Dear GOG: why?

Helpful tip to companies starting up: if anyone is talking about how you should use AI to improve all your things, don't, and fire them.

Good Old Games, sometimes Good Ol' Games (i think), but most commonly shortened to GOG, is an application for the computer that acts similar to Steam. You buy games there, and you can play it afterwards. It has a few differences to Steam (like, for example, it attempts to make every game DRM-free [look that up if you don't understand its meaning], along with the titular fact that there's a lot of older games on GOG), but for the most part it was a decent app that paired well with Steam.

Was.

You see, there was apparently a change in ownership of GOG, and since then they've been looking into the use of AI. They've already made some store assets using it, and have made it clear in an AMA that they're going to continue fuddling with it.


I am a fan of preserving video games (art as a whole, honestly, for the most part). GOG tries to allow gamers access to older games without trying to go on sketchy websites to download them.

Hell, when credit card companies started trying to prevent people from buying X-rated media, GOG had an incentive where they would give some of those erotic games away for free for a short time. They fought back against the censorship of pornographic games by having some be free for a short while.

They had some good ideals I can get behind, but now I probably have to uninstall my GOG app. Hopefully, this will only be until they stop trying to do AI-shit. I'm fucking done with AI. It wasn't even what it was advertised to be when it first came out, and it only kept getting worse from there.


I know this isn't a bigger post, nor is it one of the few that I was talking about (probably). I was busy with stuff.

Hopefully I have more ideas soon. Right now my brain is fried but still raw.