AI continues to be everywhere, and now it's appearing on the GOG store too most recently a big banner for their New Year Sale.
Come on GOG, I like you, don't make me dislike you.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Exactly what I thought too lol
if it's any consolation, some people at GOG don't like it either, so maybe they'll revert this and won't do it again
this sucks, still. to me this just sends the message that GOG doesn't care and will not put much effort into what they do. that's not a good message to send when you're selling yourself as a games preservation platform...
There's a post elsewhere with an excerpt from a job posting for GOG devs that paints a bleaker picture. In the post they state you need to be familiar with AI tools and encourage the use in your team. I think they're in it too deep at this point.
yep it was listed under their senior c++ dev offer, the one people got hyped about as it mentioned Linux software deployment as a requirement
Heaven forbid actually paying an artist to make your stupid banner.
Or just making a simple one with surprisingly little required aptitude. Or just using a public domain image and cropping it. Or best of all, using one they already had.
Yes! Exactly this! Does anyone remember those big "SALE" signs stores used to have? It just said the word sale in big bold letters. Nothing else. It's a sale. I really don't need a fancy graphic to encourage me to potentially save money if I was going to buy the games anyway or to get new games on the cheap.
I'm a graphic designer, and I've been kind of amazed how many people like to show me the graphic/logo/whatever AI made for them. They don't seem to get that they're just rubbing in my face that they don't want to pay an artist...
It always looks kinda crappy too, so I just have to fake the reaction all around.
The amazing thing is that people generated AI art and then say
"I generated some AI art."
No you didn't, you told an AI model what to make using what is virtually search terms and some constraints.
Epistemologically correct way to phrase that, actually. They had the idea, they expressed it, and they refined it into an output they were hoping for. It's no different in methodology, just different in participation and self-effort.
You semantics-warriors wouldn't understand that if it hit you in the head like a sack of bricks though.
Don't fake it. Be honest.
I dunno, that has been what I have been doing and nothing kills the light in their eyes like honesty.
Not always a good plan when you're managing business relationships. It's great when you can have that kind of dialog with a client, but diplomacy is a tricky dance sometimes.
"we care about games being DRM-free, and fucking nothing else this is our only value lmao"
- GOG, presumably
This is so disappointing and I'm so sorry that the people at GOG received some AI-hype-bro who had enough leverage to get the AI banner posted. In my mind I can hear them, against all the negative posts/comments, go "It's not just a phase, ~~mom~~ moneybag!" and see GOG double down on this course.
why must everyone insist on the ai bullshit? are they really that blind to how populace views it? Not using it and actively refusing to use it would be beneficial instead as it would set you apart from others and literally cost nothing, or infact less than nothing since you wouldnt have to pay for the grifters to include their bullshit in whatever you are doing.
Come on GOG. I'd rather have ms paint quality doodles done in less than a minute than AI gen art if you guys aren't willing to pay graphic designers.
I think lot of people are over their initial awe of generated content, and associate it with cheap and low quality these days.
The best part is the job opening...
Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools to increase team efficiency and code quality
Probably the boss of the person who had to write the job opening demanded they include something about AI, and the person who wrote it decided to turn their sarcasm up to 100. The only way to make it more clear would have been sarcastic casing:
Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools to InCrEaSe TeAm EfFiCiEnCy AnD cOdE qUaLiTy
Ask an AI ton list static analysis tools, chose one of those, and never use AI again.
I love that one false dichotomy argument the one poster presents, where being anti-AI is anti-progress in all its forms, and being PRO-AI is the only way to a post-scarcity society. That's definitely the only two possibilities, for sure.
Yea, canceling my gog patron now
This is incredibly disappointing...
I read GOG but thought it must've been Epic.
You guys are fanatics if this turns you away from GOG, while other stores are egregiously using an insane amount of AI stuff and you don't bat an eye.
Cultists.
What, do you expect someone to list out literally every store that uses AI?
GOG is the topic. We're allowed to express disappointment that GOG is giving in to an awful trend.
That doesn't make anyone a "cultist".
Disappointment is one thing. If you ignore and downplay some of the "boycott" and "cancel" comments on this post, you're just hiding your head in the sand about the lunacy.
GOG is still one of the good ones, if not best ones. Don't delude yourselves with your better-than-thou unplaced arrogance.
As if you all were immune to mistakes and the occasional tripping 🙄...
Ctrl-F "cancel": 2 results, and one is yours. Ctrl-F "boycott": 1 result, just you.
It's pretty clear who's deluding themselves. You're reacting to a phenomenon that isn't actually happening.
Based on the username might just be an annoying troll
Imagine not knowing what a statistical counterfactual is. Telling on yourself, cretin.
Ah yes, because the lexicology must match fucking exactly? You clearly don't have the brainpower to actually scour the comments yourself and depend on document searches. Idiot.
There is literally one post from a guy canceling his GOG. Keep trying to hurl insults; you're just proving your own lack of reading comprehension.
Did you create this account just to be toxic everywhere?
Screw you, boycotting idiot. Did you even consider that boycotting one of the only good company creates perverse incentives?
Actually no you're probably incapable of that type of thought like the rest of your dumbass hive-mind.