I don't think anyone ever said all pc people pirate their games. A good amount do, but steam wouldn't be as successful as it is without people buying.

PC is mostly about piracy.
Physical media accounts for more than half of the total revenue.
+25 million potential customers aren’t enough to justify the cost of porting.
The Switch is mainly bought by parents for their kids.
Releasing games later on a platform doesn’t impact their sales.

And many other terrible opinions that you only see here.

Given the current state of world economics and PC hardware costs it is pretty reasonable to assume PC piracy has only become larger. Piracy on PC is just as easy as buying but without letting go of your money.

Won't even be hours. More like minutes. Lol.

First thing I thought as well which was success at making skin and clothing mods.

When I played through it back at launch, the Great Desert was the only area that had performance issues (Balanced Mode).

It seemed to be related to maybe a memory leak in that region; it only happened there with unstable framerate at times, and performance would be solid again after closing and relaunching the game.

10/10 game otherwise, loved everything about it and I'll be Day One for whatever they have next.

I'm not looking away, but honestly I don't play games out of these regions typically. It's mostly just gatcha games.

I recently read a story, not sure how accurate it was, that said that is more nuanced than AI* good/ AI bad.

It said most gamers hate AI used for art, design, storytelling... basically the artistic, creative part of a piece of work.

They don't mind AI if it is used for such things as writing code, compiling assets, determining NPC actions, and that sort of thing.

*AI as in use of LLMs and not the AI we all had no problem with (for the past 4 decades) when we played against the CPU.

Pragmatically though, how do you deal with the Chinese studios and how do you stay competive?

I respectfully disagree. When companies utilize things like A.I to become more efficient, it doesn't mean the workload is lessened, but on the contrary, they now think you can be even MORE productive and your workload will actually INCREASE because of your "peak efficiency".

I always think of Ford inventing the assembly line for car making. Cars were made far faster, but it doesn't mean that the cars themselves were quality or that the workers were able to relax because of the increased efficiency, it just meant that the company could make more money and squeeze every last drop of worker sweat to bump up their stock price half a percent.

I remember learning about "Taylorism" which was a concept developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor, focusing on time-motion studies to find the one best way to maximize productivity by reducing wasted movements/excess motion. He devised a strategy that restricted the physical movements of workers by literally telling them to move their arms and legs a particular way, usually with an extremely limited range of motion, and to repeat said motion hundreds if not thousands of times per shift lest they get fired. We are heading that way with A.I....And fast.