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Comment on Remember Postal? In the last 48 hours publisher Running With Scissors has announced a new game, insulted fans, apologized, canceled the game, the studio making it denied wrongdoing & shut down anyway

TomAwezome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Article seems kinda clickbaity, not sure about this Andy Chalk fella who wrote the piece.

So RWS caught wind that the devs of the next Postal game they were going to publish were using AI generated art, and then cut ties with the studio due to the community backlash? Sounds like they made the right choice. Maybe they shouldn’t have outsourced the development of the game…

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Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The issue is moreso that it’s “he said, she said” bullshit currently.

The devs said they didn’t use AI for anything. RWS has supplied no proof that the devs were. They just cut ties as soon as the backlash reached them, and the studio pretty immediately closed their doors.

There’s a lot of speculation currently, but no outright proof. Hell, as far as I’ve seen, RWS haven’t responded to anyone asking for more information on this.

It’s coming off like a snap decision based on community reaction instead of taking any steps to verify, and the lack of direct response isn’t helping.

I’m far from pro-AI, but this is not a good look for RWS as a publisher. This should be taken into account by any other company looking to work under them, just in case, because right now it looks more like “Well, they said, so we did, and you could be next if they say again”.

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- Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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  - Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Huh, well then. Wish this had been in the articles I had seen! Thanks for the confirmation! I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt since AI is such an extreme topic to try to discuss at this point with people jumping to “everything is AI” rather quickly.
    
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