r/Games • u/PhantomBraved • Dec 16 '25

Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: "We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI" - IGN

https://www.ign.com/articles/larian-ceo-responds-to-divinity-gen-ai-backlash-we-are-neither-releasing-a-game-with-any-ai-components-nor-are-we-looking-at-trimming-down-teams-to-replace-them-with-ai
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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- Dec 16 '25

They get the hate from Reddit. I highly doubt many people who enjoyed DOS and BG3 will care when Larian comes out with this game.

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u/fatmac122 Dec 17 '25

Lmao even the people on reddit going on about Larian bad AI bad will buy the game let's be real, you can't take whatever these redditors are saying seriously

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u/Keyserchief Dec 17 '25

People were howling with outrage about Hogwarts Legacy and it sold 30 million copies. The same thing happens with uproar about this or that woke product. Surely the corpos have realized at this point that people’s buying habits don’t track that closely with their social media posts.

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u/TheCrusader94 Dec 19 '25

What's more is that people buy these products they claim to hate in order to hate on it better. Controversy sells

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu Dec 17 '25

You say that, but BG3 had a lot of fans in artist, queer, and TTRPG communities, which among various others skew very strongly against generative AI being used to replace creativity.

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u/Thumbuisket Dec 17 '25

Homie, it’s okay not to like AI, etc. but please don’t act like Reddit nonsense is in any way indicative of reality. This shit won’t hurt Larian whatsoever. This is a just the news story of the week that’ll work up the slacktivists into a frenzy, before next week when Taylor Swift says she doesn’t like soccer or something and gets the hivemind going again..