In Addition to the Classic Nostalgic Clothes, What Else Can Reactivate "World of Warcraft"
Since its public beta in 2004, "World of Warcraft" has gone through the PC era, the mobile era, and the VR era. How will this classic continue in the coming era of artificial intelligence?
"World of Warcraft" classic nostalgic server is now open!
At 6:00 am yesterday, when the server was opened, a large number of gamers came to reminisce about the classics. Even on game live broadcast platforms such as Douyu, in just one morning,There are nearly 3,000 World of Warcraft anchors broadcasting live at the same time.
Does World of Warcraft have a chance to take advantage of the current trend of artificial intelligence and find its own way to integrate with it?
An indelible classic: For the tribe
In fact, as early as 5:55 am today, the number of people queuing shown by the client had reached 18,000.
There are also some popular servers, such as the "Van Cleef" serverThe queue was as high as 26,000 people, which means you need to wait It took more than 5 hours to enter the game.
After World of Warcraft entered China in 2005, it was once the dominant player in the online gaming field. At the end of 2008, shortly after the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion pack, Blizzard announced that the number of global users had reached 11.5 million.
The Fall of the Golden Generation
At its peak in 2011, the number of global users of World of Warcraft reached 12 million. In the following years, the number of users could no longer be sustained and continued to decline to more than 9 million.
In 2012, after the Mists of Pandaria expansion, the number of game users returned to the 10 million mark.
However, several new expansions that followed, "Warlords of Draenor", "Legion" and "Battle for Azeroth", failed to reverse Blizzard's decline.
The glory of World of Warcraft in recent years and its decline in recent years are obvious to all. This type of MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) has gradually lost its competitiveness in the development in recent years.
In the global game market, World of Warcraft is DOTA, LOL The competition among these classic MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games is followed by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, APEX HeroesThis type of survival shooting game is catching up, not to mention mobile games "Honor of Kings", "Peace Elite"An absolute advantage among the post-90s and post-00s people.
World of Warcraft: Can AI create a better experience?
In fact, NPCs based on artificial intelligence technology have already been added to World of Warcraft.
An NPC named Moxie Locksmith would wander around the Alliance's major cities and steal from banks. Some players have encountered this NPC in the Boralus Port Bank.
Not only that, hostile NPCs have also been added to the island exploration mode of "World of Warcraft".
These enemy NPCs will imitate the operating style of human players: for example, NPCs can judge the player's purpose through the player's behavior and then formulate the next strategy: stealing the resources in the player's backpack or interrupting the player's treatment process.
Game Environment:It is an accelerator for the overall development of AI
Games are the perfect testing platform for AI.Games have easy-to-process data, fixed rules, and a variety of hypothetical strategies. Games are simulated scenarios, which makes them an ideal place for the research and development of artificial intelligence.
“We haven’t seen a lot of things being trained in games that transfer to the real world,” said Julian Togelius, an associate professor at New York University’s Center for Game Studies. “But we have seen methods invented for playing games transfer to the real world.”
Game AI: The best teacher and opponent for human players
On the one hand, AI can helpDiscover some more perfect strategies to improve the competitive skills of human playersKe Jie believes that the match with AlphaGo has opened up his mind and improved his Go skills;
On the other hand, the intervention of AICan create more suitable opponents for playersThe adjusted AI can not only become a coach for human players, but also adapt to the levels of different players to play against them.
It can also prevent human players from getting angry at each other in today's games. If there is a Buddhist AI opposite you, it will definitely be able to maintain aA more civilized gaming environment.
I hope that "World of Warcraft" can keep up with the pace of the times, grasp the trend of technology, create a better gaming experience and player interaction environment, and make young people willing to experience the common memories of the post-80s and post-90s.
For the gamers, for the shared memories of youth, and for Azeroth.
