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Three things about this.
First, it's like, well, a heartily sarcastic "congratulations" to Larian for (seemingly) claiming to take a stance that should be the absolute baseline bare-minimum standard that all decent video game companies should take (though it's long been pretty obvious that maybe "decent" "video game company" is an oxymoron). They don't deserve praise for "committing" to doing what they should have been doing all along, from the start.
Second, what a bunch of typical corporate doublespeak, trying to turn it back around on their critics. "I can see where the confusion comes from. Even though the words that explicitly came out of my mouth made it seem like we were doing the bad thing, we're actually not doing the bad thing, so I'm sorry that you were confused by the things I said previously. So, to clear up all this confusion, I am saying now that we're definitely not doing the bad thing that everyone was confused by my own words into thinking we were doing."
Third, except...
"'Having said that, we continuously try to improve the speed with which we can try things out. The more iterations we can do, the better in general the gameplay is,' he said.
"'We think generative AI can help with this and so we're trying things out across departments. Our hope is that it can aid us to refine ideas faster, leading to a more focused development cycle, less waste, and ultimately, a higher-quality game.'"
So, basically, everything he just tried to say about how they're actually not going to do the bad thing that everyone was so "confused" about them doing based on the words he'd said previously... was complete bullshit, and they are going to be doing the bad thing, anyway. "We're not going to do the bad thing that everyone hates for that one specific case that got us in trouble, but we are going to continue doing the bad thing in all the other cases. Apologies if you were confused by that."
First, it's like, well, a heartily sarcastic "congratulations" to Larian for (seemingly) claiming to take a stance that should be the absolute baseline bare-minimum standard that all decent video game companies should take (though it's long been pretty obvious that maybe "decent" "video game company" is an oxymoron). They don't deserve praise for "committing" to doing what they should have been doing all along, from the start.
Second, what a bunch of typical corporate doublespeak, trying to turn it back around on their critics. "I can see where the confusion comes from. Even though the words that explicitly came out of my mouth made it seem like we were doing the bad thing, we're actually not doing the bad thing, so I'm sorry that you were confused by the things I said previously. So, to clear up all this confusion, I am saying now that we're definitely not doing the bad thing that everyone was confused by my own words into thinking we were doing."
Third, except...
"'Having said that, we continuously try to improve the speed with which we can try things out. The more iterations we can do, the better in general the gameplay is,' he said.
"'We think generative AI can help with this and so we're trying things out across departments. Our hope is that it can aid us to refine ideas faster, leading to a more focused development cycle, less waste, and ultimately, a higher-quality game.'"
So, basically, everything he just tried to say about how they're actually not going to do the bad thing that everyone was so "confused" about them doing based on the words he'd said previously... was complete bullshit, and they are going to be doing the bad thing, anyway. "We're not going to do the bad thing that everyone hates for that one specific case that got us in trouble, but we are going to continue doing the bad thing in all the other cases. Apologies if you were confused by that."
