@FridaVanMercury@discuss.tchncs.de
2026-10-09 18:07 UTC
From their blog on Steam:
For the paid release, we plan to account for expected AI usage in the game’s price. Players will not be charged separately for their individual AI token usage after purchasing the game.
This isn’t because each player is particularly expensive to support. The total cost has increased because so many people are playing, and we have taken out a bank loan to help keep the demo running.
I do not understand. They have to factor in token usage to the game price, but also the longer people play the more they will lose money over time? How is that even an operating model.
Replies (3)
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@Grimy@lemmy.world 2026-10-09 19:33
If they don’t let players hook up their own API key, it’s a guarantee they shut it down after a year.
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@GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2026-10-09 21:14
People won’t play forever. Even good games are only played for maybe 100h before some other new game comes along. If you know the average game time you can calculate the ai costs.
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@ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2026-10-10 16:57
Loans are normal and you take losses to capture the market then you enshittify