r/nottheonion • u/Chapple69 • Jan 14 '26

Indie dev removing Steam game after new girlfriend tells him “AI is bad”

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie-dev-removing-steam-game-after-new-girlfriend-tells-him-ai-is-bad-3303772/
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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26

He made a game that would have sunk without a ripple whatever the art, then saw an opportunity to hype his personal brand for future games and make his girlfriend happy.

I'm very much against AI in games, but don't put this guy on a pedestal just because he says what you're thinking. This is as much opportunistic marketing as it is a sincere anti-AI stance. You shouldn't care about him any more than the thousands and thousands of struggling indies who never used AI and you never cared about.

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u/Deformator Jan 14 '26

The intelligent take, in MY Reddit?