AI won't gain consciousness.
It will just be used to push a narrative, mass surveillance, mass DCMA takedowns on the entire internet, endless game slop and job automation.

The future is bleak but not in a cool sci-fi way.
Save everything you care about on a local HDD and never give your ID to any website.

Are you going to indie accelerate?

This game is dead after Worldsoul Saga concludes anyway.

People will have access to AI powerful enough to simulate their own versions of retail with quick & easy changes on the fly at the behest of their personal AI. The most popular versions will become the new private servers.

In 2030 when these private servers can run the latest expansion of WoW except they modded out basketball American Faerin to a Hyperborean beauty, AND that version of f2p? It's obvious what people will pick.

Tick tock.

AI has put the final nail in the coffin of video games.