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prawn on Nov 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as a...

Makes me wonder if any game companies have seeded empty servers with bots, acting as humans, to give their games a sense of popularity.

pdimitar on Nov 10, 2016 [–]

I don't see why not, unless the game eventually becomess a boss-infested cesspool where players can't have any fun of course.

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