This really comes off as a knee-jerk reaction by RWS. I get they’ve been burned in the past by shit like Postal 3, and Postal is about the only thing people know them for, but this should have been handled much better.
Delay things, verify there is no generative AI used, at worst replace assets that are deemed questionable.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 5 days ago
I agree, I thought the same thing.
I’ve seen in articles RWS saying they “don’t trust the developers” anymore, which is a bizarre thing to talk about in public so quickly.
fistac0rpse@fedia.io 5 days ago
Maybe they already knew about the AI content and was waiting to see what the public feedback was like?
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Even in that case, they were quick to cut ties and not mention it to the public in the announcement, which doesn’t make them look any better.
I say this as a long time Postal fan girl, I can ever get a slight kick out of 3 as terrible as it is. Either way, RWS doesn’t look good right now. They were either aware of generative AI being used and refused to declare it, or they decided a bit of public backlash was worth tanking a studio over without verification.
fistac0rpse@fedia.io 5 days ago
they could also have not liked the way that the project was going and just used this as an excuse to fire the developer. not defending RWS, as it looks pretty shitty with the little context that we have