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Nearly 90% Of Developers Surveyed Say Premium Games Don't Need Microtransactions (insider-gaming.com)
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[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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] 8 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I'm a big AI hater but there's some pretty old games out there that have never had a translation project started and likely never will. I'd rather have a half-assed machine translation than have to consult a GameFAQs guide to reference what the menus do.

The best solution is of course to pay people properly for localization especially if we're talking about developing a new game though. FFXIV wouldn't be the same without the localization team rewriting quest titles to make amusing references to Euroamerican pop culture. And AI will never have that kind of charm.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I'd rather have a half-assed machine translation than have to consult a GameFAQs guide to reference what the menus do.

I'd have to ask how many acres of rainforest will need to burn for each page of that machine translation before I got excited about that. The treat printers are very electricity expensive.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

That's true, I always forget about that part. You can do the same thing with Google Translate or Deepl or whatever already anyway if you can feed it the text. Which I think is less energy intensive since its not using the crazy AI models to do it?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah. LLMs are a solution that is aggressively making problems with the promise to solve them.

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