It was more of a sadly-but-true statement than a joke, as I completely agree with you that there is a market there. Around the same time my friends and I start

It was more of a sadly-but-true statement than a joke, as I completely agree with you that there is a market there. Around the same time my friends and I started having families, most of us stopped gaming online because it was hard to coordinate all of us having time to play together, and playing with random people online was (often) a bad experience as we could not play 'on their level'. A game with an actual good AI that feels like real players (without the annoyance of them) would be something I could see myself spend some time on.