Leveling BOTS are ruining this game.

MeatPopsycle··11 votes·3,516 views

So, this has become a HUGE issue as of late. I know this problem has been around for a while, but it is so much worse now than it has ever been. No matter what game mode you enter and regardless of if you play a PVP game or an A.I. game, you are going to run into these accounts that aren't being manned by an actual person. I have played about 10 games today, and I was lucky enough to get ONE game that did not contain one of these damn things. You can tell exactly who they are because they just repeat the exact same movement over and over again. This usually includes walking straight up to vacant towers or right through enemy champions without even performing an action. I know everyone has to know what I am talking about. It's become unbearable. When you get into an ARAM or a 5v5 and one or two of the people in the game are just there serving up a buffet of deaths to the other team, it makes the entire game a waste of time and frustrating as hell. There are just as many times that they end up showing up on the opposing team, and that's equally as frustrating, because we all have experienced it and know exactly what they are going through. I don't know if they are just more prevalent now because of site that are selling pre-leveled accounts or if it has to do with the "Refer-a-Friend" program that you have going on, but it's off the wall. Isn't there anything that could be done, on your side or ours, to stop these things from showing up in every single game? I don't know how you guys are even getting new players to stick with the game long enough for it to be profitable for you. If you try playing on a lower level account, there will be times when 80% of all the accounts in a map are being controlled by these things. PLEASE...there has to be something that can be done about this.

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Illydth5 votes

@Deep 2 of 2 ARAM games tonight were 3 of 10 bots in game 1 and 4 of 10 were bots in game two.

Yes, it's not unlikely, it's prevalent. 9/10 games DO have bots in them at this point.

--Doug

zSkeletoRz1 votes

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@Deep 2 of 2 ARAM games tonight were 3 of 10 bots in game 1 and 4 of 10 were bots in game two.

Yes, it's not unlikely, it's prevalent. 9/10 games DO have bots in them at this point.

--Doug

Can confirm. It isn't any harder to find out for yourself than to make a new account and level it up, try some ARAMs at level 10... Have fun playing with all those bots.

Illydth1 votes

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Can confirm. It isn't any harder to find out for yourself than to make a new account and level it up, try some ARAMs at level 10... Have fun playing with all those bots.

And to qualify something:

I'm currently Bronze 1, having just completed my first set of promos. I've been level 30 for somewhere going on a year now.

I have 49 Friendlies, 12 Helpfuls, 119 Teamworks, and 90 Honorables. I have 3 level 5's and multiple level 4s, my account is probably a year and a half old, possibly 2 years.

Do I have a bad MMR? Maybe. Is this because I bought the account or i'm a new player? No.

BOTS are being paired up REGULARLY and CONSISTENTLY. Yes, they're bots...no they're not just "bad players." When Olaf continually tower dives 5 players over and over and over and over and over again in the same game, he's not a BAD PLAYER, he's a bot...especially with no keystone, no chat, and buying some of the most ridiculous items ever.

Please stop trying to justify or otherwise reason this out. There are BOTS in ARAM (I don't know much about the other game modes, certainly not as persistent), they've gotten worse over the last 3 weeks, and they've utterly Ruined the ARAM experience...

If you do not believe me, go try it yourself.

Deep Terror Nami3 votes

I find it highly unlikely that you had a bot in ~9/10 games, rather than just think they were really bad (whether they were or not). If you think they are a bot then report them, and if you don't feel that is enough you may submit a Support Ticket.

dod212 votes

[{quoted}](name=Deep Terror Nami,realm=NA,application-id=ZGEFLEUQ,discussion-id=VJFZ6kHa,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2016-06-24T07:36:49.772+0000)

I find it highly unlikely that you had a bot in ~9/10 games, rather than just think they were really bad (whether they were or not). If you think they are a bot then report them, and if you don't feel that is enough you may submit a Support Ticket.

Why do you care so much about this topic that you're first reaction is to call him a liar? I read his post. While I have not personally experienced this, I have seen nought to suggest that this man is a liar. What stake do you hold in this game?

Deep Terror Nami2 votes

Being skeptical doesn't mean I'm calling him a liar.

DPCHMD1 votes

I got intentional feeders twice yesterday, maybe were bots. I reported it both times and nothing happened.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-history/NA1/231521123

MeatPopsycle1 votes

If I could show you my report history, you would see that this is not just something that I came across a couple times and decided to waste everyone's time by creating a thread about it. I report them each time i come across them. One time, there was one on the opposing team, and me and friends were asked to report after game. That time is the only time that I received a notification stating that something that been accomplished by my report, and I am sure it has more to do with them getting 9 reports from one game. I am jealous of you if you do not have to come across these accounts regularly.

Palmeiras SerieB2 votes

.>implying they will answer other thing than an pre-made answer by a robot.

Telephone Booth1 votes

If people play against AI and in ARAM modes... I definitely believe it. I used to think it was exaggerated too until I recently started leveling my second account. I finally had a vs ai where ALL my allies were bots. It's crazy.

DukeCho1 votes

I had that twic in a row now and the scripting also makes the game laggy as fuck because the bots give way way to manny commands

ilD21 votes

Of the 9 matches I have played in the past two days, 7 of them had either bots or intentional feeders in them. Riot doesn't seem give care about the issue, so submitting a ticket won't do a thing. The best we can do is cross our fingers and hope we don't run into leveling bots in game. Kind of sad.

Palmeiras SerieB2 votes

Rito does not seem to care, have a good day.

MeatPopsycle1 votes

Agreed...sadly

Atronthor1 votes

May be the bots are even from them. So they are no third party programs. It is totally legit then. Only unfair for the customers. But Riot does not give a shid.

DukeCho1 votes

Why would riot need to use bots? Think about it does that make anny sense? Ruining thier own games makes no sense and they don't need to lvl shit they can just set the datta to whatever they want. Think things trough before you type something

DingDongSchlong1 votes

They don't need to, it's just them filling up matchmade games.

Sarutobi1 votes

Honestly anyone over level 30 shouldn't be seeing bots. If that's the case then you have either bought the account (since the MMR on the account would be just the same as other botted accounts since in order to level an account a bit usually levels it up to be sold later) or you are queuing up with low level people thus getting grouped with botters because it's trying to even out the matchmaking (which is horrible in some cases) and lower levels are prone to queue up with botters because of their low level.

Yes it is a problem but there really isn't anything can be done aside from what they are doing. Plus like with Nami said it could just be really bad players. Unless someone states they are botters it is really hard to see a difference. There are some clues (only playing free to play champ, default summoner icons/spells, etc) aside from that it's really difficult.

Then of course when they do actually ban these peoples, you get a whole list of people claiming they didn't hack/bot/buy the account claiming the system is a failure. So matter what riot does they'll piss people off.

MeatPopsycle1 votes

I haven't queued as a group on this account in quite a while, so that excludes the latter argument. Also, I started this account on my own back at the end of 2010 or 2011, and it has been in my possession since then. I have a lower level account that I have been playing with a friend that I introduced to the game recently, and there are definitely more Bots at the lower levels, but they exist no matter what level you are.

Lukesgud1 votes

This is still a problem just came out of a 41 min game of intermediate bots where all 4 of my teammates were bots...before that played one aram with 5 bots 3 v 2 ... I can't imagine how new players feel when they go in a game and just witness these bots running it down mid top bot...

Lukesgud1 votes

It's not RIOT that's putting Bots in games, it's people that sell League accounts most likely, definitely not Riot

Münchenhausen1 votes

Fully agree. Just had my 4th game this night alongside 4 (four) Level bots, against 5 players. This ruins the game, it is bad matchmaking. Ridiculous.

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