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Who would spend so much time and computers running these bots? There are like 50_000 bots running the game, there are more bots than human players. That's a lot
by agilob 2y ago
Who would spend so much time and computers running these bots? There are like 50_000 bots running the game, there are more bots than human players. That's a lot of computing power and steam accounts. Is Valve a subject to an attack from their competitors?
- sosodev 2y agoWho would the competitor be in this case? The bots hurt the TF2 community but Valve obviously earns the vast majority of their cash elsewhere. My understanding is that the bots are run by teams of trolls on secondhand hardware that would otherwise be useless.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago> That's a lot of computing power Is it? It's probably a spare computer laying around. I could probably scrape together enough hardware to have four separate machines in a state functional-enough to run TF2.
- yencabulator 2y agoNote that the bots do not have to run the actual game, just implement the parts of the wire protocol they care about.