Twitch viewers are betting fake Gil on AI playing Final Fantasy Tactics

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Remember when Twitch Plays Pokemon was all the rage? Imagine that, but Twitch chat isn’t playing the game, they’re betting on it instead. The Twitch channelFFTBattlegroundhas set up tournaments of AI bots playingFinal Fantasy Tacticsagainst one another that viewers can bet fake Gs on.

Final Fantasy Tacticsstill isn’t on PC and though I won’t call this the next best thing (there are spiritual successors likeFell Seal: Arbiter’s Markfor that) it’s still quite neat on its own. Similar to other bot-run channels on Twitch, and specifically modeled afterSaltyBetwhere viewers use fake currency to bet on fighting game matches, there are a ton of chat commands you can use to interact with the tournament.

The person running the FFTBattlegrounds channel says that it is still in “early beta” with more ways to spend your won Gil planned for the future. Despite the early rough edges, the siren song of automated matches calls to many. Over 900 people are watching the Blue and Green teams duke it out on the Murond Death City map. At least for now—that will change in just a couple minutes.