Why Bethesda Responding to Starfield's Steam Reviews Is Part of a Rising Games Industry Trend (www.ign.com)
from Goronmon@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 02 Dec 2023 01:57
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Grass@sh.itjust.works on 02 Dec 2023 03:08 next collapse

Tl;dr: everyone does it, but the examples provided don’t sound like a child going nu-uh and making defensive excuses.

Hypx@kbin.social on 02 Dec 2023 04:36 next collapse

Developer feedback is usually about answering questions that the players have, or finding bugs that were missed in QA. What Bethesda is doing is quite a bit more ridiculous.

originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee on 02 Dec 2023 04:53 collapse

I think the article goes out of its way to describe how rare this is for a AAA game

Talaraine@kbin.social on 02 Dec 2023 05:27 next collapse

I think what bothers me the most about the developer responses was that they sounded like Chat GPT.

Like you get past the first paragraph and you already know what the whole 4 more paragraphs is gonna say, just in a different way.

DarkMetatron@feddit.de on 02 Dec 2023 06:11 next collapse

For me it reads as typical boilerplate text, that can be seen in responses from so many companies.

Not really better then ChatGPT but at least there are humans involved in that mindless task.

nevemsenki@lemmy.world on 02 Dec 2023 07:43 next collapse

Pretty much has to be boilerplate tbh, as they can only fish out a response from the preapproved can.

SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world on 02 Dec 2023 17:37 collapse

I would also guess that the reason they sound similar is that a lot of the training data of ChatGPT comes from that type of company texts.

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world on 02 Dec 2023 06:29 next collapse

That’s because marketing/pr people speak just like ChatGPT, just saying a bunch of nothing wasting the oxygen used to voice it

acosmichippo@lemmy.world on 02 Dec 2023 19:56 collapse

kinda like chatGPT is trained on a bunch of PR speak.

iAmTheTot@kbin.social on 02 Dec 2023 17:18 collapse

It may very well be Chat GPT, or another generative AI, tbh.

curious_betsy@lemmy.world on 02 Dec 2023 07:29 next collapse

RocketWerkz CEO Dean Hall says that, in his experience, “you’ll almost never flip a review.”

lol

trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com on 09 Dec 2023 12:32 collapse

“If we gaslight the players into believing it’s a good game, we win” - Bethesda and the rest of this garbage industry, probably