I've been gone from the game since 6 months after release (because the devs radically changed the game design shortly before launch and didn't fix it).
Now that I'm back, I notice the faster queue times. This is great, except that matches are filled with bots! Apparently, the devs were messing around at some point with skill based match-making, got the algorithm wrong and ended up with some players having 10-20 minute queue times to get a low pop match. Then, they decided to chuck that and use bots to fill in matches for faster queue times.
Hi, WG: it's PvP (Player vs Player) game. That means....well, it means Players (humans) playing against other Players (human).
My motivation for starting this thread, other than a general hate for bots (ANY BOTS) in a PvP match is a short chat I had with a player after a match that I won because, quite simply, my bots played smarter. Both humans on the other team outperformed me and the other human on my team in score. But, we won. Ok, I won, but this is silly nonsense.
The WG saying used to be "carry harder!" They even had a fun little video about it. Now, apparently, from a dev blog, the saying is: "you don't make a difference in match outcome!"
Wait, wut? Whut? Whaaat?!
So, I mention to this player that....well, you can read what I said in the screenshot below, and his response. For translation purposes, should an NA WG employee forward this to Kiev: I say, "I prefer little longer queue time and three tier matches over bots." The players response is "Oh, really. I will be keen for that".
The player's name is blacked out, but I looked him up. He signed up in 2011 has been in his clan for over 2000 days, but does not have an alpha or beta tag and has no data for patch 1.9. So, that seems to indicate a WoT player that is trying WoWP 2.0 and has not played in the last iteration of the game. Note that he thinks it's a "joke of a game" because my bots played better than his bots, even though the humans on his team outplayed the humans on my team. It's lame.
WG, if you want any of the people who come in or came back for a PvP (player vs player) game to STAY, you'll need to remove the bots from PvP gameplay modes.
Bots only work in co-op. Other than that, well, you just run into issues of ai simply not playing fair or equally or in a manor sufficient to simulate a human player.
Please remove the bots (all bots) and bring back human vs human PvP.
Edited by Mercsn, 11 November 2017 - 12:03 PM.