LogInThey are four times more likely to say genAI will negatively impact games.
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With the spread of generative AI, concerns about how it will affect game quality are on the rise, according to new data from the Game Developer Collective. The survey says that developers are four times more likely to say generative AI will negatively impact the quality of games than they were a year ago.
The statistics were collected by Omdia by surveying members of the Game Developer Collective panel and show that 13% more devs are concerned over product quality compared to last year: the number grew from 34% in 2024 to 47% in 2025.
Moreover, fewer developers express positivity about the technology, going from 17% in 2024 to 11% in 2025.
"The number of respondents who said they were "neutral" on the topic or thought it would have no impact on quality also decreased."
Necrosoft Games founder and Demonschool game director Brandon Sheffield is concerned about AI replicating content from its training data. "Games using [genAI] will be more generic, even if that's not immediately discernible to a player."
Hidden Door CEO Hilary Mason believes that Large Language Models (LLMs) are "aspirationally mid," and the economic pressure of the games business could make some studios release "mediocre or even slop games" without "care and polish."
King's College senior lecturer Mike Cook thinks that the change in perception might be connected to the judgment on the companies using them: "There was a perception that companies didn't really want to use it, and that the tools weren't reliable."
"What we've seen over the past twelve months…is that a lot of companies are using these tools despite their problems and despite the public backlash," he said. "I suspect a lot more developers are facing situations where they're being asked to make do with AI outputs as 'good enough,' especially when the industry continues to get squeezed and more people lose their jobs."
Last year, the Game Developers Conference (GDC) organizers conducted a similar survey and found out that 31% of respondents use generative AI at work, 12% said their company forbids using generative AI, 2% have to use it, and 7% are allowed to leverage some tools.
84% of responders were concerned about the ethics of AI, but 12% had no such feelings.
I wonder what the survey says now and if there is a correlation.
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