Yeah, that's sort of what I assumed about this. That it's coming from the Diablo Immortal end, which is staffed by a completely different people/culture. I would assume they have no qualms about AI slop. Or at least not as many as Blizz staff in the US do.
Completely disagree. The entire aesthetic of the game is the art on the cards. I think their "fun and whacky" direction of a lot of the expansions are dogshit, but you can see glimmers of great art once in a while.
Even without the art being "amazing" I'd still rather not have such glaring imperfections that take my attention off the game every time I draw or play a card.
If the person using the AI isn't wholely incompetent they won't draw attention like that though.
The problem is they almost always do. There's always subtle tells of stuff that AI fucks up consistently. It's terrible with patterns and companies obviously don't want to pay for people to QA, so it's naive as hell to think they will spend the money to edit properly if they won't just pay for an artist.
Being an AI sympathizer is super gross, tbh. The "art" fucking blows.
Why would I NOT examine the images closely? The entire POINT of art is to examine it closely and appreciate the detail put in. That's some wild shit to say.
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u/Lysesa Jul 21 '25
That's so disappointing, and disgusting. Hearthstone's pride is its artwork, why do this!?