NTE Developers forget to remove AI watermark

[u/YourLilyInaPot]

In their newest update 1.3, a new area has been added, along with it came new fishing spots and fishing catches.

One of their fishing assets contains the watermark from Doubao (豆包) a popular Chinese AI chatbot assistant with image and video generation powered by Seedance (Bytedance).

This has sparked heated debate amongst Chinese players, while not hardly criticizing the use of AI they do make fun of the fact that Doubao’s AI image generation watermark comes from the free version of the app, with many comments calling them cheap, criticizing their carelessness and questioning the real reason behind their low production costs.

To quote one of the comments:

“AI is fine, but using Doubao is just funny. The free version no less.”

Other comments talk about AI across the Chinese gaming industry, how other companies such as Hoyoverse and Netease have self-developed AI tools while Hotta Studio uses an AI chatbot assistant.

To put it on perspective, asking Doubao to generate an image is very similar to asking ChatGPT.

Quote from another comment:

“Doubao Doubao, help me generate a game asset of a purple crowned seahorse.”

I’ll add that the Chinese community already knew about the extent of AI usage in Neverness to Everness, though they weren’t expecting to see Doubao of all things.

As of this post, the watermark has been removed with the asset remaining the same otherwise.

[u/MrTrashy101]

Why do people still even support and play NTE...it's th most laziest crap I've seen

[u/Any_Economics_6166 → u/MrTrashy101]

because no 50/50 blinded them all. They don't even see the lack of quality in this game that is blatant since release

[u/Old_Manufacturer589 → u/Any_Economics_6166]

A game is about having fun. I can acknowledge the lack of quality in some areas and still have fun. It's like Reddit forgot what a game is about

[u/Any_Economics_6166 → u/Old_Manufacturer589]

good for you if you have fun and that's enough, but you shouldn't eat shit when served you know

[u/Slazapuss → u/Any_Economics_6166]

All gachas are shit. Every single one.

[u/PlotPlates → u/Old_Manufacturer589]

Then I hope you dont spend money.

Still spending a lot of time on slop is something else at that too.

But hey people have different ways of having fun, just dont spend money.

[u/Old_Manufacturer589 → u/PlotPlates]

I never spent money on any gacha game, not even microtransactions in other games.

[u/jepong003 → u/MrTrashy101]

It's fun, beautiful and no 50/50. You won't ragequit on your pulls and you can get mostly every unit even if you're unlucky. Enjoyment is the most important part in gaming.

[u/General-Warning-2429 → u/MrTrashy101]

Because we have preferences and we're not kissing Kuro's and Hoyo boots like most of people here.

[u/MrTrashy101 → u/General-Warning-2429]

its not even with kuro or hoyo. i mean in gacha games in general there are so many that are better than NTE and don't even use AI

[u/General-Warning-2429 → u/MrTrashy101]

And those better games are...? Hoyo games are making me fall asleep, also no Skip button. WuWa is badly optimized even on PS5 Pro. The other one that I like besides NTE are Nikke and CZN. Most of games I liked went EoS.

[u/MrTrashy101 → u/General-Warning-2429]

Reverse 1999, Another Eden, Limbus Company, epic seven. although it is hard to list ones not from kuro since they own alot of gacha games

[u/General-Warning-2429 → u/MrTrashy101]

I'm more into sci-fi and urban games... I'm sick of the medieval/fantasy/magical powers games.

[u/Expensive_Put_3338 → u/General-Warning-2429]

You should love yourself more by not playing a game that genuinely doesn't give a crap to their end product

[u/PlotPlates → u/General-Warning-2429]

Hoyo games make you sleep?

Even ZZZ? Even if half of the assests of NTE is very similar to how ZZZ is?

[u/carrackboat → u/MrTrashy101]

because its fun lol, good thing i barely use reddit. not missing out