An update on how things are going in the fight against bots, after their post a few weeks back.
Quote from BlizzardThis month has been a busy month in our battle against the bots. Since our last update just three weeks ago, we’ve ratcheted up our bot detection and banned over 585,000 more bots–including over half a million bots throughout this week! We hope they’re shaking in their circuits.
Cheaters are not welcome in our Tavern. You can continue to help in the ongoing battle against these botters by using the in-game reporting feature. While you do, we’ll continue fighting on your behalf, too.
Hearthstone Developer on the Ban Waves
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone's history.
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) March 28, 2024
Then again, on Wednesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone's history.
Then again, today, we launched the largest banwave in Hearthstone's history.…
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Posted Mar 31, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)congrats and since the history of HS there will be EVEN more bots to farm gold and sell for 4 USD for 5k gold accounts congrats you played yourself
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Posted Mar 31, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)Once again, big numbers, intended to impress, that mean nothing without context. How many players are there? Are there bots detected that cannot be banned yet? What's the average ratio of players to bots? How long does it usually take for the bot numbers to go back up to those levels? Until I know this I can't help but feel insulted by these announcements.
Thank you so much. Thank you for telling me how maintaining a reasonable game environment, expected to be part of a service I'm invited to pay for, is now a valiant effort on your part that deserves special mention.
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Posted Mar 28, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)See bot accounts frequently in Arena (I think they bot standard then manually run high end arena decks with the gold they farmed). Their names are just random characters strung together and the cardback is either the default, the Machine Dreams, or the Mark of Hakkar (all the easiest ones to obtain).
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Posted Mar 28, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)Someone probably perfected either a new bot AI, or a simple to run deck that's actually decent
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Posted Mar 28, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)Does anyone have a speculative reason bots are running so rampant in Wild right now compared to the entire history of the game so far? I've never seen this many bots before
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Posted Mar 28, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)A large part, I’ve heard, is because Chinese players are playing on NA after China servers were shut down. Botting, hacking, and/or using cheats are widely accepted among Chinese gamers, again just from what I’ve heard. And I also believe Wild was the more popular format among Chinese players too!
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Posted Mar 29, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)There are multiple Wild decks which are simple enough to pilot and have a strong enough core that botting is viable even at the top MMR brackets. While this isn't the only cause, the presence of these "So easy to play a bot can do it" decks makes bots go brr.