146762-thanks-for-all-the-fishthe-exit-interview

== Content ==
			
   First off, I want to say, I really wanted to like this game. The art is great. The gameplay, althought nothing groundbreaking, is fun as well. Second, this post is not about whining or "please beg me not to leave". The point of this is simply to let the good people behind the game know from a "customer perspective" what I did not like and why I left.....and it actually is quit simple.
 
   To cut to the chase, today I logged off and uninstalled the game with no intentions of ever playing again due to one and only one thing..... BOTS! Now, don't get me wrong here. I have played MMOs back to the original Everquest (yeh, "old guy" here haha). I have seen my share of bots in games. They all have/had them. But I have never seen them as bad, as invasive, and as "game breaking" as in WIldstar. I thought it might pass after the F2P rush, but it seems it has only gotten worse. I tried to "deal" with it....playing PvP matches and if they seemed to "botty", I would just wait and try later. However, last night, out of probably 12-15 matches I played about 95% were purely bot matches (I counted 7 bots on one team alone!). That was when I just finally had enough.....straw meet camel's back. There are just too many other games out there and many handle the hacker/bots/goon issues much better.
 
   Again, I am just hoping the right people "behind the scenes" possibly see this and some action is taken. Great game. Great content. But if bots is what you need to "fill" your game world out, then just pull the plug and move on.
 
 	
----
			In my battleground levelling experience, it's only a problem in sub 30 Temple battlegrounds, everywhere else (including sub 30 Halls) is bot free (or as close as can be).	
----
			
Yeah, I understand the frustration, but I lost all sympathy when he casts around that the bots are INTENDED.
 
Give me a break, already.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
   First off, I want to say, I really wanted to like this game. The art is great. The gameplay, althought nothing groundbreaking, is fun as well. Second, this post is not about whining or "please beg me not to leave". The point of this is simply to let the good people behind the game know from a "customer perspective" what I did not like and why I left.....and it actually is quit simple.
 
   To cut to the chase, today I logged off and uninstalled the game with no intentions of ever playing again due to one and only one thing..... BOTS! Now, don't get me wrong here. I have played MMOs back to the original Everquest (yeh, "old guy" here haha). I have seen my share of bots in games. They all have/had them. But I have never seen them as bad, as invasive, and as "game breaking" as in WIldstar. I thought it might pass after the F2P rush, but it seems it has only gotten worse. I tried to "deal" with it....playing PvP matches and if they seemed to "botty", I would just wait and try later. However, last night, out of probably 12-15 matches I played about 95% were purely bot matches (I counted 7 bots on one team alone!). That was when I just finally had enough.....straw meet camel's back. There are just too many other games out there and many handle the hacker/bots/goon issues much better.
 
   Again, I am just hoping the right people "behind the scenes" possibly see this and some action is taken. Great game. Great content. But if bots is what you need to "fill" your game world out, then just pull the plug and move on.
----
			
you haven't played this game longer than a few hours i guess?
 
bots are pretty much nonexistant outside of low lvl bg's. and while yes, this is of course still a problem, it's not really a huge gamebreaking one. and it's defnitely not a reason to quit the game if you have to kill a few bots for, i don't know, 3 hours until you're higher level and the bots vanish.	
----
			
Basically, every F2p game has issue of bots. That bot issue is only in low levels, I never see it at capped. 
 
PvP pre-50 doesn't matter, it's just a casual leveling activity. It is by no means the best exp for leveling up.
 
For those who want to level purely through PvP, know that you won't get a shred of respect for doing it. It's nothing to be proud of, it's just another way to play the game - that's up to you. If you ARE going to do that, please read up on your class and get good. This game is skill driven, you will find it hard to pvp against someone with better gear and will get stomped by someone with skill+gear.	
----
			
Some people are spreading misinformation here... Bots are /more/ of a problem sub-30, but they're still present in matchbreaking numbers in 30-49 Temple as well. Maybe you shouldn't come onto threads to try to dismiss peoples' concerns so readily when it's ruining peoples' game experiences? People are going to be frustrated when they keep seeing the same bots days later after reporting (to the point they stop even trying to report) and getting spawn farmed by enemy teams because they were unlucky enough to get stuck with a bot majority game and jerk opponents who think they're coming away with more xp/prestige while not caring one lick that they're making other players sit around for 15+ minutes just for them (if they grab onto the last mask and can pass it off before the wrathful Walatiki moodies come, even people on the same team may be stuck with this).
 
People are going to quit over that when they're here for the PvP. When an entire avenue for character development that was promised is broken due to 3rd-party interference and seemingly ignored, they're not going to want to stick around when there are other options that, while maybe not having everything Wildstar does, manage to have a better experience overall due to minimized bot impact. Trying to "explain" away somebody's frustration with that as trivial when it is brought up is downright rude and condescending, and kind of the elitist attitude that helps drive people away.	
----
			
At 50 there are no bots, the levelling experience is sure frustrating with all the bots in pvp, but you can mostly counter that by queueing halls exclusively if you don't want to see them.
 
Either way, good luck in the future :) 	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Maybe you shouldn't come onto threads to try to dismiss peoples' concerns so readily when it's ruining peoples' game experiences?
----
			
Just be patient and let Carbine deal with the bots in the right way. This issue has resurfaced (in a far worse way) since F2P I will agree. However, since it's easy to create an account and there is no capital investment (box purchase/monthly sub), they are probably working on a way to not only blanket ban all of the bots we are seeing, but also develop a better way to prevent this in the future.
 
Honestly... I don't PVP a lot. So it really isn't a big deal to me. But in the grand scheme of things, this is really not that big of a deal unless you are a "hardcore PVPer."
 
It will be fixed eventually. Just take a break from wildstar and go play something else if it is really that big of an issue for you. It's F2P so you aren't really missing out on anything or losing money.	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
Just be patient and let Carbine deal with the bots in the right way. 
----
			
Trust me, It can be a lot worse:
 
 
The Bots in WildStar are fairly under control and limited to low level Bgs as pointed out.
And Carbine did a hell of a job to keep them mostly out of PvE environments.
It's a matter of time to kick them out of PvP as well.
 
And as long as people remain lazy, there will be bots.
Every MMO has them.
If people write bots for the game, it means the interest is there, no?	
----
			
{| class="blockquote"
   First off, I want to say, I really wanted to like this game. The art is great. The gameplay, althought nothing groundbreaking, is fun as well. Second, this post is not about whining or "please beg me not to leave". The point of this is simply to let the good people behind the game know from a "customer perspective" what I did not like and why I left.....and it actually is quit simple.
 
   To cut to the chase, today I logged off and uninstalled the game with no intentions of ever playing again due to one and only one thing..... BOTS! Now, don't get me wrong here. I have played MMOs back to the original Everquest (yeh, "old guy" here haha). I have seen my share of bots in games. They all have/had them. But I have never seen them as bad, as invasive, and as "game breaking" as in WIldstar. I thought it might pass after the F2P rush, but it seems it has only gotten worse. I tried to "deal" with it....playing PvP matches and if they seemed to "botty", I would just wait and try later. However, last night, out of probably 12-15 matches I played about 95% were purely bot matches (I counted 7 bots on one team alone!). That was when I just finally had enough.....straw meet camel's back. There are just too many other games out there and many handle the hacker/bots/goon issues much better.
 
   Again, I am just hoping the right people "behind the scenes" possibly see this and some action is taken. Great game. Great content. But if bots is what you need to "fill" your game world out, then just pull the plug and move on.
----