The patent called “STATE MANAGEMENT FOR VIDEO GAME HELP SESSIONS” describes multiple examples where a pop-up might ask a player to let a helper take over the gameplay for a while.
Imagine if a user were struggling to find a rare gem in an RPG; if allowed, the helper would take control from the player. They would proceed to chat and guide the user through the process of acquiring the gem.
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Elon will love this
First pay for the game, then pay for slop shit so you don’t have to play the game. Corporate big brain time at its best 😄
Edit: I didn’t read, I’m stupid, don’t be like me. It’s even worse than I imagined.
Not even. They’re going to sell you the idea that you’re a game dev, and sell you each piece and asset.
It’s the optimized AI version of “during a gold rush, is the people selling shovels and picks that get rich.”
“Finish” as in beat or best, not as in complete a development work to be shipped
Oh… Holy Fuck. It’s more dystopian and stupid than I realized.
I’m sorry and I hate it
To be fair, the corpo slop games aren’t really worth playing, never mind paying for.
Might as well watch youtube for free
Might as well skip the gameplay, give the achievements and trigger the good ending.
Might as well close your eyes, smile and and imagine you are king of the world.
Might as well just straight up jack it instead of thinking about the game at all.
What’s the point of gaming with this?
There are plenty of people who are happy to cheat at anything.
It’s kind of like the old Nintendo hotline. Call when you’re stuck on something in a game. Or just looking up a walkthrough online.
That said, this makes it far easier to ask for help and kids might just rely on it too much instead of figuring stuff out on their own.
With the hotline and guides you still had to actually play yourself. This is a step further, you just watch the game play itself.
At least, it’s not just someone watching a YouTube video of someone else playing… though I imagine some of that is just due to affordability.
I know my young nephew gets frustrated on some games and then just gives up… even if he knows what to do. Maybe when he’s older he could get better at those, but by that time, he’ll be on to something else.
Yeah I don’t get it. Just have a program write to a file with the finished game data, no need for an AI to waste cycles playing the game for you.
If it works I expect it to be popular. A lot of people don’t actually want to engage with videogames and would rather zombie through the experience
Exactly, “I hate the grind”, “The boss/sub boss fights are too hard”, “I only have so many hours in a day”.
Some days I barely have an hour to play a game, sometimes I think maybe, just maybe, I could use a bot/AI to get a little more done while I’m doing those tedious life things, then I think “What’s the point if I don’t do it myself?”
That’s a game selection issue IMO. Busy people shouldn’t play games they don’t have the time to get invested into. AAA design and marketing has pushed this idea that every game has to be this big 100 hour open world RPG narrative adventure, but there’s so much good stuff out there that’s over in less time or doesn’t demand huge play sessions.
Right. I mostly buy Indy and, I guess, AA games like Arizona sunshine and metro awakening, 6 - 8 hrs of story driven game, I have elder scrolls (not oblivion but the one that they have remade/rereleased like 6 times, only got half way through that as I kept forgetting what I was doing lol)
Skyrim?
Dammit, how did I not remember that name. The only 2 names that would surface were oblivion and TESO. TY
I do play some video games and I guess this is nice, but what I really enjoy is listening to music. When am I gonna get an AI helper to listen to songs for me so I can get that done in peaceful silence instead?
There should be an AI helper to pet and play with my cat, that way all I need to do is buy food and pay vet bills and clean the litter.
I wish I could get an AI to hang out with my wife and kids so I could spend more time creating shareholder value.
The other thing the helps people get unstuck in games is good game design. 🙃
<sigh> I suppose this is just the equivalent of reading a game guide that someone has written, but this feels like it could remove too much friction. Are you playing the game if everything just becomes a tutorial?
Who even wants this?
Microsoft execs eager for a bonus.
People who are stuck on a boss and can’t get past it.
is that even fun though? part of what makes a difficult boss fight so satisfying is when you finally DO beat it
Sure, if you’re a masochist. Not everyone has the time/energy/willpower to not even get close to finishing a boss after 50 attempts and need to do another 150 more. I can’t tell you how many games I’ve completely given up on because one specific boss does something that I just can’t manage.
Huh. If I don’t like a game I just don’t play it.
What if you like the game, just not that one boss?
why did you choose to call yourself a “fuckwit” on lemmy
Someone submitted it into a form at work like 10 years ago.
I would rather pay another human being to TeamViewer in and beat the boss.
Good Lord.
Good god! Interacting with other people!? Ew!
I don’t like people but I like them more than I like AI.
I also grew up in the 80’s when you’d ask an older sibling to beat the boss for you.
I’d rather stop playing than have an AI finish it for me.
Why not just put in a “skip” button?
A completely pragmatic soultion with minnimum effort to implement and no R&D cost? Sounds completely useless for generating value for shareholders.
A STRANGE GAME.THE ONLY WINNING MOVE ISNOT TO PLAY.i hope they sit on the patent to prevent other devs in implementating AI assistants in their games.
Ain’t this just botting?
Why even bother living. Just get “AI” to live for you, and recycle your meaningless meat form.
You exist to be exploited for the benefit of the shareholders. This allows you to work so many more hours a day.
So, basically a movie?
New Xbox controller just leaked
This sounds like the ironically good version of the Nemesis System patent - no AI helpers in non-Microslop games for the next 20 years.
Feed it Ski Free.
That stupid jumpy bear can gargle my balls.
