Yea, but woke. Don’t forget woooooooooke.

Eh. Just because they have the resources doesn’t mean having to bring back VA for every little line change makes sense for efficiency.

If they get royalties for the continued use of their voices for those updates, then I think that’s a fair and ethical use of the tech.

I’m not sure.

If Arc Raiders maintains a really healthy playerbase then I think that base will be much more willing to try another extraction shooter.

Or it could be a case of fomo and people move on in a couple weeks.

I do think Marathon should focus on the PVE over PVP though.

It’s the ping system they use for a lot of it.

It’s more detailed than any of their competitors in what it’s able to call out.

I’d imagine they built that system as they’ll be frequently updating the game with new items, locations and such.

Yea I’m aware why it bothers people so much. I’m very much on the same page.

I also don’t think every use of these tools is the same and there’s nuance to it.

TTS is different to me than a game developer trying to make an entire game using AI and calling it art.

Yep

Happy to chat if you wanna discuss further, but what that convo turned into was way nastier than it should have been.

I didn't really have a take other than I think the writer should have made clearer that the voice actors consented to their voices being used, and that games media is behind on their knowledge of how studios are using these tools.

That was really it.

I didn't even say it was a bad review haha

I meant to put it in “” but at the same time even the pubs are saying Borderlands 4 “underperformed” despite selling 4 million copies.

Like every big game has underperformed this year because there’s so much competition haha.

Not like there’s a big conspiracy why games are selling well, but not as well as they were during COVID when less games were coming out.

It went from the pole, to his head, back to the pole, and out.

Never seen that hahaha.

Not even that, no discussion lol.

I love our Discord cause we debate all the time.

I think the devs are gonna have to pretty consistently introduce new challenges that push people to work together to keep the community going, and with that locked off area it seems like that might be the goal.

Haha I just give tribute in specific cases, also good way to trade up for items I need.

I find solos to be the more friendly of the modes, trios is kinda do or die, but usually if I'm in a squad of 3 and we want to take on an objective, we call out to the other team and ask if they're in.

Are you using a microphone?

It makes all the difference. If you call yourself out, let people know you're just looting, people are way less aggressive.

I also like to keep a couple good items on me at all times and offer it up as a peace offering so people don't shoot me in the back lol.

Tends to be that the people that act like children are the ones that are older than me.

Oh, I'm fine.

Reminded me of old Twitter for a moment, and I don't like that as much as I don't like the grifters lol.

Just a situation to remove myself from.