I'm currently mid-diamond and I can't escape the bots, every match I play is against a bot using the exact same deck as every other bot and I can't escape this... Does it ever end? I've actually never experienced bots in this level before and I've been playing since GvG.
There's not a prayer that I am spending a single dime on the new xpac packs if I'm going to be playing 99% of my matches against bots named "cDFVC2332rZZVCf"
Last two days I went mid-gold to D4 and faced bots in all but one game. Likewise never seen this before except in the waning days of classic. One I got to D4 I faced two humans in a row, so I'm hoping I've passed out of the bot-zone.
To be fair, they have to do something about that too. They can try to remove all the bots out there, but when you end up with queue times of 1-2 minutes or more, nobody wants to play anymore either.
Has been the same with Classic, Mercenaries, Duels and Twist.
Unless the game suddenly sees a massive influx of new players (extremely unlikely), the MMR system is not sustainable. I'd rather play with whoever is there, instead of waiting 5 minutes till someone's available who happens to be on my estimated level.
It’s seriously so boring. I feel like it’s not been something I’ve experienced until the past week or so, but in the past few days I’ve only played a few games with actual players. Battlegrounds still seems to be ok from what I can tell, but Standard has lost its fun completely.
I just quit once I hit D10... I literally can't anymore.
Climbing through Plat and facing nothing but <insert pile of Asian kanji> playing random murlocs, random minion buff classics, and Stranglethorn Tiger as their big finisher... over, and over, and over, again... and it didn't even matter what Hero they were playing as... Warrior, Death Knight, Druid... it was all the same thing.
Am I the only one who hasn't seemed to face bots at all? I ran into one guy running a basic starter deck when I was around Gold. Everyone else I've played (hit Legend about five days ago) has been using a meta deck, mostly warrior, paladin, and DK, and none of them seemed to show signs of being a bot.
Am I the only one who hasn't seemed to face bots at all? I ran into one guy running a basic starter deck when I was around Gold. Everyone else I've played (hit Legend about five days ago) has been using a meta deck, mostly warrior, paladin, and DK, and none of them seemed to show signs of being a bot.
You'll know the bot decks... you won't need "signs"... they play the absolute worst, silliest, incomprehensible cards... (random murlocs, random low-cost rush, Stranglethorn Tiger is always their "biggie") - all of their cards are NEUTRALS also - no matter what Hero they show up as, there's NEVER any class-specific cards... that's one of the biggest tells.
Plus their usernames... as the OP noted, they're either an incomprehensible text jumble in English, or they're a pile of kanji (I compared the 6 Asian bots in a row I played and many of the name kanji for them repeated in specific patterns, too).
I didn't face many in Gold, 2 or 3 maybe... but every single deck in Platinum was a bot... and folks in this thread are saying they're just as prevalent in Diamond, I don't have the patience for it...
Same for me as well, it started for me last week Thursday all of a sudden and has been nothing but bots ever since. Something must be wrong at Blizzard. Very frustrating.
I tried looking for ways to report this but didn’t find anything too obvious.
I havent seen a bot in a long time. Do you play often or win often? Not sure if bots become present more if you play less or win less. When I started playing HS again I ran into bots for the first week or two after Death Knights came out. I would gladly take a bot at this point. Love fast turn opponents haha.
You face no bots because of different MMRs, at the very least. I face ZERO bots on Standard ladder where I climb to Diamond 10 every month (10 star bonus). I face 4 out of 5 bots on Wild ladder where I'm playing horrible meme decks at Silver 10 (2 star bonus).
Depending on the time of day yes, I do face that many. And unfortunately, I'm one of those people that play for fun instead of wins, so it's significantly less fun for me to pull off a combo if I know I'm basically playing against the Innkeeper.
Something I haven't seen mentioned, which seems extremely relevant to the bot problem, is that the Microsoft takeover and subsequent layoffs have been hobbling several aspects of Blizzard's Customer service. Seeing as "customer service" seemed like a slam dunk redundant category, I believe many of Blizzard's in house customer service was let go- but Microsoft's own customer service has not been trained or equipped with the tools necessary to combat the bots unique to WoW or Hearthstone.
I'm currently mid-diamond and I can't escape the bots, every match I play is against a bot using the exact same deck as every other bot and I can't escape this... Does it ever end? I've actually never experienced bots in this level before and I've been playing since GvG.
There's not a prayer that I am spending a single dime on the new xpac packs if I'm going to be playing 99% of my matches against bots named "cDFVC2332rZZVCf"
Last two days I went mid-gold to D4 and faced bots in all but one game. Likewise never seen this before except in the waning days of classic. One I got to D4 I faced two humans in a row, so I'm hoping I've passed out of the bot-zone.
dwindling player base
To be fair, they have to do something about that too. They can try to remove all the bots out there, but when you end up with queue times of 1-2 minutes or more, nobody wants to play anymore either.
Has been the same with Classic, Mercenaries, Duels and Twist.
Unless the game suddenly sees a massive influx of new players (extremely unlikely), the MMR system is not sustainable. I'd rather play with whoever is there, instead of waiting 5 minutes till someone's available who happens to be on my estimated level.
It’s seriously so boring. I feel like it’s not been something I’ve experienced until the past week or so, but in the past few days I’ve only played a few games with actual players. Battlegrounds still seems to be ok from what I can tell, but Standard has lost its fun completely.
I just quit once I hit D10... I literally can't anymore.
Climbing through Plat and facing nothing but <insert pile of Asian kanji> playing random murlocs, random minion buff classics, and Stranglethorn Tiger as their big finisher... over, and over, and over, again... and it didn't even matter what Hero they were playing as... Warrior, Death Knight, Druid... it was all the same thing.
Am I the only one who hasn't seemed to face bots at all? I ran into one guy running a basic starter deck when I was around Gold. Everyone else I've played (hit Legend about five days ago) has been using a meta deck, mostly warrior, paladin, and DK, and none of them seemed to show signs of being a bot.
You'll know the bot decks... you won't need "signs"... they play the absolute worst, silliest, incomprehensible cards... (random murlocs, random low-cost rush, Stranglethorn Tiger is always their "biggie") - all of their cards are NEUTRALS also - no matter what Hero they show up as, there's NEVER any class-specific cards... that's one of the biggest tells.
Plus their usernames... as the OP noted, they're either an incomprehensible text jumble in English, or they're a pile of kanji (I compared the 6 Asian bots in a row I played and many of the name kanji for them repeated in specific patterns, too).
I didn't face many in Gold, 2 or 3 maybe... but every single deck in Platinum was a bot... and folks in this thread are saying they're just as prevalent in Diamond, I don't have the patience for it...
Same for me as well, it started for me last week Thursday all of a sudden and has been nothing but bots ever since. Something must be wrong at Blizzard. Very frustrating.
I tried looking for ways to report this but didn’t find anything too obvious.
3/5 of my last matches were against bots
I havent seen a bot in a long time. Do you play often or win often? Not sure if bots become present more if you play less or win less. When I started playing HS again I ran into bots for the first week or two after Death Knights came out. I would gladly take a bot at this point. Love fast turn opponents haha.
Which server is this? Likewise I did not face any bots on EU, for a very long time. Hit legend about 3 days ago.
You face no bots because of different MMRs, at the very least. I face ZERO bots on Standard ladder where I climb to Diamond 10 every month (10 star bonus). I face 4 out of 5 bots on Wild ladder where I'm playing horrible meme decks at Silver 10 (2 star bonus).
Are you really facing that many? Id just enjoy the free wins
Depending on the time of day yes, I do face that many. And unfortunately, I'm one of those people that play for fun instead of wins, so it's significantly less fun for me to pull off a combo if I know I'm basically playing against the Innkeeper.
Something I haven't seen mentioned, which seems extremely relevant to the bot problem, is that the Microsoft takeover and subsequent layoffs have been hobbling several aspects of Blizzard's Customer service. Seeing as "customer service" seemed like a slam dunk redundant category, I believe many of Blizzard's in house customer service was let go- but Microsoft's own customer service has not been trained or equipped with the tools necessary to combat the bots unique to WoW or Hearthstone.
Yes. I play in NA. Only one real player out like 15 games in last say or two
i climbed from bronze to legend this month and faced 2...low ranks I think silver
I dont have an issue with Bots. Personal opinion they are easy wins
Would you rather face an easy win against a bot or a harder one against a human?