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[–] [S] 92 points 3 months ago (5 children)

And the funny thing is, the company isn't even doing bad. I found out from a friend who still works there that they are aiming for a sale at the end of the year, so effectively this is a way for them to pump up the stock. They will say their profits went up by 50-60%, but it didn't come from more clients, but from not paying wages. And this way stock go up. Also same friend said they are struggling a lot with AI. It can be helpful with coding, but It can't do everything, and they are literally asking it to do everything or at least hold long enough until the sale goes trough . Just greed... and hundreds of families put in a bad spot, so already rich people on top can make a lot of money fast instead of also a lot of money, but slower...

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've been on the receiving end of "making the bride look good" for selling the company too, 3 times in my life. Either you still have a job but everything around you falls apart because there aren't enough people to keep shit running, or you lose the job; both variants suck. I always was on the team "keeping my job", but it also always ended with me fleeing as soon as i could because working conditions deteriorated fast.

    Wishlisted your game !

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well, on the bright side, at least this teaches you the real value of AI is that it tells people what products to avoid:

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    If it wasn't AI it would be something else though. Working for the man always sucks.

    We will watch your career with great interest

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    If you really want to sell the no gen AI thing, you might want to consider cleaning up the steam page translations. For example the finnish translation contains these lines:

    Tässä on käännös suomeksi ilman pitkäviivaa:

    ...

    Jos haluat, voin tehdä myös tiiviimmän ja myyvemmän version, joka sopii pelin kauppa- tai esittelytekstiin. Haluatko, että teen sen?

    which roughly translate to:

    Here's a translation in finnish without a long line:

    ...

    If you want, I can also make a more dense and a better selling version , which fits in a game's store page or decription. Do you wan't me to do it?

    Personally I don't mind AI being used for the store page translations, and I can see how easy it is to make a mistakes like that, but maybe anyone reading that would get a slightly better impression of the game without those extra bits.

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