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So we started moving more and more towards putting actual humans into these games, because it turns out that if you put actual humans into these worlds, then the things that people do start to be a lot more interesting, and a lot more complex, and way harder to predict. The things that we’ve learned since then are: 1) It’s really hard to make a good multiplayer game; and 2) If you do it, it’s more fun for everybody. Because you never know what’s going to happen, and you’re never going to see the same thing twice. That was the transition we went through as a company.”

“When we started out, we were a single-player company. Then we got into multiplayer games. And the Internet changed all of that. You’re trying to solve a really hard problem in single-player, which is: How do you get this person who is playing a single-player game to feel like there’s a human being behind the entities that they’re interacting with? If you look at Doom, and Quake, and all the way up through Half-Life, it’s like: How do we create the illusion of intelligence? It turns out that’s really hard to do, and the best AI looks nothing like an actual human player. But then we started thinking about this in the context of multiplayer. And we realized that the best way to make a convincing human opponent is to actually have it be a human.

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