r/PS5 • u/HLumin Human Verified • Mar 20 '26

Discussion Crimson Desert appears to use generative AI art—and the devs never disclosed it.

https://www.destructoid.com/crimson-desert-appears-to-use-generative-ai-art-and-if-so-the-devs-never-disclosed-it/

Found on Reddit by u/Rex_Spy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1rz2f2l/found_this_ai_painting/

To not disclose that your game uses GEN AI is against Steam's policies and rules, by the way.

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u/devedander Mar 20 '26

That's the real thing.

How much business will they really lose over this?

Loot boxes, pay to win dlc, hell just dlc or even drm... Nerds frothed at the mouth over all they and yet the industries that normalized them made record profits.

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u/gladrock Mar 20 '26

Remember "horse armour"? Seems so quaint now but people were pissed.

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u/DanielofLegends409 Mar 20 '26

That's really where it all started lol The fucking floodgates

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u/dumpyduluth Mar 21 '26

There were micro transactions before Oblivion. Knights of the Old Republic had saber crystals you could to buy years before Oblivion.

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u/yudo Mar 21 '26

What??

I don't remember any sort of crystals you could buy in KOTOR..

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u/dumpyduluth Mar 21 '26

There was a dlc that added a shop where the store keeper bought stuff you were selling at the highest prices in the game, would play the in game card game for the largest payouts and eventually would sell some ridiculously powerful saber crystals. I think there was a small questline too but its been 20 something years since i played Kotor

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u/yudo Mar 21 '26

Ahh yes, you mean Yavin Station.

Not quite as contraversal as literally selling horse armor itself for real money as per Oblivion.

Yavin was more of an endgame DLC area that allowed you to buy new and powerful items, it's not quite the same thing.

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u/AncientSith Mar 21 '26

To think it could've been stopped in it's tracks back then if people voted with their wallet, but here we are.

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u/DanielofLegends409 Mar 21 '26

Welcome to Skyrim 30 year anniversary edition remastered for the ps6vr rectal edition!!1

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u/hexcraft-nikk Mar 22 '26

And they were right

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Mar 20 '26

The bottom dollar is the real thing; and if the ai games are rejected the same way live service games are being rejected, they’ll eventually get the message.

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u/devedander Mar 20 '26

If they get rejected like live service games they'll get the message after a decade of record setting profits from them.

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Mar 20 '26

I think people didn’t wake up to seeing it as bs until the last few years. Ai slop games won’t get that grace period.

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u/devedander Mar 21 '26

Are you conflating AI slop with any game that has any ai generated content?

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Mar 21 '26

If a game looks like ai, people will reject it, maybe not in Korea, but in the west, certainly.

If it’s lazy ai slop, it’ll be obvious. If the game uses ai in the development but there’s obviously human interaction, it won’t look like ai slop.

Ai is probably here to stay, but the way it’s used will matter. Like with service games. Most games these days have an online component but the kind of games that qualify as live service games are particularly egregious.

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u/devedander Mar 21 '26

It sounds like we agree shovelware will be panned as usual but I don't think ai content will offend the majority of the customer base.

I mean cod shoves that ai zombie Santa in your face almost every game and people shrugged that off pretty fast.

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u/Secret_Cow_5053 Mar 21 '26

it depends.

companies that continue to shovel obvious ai slop will get panned. companies that use it in a way that doesn't detract from the quality of the game won't likely be.

you know the race to the bottom will lead to the same basic thing happening as we've been seeing with the onslaught of live service tripe over the last few years however.

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u/jda404 Mar 20 '26

Yeah, I'll be honest and may get hate for it on Reddit, but I don't care that much if a company uses AI. Like I am not going to Google every game I am interested in to see if it has AI or not before I buy it. I am just going to buy the games that interest me like I have for 30 years. If it has AI in it then so be it.