Since Sony Online Entertainment became Daybreak Game Company, it's felt like more and more bad news has emerged by the day, between the voluntary and involuntary personnel departures. Over the weekend, another major domino has apparently fallen. as the EverQuest Next team has apparently parted ways with emergent artificial intelligence company Storybricks.
"We are not working with Storybricks any more," senior producer Terry Michaels said on the EverQuest Next Twitch channel late Friday (via Massively Overpowered). "We made the decision that it was in the best interest of the game to take that work in-house. They did a lot of work for us and we'll be utilizing that. It's not like that work is lost."
Storybricks' contributions to EverQuest Next and Landmark were detailed during last year's SOE Live event. A panel was dedicated to detailing the lively NPC characters that would react to the world around them, while also acting on their own sense of self-interest. NPC behavior and reactions are also based on the influence of characters they come across, focusing less on scripted behaviors. While Michaels is assuring fans that Storybricks' work to this point is being preserved, the AI company's departure is yet another shakeup for the development team on what's quickly becoming a rocky development cycle.
EverQuest Next no longer working with AI company Storybricks
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