I'm pretty certain I'm playing a bot rn how do I report him :/
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After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus. It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus. It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
There is no option for that ingame. hacks@blizzard.com is your best bet.
send them a message thank you. I do think the game would benefit from having the option in game...
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After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus. It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
Personally I don't bother with the effort. In my low MMR bracket of Silver in Wild, if I try to play at unreasonable hours such as 5 am, one out of three games will always be against a bot, at the very least. There are simply too many bots to report.
Most times they're just queue macros that don't play anything, sometimes they're hero power macros (especially Odd Warrior, Odd Hunter or sometimes Warlock), and lately I've seen more complex macros like this pop up. Since botting and macros fall under the same rules of the Blizzard ToS, I imagine there will be a banwave coming sooner or later.
I have met couple bots. One was super nasty, it was programmed to play cards it was able, attack hero if possible (taunt minion stopped attacks), and it always hitted armour (ofc. it was odd warrior). It also said "Greetings" in every time it could and roped to end. Fucking disgusting.
I have met couple bots. One was super nasty, it was programmed to play cards it was able, attack hero if possible (taunt minion stopped attacks), and it always hitted armour (ofc. it was odd warrior). It also said "Greetings" in every time it could and roped to end. Fucking disgusting.
Are you being sarcastic? This could have been a real player.
I think macro/autoclicker user will not be banned. Why would they be banned? If they banned what will happen to afk farmers?
They should be banned. Automation of any kind meant to play games without input from the user are against the rules. That's what botting IS.
AFK Farmers are a grey area. IF they manually start games and then just leave them going, then I don;t think there's anything Blizz could do against it. But any kind of automation to click Hero Power etc. in an effort to prolong games, without manual input? Ban them. That's automation and should not be allowed.
The fact Blizz have left this situation develop like this without countering it in some way is annoying. Apparently they feel it;s a price they are willing to pay just to have a Reward Track in the game. Trouble is, the people paying the price for their greed is us, the normal users, being saddled with purposefully annoying games, meant in no way to normally play but just to drag out time.
It's a part of the game, but it shouldn;t be, and I hope Blizz start actively combatting it at some point, instead of just ignoring the issue.
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Personally I don't bother with the effort. In my low MMR bracket of Silver in Wild, if I try to play at unreasonable hours such as 5 am, one out of three games will always be against a bot, at the very least. There are simply too many bots to report.
Most times they're just queue macros that don't play anything, sometimes they're hero power macros (especially Odd Warrior, Odd Hunter or sometimes Warlock), and lately I've seen more complex macros like this pop up. Since botting and macros fall under the same rules of the Blizzard ToS, I imagine there will be a banwave coming sooner or later.
Yup, was a hunter that pressed his heropower on set intervals (like 1/2 seconds) and didn't do anything else... he did so during my and his turns and I observed him for like 30 minutes (20 turns+ I and he always roped) and he didn't do anything else soooo... I'm pretty sure haha
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After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus. It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
I've been playing since release and have never once met a bot. What region and rank are you playing in?
I was playing at the low ranks of wild... I think silver 10
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After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus. It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
Btw the account had a premium sylvanas portrait and was running n'zoth (the original one) so it wasn't brand new (probably)
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After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus. It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
I have met couple bots. One was super nasty, it was programmed to play cards it was able, attack hero if possible (taunt minion stopped attacks), and it always hitted armour (ofc. it was odd warrior). It also said "Greetings" in every time it could and roped to end. Fucking disgusting.
Are you being sarcastic? This could have been a real player.
Some people are actually just rude as heck.
It wasn't a real player. In fact, it is the exact same macro I posted a video of earlier in the thread and I've met it twice so far on ladder from different people.
There just wasn't any emoting done in the video because he was on 'cooldown', but the guy still had a full macro cycle of: emote Greetings, play cards, use minions to attack face, hero power. While roping every turn of course. Taunt broke the macro as seen there.
I think macro/autoclicker user will not be banned. Why would they be banned? If they banned what will happen to afk farmers?
They should be banned. Automation of any kind meant to play games without input from the user are against the rules. That's what botting IS.
AFK Farmers are a grey area. IF they manually start games and then just leave them going, then I don;t think there's anything Blizz could do against it. But any kind of automation to click Hero Power etc. in an effort to prolong games, without manual input? Ban them. That's automation and should not be allowed.
The fact Blizz have left this situation develop like this without countering it in some way is annoying. Apparently they feel it;s a price they are willing to pay just to have a Reward Track in the game. Trouble is, the people paying the price for their greed is us, the normal users, being saddled with purposefully annoying games, meant in no way to normally play but just to drag out time.
It's a part of the game, but it shouldn;t be, and I hope Blizz start actively combatting it at some point, instead of just ignoring the issue.
Yes, you're right "technically" but in reality, a macro clicker can't affect the game at all and it hasn't any difference from an afk farmer. If macro users will be banned, afk farmers should be banned too but why anyone would be banned for just starting a game and waiting it to end?
That is the real problem. You can't spot the difference between a macro clicker from an afk farmer. I mean yeah some macros are too obvious and they can be spotted easily but a macro that is prepared carefully won't be different from an afk farmer. Imagine a macro that plays a card in a turn and hero powers in next turn and then play a different card, some turns are long and some turns passes quickly etc. This is very easy to make and if this account is going to be banned, then oh my god a metric ton of real players will be banned too. Because macro commands are totally identical with mouse inputs in software level.
There is one way to prevent this situation and that is charging these accounts for "stalling" but how you define "stalling" and how will you punish it? That can be a much bigger problem.
I think you can see my point. For these reasons I don't think Blizzard will ban macro users or afk farmers. If this macro usage go crazy and became much bigger problem for Blizzard, they may take some actions but in this state I think Blizzard can ignore this easily. They won't bother a little "minority" whose letting their opponent to win the game by not playing.
By the way, that is all Blizzard's fault to do it this way. Winning games was much more rewarding at the past but now you just need to have game time to earn rewards. This is where everything went wrong.
Banning is only a short-term solution, at most, even if you somehow manage to avoid banning real players. Where it really counts is in the incentives. An xp-based solution may be the way to go.
As a side note, a full Nozdormu mode might be a nice retreat from bots.
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I'm pretty certain I'm playing a bot rn how do I report him :/
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus.
It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
This is the only truth.
jk ofc.
There is no option for that ingame. hacks@blizzard.com is your best bet.
When you type "how to report a player in Hearthstone" into Google (hint, hint), this is the first link to come up:
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/99516
"Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick." -- Lady Saba Holland
What option should I choose?
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus.
It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
This is the only truth.
jk ofc.
send them a message thank you. I do think the game would benefit from having the option in game...
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus.
It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
This is the only truth.
jk ofc.
I've been playing since release and have never once met a bot. What region and rank are you playing in?
Battle.net covers all players of all Blizzard games.
"Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick." -- Lady Saba Holland
Personally I don't bother with the effort. In my low MMR bracket of Silver in Wild, if I try to play at unreasonable hours such as 5 am, one out of three games will always be against a bot, at the very least. There are simply too many bots to report.
Most times they're just queue macros that don't play anything, sometimes they're hero power macros (especially Odd Warrior, Odd Hunter or sometimes Warlock), and lately I've seen more complex macros like this pop up. Since botting and macros fall under the same rules of the Blizzard ToS, I imagine there will be a banwave coming sooner or later.
I'm pretty sure, you are a bot, too.
I think macro/autoclicker user will not be banned. Why would they be banned? If they banned what will happen to afk farmers?
I have met couple bots. One was super nasty, it was programmed to play cards it was able, attack hero if possible (taunt minion stopped attacks), and it always hitted armour (ofc. it was odd warrior). It also said "Greetings" in every time it could and roped to end. Fucking disgusting.
Are you being sarcastic? This could have been a real player.
Some people are actually just rude as heck.
They should be banned. Automation of any kind meant to play games without input from the user are against the rules. That's what botting IS.
AFK Farmers are a grey area. IF they manually start games and then just leave them going, then I don;t think there's anything Blizz could do against it. But any kind of automation to click Hero Power etc. in an effort to prolong games, without manual input? Ban them. That's automation and should not be allowed.
The fact Blizz have left this situation develop like this without countering it in some way is annoying. Apparently they feel it;s a price they are willing to pay just to have a Reward Track in the game. Trouble is, the people paying the price for their greed is us, the normal users, being saddled with purposefully annoying games, meant in no way to normally play but just to drag out time.
It's a part of the game, but it shouldn;t be, and I hope Blizz start actively combatting it at some point, instead of just ignoring the issue.
If you see a bad post on the forum use the report function under it, so I or someone else of the moderation team can take care of it!
Battle.net refers to the Battle.net client that you launch your games from my guy.
Yup, was a hunter that pressed his heropower on set intervals (like 1/2 seconds) and didn't do anything else... he did so during my and his turns and I observed him for like 30 minutes (20 turns+ I and he always roped) and he didn't do anything else soooo... I'm pretty sure haha
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus.
It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
This is the only truth.
jk ofc.
I was playing at the low ranks of wild... I think silver 10
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus.
It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
This is the only truth.
jk ofc.
Btw the account had a premium sylvanas portrait and was running n'zoth (the original one) so it wasn't brand new (probably)
After doing my research I found out that the pink 'stuff' that appeared onto hearthstone cards must, in fact, have been coronavirus.
It has through hearthstone spread across the globe and infected all computers. And because too few people played hearthstone with plastic gloves on they got infected through their computer. Thus coronavirus is Hearthstone's fault and I expect a total of 3 packs from each expansion to be given to all coronavirus victims.
This is the only truth.
jk ofc.
It wasn't a real player. In fact, it is the exact same macro I posted a video of earlier in the thread and I've met it twice so far on ladder from different people.
There just wasn't any emoting done in the video because he was on 'cooldown', but the guy still had a full macro cycle of: emote Greetings, play cards, use minions to attack face, hero power. While roping every turn of course. Taunt broke the macro as seen there.
Yes, you're right "technically" but in reality, a macro clicker can't affect the game at all and it hasn't any difference from an afk farmer. If macro users will be banned, afk farmers should be banned too but why anyone would be banned for just starting a game and waiting it to end?
That is the real problem. You can't spot the difference between a macro clicker from an afk farmer. I mean yeah some macros are too obvious and they can be spotted easily but a macro that is prepared carefully won't be different from an afk farmer. Imagine a macro that plays a card in a turn and hero powers in next turn and then play a different card, some turns are long and some turns passes quickly etc. This is very easy to make and if this account is going to be banned, then oh my god a metric ton of real players will be banned too. Because macro commands are totally identical with mouse inputs in software level.
There is one way to prevent this situation and that is charging these accounts for "stalling" but how you define "stalling" and how will you punish it? That can be a much bigger problem.
I think you can see my point. For these reasons I don't think Blizzard will ban macro users or afk farmers. If this macro usage go crazy and became much bigger problem for Blizzard, they may take some actions but in this state I think Blizzard can ignore this easily. They won't bother a little "minority" whose letting their opponent to win the game by not playing.
By the way, that is all Blizzard's fault to do it this way. Winning games was much more rewarding at the past but now you just need to have game time to earn rewards. This is where everything went wrong.
Banning is only a short-term solution, at most, even if you somehow manage to avoid banning real players. Where it really counts is in the incentives. An xp-based solution may be the way to go.
As a side note, a full Nozdormu mode might be a nice retreat from bots.