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But why? Plenty of people already play
This is the reason I stopped playing pubg and I couldn't get my head round it either. In theory people may enjoy it more because it's easier to win, and who doesn't like winning? Yes it's not a real win against bots but the bots are a secret so maybe it feels like a real win?
But it's obvious that you're against bots. If people enjoy playing against bots why not just include a bot mode?
I see a few possible reasons
Most people are ignorant to the bots. They play a few games, they win, they're happy. They don't realise they only had 4 humans in their lobby.
People eventually realise they're against bots but the devs are stupid. They did some focus groups and detected people being happy. These people would have eventually realised they're against bots and hated it but the focus groups didn't detect that. Like a pepsi challenge.
Blissful ignorance? People kind of know they're against bots but turn a blind eye and wins still feel good. They wouldn't play a specific 100% bot mode because they want a "real win"
There was a bot mode! It's called PvE!
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