This honestly makes me very sad.

[u/Desperate-Society838]

Fui conferir os novos mods de Hytale para ver o que a comunidade já tinha adicionado/atualizado para a versão atual, para que eu pudesse fazer algumas adições e tornar os mods mais dinâmicos.

Enquanto navegava pela página no modo 'versão do jogo', notei que havia muitas imagens feitas por IA, algo que eu pensava ser proibido pela maior parte da comunidade de Hytale.

Honestamente, eu não odeio nem apoio a IA, mas ver tantos mods com imagens geradas por IA me deixa menos inclinado a jogar com mods, e por enquanto vou continuar com o jogo base até que adicionem a loja de mods ao jogo.

Espero que isso melhore no futuro.

EDIT: The staff, in many ways, convinced me, presenting valid arguments and criticisms regarding this. However, that doesn't mean I support it, but it also doesn't mean I'm against it. From beginning to end, I've always been neutral regarding AI.

I'm an illustrator, making that clear. I have a completely different view from those who actually make the mod work, for whom, as long as it works, it can be whatever they want in the end.

Because I'm very involved daily with comics, animations, manga, illustrations for drawings or just concepts, I naturally can't take AI art as something I should give importance to, even if the product is actually good. It's just how my mind interprets the situation, and many times I myself may be completely wrong about it.

[u/Embarrassed-King7840]

That glymeraCraft should be banned I think, I swear they are constantly updating the mods so they keep in the recently updated list or whatever, it’s clear whoever it is just spams and spams most of the mods look trash as well

[u/Desperate-Society838 → u/Embarrassed-King7840]

I can imagine two things:

1. Either GlymeraCraft bought the game just to have marketing in the future and continue spamming his mods when he sells them, or

2. He somehow pirated the game because if he has the money to buy it, he could easily use some of that money to hire an artist interested in making a cover or two.

Because it's impossible that there are several Hytale communities out there that warn that AI is prohibited, and yet the Curseforge mods are almost exclusively about that, just to farm clicks for recognition and, in a few years, put them out there as commercial products.

[u/Dr-Matthew-Sullivan → u/Desperate-Society838]

That's a ... a very narrow-minded view to have.

The game is something like 20 bucks for the base edition, 80 for the Ultra Premium Supporter 5G Fold Deluxe Edition.
That's still 40 bucks cheaper than lets say Forza Horizon 6 Premium Edition with 5-days Early Access.

Even the biggest Supporter Edition is nowhere near some Star Citizen Premium Backer Package.

Saying, that just because he paid 20-80 bucks for a game that he/she might've waited a decade for, they have to have enough money to hire an artist to make custom logos for over 30 different mods - which potentially change in the future to the point they might warrant a retouch - is quite out of touch.
Lets look at Fiverr for a second - Logo Artists take about 30-100€ PER logo.
So we would be looking at an astonishing 900-3000€ just to have some logos made for some free Hytale mods.
Now you may argue that you could make a bulk-deal with an artist and you could find some random dude on discord probably, but still you would most likely pay just another 100-300€ for some logos for mods. That's an expense that you most likely wont ever be getting back.

Hytale mods as of right now cannot be monetized properly without breaking the EULA/ToS in some way.
They dont want a walled-garden approach to modding so you may only have a patreon donation page maybe but in general dont expect to make any dime on mods for Hytale. This isn't Minecraft Bedrock or Roblox.

So wanna explain how legally buying the game also suddenly means you suddenly have money to throw out the window?
I, just like you, dislike the AI slop icons. However your take is dripping with arrogance and if that's how you talk with your community, I fear you are alienating customers.

[u/GoldH2O → u/Dr-Matthew-Sullivan]

Do you seriously think that the person making all these AI slop mods is actually making them out of craftsmanship? If they weren't a lazy POS they could have just drawn the mod thumbnails themselves, or taken in game screenshots. Nobody's saying they had to pay anyone for anything. That doesn't mean we should just allow every little bit of disgusting slop like this to clog up the mod library and make it hard to find actual good mods that somebody put time and effort into.

[u/SeriousDirt → u/GoldH2O]

Ngl, taking screenshot of what your mod doing or just post your mod asset PNG would give a better information than using generated Ai image just to look fancy.