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

[Lowland]

This shit is so ethically dubious that I can't imagine it not getting banned. Especially after lootboxes have already become a hot issue.

[Weyu]

Remember when Valve made games and Steam and nothing else

[Popular Vote]

Then they flip the little switch that reads "input" to "output".

YOU LOVE LOOTBOXES. YOU NEED THE RUSH YOU GET WHEN YOU OPEN ONE. YOU LOVE THE STEAM MARKET...

[Walkas]

YOU ALWAYS REALLY WANTED A DOTA 2 THEMED CARD GAME

[SundayRoast]

I can already envision Valve releasing a swarm of manhacks next E3 as revenge for the vocal reception of Artifact.

[Maestra Fénix]

HL3 is taking forever because they want actually to implement the Manhack Arcade and make it work this time

Slice your friends!

[Géza!]

Everyone gets their own in-built Space Core, but instead of space, it's LOOTBOXES

[SundayRoast]

I'll be sorely disappointed if we can't get Uncle Gubsy from lootboxes.

[carcarcargo]

What if they analyze peoples brains and find out everyone just wants them to make fucking games again

[megafat]

Ironically, they spend all of their money on reading peoples minds, and have no money left.

[God of the Grove]

In truth, proper implementation of ECG (as well as more invasive sci-fi crap) would be great for this - AFAIK the AI director in L4D just starts by littering junk randomly in the map, then deciding if it should send a horde or special your way more based on whether or not you had one thrown at you in a while or if you are near some kind of story moment.

But I really think more will jump on this as a way to do shit like sell lootboxes FOR A SUPER SPECIAL DISCOUNT depending on the current "Buyability" rating of the consumer determined by factors such as excitement, exhaustion or inebriation rather then stuff that would improve a game in and of itself. Normally I don't have a problem with lootboxes (please don't make me go into this, I have before and it's not the discussion of the thread...) but I would have a problem with this cyberpunk crap

Again, thank god that the technology just isn't here yet

[Talvy]

How about analyzing brainwaves to tailor in-game storytelling?

No? Right... that would’ve been the old Valve.

[JennyC6]

They wouldn't like my results, 'cause A: I barely game anymore anyway, B: I'm quite happy to keep playing the same games I've been playing for...gods, over a decade now(I still play HL2 and Gmod regularly enough), and C: I don't have any interest in loot boxes or whatever(God only knows how many I've let expire in my Steam inventory because I check that about as often as Valve releases Half Life games).

At least until they get to a fucked up hellhole of a mind like mine and see nothing but a constant stream of furry porn, desires for the advertising industry itself to be banned at a federal level, and a whole library of congress' worth of mental notes that all read 'fuck me I don't have any money this week'...

[Coldmute]

I mean, they talked about that stuff too.