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I'm out, fuck off Crazy Taxi hope you bomb

I've never missed an opportunity to block a game with AI.

"We used it to support our teams...." Yeah? Well

Fuuuuuuuck that shit Not interested in their excuses.

then I'm confirming and responding to them with "eat my entire ass, you sham of a video game company. support deez nuts."

Welp…

Well then, fuck Sega.

Too bad it can't generate profits

UGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

And not buying that game

@sega-west.bsky.social #FUCKU #FUCKAI

I didn't know sega even remembered they owned this game so it's sad they did this. I remember playing crazy taxi as a kid so it would've been nice to see a whole human made new game.

@sega-west.bsky.social can go to hell and take their AI slop with them.

I’m guessing every forthcoming Sega game is tainted by this ai mess now. Can’t support them.

There went my excitement and Sega loyalty. Fthem.

If they just used it to replace middle management that would be fine, but they HAD to go for creative assets.

hey at least it made the product worse

Ultimately it probably did get the execs a nice chunk of change because the AI company they used most likely lined their pockets nicely so they wouldn't back down when called out for this dumb shit.

Ah but it does make the hardware to play this game less attainable, which I haven't thought about but must assume is good

important to bosses and CEOs, I mean.

I've definitely worked at companies that invested in new tech or programs and forced us to use it only to discover it doesn't really help. But yeah, the different here is that they are asking people to work with something that the company hopes will actually replace said people.

Could someone good at the economy help out?!?

Might be interesting to see what stocks these companies executives might be invested in.

This ai slop needs to stop it ruins everything

Welp, Sega can use AI to generate fake money to compensate for the real money they ain't getting from me.

Well, good for them, they can hire fewer artists and other creative, when turning out their slop (and Crazy Taxi, LLMs or no, was always slop). As for me? Not another quarter for any product from Sega, hear that, @sega.jp, @sega-west.bsky.social ???

hey hey hey it’s time to lose some cah-RAAAAZY money

Too bad they can't get AI to buy the damn thing then because their core target audience sure as shit won't.

They always say that.

Nobody should buy this slop

It’s still theft from another artist. How prominent it presents to the player is irrelevant.

What a shame. Guess I'll cross that one off my wishlist.

Generative AI also solidified my choice in not buying the game. Thanks for the help, Sega!

Curious because the use of GenAI for support is the reason why I won't be supporting the team

dead on arrival.

That is going to be an "ieuw" from me.

Of course they can't write their own excuse. They're using the same AI prompt to write it.

Same story for every studio that tries to get away with using slop and then gets push back. RIP crazy taxi, games dead to me already. Unfortunate

i dont want generative AI involved in any step of the game development process...thank you and goodbye sega.

Yeah I’m not playing that.

Honestly hugely disappointing news from Sega.

Shareholders will keep asking devs to use these in their pipelines whether they want to or not in order to appear cutting-edge and honestly, there’s only one language these folks understand so that they stop. The big red profit line

Unfortunately, expect this to be the norm for the majority og games released. It was heavily pushed by leadership across a variety of companies. Best bet will be the indie space for non-AI games and even that is going to be hard.

No thank you

How can you make a game about driving around really fast in a taxi while that one song by The Offspring plays on a loop unappealing?

Money saved! Thanks Sega!

Oh cool Sega, doesn't matter, still wont touch it.

Another game added to the "don't bother playing" list.

USE FUCKING MSPAINT IF YOU NEED A BACKGROUND PLACEHOLDER, OR FUCKING HEINEKEN BEER IMAGE LIKE DARK SOULS 2

Not much of a clarification. "We touched the poop but only on backgrounds"

👎

Sega never recovered from Sonic 06... Never been the same since then.

@sega-west.bsky.social @sega.jp Crazy Taxi is an amaizing game, and I still love playing it in arcades today. I was so excited for this new title, but I would rather see it die than support Gen Ai use in media. If you intend to use Gen Ai in your other titles, then I won't be buying them either.

Well fuck that then

Why did they even bother saying this, they probably should have just lied about it haha

background billboard easter eggs are the artist's secret love letter to anyone paying attention

If the higher ups really didn't want to pay people to make them then like outsource some billboard designs to the public or something. Yeah it's not the greatest option but I guarantee there's enough people who would participate in a competition or something for free. It's better than ai at least.

the best argument on the topic

SEGA loves money and hasn't really cared about creativity in several decades, it's a shame. And even though AI doesn't save money, they'll still use it. It's a fallacy.

Because the developers don't need to use everything the AI gives them? They can modify it by adding a joke in themselves, or scrap it to use as influence to make something from hand?

underpaid dev: "can i put this funny pun as the name of this store in the bg?" fool executive: "NO YOU MUST ASK THE MACHINE"

evergreen post: bsky.app/profile/head...

The argument of using AI for temporary assets during development is also moot, because there's, what, hundreds of free resources on the internet? It literally costs nothing and does not poison the planet

RIP, crazy taxi. they just had to insert stolen material to make it an unethical purchase. Oh well, there wasn't a new title for ten thousand years so I don't think anybody was still holding out hope for a new crazy taxi anyway.

Calm down @sega.jp @sega-west.bsky.social, I didn't need another reason to boycott your company, lol. What are we at, 4 now?

Welp. Fuck that game, and fuck SEGA.

Not only am I never, ever playing this, but I'm bracing myself for the high likelihood that the new Jet Set Radio will be similarly slop-infested.

Used AI? Well I WAS going to check this game out. Key word being was.

Then Im not buying it.

Sounds like I'm not going anywhere near this shit then. Fuck that.

My old copy still works fine Not touching this with a 10 ft pole

And in the bin it goes. :(

you know the technology's good when companies only ever vaguepost about it

sega, go outside and do photogrammetry like a normal game dev! lazy asses

More like #LazyTaxi

where can I go to directly tell these people to go to hell

Generative...phone autocorrected genAI to general AI. 😞

Where are the savings going towards? Or was it another way to cut the unrealistically tight dev time down even more so you can pay them less and pocket more profit off of stolen work?

I think there's a typo in your post. I'm pretty sure they meant to say "Generative AI was used to REPLACE our teams during the development of background assets for Crazy Taxi: World Tour."

You should've gone down under after the Dreamcast.

The thing is, that's bad, too. The point of placeholders is that they stick out; they remind you that you have to replace them eventually. Having "placeholders" that look similar to finished art leads to you forgetting they're there, and then they end up in the final product, a la Clair Obscur.

First, they came for the rock modellers

Ah damn I was looking forward to this. Well, time to drop that off my wishlist.

Ok i will not buy it then

Immediate boycott. Fuck off, Sega. You AND your forced use of AI.

Ugh… I love Crazy Taxi. It’s the reason I bought a DreanCast. I was so jazzed for this… now… It’s a pass for me.

punk is sooooo dead

Well fuck you Sega

Hope the "savings" hurt their sales.

Wtf sega?! Way to shit the bed.

Boooooooooooooooooo Not interested in slop

Ah well, never mind then. fuck that shit.

yeah, fuck that shit. I am out.

(using/supporting GenAI supports the Data Center not the fight against them, to be clear)

c.org/TMWDjP5Mxc

Welp time to burn this game I guess

I was stoked for the latest Hot Shots Golf until I saw they used gen AI. Looks like this Crazy Taxi is going in the same category of "Shame, I would've bought that."

Oh.... the new Jet Set Radio game is cooked then...

It really feels like we shouldn't even be having to talk about this, why this game of all things, you'd think some shitty mobile spin-off of a series they constantly make sequels to would do it, why now for something I was most excited for, I hate you Sega, get blood poisoning

Why the background assets?

I am going to read the comment section to see whether customers like that or not!

Fuck off, Sega

Such controversies always happen like that. Feeling like Skynet wannabe. (may feel like malicious AI). Not sure if hybrid approach could happen to AAA companies...

Wait until they make the same excuse for the next Sonic that they'll announce.

I don't care in whichever fraction of the process you used AI @sega.jp The only correct amount of generative AI is none whatsoever. You use AI, I'm not buying your game, no matter how fantastic it is, I have a backlog big enough to last me a lifetime.

We’re just not allowed to have anything nice apparently.

and how DARE they do that to crazy taxi in the first place, I may absolutely adore the games but I won't let my nostalgia blind me like that!

It's a shame Sega never made a new Crazy Taxi game. But I'll bet it would have sucked somehow, so it's better that it doesn't exist at all and never will. 😒

Bruh