How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?

Scribe said:

I close the tab, look up a different game, and blacklist the Dev.

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This is the way.

aco175 said:

I do not have a strong one way or the other opinion. I would like my games to be more human written or human art, but have found that AI helps come up with some ideas to start things. I can also see where some of the art can show what you mean in a game like the Tomb of Horrors has several pictures back in the day. I would like to see the people get paid for their time and specialty, but also see that it is becoming everywhere like micro-plastics or something.

I play a lot of golf and some of the big companies in the game started advertising AI designed clubfaces. The ides is that the computer can Dr Stange through 14,000,605 possible futures to find the one that makes the golf ball go farther in 1 day over than 5 years of research. Then AI can help print one out tonight and test it tomorrow. I do not see this as good or bad as well, but the way things are moving.

It is like being a shopping mall in the age of online.

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I think this is where my head is going too.... tools are tools. So much hate for illustrator or photoshop art (digital art) back in the 2010s) and honestly, it just turned into what everyone used after a while.

I am not 100% on any of this yet, so again, i think at this point = i prefer folks just state they are using it, and then.. well... if the ideas are good and the end product works well... maybe i'm fine with it. I dunno yet, more time and feels is needed

I can say that both Hasbro and Paradox literally have AI as part of their development and writing and proofing process. It's even in the NDA they make you sign as a writer. So AI authorship is out there, likely far more than more folks know even...

Cergorach said:

But isn't cash green in your part of the woods...

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Pennies are copper red.

Parmandur said:

Pennies are copper red.

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Seems the poll is pretty much overwhelmingly negative, with only 10% of people not put off by AI. It's encouraging that 90% of folks voted against it.

Morrus said:

Seems the poll is pretty much overwhelmingly negative, with only 10% of people not put off by AI. It's encouraging that 90% of folks voted against it.

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I don't expect LLM stuff will ever go away, but anyone who thinks it will be popular or profitable is kidding themselves. Total bubble.

Morrus said:

So it's a retroactive classification based on whether it sells well?

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not so much retroactive, but I can see it being about anticipation / expectation. Probably more about available budget for the product, I would expect C7, KP or other publishers to sell quite a bit better than some no-name homebrewer who published something for $1.99 on DTRP, and I am going to cut the latter more slack

Morrus said:

Seems the poll is pretty much overwhelmingly negative, with only 10% of people not put off by AI. It's encouraging that 90% of folks voted against it.

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Just like ENworld isn't representative of the RPG industry, neither is this poll. You're better off tracking product sales on something like DTRPG (which is difficult, but maybe track which ones get the bronze ranking and when).

As an example, we have "Four Against Darkness - Expanded Edition" (Ganesha Games), released 12/24/25 and already an Electrum bestseller, and "Contains AI-Generated Content"...

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"Level Up: Voidrunner's Codex Full Digital Box Set (A5E)" (ENworld Publishing), released 7/4/24 and has no ranking, so not even a Copper bestseller, and "Human-Created Without AI"...

Both products of course have other avenues of purchase, so it doesn't give the whole picture, but both publishers have been around for a long time with many products to their name.

These are just examples, but there are of course many 'AI' titles that have been around for some time with no rating just as there are many that are not AI generated that also have no rating after many years. Imho it's not about the creation method for most gamers, but what's being made that sells or not. And it seems that sales aren't impacted as much as these kinds of polls indicate on here. Make the same poll on a pro AI platform and you would get the opposite with folks not buying product if it's not specifically made with AI...

The DTRPG page with "Contains AI-Generated Content" filter:

Parmandur said:

I would pay $5 for no art instead of AI art. If someone is charging diddly squat, they better not be using AI.

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Or better yet $5 for a product that uses freely available public domain art or even some of the pay what you want stock art packs that are available on places like DriveThruRPG. People saying AI is the only way to make art for their RPG products affordable just haven't looked at what their options actually are.

Cergorach said:

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"Level Up: Voidrunner's Codex Full Digital Box Set (A5E)" (ENworld Publishing), released 7/4/24 and has no ranking, so not even a Copper bestseller, and "Human-Created Without AI"...

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/486860/level-up-voidrunner-s-codex-full-digital-box-set-a5e

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‘Released’ is ‘uploaded’. It went on sale just last week, not in July.