Player vs Player, so why are there official Blizzard bots?

[Forsh-saurfang]

Discussion on the issue in the General forum:

AI Battleground is a mistake

PvP in the current iteration of wow is practically a joke at this point. With declining PvP participation and lack of creativity or sense of how poor their classes feel in PvP has kind of forced their hand to add AI PvP at this point to at least keep up the facade that PvP is still “alive and well”.

• When players fight in PvE they know they are fighting your AI.
• When players fight in PvP they want to fight other people. If there aren’t enough people for the fight, that’s just how it goes. Filling the battlegrounds with your bots isn’t the answer.

I knew you had bots and talked about it here when Arathi Blizzard was running. A few people here said “no, that can’t be true” but it’s true, you do have bots and I knew I was fighting bots in your brawls. Get rid of the bots in PvP. It’s called PLAYER VERSUS PLAYER for a reason. I’m tired of talking to something (A BOT) that I think is a freaking human that won’t follow a strategy. It pisses everybody off.

[Erelir-bleeding-hollow (Erelir)]

It pisses everybody off.

Look at you trying to make it appear as though a bunch of people are with you on this conspiracy.

Get yer tinfoil folks, this one’s gonna be a ride.

[Jd-grobbulus]

It’s true Erelir. Bots exist.

I was fighting some bot raptors in Ungoro last night. You should have seen their movements. It was obvious there weren’t any lights on upstairs.

[Killshotjr-aegwynn]

Bots dont belong in pvp only people that like em are pvers or people that dont know what pvp is

[Grit-velen]

Refining the AI to perform like players and eventually play better is potentially huge for Blizzard$$$

I don’t mean just give them a bunch of HP but make them smart.

[Dosao-bonechewer (Dosao)]

Calling Alliance players bots is a little too much I think

[Grit-velen]

There will come a day when Alliance are smarter than Horde. Not soon but it’s coming.

[Raypugh-kiljaeden (Raypugh)]

There aren’t bots actively in your pvp games right now. They plan to add “PvP” mode that you fight against bots in. Overall a bad idea in my opinion purely because it pushes more people out of the PvP community that’s already very small to begin with.

[Dosao-bonechewer (Dosao)]

When they are replaced by actual alliance bots?

[Areté-stormrage]

Don’t like it
I can see posts with bot too strong please fix
Maybe they plan on adding loot
This for rated also?

[Grit-velen]

It may already be here.

There is a good chance most of the Alliance players Horde now face in PVP are Bots.

Have you ever seen an Alliance player blink?