I saw it in the promotional material and dumbly looked past it because I had heard good things about Beat Hazard. A blatant mistake on my part.

AI image generation is soulless, corporate garbage that uses illegally obtained datasets to produce awful art. It steals from indie artists (aka people like our developer here), and it is incredibly harmful to our environment.
How do you feel about people who pirate your games, Steve from Cold Beam Games? Do you feel like people are stealing something you put effort and passion into? I bet it doesn't feel good, and it especially doesn't feel good for your wallet. So why are you okay with doing it to others?
I know why; at some point, you got lazy and cheap. You decided that instead of buying a 3D model from an asset store and throwing it into Blender or, god forbid, commissioning a small indie artist, you'd use AI. You figured it probably wouldn't affect your income.

Well, here I am; the consequences of your decisions. I bought the entire trilogy, and now I'm refunding the entire trilogy. Maybe I would've fallen in love with BH3 or BH2. Maybe I would've followed your socials, looked forward to any other games you may produce. Instead, you've lost a customer.

[h1]Beat Hazard 3 uses AI in-game and in its promotional material.[/h1] I saw it in the promotional material and dumbly looked past it because I had heard good things about Beat Hazard. A blatant mistake on my part. AI image generation is soulless, corporate garbage that uses illegally obtained datasets to produce awful art. It steals from indie artists (aka people like our developer here), and it is incredibly harmful to our environment. How do you feel about people who pirate your games, Steve from Cold Beam Games? Do you feel like people are stealing something you put effort and passion into? I bet it doesn't feel good, and it especially doesn't feel good for your wallet. So why are you okay with doing it to others? [i]I know why[/i]; at some point, you got lazy and cheap. You decided that instead of buying a 3D model from an asset store and throwing it into Blender or, god forbid, commissioning a small indie artist, you'd use AI. You figured it probably wouldn't affect your income. Well, here I am; the consequences of your decisions. I bought the entire trilogy, and now I'm refunding the entire trilogy. Maybe I would've fallen in love with BH3 or BH2. Maybe I would've followed your socials, looked forward to any other games you may produce. Instead, you've lost a customer.