yarn_ → geriatricguy]

I really don't understand why people feel the need to include this stuff. I am not saying that out of some anti-AI sentiment, i just genuinely don't understand how peoiple have so little taste as to think it adds to their writing.

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hbbY!,f_auto,q_auto:...

Like what is this?

[5701652400 → geriatricguy]

barey noticed those placeholders. they are mostly decorations. can hardly even read text on them. IMO, article is not AI generated based on style.