(Ars Tech.)Valve dreams of analyzing your brainwaves to tailor in-game rewards - Sensationalist Headlines

I don't even know how it works in there, like hell I want them to.

Who in their right mind would want to find out that they are actually a sasquatch?

Maybe just read and study the brainwaves of paid playtesters to improve your game and leave it at that.

The problem with that is that valve playtesters don't have brainwaves to read.

I used to imagine my mind being read as I go to uncrate something thinking if I thought too much about what I want I wouldn't get it now they really want to make it so they can do that

On a more serious note valve once more manages to talk about something that's really interesting, such as neural interfaces, and in the same breath unwittingly manages to explain why it's a terrible idea that will be exploited for profit. And I dont know what's more scary, the thought that they didn't think this through, or that they actually did.

leaked image of the Valve brainwave scanner helmet https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/108570/dc527089-6601-4ffe-82d9-423789bc0119/image.png

And people thought Activision's patent of a matchmaking system that tries to match up new players with players who spent a lot of money on the game was bad. There's good news though. ECG is very, VERY unreliable - especially for a task like this. As-is, it'd be really easy to spoof with various means. Brain chips? Not only is this invasive and on the boarder of sci-fi, but who the fuck would shell out a few thousand dollars for an experimental surgery to put a chip in your brain? I think it's going to be a long long time until we see results from what Valve is digging into. Thank god.

Exactly because Steam is the only think keeping them alive. The top management of Valve, including the Newell and the board of Directors just don't give a shit about the fact the flat management structure of their company is actively driving it to ruin since developers are more focused on trying to make sure their coworkers think they are doing useful work than actually doing what they want to. The investors are fat and happy from Steam and Newell doesn't want to change anything since he still believes his decision to switch the company to the flat management system was the best thing that could have ever happened to the company and he doesn't want to hear any criticism about it.

Sure thing Gabe, read my brain. Go ahead. After your software fails, after your hardware overclocks itself into oblivion, after half of your employees go mad from terror, and the other half slit their own throats because their minds could not comprehend the truth, I'll walk up to you as you're curled up on the floor, and I'll unbox my reward, hoping for a hat. Oooh, or one of those adorable little shoulder animals <3

I'd be more excited to use tech like this to change how AI behaves and reacts to the player - not to goad me intoto opening more fucking lootboxes. Imagine Left 4 Dead where the AI director can sense how tense or stressed you are, how annoyed you are at your teammates, etc. etc. etc. Something like that would be fucking awesome, but it's not nearly as monetizable.

I mean they've talked about that stuff too. The headline is just to bait clicks.

More wasting resources into expensive gimmicks that ultimately amounts to nothing again, never change Valve.

I doubt it, they'd probably be thinking "holy shit, we're gonna be worth billions" Dystopian or no, this is just the way the world is heading. Being able to read consumer minds is a marketers wet dream

Valve is absolute trash

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I sincerely doubt we would ever get to see something like this during our lifetime.

I don't trust a company to stick to just using that sort of information to make A.I better, they would almost certainly use it against us.

I can't wait until Valve makes Hypnospace Outlaw real, and I can finally get beefbrain.

Valve will acquire the technology to read all of their players minds and still will refuse to do all the things everyone keeps telling them to do

It's here right now though it still needs some ironing out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US1PKddqSbc

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So what happens when they detect that we desire new games from the classic franchises at our minds? They shut down this and move into another thing like it never happened? Oh wait, that's what literally happened every time since with each project

You guys could just not put on the brain scanner?????????

The entire thing is about how this tech could be used to enhance an experience, from altering rewards to changing the tension and pacing of a game, to actually controlling the game.

"Mr. Newell, all the brain readings are bringing up the number 3..." Gabe just shuffles around awkwardly, then elbows a mug of coffee into the processing server "Uhhh, oh no, all the data is lost! Time for a new project, everyone."

The potential for physical input lag reduction as well as the potential for full control mapping means those un-augmented cavemen will be at a disadvantage.

Imagine if soft drink producers were so desperate to innovate they would preform fucking surgery on your tongue to improve flavor.

Just upload lootboxes into my brain so I can solve a captcha and input my credit card information entirely by accident by having involuntarily stimulated my brain with a scratch on my itchy nose