like what ?
how many more to hire someone with talent ?

I was going to say, "It could just be terrible compressed and aliased", but then I noticed the SNES control deck, and yeah, that's not really anything but a weird blob amalgamation. (And nobody bought the revised SNES over here. Besides, wouldn't it be more telling of Europe to use the EU SNES?)

Are you an unemployed graphic artist who desperately looking for work ?

So the person who went and typed the prompt couldn't even get that right...jeezus.
I noticed the posters on the 2026 sale banner and thought there was at least a bit of hard work but what you said is going too far.

They should hire someone. This was an L. No. But I know of wayy too many. Check twitter. or X I guess.
A lot of folks there are 3D artists that love video game culture.
They're like obsessed. I've seen galleries in Los Angeles that
resemble playstation one games. How can GOG advertise this ?

Dont need to be unemployed or desperate to be annoyed / disgusted by the low quality slop output.

AI bad!!!

They already hired someone.

Not to draw banners, but to pretend on the forum they are not AI-generated. It works on a couple very gullible (and incidentally proponents of generative AI) GOGlodytes.

For you and me ? No. For a company that sells games and asks for money on top of it ?! YES.
I'm taking the time to buy these games instead of pirating them. The least GOG could do is have
standards and hire some competent.

Furthermore, the should revive GOG-chan and not some AI generated loon.

Every company is seeking funding. Currently, AI isn't harming anyone in this context. You're dismissing it due to biased hatred against AI.

Suppose they use AI to allocate more money towards games and related content. I prefer that over redirecting resources to hire someone just to create banners I barley notices. . It doesn't increase my spending on games or other products. Banner dose not effective games for me.

If GOG has extra funds to support artists, that's fine too. However, AI-generated banners are the least of my concerns. Shit I would be down have GOG websites to be more basic..

This.

Ad banners are the least important thing in the world. I'd rather see slop banners 100% of the time if I knew the money was going to something else instead. Literally anything. Buy better coffee for the office.

I'll bite. The Patrons are supposed to be for game preservation. How does a sales banner assist with game preservation?

That isn't true at all. That isn't even why I started the thread. If you insist that I would only speak out I will no longer read or care since it isn't related to me or relevant to what I am typing.

Secondly, I'm glad you aren't bothered. I am. Steam doesn't deal with this crap.
I go to steam and every holiday has unique art, they have badges, stickers, trading cards all with unique assets and even some clicker games. I log in to see GOG and the first thing I see is a horrendous rendering of some guy next to the numbers 2026...that's so boring. Lazy. I want to buy games. Not be sold games.
There's no joy.
Is GOG broke ? Can they not keep the lights on ? Are they the online equivalent of some beggar?
Then why is the art say it ? Why not be like Steam in that sense ? Is the gap that large ?
I can't be thankful. I'm sorry. That art sucks. GOG should make better use of their assets.
That is horrid! It's sad. I feel weakened. I might need to see a doctor. I'm frail.
and in all seriousness and fairness I don't deserve such a low effort cash grab.

It's very shallow and a pity that a company like GOG can't get their crap together.
Look at steam. Glossy, cheerful, frolicking with color and spirit.

GOG should drop the O and keep it GG.
No you wouldn't. You're actively saying you'd eat processed foods over real ingredients. Quit defending a company that doesn't value you and do the reverse. Expect better. Don't stoop to their level. The art is suck and no one can make a compelling argument for its inclusion. It's a lie. Pick up a history book. Specifically an art one.

You cannot be serious. Comparing GOG to Steam is just silly. GOG is a tiny insignificant company that's barely making ends meet. Steam is awash with money. A single engineer at Valve makes more than the entire office full of people in Warsaw. Valve takes their entire staff to Hawaii every year, FFS! So yeah, if GOG can manage to save some money by having banners that are not entirely perfect, I say that's perfectly fine.

For what it's worth, I didn't even notice anything wrong with the banner until you mentioned it, and I zoomed in and poured over every pixel. Because it's not a big deal and nobody spends their days examining marketing banners.
Yes I would. And don't be absurd, comparing marketing banners to food is just silly.

You seem to be under this false impression that you are supposed to have a personal relationship with the company. GOG isn't my close friend, they are a vendor. I buy from them for several reasons, none of which have anything to do with the quality of their advertisement art. I honestly, fully, entirely, 100%, don't care if their banners are AI generated, painted on canvas by a famous artist, or don't exist at all. In fact, if GOG became a text-only site that wouldn't affect my reasons one bit.

So yeah, I'm not here for the art, I'm here to conduct transactions to obtain the goods that I want. And yeah, of course they don't value me. They don't know me. Nor do I know or value them. This is business, not a famly reunion.

Frankly, I'd much rather them fix actual functionality. A bunch of stuff doesn't work well.

You said it!
BY MAKING SALES!

Marketing 101 - don't alienate the audience, run foul of the expectations of quality etc etc.

Please, don't be so blind.

Edit: don't make it another "but its not a problem for ME!" thing, please (like many will). I know you have an active brain.