People are not criticizing because "respect muh copyrights"
People are criticizing because asset flip AI cash grabs are inherently poor quality, souless, and rife with issues such as bad writing and being abandoned as soon as patreon income is below the amount the author thought he would rake in.
Soulless cash grabs don't have to be indie btw. Lots of megacorps spend hundreds of millions of dollars on soulless cash grabs trying to exploit IPs poorly.
And sometimes those flop pretty badly too.
I understand your point of view, but I was answering someone, and that's not what that someone said.
It's the stealing and plagiarizing that makes people angry
We're not talking about the copywriting of the big companies and the fact that they have their own licenses. Nobody gives bad marks to simple parodies where you seduce Disney princesses.... We're talking about a specific case here. When people are really angry about this project. Just show me at least one successful project that used akabur style with AI ? I think there is no such project. All because people know it's useless and it's impossible to get money because of it. People are not stupid. Any other trainer, without using the concept of akabur and his style, will get more reactions and feedback and money than this plagiarism. Here we are not talking about creative realization, we are not talking about the ability to create something good and quality. This is just another attempt to cash in on an already successful franchise, idea and art.
First, who are "the people" ? You are what? Two, three guys complaining?
Second, intellectual property theft is intellectual property theft. It doesn't matter if it's from a a big company or a "small" independent artist. He still made money on unlicensed product. Because you fapped to it doesn't make it ok.
Third:
Just show me at least one successful project that used akabur style with AI ? I think there is no such project
How many are they?
I think it's the first one I ever saw. Until we managed to send the first man in space, it was useless to try, nobody had managed to do it. That's your argument.
Though, I'll agree with you on one point, it's more pleasant to have handmade art, or art where a human was involved, even if there was AI. (still, take a look at the shopkeeper, it's AI assisted, and the art is really good)
On another hand, I know at least one "successful" game that directly ripped off witch trainer assets, can't remember the name of the game. It's a lesbian game where we have to help our nerdy girlfriend to study and wind off, an html game. It has Hermione in her pink sweatshirt.
Finally, moneybgrab....
You know why F95 exist, right? Because most of the games here are moneygrab with low effort put in them, and not everyone can afford to spend so much money for so little efforts. (the Irony, btw is that most use either DAZ without paying a commercial license or Illusion's studio, which the company announced was illegal if it was for commercial purpose, talk about plagiarism and intellectual theft). How many games gets abandoned after a few updates? How many successfully games suddenly come to a slow down so they don't get finished too fast and lose their income?
You don't need AI for this.
You have the right to not like AI, personally, as long as the quality is there, I don't care.
This is a very early version of the game, for now, I don't judge, there is plenty of improvement to be done, and quite a lot has already been done between 0.1 and 0.2.
You don't want Akabur's Hermione to be used, but... the first version of Hermione in the game was Akabur's style, but it wasn't witch trainer Hermione either, you're barking at windmills there.
But stop with the property theft and plagiarism claims, especially on a pirate platform.
Also, I forgot something important, the game is free.
Witch Trainer Silver and Innocent Witches have a Patreon too. Still free games though.
