Disabling weapon & vehicle XP in portal vs bots is absolutely unacceptable
Title says it all. The solution to crowded servers is not to intentionally drive people away from playing portal.
The solution is to allocate more server resources.
EA is a 50 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. They have both the means and the money to do so. However, they choose not to because they are cheap and already have your money. They dont care about your satisfaction - they already have your money.
They had this issue figured out in 2042 with Moderate XP. You could progress your weapons attachments and unlocks, you would just be capped from going any higher than gold mastery to prevent people from unlocking T1 skins.
But g0d forbid they re-use a system that was both an effective and fair compromise
indescribably frustrated with the tone-deaf incompetence from the studio