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More production means more slop and more quality stuff, even if it favors the former.

And companies will lower their prices once similar games are made by indie devs who will lower their prices or offer higher quality games for free once beginner hobbyists can create, due to the assistance of AI, what was previously reserved for experienced hobbyists. It's just market saturation at the lowest level that bubbles up the hierarchy. It's just market saturation; exactly the same as what's happening to wages, only that it will affect sales, which is financially bad for everyone but marketers and consumers.

"What genre?" Why would that matter? It's common because it's very easy to create games in, due to certain engines that specialize on that genre, which leads to many similar-looking and usually low-quality games; exactly what you complained about with AI. My argument is that AI is like these engines; it eases creation, which leads to a lot more games being made of that genre and to the entry barrier being lowered to a point where any random dumb idea can be created. But those engines are capable of producing incredibly high-quality games, too, same as AI, if used appropriately. All I wanted to say with that was that using AI, or those engines, does not inherently produce slop, so which genre specifically does not really matter. And I'd rather avoid going into details on which genre I meant.

"I never said it [this platform] did [have to uphold my standards]." Sure, you only said that "quality > quantity", which I just take as meaning "Fewer high-quality games is better than more low-quality games," that your standards for high-quality constitute "doing something properly", whereby "properly" is subjective to your standards (see previous reply), and "if it's made with AI it isn't done properly," which, alongside "I don't want stuff made faster" and "this website has gone to complete shit," made me *somehow* come to the abstruse conclusion that "you don't want more games made with AI, you want games without AI, even if it means fewer, and that this website [platform] does that wrong." So yes, you never said it did have to uphold your standards, only that it's shit for not doing so...

And I specifically highlighted the "because" using asterisks to emphasize that what you said means that you believe people to be using AI specifically for its ability to produce lower quality results compared to other tools. That's the meaning of what you said and, I assume, was likely not intentional, was it?

And yes, criticizing a gift is improper. To be fair, it's only so in the cultures I know of, but that includes internet culture, which is the one that should apply, anyway.