Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
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I dont see any reason to use celeb actors
Of course my main ask would be just have it voiced, but if you can take that to the next level it would be amazing for immersion and RP.
The controversy with voice actors and AI is using a voice actor’s work in a game and then adding more via AI using their voice without compensation. Unless the contract had a clause on derivative works, then I can see why they would be upset. Part of the current strike is to get such clauses in place to protect voice actors.
That said, it’s analogous to protecting piano players for silent movies when sound in film came out. But times 1,000,000 in the scope, because video capabilities could surpass sound. I think humans are a bit more discriminating with sound than visuals due to the brain taking shortcuts on visual processing.
Eventually AI will reach the point where it won’t have to rely on mimicry and can produce its own unique voice (or giant box of voices) with the correct pitch, tone and volume befitting the scene and dialog.
Advantages with AI, probably in about 10 years, would be procedurally generated voices. Some limited projects may already be there, but not to the scale of MMORPG.
Now the real question: what happens first?
A. AI gets good enough with less digital overhead to produce realistic voices for NPCs (or masked voice over for PCs so your immersion isn’t broken by another PC either swearing, talking like a fool or what not that doesn’t fit the game).
B. AoC is launched as a final product.
C. George R R Martin finishes the next Song of Ice and Fire book.
D. We all live in pods, eat bugs and are connected to the authoritarian game server by our evil alien overlords.
E. Disney gets an original idea rather than continue to trash someone else’s IP.
I like how you just threw some numbers out there with absolutely no idea of their actual revenue intake, current operational and capital expenditures, or feature backlog, and were like ‘yeah…this seems like an airtight counter-argument.’ 🤣
D has already happened. Just saying...