@davidgerard But why is Bad Rats from 2009 in the festival? xD
https://store.steampowered.com/app/34900/Bad_Rats_the_Rats_Revenge/

@davidgerard meanwhile Mark Roberts from Grinding Gear Games: "But I’m just like, from my understanding, and it mostly comes from us trying to recruit people, my understanding is we’re already working multitudes faster than every other company under the sun. Almost. So why should we go and adopt technologies that would slow you down?"

https://outputlag.com/feature/diving-deep-into-path-of-exile-curse-of-the-allflame-with-grinding-gear-games/

@davidgerard wtf these look like game titles and thumbs you'd expect to see in a meme specifically mocking asset-theft garbage just out here actually doing it anyway

@davidgerard Blacklisting a dev should be a feature...

@davidgerard "Learn how AI being used to games faster than ever" - they can't even get the grammar right. Isn't that supposed to be something GenAI is actually pretty good at?

@davidgerard the apostrophe here leaves me wholly unsurprised.

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???

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4314600/Toetal_War/

@davidgerard SteamDB has a full list of games taking part in this "Festival"

https://steamdb.info/sales/event/669500857710019396/

@davidgerard the word "festival" makes it appear much more like a valve-sanctioned event, like the themed sales weeks they commonly run on the platform. i wonder if this will lead to any steam policy changes.
steam's user culture hates AI and can be super toxic in that classic gamergatey way, and for once (compared to all the times they're freaking out about eg a woman or LGBTQ character or dev) they might act in alignment with the rest of us.

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There’s also this curator who tracks games with AI disclosures: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45873208-Slop-Alert/

@davidgerard "Learn how AI being used to games faster than ever" I think they accidentally the whole truck

@davidgerard I like how the quality bar for the festival's own materials is subterranean. this was the very first content heading when I loaded the page

@davidgerard Each title somehow more derivative than the last. It's amazing, it's almost as if AI attracts people who don't see much value in human creativety.

@davidgerard real rich for them to do this on Steam of all places, the only corporation remotely smart enough to realize that gamers fucking hate AI