Warhorse Studios, the developers behind the Kingdom Come series, thought it wise to give Redditors a chance to inquire them on any topic shortly after laying off a Czech translator in favor of AI. Reddit showed up not to ask but to teach a shade-powered lesson about humanity.
My second favorite thing about Reddit is the AMA (Ask Me Anything). My very favorite thing about Reddit is an AMA gone bad, especially when Reddit users come together to enact justice against misguided AMA hosts via incredibly cheeky questions, and we sure are getting that, with people asking the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developers things such as:
“Why are you pro generative-AI despite its obvious negative impact on people working in the creative industries, including gaming?”
“I always dreamt of working as a translator for warhorse studios, do you think I have a chance?”
“Why need creative directors, why not replace them with AI as you did with your translators.”
There’s even this one question, seemingly attempting to understand the developer’s decision.
“…What are your experiences/expectations about the quality with such translations? I assume such a decision wasn’t done lightly and not without proper research.”
A common sentiment comes in a more acidic version of, “How could they be dumb enough to host an AMA after choosing AI over people?”
“I don’t know whose brilliant idea it was to do a Warhorse AMA on one of the most AI critical subs on Reddit shortly after Warhorse was in the news for firing a human in favour of AI, but I bet that person with wish they had swallowed a bottle of Saviour’s Schnapps after this AMA derails so they could reload.”
And sure, they have only, as far as we know, laid off one translator under these circumstances, but that’s the kind of problem that’ll only grow bigger if unopposed right away.
And on that note, other even cheekier Redditors began wondering about Warhorse’s next Bond Villain-esque move.
“Are you guys making an open world LOTR game with Saudi money?”
And,
“Lmao people here get downvoted for asking legitimate questions instead of hating”
Which, I gotta admit, I kinda love. Lastly, there’s:
“Is your gemini premium subscription gonna translate your next game since you fired the guy that did the English translation”
Currently at 190 upvotes, that’s the highest-rated question, but don’t let that discourage you from trying to come up with something even, let’s say, more inquisitive. Yes, you can still ask your questions on their Reddit AMA page, which Warhorse Studios will kindly reply to on April 30, unless the studio is forced to cancel the event due to some completely unexpected and definitely unrelated turn of events.
