do you mean in terms of story, gameplay or visuals? I think at a story level AI should be able to generate some complex storylines (i am assuming) - but yes, I agree with you on quality of gameplay and art.

Hmm - yeah I'd be annoyed if it suddenly forgot an NPC's original goals halfway through the game lol. But having tinkered with ChatGPT a lot, I feel it's simply a matter of reestablishing ground rules every single time. I am imagining every action results in each NPC getting a new prompt, but only after getting its "core-prompts" run again. and a central narrator-bot being responsible for story cohesiveness / consistency. have you tried Hidden Door? they claim to do multiplayer so an even harder problem I think.

Yeah I agree that in <5 (heck maybe 2 years), we'll see AAA-grade worlds adapting to player actions.

I don't understand the tech well enough, but isn't AIdungeon running it on the cloud? couldn't I just run everything on the cloud?

haha yeah. i have never played any MMORPGs honestly (like a world of warcraft) - I always imagined they'd actually limit this and say only one player can win the "golden goblin kidney" and everyone else gets a "silver" one? but you mean anyone who completes the event does? why is that - feels like quite a simple thing to solve and makes it even more competitive no? i would be more interested in an event if they said only the top 1% would win some legendary item than everyone wins it. scarcity drives perception of value and all that.

lol fair. but wouldn't any game that lefts you have infinite choice (even if pretty much all of us choose to do the same things) be pretty fun automatically?

mind expanding on what you mean by "aren't complicated"?