alt Hacker NewsThe problem of allowing "placeholder AI assets" is that any shipped asset found to be AI is going to be explained away as being "just a placeholder". How are we supposed to confirm that they never meant to ship the game like this? All we know is that they shipped the game with AI assets.
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suspended_state • yesterday at 3:42 PM
Shouldn't there be an argument for best effort? If the issue has been removed as soon as it has been detected, doesn't it count for something?
theshrike79 • yesterday at 12:08 PM
Because they can most likely prove the actual assets were on their version control years ago but weren’t applied to the models.
Adding to that: 'it was a placeholder' has been used to excuse direct (flagrant) plagiarism from other sources, such as what happened with Bungie and their game Marathon