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Damn

Welp, there goes any chance at me ever doing business with GOG ever again. Which sucks because I thought they were a good alternative to Steam.

Really @gog.com? I was gonna subscribe to that patrons thing you have and all

IS NOTHING FUCKING SACRED?

Once again we have to take to the seas.

@gog.com Ironic that your MO is preserving old games that were made with actual craft, but you don't care about using robot-generated slop for your website

aaaand there it goes, all my good will for them...

I've seen this before it's pretty funny, but it's more accurate to say he did what everyone else is doing first. Him not being beholden to corporate interests is what keeps him winning.

Valve has also does even worse shit, like allowing gambling 3rd party sites to use their existing gambling assets to make several underground online casinos. They're not infallible, but a AAA game for $4 is a AAA game for $4. Also the image is just funny

Fucking true...

To be fair, while not AI, lately Steam has been involved in tons of controversies related to removing games from the store

Why pay an artist when you can rip off thousands of them? /s fwiw boomer Retro enthusiasts use it EVERYWHERE. 😬

Crazy bad light to put themself in just after going independent.

@gog.com BOO! BOO! This is disappointing in an extremely kurwatastic way. Be better! BOO!!!

More like gag amirite

@gog.com nooo please delete the AI slop :(

@gog.com you fumbled it

Ew

Stop this @gog.com you should be better than this

I'm tired boss

@gog.com hell no get that shit out of the way

Valve deserves that monopoly SO hard

AI is the future!

Fucks sake @gog.com AI images? Really? Disappointing.

@gog.com , is this true? If true - revert, apologize to your users, please.

...seriously man...? Why?

I KNEW IT! Anyways @gog.com please understand that all, if not a vast majority, of your customers are vehemently against AI-generated art. Should you continue to use AI generated art, I will cease purchasing goods from you and I'm sure that I won't be the only one.

But... Why?

Oof.

@gog.com cut that AI shit right out.

@gog.com Co Wy odpipidalacie? :(

Booo @gog.com ! I liked what your company did so far. Don't fuck it up please!

Gross

This banner proves they've forgotten their own core. Now they're just mimicking the worst patterns of corporate cost cutting.

@gog.com

W T F

Looks like I'll be requesting my data be deleted and my GOG account closed. A real shame too. They WERE positioning themselves to be a real ally to creators and artists. Way to cheapen and tarnish everything you set out to do, #GOG.

There go my hopes of them eventually adding AI disclosures like Steam or AI tags like itch. 😩

FUCKING CHRIST !

@gog.com Ew, AI is gross! Stop using it!

@gog.com why you using ai you know that's turned out like the shit it is for literally everyone else, right? You can't consider yourselves the free range natural chicken farm and then start throwing subway chicken slabs around. Your user base aren't ones to not notice such things. Cut it out.

they had an AMA on reddit today and seemingly doubled down on gen AI use

🤮

bsky.app/profile/hjm....

Rare GOG L

Sigh. Sadness.

Looking into it, I can tell they did it to *sigh*........save money Like HOW HARD IS IT TO JUST FUCKING HIRE SOMEBODY?!? FOR ARTWORK

You were to preserve the old games, not create new AI-slop >:(

@gog.com hire a real artist

Ugghh

@gog.com wtf is this shit?

@gog.com You still got time to remove this, dont be like that

@gog.com

that misses the point of their userbase so much

Not you GOG, don't betray us like this... 🤦‍♀️

Okay so. Anybody else weirded out by the fact they also keep advertising games they don't own the rights to? I know they're pushing the GOG Dreamlist stuff, but they couple it with advertising consoles and games they cannot possibly carry. Also talks a -lot- about PlayStation for some reason.

When does that "new management" kick in again?

Why @gog.com

I unfortunately wasn't as lucky when I posted about the GOG GenAI banner yesterday :( bsky.app/profile/miss...

BluEkY InTerActIoNs R sO DeAd

This is like seeing grandma commit fraud...

welp.. time to make our distaste known. support.gog.com/hc/en-us/req...

This year can’t be real…I swear

hey @gog.com what the hell are you doing :))))

@gog.com HEY DON’T THIS! STOP USING AI GENERATED IMAGES!!

This is fine @gog.com , you should keep doing it.

@gog.com This is disgusting.

Alright time for someone to make the time machine and kill these fuckers. I am fully tired of Ai in everything at this point.

GOG trynna end their own career 💀

Well fuck them then.

you've got to be kidding me...

At this point, if some big platform start to advertise jumping from bridge, all other platform start to advertise same. Without spending a single thought on consequences. I can't belive they are giving a flying duck about what the community thinks.

Well fuck, I guess I'm not buying more from GoG then. I have a pretty big library, so I'm hoping they back off of AI soon. My steam library is hovering around 1k-ish games, but I like the DRM free software on GoG. Definitely not supporting generative images/videos though, for that clanker tech.

GenAI use is like the Nazi bar analogy. It always starts as just a little placeholder, and then another little easy thing, and then everything and it’s too late to stop it.

My understanding is the one that confirmed it was the one who did it

Just having no image at all is better than that.

This shit sucks ass!

Another GOG fun fact is that compared to Steam & Epic. Its the worse for the publishers/devs since its the only one that dosent take less than 30%

GOG Execs, in my imagination: "How bad of PR is it to use AI images, do you think? Really...that bad? Hm...but I can save like $40 on this art bill right now if I stab our artists in the back and use this AI that stole their work..."

@gog.com #GOG Seriously? What the fuck? You were the chosen one, GOG... you were supposed to destroy the corporate bullshit, not join them! Since you don't want to pay artists anymore, I won't pay you anymore.

Horrible decision

Welllll fuck!

I wrote them a small suggestion ticket case to them about that. A storefront, with one of the core values being preserving video games which can be considered as artistic works, using generative AI comes off as two faced to me

Ew gross.

pretty sure twitter said roughly the same thing

Hey @gog.com I've bought stuff from you before but I never will again unless you take any and all AI generated content down, apologize, and promise to never do it again

What the fuck.

FUCKING W H Y

Truly shameful.

Reddit mods deleted the thread pointing this out.

Fucking come on are you kidding me

Second video game crash is about to happen

Fuckin why?????

They had done something that SMELLED OF gamer gate a long while ago that always made me suspicious of them but it died down. Guess I'm going back to not using them.

@gog.com Nope.

Feedback submitted. Would recommend everyone else do the same (Bluesky posts might not reach the right people). It's simple, we do no buy anything until it's removed and an apology is issued.

Please @gog.com don't do this to us! PLEASE! WE DON'T WANT AI! PERIOD! We WILL abandon and drop you like a sack of potatoes.

Damn it

@gog.com plz no

@gog.com Have some integrity and rectify this issue. Remove the AI, dash it upon the rocks and wash your hands clean of it.