Nearly 90% Of Developers Surveyed Say Premium Games Don't Need Microtransactions (insider-gaming.com)

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Finally, in regards to AI, the belief among those polled was that AI could replace human localizations and translations within the next 12-24 months.

Yeah throw a separate underapprechiated and extremely exploited workforce under the under the bus instead, fucking asshole morons. How can you talk about "premium games" if the premium experience doesn't fucking involve the artistic touch of a writer in your own language actually translating it?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finally, in regards to AI, the belief among those polled was that AI could replace human localizations and translations within the next 12-24 months.

Just like how automated phone systems have replaced human operators... for the first half hour or so of most incoming calls anyway. Except those automated systems also burn the planet down a lot faster. bazinga

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but big assumption that there are dedicated translators and not just some guy using Google.

Source: software dev whos made to support multiple languages but barely speaks one

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not really my assumption, and in either case it's bad when things get worse and have less accountability or capacity for adjustment for the better.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

These are programmers, they think writing code is the highest form of writing and they couldn't be more wrong.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

These are programmers

They were speakers attending some conference, so they'd be executives and PR people. Which does make the general disregard for microtransactions bit surprising, at least, because those are exactly the sort of people you'd expect to be all in for monetizing everything they possibly can.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The article says developers were surveyed. Those are programmers. I know from experience that Devcom has a lot of developers and programmers on it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They hold a hammer and see everything else as a nail. Tale old as time.

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