Warhorse Studios held an AMA last week on Reddit, and while it turned pretty bloody, the company’s responses have me feeling quite optimistic about the future. Here’s what went down, in case you missed it.
Kingdom Come Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios was almost immediately inundated with questions about dismissing a translator in favor of AI in its Reddit AMA last week. The team stated it heard the participant’s concerns, and that it “[doesn’t] see AI as a substitute for human work.”
“Some team members find AI useful during early stages of production,” the Warhorse Studios account wrote. “However, we do not use AI-generated content in the final game and we have no plans to change this in the future.”
One of the hosts replied directly to a question from user Very_Human_42069, who asked why they fired an employee that “played such a crucial part of bringing this game to the English speaking world,” and why the company planned to use AI in the future.
In response, creative director Prokop Jirsa, user name Prokop_Whs, left the following comment:
“This touches on internal HR matters, so I can’t comment on any present or past employee. That would be deeply unprofessional.
What I can say is that we are currently in the process of hiring new English translators. Actual humans.”
Overall, I find the responses to be adequate, and the above one, especially, is totally understandable.
What’s more interesting is that they responded to another hot question, whether they were working on a Lord of the Rings RPG.
“There’s rumours about an open world Lord of the Rings game,” user Eledhwen1 asked. “I’d like to ask about it but probably there won’t be a response as it is disclosed information.”
Ondřej Bittner responded: “Voilá there is a response! But unfortunately not the one you hope for. We are hard at work on … something. I cannot disclose details but I can tell it is a huge, immersive RPG.”
It’s certainly not the response I and many others were hoping for, but it still got me all excited. Warhorse Studios working on another big, immersive RPG? I’m in, whatever it is. Hopefully, we won’t be stuck playing as Gollum for 70 hours or something, though.
If it is a Lord of the Rings game made by Warhorse Studios, I certainly can’t wait. It’ll be epic, right? Imagine being able to explore The Shire, Gondor, Rohan, and maybe even swing by Mordor for a quick tussle with some orcs, all without loading screens!
I’m curious, though, what do you think is on the way, Destructoid?
