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Evidence mounts that Marvel Rivals stealthily places losing players in bot matches, and I know because I'm the loser (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It feels like assuming a lot of positive intent to guess that the match against bots is so that people can learn rather than trying to feed them a dopamine hit so they don't get discouraged and fuck off, but maybe I'm a cynic.

[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

That is 100% what it is, if it were about learning they wouldn’t be obfuscating bot matches. Pretending the bots are players is just a stealthy player retention trick.