Not real players. Inflated player number with bots.

[SuYIFFsidal.]

there are so many bots in marvel rivals that it's getting tough to find a match without actual bots. developers themselves as player retention strategy are apparently hosting bots in the game to feed players fake victory so that they don't leave the game or are artificially making the player lose and it's not comfortable to play the game because of that. there is no choice in the actual game most of the time, the game forces entire teams into matches with bots and really that explains high player count on steam because since the developers are hosting bots, they also inflate player numbers to motivate players to potentially play the game and think the game is doing well when it's not.

[Captain Blue]

Bots don't make up for the player count. It would be insane to suggest that Netease was making hundreds of thousands of fake Steam accounts to buff the numbers.

Fornite uses bots, many games use bots and they do not add to the player count.

Bots can be identified in game because they are not real accounts. Tracker sites can tell if bots are in your game.

[SadPlatty©]

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They copy threads from Tighty Whitey for "some reason" and just change up the description while duplicating the topic, so they can avoid being hit with violating ToS.

[KeV]

Another alt. Reported

[MiseRawRble.]

not enough players in the game certainly.

[Streylok]

block and move on

[MiseRawRble.]

if players were real we'd have a good opportunity to enjoy the game, but player retention strategies like these are malicious by edvs.

[King of Games]

Originally posted by Streylok:

block and move on

[SadPlatty©]

Originally posted by MiseRawRble.:

if players were real we'd have a good opportunity to enjoy the game, but player retention strategies like these are malicious by edvs.

Please fix your spelling so that I may understand this post. I don't know what "edvs" are, and want to know what was meant so that I may formulate a proper response.

[MiseRawRble.]

Originally posted by Captain Blue:

Bots don't make up for the player count. It would be insane to suggest that Netease was making hundreds of thousands of fake Steam accounts to buff the numbers.

Fornite uses bots, many games use bots and they do not add to the player count.

Bots can be identified in game because they are not real accounts. Tracker sites can tell if bots are in your game.

bots are hosted by devs of marvel rivals so ofcourse they also make up for player count

[THAT Guy]

Originally posted by Captain Blue:

Bots don't make up for the player count. It would be insane to suggest that Netease was making hundreds of thousands of fake Steam accounts to buff the numbers.

Fornite uses bots, many games use bots and they do not add to the player count.

Bots can be identified in game because they are not real accounts. Tracker sites can tell if bots are in your game.

They just haven't been implemented yet. Netease collects user data, and uses to refine bot ai..

If the purpose of the bots was purely to serve as a backup fail safe, why would they put effort into refining the ai?

It's pretty obvious they are trying to create "Artificial players"..

Basically they want to create an environment where people are playing against bots, and players can't tell the difference between player and bot..

Of course people would be upset if there were bots in comp.. but those bots can exist without issue as long as players are convinced they don't exist..

The ai is the only thing that's preventing artifical players from existing. Uses profiles and things like that can easily be faked, it's just as simple as linking an account to the ai, in order to create a player profile for it

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Haven't seen any bots yet...

[coke broker]

Originally posted by SuYIFFsidal.:

there are so many bots in marvel rivals that it's getting tough to find a match without actual bots. developers themselves as player retention strategy are apparently hosting bots in the game to feed players fake victory so that they don't leave the game or are artificially making the player lose and it's not comfortable to play the game because of that. there is no choice in the actual game most of the time, the game forces entire teams into matches with bots and really that explains high player count on steam because since the developers are hosting bots, they also inflate player numbers to motivate players to potentially play the game and think the game is doing well when it's not.

these chinese are notorious for botting and inflation, did same thing with wukong, where did the world find 30 million souls players who were hiding when Dark souls was out

[Echorion]

Originally posted by SuYIFFsidal.:

there are so many bots in marvel rivals that it's getting tough to find a match without actual bots. developers themselves as player retention strategy are apparently hosting bots in the game to feed players fake victory so that they don't leave the game or are artificially making the player lose and it's not comfortable to play the game because of that. there is no choice in the actual game most of the time, the game forces entire teams into matches with bots and really that explains high player count on steam because since the developers are hosting bots, they also inflate player numbers to motivate players to potentially play the game and think the game is doing well when it's not.

Pretty sure the bots don't count towards player numbers. They don't even register as existing on the server.

The bots ARE there to feed "fake victory" though as you put it. Basically if you are losing games it makes you fight bots because, even if you and I dislike it and hate it, statistically research DOES show that winning even against bots triggers a dopamine hit that makes you want to play more/potentially spend more.

So It's been really hard trying to convince the devs to acknowledge that we don't want bots because their share holders are forcing them to use certain tactics. I doubt it's a choice the devs even have tbh.

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Kitt 🌟 Stargazer:

Haven't seen any bots yet...

Next time you have a total curb stomp in quickplay; after losing like 3 or more games in a row; go into match history and try and look at their profiles. You'll know because every single one is hidden/doesn't have one.

If you open the loading screen icons with tab when loading in as well, you'll see no one on the enemy team has no icons at all and have very basic sounding screen names that don't make much sense.

They have like, zero survival sense in game as well and do things like all arrive to the point at the same time after an exact amount of seconds.

Odds are you HAVE encountered bots unless in quickplay you very very rarely ever lose because you are in a very good competitive premade team or something.

[SadPlatty©]

Originally posted by Echorion:

Pretty sure the bots don't count towards player numbers. They don't even register as existing on the server.

TL:DR - this is a troll topic.

They will at some point tell you that you are wrong, and that this is them just trying to hide that most "players" are bots, because they have all the facts and you don't.

This same topic already existed here for example with a different OP - but the name is "Fake player numbers and bots" and the same exact talking points. Once the thread seems to have enough detractors, they just start a new one to hide the real truth.