That’s a pretty unfeasible request. Sure, maybe big resalers might keep something like that, but the average consumer? I keep my receipts for maybe a year on big purchases unless there’s something like a warranty I need it for. And I get the feeling that’s already more than most folks would do.
If you are insisting on a first purchase receipt before buying something used, you are essentially saying you’ll almost never buy something used. The odds someone would even still have it, let alone go through the hassle of providing it to you, are extremely low. Why would they do that when they could just sell to a less difficult customer who doesn’t care?
I see literally zero problems here. Did they have a contract with an artist? They didn’t? Well then it sounds like they have no obligation to use a real artist.
AI art is here to stay, and companies will be using it heavily. It’s ignorant to think they would choose otherwise. Why pay an artist to make an image you may not even like over the course of a few days when you could get hundreds of images to choose from in a few seconds using AI? It’s 1000 times easier and more convenient.
That and companies like EA where a big chunk of their income comes from various sports games that they half ass a remake of every year. PC gamers don’t touch those, but there’s a large number of people with consoles who only use it for things like FIFA and will continue to dutifully buy the new ones and spend dumb amounts of money to unlock their favorite players.
The best year in gaming was 2001. Nothing else even comes close.
Halo
Super Smash Bros Melee
Devil May Cry
Jak and Daxter
GTA 3
Metal Gear 2
Max Payne
Advance Wars
Animal Crossing
Final Fantasy X
Silent Hill 2
Conkers Bad Fur Day
I could keep going. It’s literally not even a competition. Some of the biggest game series ever got their start that year. Sequels released that year are arguably some of the strongest ones in the series.
2023 was a great year for games, but it’s nothing compared to impact 2001 had.
Yea, thats Gen X. Majority of millennials weren’t teens in the 90’s