Want a new category: 'Bots available'

[FreshOffTheBoat]

Game developers should watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKw4eNFGqc


In multiplay-only games, availability of playing with bots is crucial. There are tons of multiplay-only games, but we can't really know if there are bots or not. Good old multiplay-only games had bots all the time (think about Quake 3 or Counter Strike). Also, now it seems that the game developers are not considering adding bots to their games anymore even though there are definitely market for the gamers who enjoy playing with bots more than playing with 'real' people.

If we have a category like 'bots available', people, just like me, will know they can play the multiplay-only game even though there are not many active users in the game, and will buy the game because of that. Adding the category will impact the game industry and the market as well.

Plus, with the radically fast growth of deep learning's popularity, I believe we will not distinguish between a real person and a bot in a multiplay game anymore (will pass the Turing Test). This will happen in the near future - there are many promising deep learning libraries now. To make this process faster, I believe Valve should add a new category 'bots available' so that the money flows into the build-in A.I. games.


Please consider.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

you could ask the developers to add this in.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

This is a good idea for a tag. You should tag all the games you know of that have multiplayer mode with AI opponents as "Bots Available" or any other phrasing of your choosing. I can help with at least a couple of them that I'm familiar with.

[FreshOffTheBoat]

Quint the Glowing Bitter Oyster eredeti hozzászólása:

This is a good idea for a tag. You should tag all the games you know of that have multiplayer mode with AI opponents as "Bots Available" or any other phrasing of your choosing. I can help with at least a couple of them that I'm familiar with.

Ah, thanks for pointing out that - yeah I mean tag, not category haha

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Tags are created by users, so you can make one and I can back you up on it. Get some friends to help you tag multiplayer games with bots. And let me know what tag name you chose.

By this you mean multiplayer games with bots within a free play mode that follows the format of normal online play, I assume? As opposed to just AI bots anywhere.

[Darren]

I would happily help with adding this tag as well so "Bots Available"? Or do we have a better name for it?