Official TF2 Bots soon, maybe? Options

[Geralt]

So, I decided to email Robin Walker about the bot interface for TF2... and, well, we might get lucky in the future; unless he was lying, of course.

Here is the email I sent to Robin:

Hi Robin

First of all - thanks for taking time to read this email, I'm gonna
jump straight to it:

So - the reason I am writing this, is because I love my bots. No, not
aimbots - I mean AI bots. Bots provide a way for more players to enjoy
the game; while I can play online, at times I cannot due to many
different reasons:

~ No Internet access.
~ Slow Internet.
~ Someone else using the Internet.

And many people I know will not play online for various reasons:

~ Immature kids...
~ Hacks.

And, of course, Team Fortress 2 wouldn't be very fun by myself running
around in an empty server.

There is currently a bot mod known as RCBot, here:
http://rcbot.bots-united.com/

RCBot adds reasonably good bots - but they are still quite buggy, and
sometimes unplayable; but yes, they are better than none.

So I'm wondering - why haven't you guys added bots into the game yet?
I don't see any reason not to.

Maybe you don't need to - because of Omni-Bot. I have been waiting for
over a year for Valve to release the bot-interface, so we can have
Team Fortress 2 bots. You may want to read these in order:

http://www.omni-bot.de/e107/news.php?extend.51.8
http://www.omni-bot.de/e107/news.php?extend.53.8
http://www.omni-bot.de/e107/news.php?extend.58.8

So where is this bot-interface? I've been waiting over a year - should
I just stop waiting, will it never come?

It's not only me - many people want bots, and if the game had bots all
those people could enjoy it.

Thanks for taking the time to read and thanks for a great game,
Geralt.

The reply I received was short:

Hi Geralt.
We're working on something that we think will make you pretty dang happy.

Robin.

So what do you guys think we'll get? Official bots, or maybe just the bot interface? Something else?

I'm excited to find out - hopefully it won't be too long before it gets released. (Whatever it is).