Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us'
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 1 week agoGiven the test, release and publishing timelines, the 5 days patch was already being actively worked on before the game was released. Had it be a few positions higher on the backlog, nobody would have known.
If this is against Indie GA, then for sure drop the award, but that makes me value less the IGA than the game.
rainwall@piefed.social 1 week ago
The AI assets were only patched out at day 5 because fans noticed them.. The devs likely rolled it into that patch because of the fans catching it in the live game.
The issue at hand, as the article above goes into, is that the devs said that they used no AI at all in developement, which is a condition of the award. They did however, as these assets and the devs themselves comfirmed in various interviews. They lied to the Indie game awards and violated its conditions.
Revoking the award seems like a pretty reasonable response on the IGA’s part when the dev explicitly lied to you to win an award.