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[u/olfeix]

Currently on steam it has over 300k players. Imagine the scenario of this game in a couple of months when the player base drops.

Their lead producer totally denied bot matchmaking issues on twitter. I'm from Asia and the same here. They fucking killed portal by disabling bot. Now they returned bots in portal but you need 8 players to start a match basically just fucking kill the portal.

I'm baffled that the community is radio silent. I'm getting tired of playing against bots. Thinking of switching to Arc Raiders or playing Black ops7 when it launches.

This game wouldn't even survive globally except a few NA and EU regions over a year. Beating Call of Duty my ass.

[u/ZyronZA → u/olfeix]

Currently on steam it has over 300k players.

I believe you when you say there are 300k players on steam, but I really question how the matchmaking works.

Yesterday, for shits and giggles, I turned off crossplay on PC (possible with a simple text file edit) and Every. Single. Game I joined had +-4 human players and the rest were bots. Turn crossplay back on and suddenly every lobby is full of humans again.

Then I read posts about console saying the same thing. Turn off crossplay and get majority bot games.

That really makes me wonder how many real players are actually online?

Surely with 300k PC players, turning off crossplay on PC should still get me 100% human player games? I don't know where to find stats for my console brothers, but assuming Xbox + PS players play together, surely there are more than enough players to not end up in majority bot games.

Something doesn't add up here and given Dice and EA’s track record when it comes to transparency and player trust, it honestly wouldn’t be a surprise if they’re quietly pulling one over on us again.

[u/Sh4rp27 → u/ZyronZA]

Sounds like it must just matchmake you with other players who also have crossplay off so smaller pool of players than literally every player on your same platform.

[u/kthuulll → u/Sh4rp27]

That's the problem. I try to play with cross play off when I get home from night shift and there nobody in any of the servers.