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Elie Gould

'I kept trying to talk to them': Marvel Rivals players are finding their friends' names are being used by bots

Venom looks at his hand with sinister intent in Marvel Rivals.

Finding bots in Marvel Rivals isn't unusual. A few months after the game first launched, some players started to realise that after losing a few games in a row, they'd be placed into bot matches on the down-low. Given the sneakiness at hand, the devs grabbing friends' names to be used by bots isn't all that surprising, but that doesn't make it ok.

"Taking people's account names for bots isn't right," Maleficent_Roll3450 says. "I was in a player vs AI match, and someone that I have on my friend list was in the match as well, and I kept trying to talk to them the entire time, wondering why they were ignoring me, as I haven't seen them online for ages.

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