Or blockchain stuff.
Abyss is a sandbox PvP game with PvE elements coming out in the future from Old World Labs that you might be aware of if you’ve seen our prior article about Abyss being announced. And since its announcement, like many MMO announcements these days, Abyss had some players rather upsetti spaghetti about the whole ordeal.
Specifically over concerns that the company was planning on making Abyss tied to the blockchain with NFTs and crypto and the like. And we all know gamers and the blockchain mix like people who don’t want to be scammed and scams. Thankfully, while Abyss was considered to be a blockchain game many moons ago, that is no longer the case.
Though we considered blockchain a feature initially, after closely evaluating the market for years, we do not see it properly happening in our initial vision. We remain focused on creating a great game first and blockchain is a distraction from that.
It is however using AI which basically just sounds like a fancier way of referring to procedural generation that has existed in games since the late 1980s.
A: Yes, there will be a variety of PvE-only content. An AI-assisted procedural system will dynamically generate quests and dungeons based on player actions and world events. There will also be raids and an infinite dungeon that scales in both difficulty and rewards.
More on Abyss as it appears.