With 20 million of you having at least given it a go during its first month, there's no doubting Marvel Rivals has been a live service hit thus far. The real test for Netease will be how many of those millions it can keep engaged for the long haul. There are various ways in which other live service games do that, one of them being filling select lobbies with bots, and there appears to be evidence suggesting that's already happening in Rivals.
Rumblings that certain matches might be more bot than human began with a post shared on the Marvel Rivals subreddit by ciaranxy. After studying who, or what, exactly the lobbies are filled with for a week, the Rivals player believes they've confirmed that not only are there bots in certain matches, but if you lose two quickplay matches in a row, the odds of your next match being made up of more bots than humans is incredibly high.
Star-Lord, Wolverine, and Magik all suffer.
After losing two matches in a row, ciaranxy claims you will likely be placed on a team with three other human players and two bots, and you'll be up against a team made...
