Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Something tells me the “double down” is to distract from that fallout

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  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I suspect so… But not everyone knows so it’s still worth mentioning.

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    • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know it, but I’m not sure why one would affect the other. I still get DRM free games on GOG that I’m not going to find on itch.io or elsewhere.

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      • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because supporting GOG now means supporting unfettered AI usage. If you disagree with such policies, the only way to voice that discontent is with your wallet.

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• vogi@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Was there another incident besides the 2026 sales promo image? I was a bit disappointing of their “response” if you can could call it that. But I don’t really see this as “pushing AI”, as far as I can tell this might just be an intern who was given the task to make a promo image and did not care at all.

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  • KiwiTB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are hiring someone to advocate for us use

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    • vogi@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      oof, found it. It is so weird seemingly every job listing for a software developer has the requirement of using AI nowadays. ITS NOT A SKILL, ITS MANDATORY TRAINING WHEELS. They will find worse programmers doing so, good ones can use AI if it makes sense you don’t have to force it.

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• Ilixtze@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Push slop and lose your business there will aways be other services that are more ethical.

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