It’s honestly ironic that some players join multiplayer to play against bots. The whole point of multiplayer is to compete against real people, to measure your skill against others who are trying just as hard. I’ve never understood the logic that if something is difficult, it should be cheated. Difficulty is what gives progression meaning.
Older Battlefield players will remember that farming used to be bannable. In Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 3, players who farmed kills or stats were punished because it went against the entire spirit of fair play. Stats are meant to represent your actual skill and experience.
Bots have no place in multiplayer environments.
The real ironic thing is that they created Portal, made it awesome (mostly), but then took away EVERYONE's interest in playing a portal server. Just because a server is custom, doesn't make it a farm. You can spend a week creating a custom map with no XP exploits, but no one will play it. Why? Because they don't want to be left behind. Daily and weekly challenges and unlocks make a progression seem necessary.
My biggest gripe with portal is that everything custom and cool is treated like a XP farm, even when it is not. Portal is completely worthless now, and they killed it themselves by taking a chainsaw to a problem that needed a knife.
