Modern video games are made to be full time jobs. There is enough to do that you could almost never run out of rewarding tasks, but activities are not equally rewarding.
People who have limited time to play video games need to do deep research to understand the most impactful ways to spend that time in order to progress.
This is evident across many games but in particular ones like Destiny, Diablo, and World of Warcraft.
World of Warcraft offers players dozens of different avenues for “gearing up” and gamers are basically on their own to decide how to optimize their path.
Resources exist to provide guidance (YouTube creators, Reddit posts, guide sites like Wowhead) but it takes a fair amount of time to parse, remember and act on that data. On top of that, the actual best course of action can very much depend on the exact current state of a player’s character, leading to tools such as Raidbots Droptimizer.
The research and planning parts of playing video games can be outsourced to AI. I’m building a platform that integrates with World of Warcraft to give you a ranked list of activities to improve your character as efficiently as possible.
It will integrate with Raidbots, do deep learning on Wowhead and Reddit and provide a list of activities (split between easy/hard and solo/grouped) to maximize time spent in the game. It will also advise on gear and talent changes where appropriate.
Once that’s working, I’ll add integration into Warcraftlogs to analyze raid performance and offer coaching on improving in that realm as well.