.io Games and The Rise of Fake Multiplayer

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[Miziziziz]

I'm talking quietly because I have a cheap mic and the quality gets worse the louder I speak. I'm getting a new one in a couple days

[yourlocalbabysitter]

I remember thinking I was so smart as a little kid when I turned on airplane mode and thinking I found out how to play multiplayer games without ads or internet

[hoog]

Some of these singleplayer games require you to have internet, otherwise you won't be able to play, it's just so that they can show advertisements and for data collection.

[chsui]

Imagine being in zoom class and you turn off the wifi and the teacher and the other kids keep talking....

[cheyno]

The mobile game industry is sleazier than the used car industry. Think about all those promo videos that don't even look like the actual game

[turle]

I know this may sound weird but voodoo is basically the 5 minute crafts of mobile games.

[garythesnail]

Voodoo is quite smart. They take 5 minutes to create a game, put ads about it everywhere, their game dies, but they earn like 10x the amount it took to make

[SamHogan]

I made an offline io game with the intention of figuring out networking later if the game was well received. Never got around to it (whoops), but I will say that programming the AI was a ton of fun

[brucelee]

Triple A studio single player game: requires internet connection to function

Indie multiplayer browser game: no internet connection required

[GarrettNear]

I didnt realize he was just reading the screen at the start, I thought he was just monologuing the whole time

[cmdrwilmot]

I wonder if the reuse of bot names is actually smart, not lazy. Imagine someone seeing the bot names that are copied across the dev's games and thinks that they are other actual players and there is a community around the game. Maybe there is someone convinced that they and Kolibro MATE are actually sort of buddies because the bot has done some stuff to their benefit in various matches they have played.

[TrackLab]

I realized it in some snowball "battle royal"kinda game..during a round I locked my phone, and whem I came back half an hour later, every "player" was still on the same spots. The games update logs even stated some crap like "improved matchmaking"...

[TheNewton]

Next breakthrough model will be a multi-player game marketed as a hardcore single player experience, but now the bots are fake with humans unknowingly controlling the game difficulty.

[DevanK-rgtd]

one time when I was playing hole.io after I killed a guy he respawned and then ran into a wall and stayed there for the rest of the game, now I know why

[elfasto]

I’m so stupid I thought they were actual people..

[katslitterbox]

I shut my wifi off during this video. It kept playing. We can conclude, that a bot is in fact talking to us right now.

[DragonAssassin]

Very informative and to the point, didn't even realize this kind of underhandedness was so prevalent. Still you brought attention to the issue with some great satire! Good luck with your 50 million dollars.

[wacky.racoon]

When your lag compensation is so good that you don't even need an internet connection.

[rdear]

“Give me a job. I don’t have networking experience but I noticed it’s not a requirement for your dev positions.”

Savage.

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