cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/gaming/t/354777
Twitter thread in the link
Henry Schrader:So, to anyone who doesn’t know, Hi-Rez Studios, the people behind Paladins and Smite, have stated that they will be using AI to clone voices and refused to add in any words to contracts that would protect actors from it. More info in the thread. Please share to other VAs.
So sad these guys own the Tribes IP
Wow! Another Tribes-series player in the wild.
I don’t know who’s idea it was to put out the update that overhauled the classes and game modes in Tribes:Ascend (Out of the Blue, 1.3, 2015)… I had lost the niches that I loved with my specific class and it felt like the game I was playing was different compared to the one prior to that patch.
I was a bad shot then (I was but I still am, too), but god damn if I couldn’t rack up those points with my turret placement.
I’m actually a Tribes 1 player, when 2 came out my PC wasn’t good enough to play it. Tried Ascend but I couldn’t get into it, didn’t seem bad tho.
Tribes:Ascend WAS good, for a time imo, but got neglected in favour of MoBAs.
Nice thing is they hosted the Tribes 1 and 2 online for free, if you wanted to see your current PC run it.
Fuck Hi-Rez for making a really good Tribes game and then abandoning it for Smite. I sure hope they merely licensed the name and don’t hold rights to the entire IP, cuz I want a good, modern Tribes game so bad.
Fuck them even more for this.
Agreed. I miss Tribes :(
Hi-Rez bought Tribes from Sierra back in 2010 so they likely own the IP, unfortunately.
Hi-rez has always been known for making a good product than ruining it. 8 years later in Paladins and they still haven’t reverted cb12
It sucks that I can’t boycott their garbage anymore than I already do.
Torrent and share their games to affect their bottom line.
They are online only games and free. So there’s no piracy you can really pull.
Torrenting their free-to-play games?
This is what happens when everything on the planet is run by suits who are incapable of seeing anything but the bottom line. Exploit the creatives until they can be replaced by shitty robots that don’t do the job half as well but are cheaper to use.
Our dumb cyberpunk future is now.
They already refuse to fix their EAC so that the game can run on Linux so I can’t not play their game any more than I already do. I played Paladins briefly when Overwatch was having its China drama and enjoyed it, but I’m done booting Windows to play games.
