“Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.

[baldur@toot.cafe]

“Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. - Quantic Foundry”

https://quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/gen-ai/

> Such a highly-skewed negative response is rare in the many years we’ve conducted survey research among gamers

“AI” as a consumer-facing value proposition continues to be incredibly unpopular.

[tijn@dosgame.club]

@baldur not only is it incredibly unpopular... people are getting increasingly fed up with it! 🥳

[pyrogenesis@mefi.social]

@baldur Can anecdotally confirm. I read a couple gaming sites daily, including the comments (gasp!). Overwhelmingly negative. There used to be somewhat understandable hopes for the future, such as NPCs not having endlessly repeating dialogue. No longer. I suspect Where Winds Meet, which had realtime AI characters, killed this one.

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@baldur
>The comparatively more neutral attitude toward using Gen AI for non-creative features in games, like dynamic difficulty adjustment, hints at other, perhaps more palatable, opportunities for using AI in video games.
I don't see how asking an LLM how to balance the game is supposed to be better than having a separate difficulty sliders for each facet of the game (enemy strength, pickup count, ammo/mana capacity), or simply having good mod support.

[bogwise@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@baldur as reassuring as this study is, it’s very telling that they exclude code generation from the survey questions.

it’s upsetting how often code generation is treated with a double standard when discussing genAI in game development.