The main barrier to AI-controlled characters may be raw computing power. Take an avatar doing business based on the player’s past offline activities for over a decade and see the data points grow! Another wild possibility is a player having an AI companion who steps into the place of a video game avatar. AI certainly has the real ground breaking potential to breath new life into the MMO genre.
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I remember your name – have you been gone for 12 years?? Has it been that long?
I messed with some “offline play” stuff in a game design. I think this sort of thing will be possible. People are already talking about doing this for real life – people at the top of their fields planning to license an AGI copy of themselves to companies, so instead of that AI entity RPing as you, it goes and does work or gives lectures instead of the company paying a human… oops! What weird times we’re in.
Had to happen sooner or later.
It is a case of real-life happening. I went back to school at age 40, got married, and played other games. Before I knew it, time flies! The last time I was active was 2013 save for a few months playing Shadowlands.
In cases when players go inactive, having an AI take over the avatar is a great alternative to the character going into stasis.
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Darn, I lost my image-posting powers just because I haven’t been posting often. 
Yeah I hate how easily we can lose our privileges just because we get busy in life.
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damn we never escaped bfa here on the forums, even posting here is a full time job
Most social media platforms uses a social score. These include Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Match Group (Match, Tinder, etc…). The number of people who will see the post, be able to interact, and such, depends on the social score. It seems the Blizzard forums works on a similar principle.
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Seriously, I can understand restricting the amount of nonsense that can be freely thrown up onto the Forums from a legal standpoint, but the requirements to get Trust Level 3, and then how easily it can be lost to character-spamming the report function and similar shenanigans, is just depressing.
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Why? I thought the idea was Imagination… One reason why I don’t do RP in WOW is because:
- Current Lore Sucks, I can’t RP it better without changing everything.
- I’d be bringing along a 200-page book of backgrounds, affiliations, attitudes, and reasonings.
- The fact I hear RP servers aren’t usually totally RP sometimes.
- As well, Family might want to join in, and if I fully get into character, they might get weirded out. They freaked out when I showed them my stories, which apparently are horror novels when I tried to make them not so, so they’ll be disturbed.
It’s for the imaginative, right? If you have to use AI to figure your role out. Play… I don’t know… It’s… Lazy! Get someone else to get you a role or something… Make your…
Why!?
A certain pvpbro reject that stalked the forums for attention would spam report me on all his schizophrenic alt accounts but I never managed to lose my image-posting powers until life got in the way and I stopped posting often.
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What does this mean?
Either 1) there are casual/part-time RP’ers that consider their gameplay OOC (lame complaint tbh) or 2) the valley of honor is flooded with people yammering OOC in /say (valid complaint tbh)
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This really sums up my take on it. From top to bottom.
I consider my actual gameplay OOC most of the time, but the situation in which the gameplay exists is IC to me. So there really is a Deadmines, for instance. But ICly if I’m there, it’s probably not for the same reason as running the dungeon. I’m probably there to search for something else.
Anyone talking in VoH in OOC goes on my ignore list, regardless of whether they have an IC profile or not. And some of them do. There used to be an RP guild whose members would stand on the steps of the barracks and OOC in /say incessantly. You’d think an RP guild would have better manners
(dang kids, get off my lawn)
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(Are you sure those are kids on your lawn and not gnomes? The buggers are everywhere.)
Strangely enough, AI is already in the game officially, with the Follower Dungeons, Island Expeditions and similar content.
How long until Blizzard allows us to create our own parties with AI and we use have to pick classes and roles for them? On the one hand, that’d be hilarious, on the other hand, player levels would have to drop below Shadowlands and Cataclysm levels before that happens because it would basically mean WoW has folded like an omlette, and the numbers of long-term players has actually increased significantly with Dragonflight.
Increased overall but that’s including the various Classic game modes outside of Retail, yes?
A big chunk of it is Classic, but we’re actually seeing an upswing in Dragonflight itself, which we haven’t seen in an Expansion since … Wrath? Before the rot set in and people just bailed and never came back again. Its made very difficult to judge just how many are coming back to which ones because Blizzard tends to, in most of their public releases, include both Classic and Retail under the same umbrella to their investors, and they’re significantly less likely to hand out separate, unedited lists outside of the company itself.
Not gunna lie. I have been wrestling with re-subbing myself. But it’s honestly from a lack of choices in the mmo genre right now. 
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