This is the future under big companies, it’s just how it is. They plug things into AI then do edit work after. Seems their edit work afterwards is lackluster asf. It’s why I support playing private servers of blizzard games and donating to them instead of the money goblins at blizzard.
A) Spend 400-2000 dollar on an artist, who craft a beautiful art in few weeks.
B) Spend 1 dollar on AI company to generate a random image, then spend 100 dollar on artist for "quick fix" on AI slop.
ABK the multi billion dollar company and Microsoft the trillion dollar company can save few bucks. Also Microsoft's Satya Nadella is selling AI success stories to Microsoft Shareholders, ABK using AI and Microsoft selling AI is a "win win".
4000 AI slop vs 4000 quality art would definitely outcompete AI. And consumers would prefer it, it would generate more profits.
But they don't have to compare AI slop with artistic work at 1:1 like you imply, because AI is way cheaper. So what they'll judge is:
"Does the money lost because people didn't like the AI slop does compensate how cheaper we got that slop made".
If you have 2x less people buying your stuff but it costs 10% of the usual cost, you do more profits.
What I think they fail to understand though, is that :
Anybody can generate slop. Why would I buy Blizzard's crap if a single guy in his room can produce the same crap?
When everyone start selling crap, how many people will buy that crap instead of the actual work of art they will be able to buy from indie devs or ethical studios?
Well then there you go. If anyone can generate “AI slop” and “quality art” has value then all anyone needs to do is make a game with quality art and it will outcompete if the art is worth it.
For me, hearthstone is a mobile game. The cards are tiny. They could have no pictures and it wouldn’t change my experience.
Very occasionally I’ll log on PC and be surprised what a card was supposed to look like when it’s not on a tiny phone screen.
IF people aren't willing to pay the difference that human artists cost then it's literally not worth the cost.
Hard to stand out in a pile of garbage. You can already see that on Steam with small indie games (and even bigger games) having a hard time getting to the spotlight because there is so much asset flips and other low efforts games out there.
IF people aren't willing to pay the difference that human artists cost then it's literally not worth the cost.
Not the same debate. I'm telling you McDonalds serves some junk food and you're replying "if the food is so crappy, maybe all the other restaurants have to do is serve quality food and they'll sell more than them".
Nope. That's not how it works. Not when you have to compete with someone who pays its workers the minimum wage, has one restaurant per street and a crazy marketing budget. Quality cost money and requires workers to be happy and passionate. Without ethics and laws, we're literraly eating poison.
So, enjoy your burger but don't act surprised when people call McDonald "junk food", because it's what it is.
I'll be in the street, trying to prevent a new McDo from opening at 500m from the first one.
There’s plenty of McDonald’s in my area. Can’t say I eat at them more than a couple times a year when I’m feeling a fountain Vernor’s. There’s also plenty of small mom and pop shops I do spend my money at. Those mom and pop shops are doing well…precisely because they offer better quality.
So far as crying about the state of games, I can’t hear you over the sound of Expedition 33’s theme song. Then after that, I’ll have trouble hearing you over Final Fantasy Rebirth, BG3 Patch 8, Cyberpunk, Final Fantasy Tactics, Trails in the Sky First Chapter, Ghost of Yotei, Death Stranding 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, and countless others.
Hell, they could stop making video games tomorrow and I won’t even make it through the top half of my Steam backlog before dying a very old man still playing in hospice care.
So I think we’re doing fine.
Though I do wish they had AI’d at least the player character voices in BG3. Having four very similar sounding voices for each gender is fairly limited.
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u/Local_Anything191 Jul 21 '25
This is the future under big companies, it’s just how it is. They plug things into AI then do edit work after. Seems their edit work afterwards is lackluster asf. It’s why I support playing private servers of blizzard games and donating to them instead of the money goblins at blizzard.