You can buy asset packs for couple bucks or even download some for free. Price for freelance from poor country on fiverr or upwork are pennies. The more I think about making game the more I'm convinced to not use AI for it. If you're big studio and you can't afford $10-50k for graphic placeholders but you can afford to delegate people to make a AI data pipeline and then spend $100k + on interference than you're idiots and your company deserves to die.
No it's not because it causes brain damage. If you look at slop all day you no longer produces good code even you're good engineer, you're producing slop code because your standards keep getting lower and lower until you become bad engineer but you even haven't figured it out. If good engineers would produce good code with AI we would have working software. Look how quality of software lowered after AI. We used to say that developers from coding bootcamps were bad now we're lowering standards even more to praise investors.
I'm not from US and maybe I'm dumb but isn't the whole idea and major responsibility of country to protect the poor that are legs and support middle class that are lungs of your country ?
Why ESL is bad ? They don't make any games. They just do esports that promote gaming.
Why Sega is bad ? What did Bandai Namco ?
Only one Chinese company but no explicitly Tencent who owns Supercell and have 1/3 Epic Games, 1/3 Ubisoft it is just it's brand name Level Infinite that means nothing.
No Scopely who owns Monopoly Go that alone makes $200M per month on gambling.
Any mobile gambling companies with micro transactions that are in fact casinos should be there instead of companies that just make AAA flops.
It's not affordable because of the indie games competition and no market regulations. Where in software there are plenty of regulations and competition is not existent because Office is given for free to schools so children are learning to use Microsoft products.
Are there fishes inside data center water reservoirs because there are in golf course ponds. You can even fish there.