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Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" (www.pcgamesn.com)
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A Valve artist has defended AI disclosures on storefronts like Steam, saying they only scare those with "low effort" products.

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[–] 13 points 9 months ago (15 children)

Is there an asset flip disclosure?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    Nearly all games use assets, would be pointless.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Asset flips refers to low quality project that use all store-bought assets without providing any uniqueness whatsoever on gameplay.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Problem is there are legitimately good games that do this, usually ones that focus exclusively on writing but still. At that point it's better to let the reviews handle it.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Like what?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Early access version of ATOM RPG was pretty damned close. I'm talking way back when it was the first world map or so when going to death tunnel would crash my game if I entered and exited it enough because of an infinitely respawning rat.

    Mind you that was pretty early in it's development but it very well could've stayed in polished form of that and still been good.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I said "low quality project", that means games with "focus exclusively on writing" are not belongs to this category.

    Huge chunk of RPG Maker games are using generic reusable assets provided by RPG Maker yet still cool af, as they focus on writings.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Sure but the problem is that distinguishing between a shitty asset flip and a proper game that is just using generic assets is moreso a matter of effort. There is basically no way to distinguish the two short of actually playing it, which is different from tracking say AI which is pretty objective in it's separation. The only tag that could work is a "strong usage of generic asset" but that doesn't really distinguish between say a shitty asset flip and a game that is a generic asset flip in everything but it's writing.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Okay, so, complex projects having a small part you didn't make doesn't matter?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    it's not that it doesn't matter at all but what problem does it solve if nearly every game on steam has it? It wouldn't even help identify actual asset flips.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Okay, so, every game on Steam having some generated asset wouldn't matter?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No. It's a lot easier to define that and restrict it.

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