I guess I am not at all surprised that the general solidarity people showed for artists at the start of the first generation of blockchain games/grift basically fell to the wayside when The Finals launched. The moment most people saw a shiny new thing they wanted to play.

@zombiepie: The reason everyone turned against the blockchain is that they didn't see the value in it. None of the use cases were appealing and the actual blockchain games that were produced all looked absolutely terrible.

AI generated content, on the other hand, has a lot of seductive promises like cool art assets and being able to talk to any NPC. Can it deliver these promises? Press X to doubt, though some games that have included some AI generated assets have been...fine (though not better than games with human made content, which makes sense since AI content is almost all stolen from humans in some way.)

This is how it always goes. If what's being offered is attractive people generally won't give a damn about the ethics behind its creation. It's only if it affects them personally (like the blockchain games being bad) that most people care.

How many labor scandals have we seen that haven't really hurt the companies in the long term? People are still excited for Prince of Persia even though we all know how horrible Ubisoft is. There will always be a few people who care and actually boycott in some way, but they are exceptions.

I don't think the fight's over against Generative A.I. being used widespread in games

There are still a LOT of legal disputes to figure out about it, not to mention countries that might regulate against it.

Also The Finals is such a weird one for people to be excited about because MAN is that game ugly.