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For God's sake, what happened to her eyes?!

I hope they go bankrupt

😊

Good! The more anti-AI news the better.

Keep in mind folks, this is before token prices for the average person gets bonkers. If you thought game servers were a ticking timebomb for always online games, AI tokens isn't a line item you can forget about at the end of your expense sheet.

They didn’t /have/ to

Amazing. The future is now. LMAO

If it's a demo why don't just let people download it from file sharing? Is that an industry standard? 1000 dlls to keep up a demo? Wtf?

A day????

There's a valuable lesson for them to learn here. Literally.

lol lmao

Boo fucking hoo

I would say "No one is stupid enough to have a function call that costs the developer actual literal money in their main game loop", but many long years on the internet have taught me that regardless of the hypothetical activity, belief, or con, yes, there IS someone that stupid...

It's not even for sale yet btw. He's just bankrupting himself for this ass demo.

That's hilarious

Why am I not surprised Thinknoodles is here too?

The IGN writer chose violence

However, the threat to entry level jobs and the concerns about it being a lying machine that lies is still in play, so they're all probably on the fence about things as they are

I respect that writer.

lol, and furthermore, lmao

Driving instructor simulator where you spend half the time yelling "KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD"

Hypothetically, but I would be more concerned with not building up the numbers that show there is an interest in this type of game. Better to show there is no interest than make people think it just hasn’t been tried correctly.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha anyway

HMMMMMM. Seems worth, keep going!

wait, the app uses gen AI internally? This is the stupidest thing ever.

Hahahahahahahahaha, *inhales deeply* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Fuck them.

lol, keep pouring your money down the toilet idiots

WHY do developers not think these things through? Did they think the losses for the demo were worth it if enough people would buy the full game after? Like how does this happen?

I would never download an AI game, but will it cost them more money if I played?

Surely someone here did the back of a napkin math and realized that if the game costs say $10, that gives them about 5 mil tokens (Sonnet 5.5) before them playing is literally cash negative. And that's before you factor in things like taxes and recouping development costs.

Couldnt he just have ran a local model instead of spending a gorillion dollars on tokens

That's a relief, I'm glad it worked out!

It's almost like they saw the WORLD RENOWN play "how I learned to drive" and thought it was instructional.

I hate that I understood this reference

I didn't think about this element but yeah, it definitely makes me feel more than a little weird that generative AI would be used to his degree in a driving simulation game. Something feels off.

Lol

They said "AI" and everybody in the room clapped

lol. Lmao, even.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

You got a link? Be nice to drive some more traffic their way. Ha ha "drive", I didn't even mean to do that. Nice one.

lmao

Lol, lmao

Womp womp.

It's a 4-man studio spending more on tokens than their own salaries. It's already burning.

…why?

SaaS suddenly isn't so great when it's not the customer paying for it, huh

I wonder if they know they can give me $1000 a day

It's almost as if this type of AI doesn't belong in media and games

I would just shut the demo right away if it bleeds 1000$ everyday.

Dammit, Max! I was going to post this! lol

More AI “devs” should meet this same financial fate. Get this shit out of gaming.

why stop at one loan though? ... may he have to sustain his slop for a whole year!

lol lmbo

Ha!

I have everyone involved in this goes to bed crying, every night, forever

love to have my product be inextricably tied to a subscription service I have no control over

Bwahahahaha and i thought VR dev prices were restrictive xD

There is no such thing as a developer for an AI powered turd such as thy is. The AI app or whatever is the developer.

HahahahahahahahahahahahahHahahahahahahahahahshahahsjsjajajhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhshahahshshahahahshahshahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahagahagahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

lmfao

No one, I repeat no one could have predicted this.

How embarrassing

Because that takes actual work and thought

sucks but that's what you get for betting on AI

Why did I read this in Jeff Goldblum's voice?

Thank you, God, for letting this happen because it is so fucking funny

It's so amazing to me that instead of cancelling the game or refactoring it they took out a fucking loan so they could keep paying the AI a millionaire's salary

Yes? Those have multiple process, designed for the flow of math involved in traversing a model. The voice to text and text to voice is even simpler; not only do phones do it but very small devices can do it. Their accuracy can vary, of course, but... ...Most of the big compute is for training.

Tf did I just watch

"WHOAYOYOYOYOYO!" *BAM* "Whoayo? Owww..." honk-ho-ho-ho-ho-honk-honk-honkhonkhonk

lol lmao, even

you could pay me $1000 once and i'd make a game lmfao

What is their endgame here? Every player represents a serious threat to their bottom line. This isn't a situation where low-spending players are offset by keeping the game alive for high-spending players; this is a single-player game where anyone can chew through tokens all day long.

I wish them the worst

these are deeply unserious people. how are they expecting this AI slopfest of a game to push enough units to justify the $1000/day price of running it? At this point I feel like it would need to *consistently* be the bestselling game ever made just to break even.

Any business model like this fails to account for the guy that will use their api key to churn out dogshit romance novels to spam on amazon with a jailbreak and new instructions and single-handedly bankrupt them.

This implies Star Citizen is a game Star Citizen is Chris Robert's retirement plan

You'll see this then do that award puppet monkey side glance meme face looking at every llm provider that's had to either switch to token based billing or make increasingly expensive license tiers as cheaper tiers get more restrictive. That price he's paying is as cheap as it'll ever get baby boy.

pay-per-minute like the old AOL neverwinter nights

Nice that will keep the game running for almost a month!

Here's the funny part, the game isn't out yet. This is for the demo because he's a fucking moron. I assume he's single because if I was related to him i'd have told him to abandon this particularly stupid dream before we go bankrupt.

Average Sims/Train Simulator game with all the DLC you mean.

Talk about wasting money

I understood that reference.

As a filthy scab, I shall do it for a mere $499