Video Game Difficulty Adjusted Automatically to Keep You Playing

Adaptive difficulty has been a thing for a long time.
Crash Bandicoot 2 has it.

I know, but now developers could probably throw it in willy nilly without having to actually create such a system themselves.

I remember Valve would track that kinda thing within their own games to some end.

I don't play videogames, I also don't like mind control. This is a tool to silence dissent and cull thought criminals from any organization.

Checked and wrecked. The problem is the end of secrecy online, ie where all of our decisions and interactions occur. This means that any dissident can be shut down more easily.

The adjustable difficulty can be applied to ensure a complacent populace. Play the game goy. Don't worry about anything outside of the game.

To what end?

How would this work? Don't you need a software running in the background to be able to track mouse movement? Will Windows/NSA soon include it?

I don't mind it as long as I can turn it off. If I get my ass handed to me repeatably by something I'd like to actually feel the triumph of beating what had beaten me instead of being given the win like I'm in the special Olympics.

I never knew, I just remember from some of the TF2 and Portal 2 developer commentary modes mentioning that they track what players do.

Now that does sound concerning.

But this sounds like conspiracy theory.

Market data, feedback for patching out frustrating areas, more feedback to know which parts of the game stimulated certain emotions and the ability to use all that to make a more specific product, reduce the risks of making people upset and in the end shove more microtransaction in their faces for when they are happe and might impulse-buy something.

Pop up purchase requests are going to be a thing in AAA games fairly soon.

Wouldn't shoving a microtransaction request in the middle of a game you're enjoying instantly spoil your mood and make you not want to buy, since just telling the request to fuck off would usually be much quicker than actually buying something?

Ugh, yes, now that kind of blatant emotional manipulation is fucking awful.

No it doesn't.

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it works in a manner similar to polygraphs.
polygraphs don't actually work to tell to tell if someone is lying or not if they put researched effort in how to defeat them. But they do detect stress very well.
I'll leave it to you to decide whether you think letting the government and corporations know your stress level and overall mindset is a good thing or not.

for you and me? yeah.
for normalfags pavlovian trained on mobile games? it'll make money. and if something makes money, no matter how much it ruins a game for you or me, AAA will implement it eventually.

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I mean, hell, Dragon Age has a NPC in your camp that you can't get rid of whose only purpose is to market DLC to you. You don't even know it's DLC until you finish the quest conversation.

The alternative to conspiracy theory is the coincidence theory. Call it whatever you want, but the tech is out there, in use and in secret. No one was notified that the NSA and CIA are using it. No company has to notify it's employees or customers about the program. It is a powerful program that no one knows about. That means it can be easily abused without us knowing.

Professor Sniffy no. ;_;

Leaning towards not, since I'm predisposed to being stressed…

As much as I'd like to I can't influence how buy happy others are. At this point I don't know what to say besides AAA games suck and no one with a shred of intelligence here should be playing them, but that assumes that sort of shit won't eventually wiggle its way into smaller devs and publishers.

Modern Consoles always imitate the worst parts of PC gaming.

not exactly, many people especially PC gamers don't seem to realize how exclusive game development works and why it works best on consoles. This has always been the main draw of consoles, but I've never really seen anyone accept it. They usually take this as some defense of exclusivity, rather than what such exclusivity grants to games and how it benefits games as a whole.

It doesn't benefit games as a whole, it benefits particular companies.

I'd love some degree of exclusivity these days. Everything is is ported to everything else with often tenuous results, so there's no clear best option and every options has various bugs and defects.

Depends on the game I guess, sure you won't want one to pop out in the middle of the action, but during pauses/inbetween levels, you're going to be bombarded.

Mobile games are managing to reek in mad dosh from addicts, it's only a matter of time before the big corps follow suit.
And you know casuals are going to eat this shit right up.

It's also a feelgood feature for women, who can now play on the lowest possible adjusted difficulty level, still beat a game and feel like they've accomplished something, while shit corps might use it to purposefully make a game more difficult for some people and then release stats on the lines of "Women are getting better at videogames than men, 60% of the users who completed our game are female!"
Agenda pushing made easy.

As if modern videogames weren't bad enough.

I hope that this is just overthinking it on your part, but still this is likely to be exactly what happens.

If it ever comes to that I'd like to imagine there will still be that part of vidya that's still fun to enjoy, that doesn't care about all the outer bullshit and just focuses on being fun.
I mean if it exists now, why wouldn't it exist then?

If you are here now, you probably know that you can hope for the best, but it's always better to also prepare for the worst, and since jews are trying to make everything for everyone*, I'd expect some of this bullshit to eventuallybe thrown on the wall.

*except white men

Hopefully yes.

I'll prepare for the worst by sewing my wallet shut. As Ghostbusters demonstrated, jews understand only one thing, money.

Xbone already give you fauls on 2kXX if you had the mic and swear or so

How they are going to recognize I'm mad at the game and not the lag or the nigger on the other side?

Why did you type this?

Cuckchan Holla Forums couldn't figure that one out. They are fucking stupid.

I was that disgusted and annoyed.

how do I invest in this company? that's what I want to know…sounds like it will get tons of government contracts and maybe some vidya ones too…probably will be aquired by faceberg or something along those lines in the futre, that means big payoff

how do I invest in this company? that's what I want to know…sounds like it will get tons of government contracts and maybe some vidya ones too…probably will be aquired by faceberg or something along those lines in the futre, that means big payoff

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