#catly is a scam

[insomniabasilisk]

So I just heard about the AI generated game that was at the Game Awards today, the game is called Catly and I’ve never seen such a blatant scam game before. Like seriously it’s so damn obvious that it’s gonna pull a Day Before.

[maddiebiscuits]

The Game Awards 2024

geoff: "we care a lot about the people who make games and the layoffs and issues in the games industry :'C"

also geoff, after getting paid $400k per advertisement: "yeah put Randy fucking Pitchford on stage and then run a 'game' ad that has a website full of AI bullshit"

[freevoidman]

ok i've had a day to chill out and TGA last night was not as bad as I was making it out to be--the awards were all well deserved, no major upsets, and it was actually well-run and Geoff clearly took criticism to heart--it just wasn't that great on reveals for me. I do acknowledge there were some great titles shown (like Okami!) but a lot didn't hit me on an emotional investment level and others were, uh... definitely annoying to see (TLOU2 remaster go fuck yourselves it's just an optimized port).

The one thing I think I can be genuinely pissed about is that one game, Catly, because it looks like a full-on scam. Brand new company with zero social media reference pulls up out of nowhere to the game awards with a high-fidelity, incredibly weirdly animated trailer that feels exactly like AI slop, no information on what engine the game is being run on or what any gameplay looks like, it's somehow coming out on apple watch, and the steam page just has some more generic ai-looking pictures of cats with NO gameplay shown whatsoever. If that game really is some AI shit then I think I'm gonna throw my phone at Geoff.

[kygerbearr]

sorry for putting ai slop on your dash but holy fucking shit that catly game at the game awards has the worst merch ever and its not even out yet. they dont even have a release date. this is such an obvious scam and it was at the game awards

[dedded-by-glamour]

dear god dont put any faith in the stupid fucking ai generated slop cat game. that's so fucking infuriating that an ai crypto scam paid the game awards to show their garbage instead of the game awards giving it to something that might've really deserved it. fuck off catly (game) they're already selling what looks like nfts and they dont even have screenshots of anything actually in game. fuck this game, and i genuinely hope it fails. i mean that.

[tacticalhimbo]

:( catly turned out to be ai slop and seems to be a scam based on development stuff. no longer excited for it

[miss--river]

omg i hope no one falls for that catly scam game. even the description of the game sounds like it’s written by chatgpt. how tf did that even make it to the game awards???

[katescribblesabit]

the fact that this obvious ai slop made it into the game awards is insulting to every other game developer/artist/actors that was present and is fucking embarrassing for the event organizer. what a middle finger to the face, holy shit

The Game Awards 2024

geoff: "we care a lot about the people who make games and the layoffs and issues in the games industry :'C"

also geoff, after getting paid $400k per advertisement: "yeah put Randy fucking Pitchford on stage and then run a 'game' ad that has a website full of AI bullshit"