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.
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 😄
To be fair, the corpo slop games aren’t really worth playing, never mind paying for.
Oh don’t worry. Some AI boot licker will come to defend this as well. “WelL yOu SeE nOt EvErYoNe HaS tHe TiMe To PlAy GaMeS. ThIs WiLl MaKe GaMiNg MoRe EfFiCiEnT.”
Might as well watch youtube for free
What’s the point of gaming with this?
There are plenty of people who are happy to cheat at anything.
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?”
First they came for our jobs, next our hobbies, now for our very entertainment ? Who could ever ask for a feature such as this !?
look, on the bright side they burn up every ressource on the planet.
Clearly they think that gaming is the same as working.
Ain’t this just botting?
A STRANGE GAME.THE ONLY WINNING MOVE ISNOT TO PLAY.Im definately contrarian here. I like games but some aspects a hate. I would totally give over to a helper for platforming and all sorts of stuff I hate. Heck I like things like the ff12 gambit system. I love rpgs because I like to setup and build and see how it goes.
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?
Then they tell publishers and game developers that more players finish their games on Microsoft’s platform than any others!
i hope they sit on the patent to prevent other devs in implementating AI assistants in their games.
Can we just hire someone to play the game for us so we can watch? LOL JK. That would be bat-twitch CRAAAAAYZY.
Im one of those people who will totally watch someone else play a game.
Would you pay?
I don’t pay to watch anything.
Cheater mode
Microcheaters
