So, Tim is 💯 correct again. They’re trying to community note him, I’ve voted it down. The hate mob in gaming frankly, is filled with narcissists. They do not create anything, and are committed to misunderstanding you. I know this being in the fighting game community since 1998 competitively, seeing things go corporate in the last few years. As we know, in the last decade, gaming has been politicized. Budgets skyrocketed, middle management went up. The hidden middle management at a lot of studios went up very far, all the way to development side even. And yes, corporate hired community managers will politicize things and alignment check you. CMs are there to grow the community around the game. Without naming names I do know this because fighting game community went industry adjacent especially with the release of Street Fighter V (btw, 10 years of fighting games were all running Unreal Engine across the FGC until SF6 changed to RE framework) There was also Mortal Kombat X and Tekken 7. I had the honor of working briefly at NRS during injustice1/MKX, and I got to see how unreal engine worked When it comes to narcs, they love money, power, control and they do not argue in good faith. Their intentions are hidden. The truth always sets you free. And they always argue in half truths. Fundamentally committed to misunderstanding and draining you I’m not a developer, but in the fact check, you can see the half truth - yes we know steam is industry standard. Yet Epic iirc does 15%. Not mentioned in community note - if AI wasn’t a threat to their control they wouldn’t say anything. They want developers to stop using it, because??? Who would be so selfish to want devs to lose money making a game? Narcissists The mere disclosure of genAI itself opens up developers to mobs that people aren’t ready to defend against. And personally, I do understand the fear. I’ve lost everything to the mob. However, I’m still standing and i have a voice. Tim is doing his part industry side, once there are more success stories from indies, the tides will turn. Youre seeing a death cry from all the toxic parts of the industry. Right now, they do not create things. Developers do want to use genAI and are builled It doesn’t matter what you do. They will “Misunderstand” as narcs. The rare exception is when decompilation of games is enabled: in these situations even those who are antiAI-art will become pro genAI for that circumstance since providing genAI gives them value. As such the goal posts have shifted. This is just to slow down progress. They’re committed to hating @TimSweeneyEpic since he has enough resources to change things. From a community standpoint, AI will lower costs for grassroots events. I’m a big believer in grassroots events to shape community perception, cut costs, and help lower the price of expensive esports productions. Not everything needs a crazy expensive production team to put on events The community side is shortsighted as well, please strive for mutual win scenarios for all rather than using AI as another opportunity for control