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Sony Group Corp.’s PlayStation division is overhauling Horizon Hunters Gathering, the online action game it announced earlier this year, following negative player feedback, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.

Guerrilla Games, the Amsterdam-based PlayStation subsidiary behind the Horizon franchise, has been working to reboot the game since June, said the people, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the project’s future. Following poor feedback in private testing earlier this year, the plan now is to strip out the live-service component and turn it into more of a traditional cooperative multiplayer game with a story mode and a far smaller scope.

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Earlier this week it was reported that a trailer for Saber’s Rideshare ‘Stimulator’ contained digs aimed at Gearbox president Randy Pitchford, in response to criticism aimed at former parent company Embracer Group in Borderlands 4.

Saber CEO Matt Karch confirmed that the jokes in the trailer were indeed aimed at Pitchford, but the story caught the eye of former lead writer Stella Sacco, who then claimed on Bluesky that she had been replaced on Rideshare ‘Stimulator’ in favour of AI writing tools.

“I didn’t see this had been announced,” Sacco posted. “I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development.

“All the passenger voices were AI too,” she added. “Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam.”

Saber says AI was used in Rideshare ‘Stimulator’, but denies replacing any writers

Link to article: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/former-saber-writer-claims-she-was-replaced-by-chatgpt-during-development-on-its-ridesharing-game/

edit: There is an update posted by u/P2_Press_Start in the comments.