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hoping this is one of those patents they can sit on so no one else does it lol
I mean ... why not? There are a lot of things in games that simply just suck. Some games are requiring you to grind to gain some arbitrary stats to proceed. Or you need to do some things again and again to unlock the cool stuff. You are getting stuck on some stupid puzzles and need to google a solution, which is hidden in some multipart youtube play through. Or you simply do hate underwater or ice levels. It's your game, it's your time, why shouldn't you be able to skip that?
You can but you can:
I feel like letting an AI do the work for you is robbing you of time you could've spent doing it yourself. it's a game at the end of the day, and if I'm passing time not even playing it myself, why don't I just save the money and just watch a playthrough online?
the grind and looking up how to do something myself is part of the fun. if something is so grindy I gotta let someone or something do it for me, why am I even here wasting my most valuable resource, you know?
@JensSpahnpasta @big_slap thats called cheating... you can just not play a game that you dont like...
Yeah, I like to cheat in my single player games. No harm done and I have a lot of fun
You can cheat with codes that make you invincible or give you infinite ammo or whatever at no additional cost, though. Why burn a tree to let a machine learning algorithm figure it out?
Not every game has cheat codes?
Isn't that just one more in a long line of examples of software companies neglecting to write code that they could easily write, instead leaving a machine learning model to cover over that neglect at great expense?
Running an AI to figure out how to solve a hard part in a game uses tons of electricity and water. Putting in a cheat code uses no additional resources. In most cases, games do already have cheat codes that were just never released to the public, for testing. It seems overtly neglectful to me to leave those out of a single player game for an AI to do, when they could do it themselves with often no additional effort.
I think using a cheat code and beating it yourself is way more fun than watching someone/something else do it.