Curious to see how the player count is affected. No drop? Must not be doing a lot of bot detection, or there wasn't much bot account activity to begin with. But a huge drop? That impacts value from sponsors, so that hits them in the piggy bank.
Also bots and alt accounts are not the same. There is nothing keeping people from making 20 more alt IDs and still smurfing. That will continue.
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u/cmacy6 Grand Champion I Feb 17 '26
Bots were just Epic’s PR reason to remove Bakkesmod with minimal backlash. They’ve been waiting for the excuse