Has anyone else noticed an influx of Druid bots in Diamond Tier in Standard? 3 of my last 5 opponents were the same Druid deck that includes ENTIRELY Core Set cards and has the default card back. The player name is also always a color followed by the name of an animal. Just curious if I'm the only one?
A lot of people are commenting on bots in different threads, you might have missed them (this includes at Diamond). It seems like Blizzard might be losing the battle against bots (temporarily).
I wouldn’t mind making the game cost something every month. I think the fact that it’s free is very appealing to leech from in the form of bots.
It seems like Blizzard might be losing the battle against bots (temporarily).
That's because Blizzard is not really fighting the bots. Believe it or not, bots are considered active players and that looks pretty good in their metrics they use to impress the shareholders.
I keep seeing these types of threads, but feel like I see nowhere near the level of bots others do. Especially these bots that use nothing but Core cards. Can I get some of those? I’m okay with free wins!
I wouldn’t mind making the game cost something every month. I think the fact that it’s free is very appealing to leech from in the form of bots.
This way you will destroy a huge part of the player base just for fixing a minor inconvenience. It would not even solve that, someone would need to take F2P players place and this would lead to more official Blizzard's bots. F2P players are basically more skillful official bots in that sense, we are paying by giving our time to make servers populated. Ideally for Blizzard, F2P players would spend some money at some point, but most of us will never do it and they know it. If they wanted only paying players, they would not make a free to play game. Idk if the game would be better or worse, but definitely much less popular.
Having fun is more important than getting a high rank.
Can't argue with that, fun is the main reason why any game exists. Or should exist, there is a sad trend of more and more games become total crap because the developers started to pursue other goals like push their agenda or make player emotional, I don't know or care, there are enough cozy and fun games for me.
Anyway, I think getting a high rank is fun for most of the people, so they don't have to choose. I don't even care too muсh about my rank, I just want to win some games and get my dose of dopamine. Bot, noob, experienced player, doesn't matter (well, playing against top pros is more exciting, not gonna lie, but high rank is basically required for that so I take that aside). My task is try to win (without too much effort, hopefully) and I don't care about what my opponent is doing. Even if I cared about the challenge, it's impossible to not face it naturally at some point.
The imaginary situation when the player is playing only against bots is also a fair point, but let's be real, if player's MMR is that low, maybe the player needs some training and beat those bots instead of complaining about the game being not challenging enough? I mean, if someone will claim that he is facing bots 100 times in a row, that would probably mean he is extremely bad and can't beat them, lies or delusional and calls real people bots.
The only situation where bots are problematic for me is that weird Chinese thing when they are made to went through arena drafts until they find a nuts deck (so their owner/buyer can destroy everybody) or if they will become better than humans at some point (huge problem in chess). As long as bots are losing, I think it's not a big deal.
If the game costed money to play I would be one of those who would leave - the game aint fun enough anymore that I would pay a monthly fee to play. In a sense it costs money each expansion if you want all the card at launch, but im happy only playing priest and deathknight right now so Ill just craft cards I need for those 2 classes and put my gold into arena and do some battlegrounds.
The only reason I enjoy bots are for easy wins towards the weekly quest cause Ranked aint where I have fun. Arena and battleground is the fun modes for me.
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Has anyone else noticed an influx of Druid bots in Diamond Tier in Standard? 3 of my last 5 opponents were the same Druid deck that includes ENTIRELY Core Set cards and has the default card back. The player name is also always a color followed by the name of an animal. Just curious if I'm the only one?
A lot of people are commenting on bots in different threads, you might have missed them (this includes at Diamond). It seems like Blizzard might be losing the battle against bots (temporarily).
I wouldn’t mind making the game cost something every month. I think the fact that it’s free is very appealing to leech from in the form of bots.
That's because Blizzard is not really fighting the bots. Believe it or not, bots are considered active players and that looks pretty good in their metrics they use to impress the shareholders.
What is the problem? Bots are bad at the game and easy to beat? It is basicly free wins.
I keep seeing these types of threads, but feel like I see nowhere near the level of bots others do. Especially these bots that use nothing but Core cards. Can I get some of those? I’m okay with free wins!
This way you will destroy a huge part of the player base just for fixing a minor inconvenience. It would not even solve that, someone would need to take F2P players place and this would lead to more official Blizzard's bots. F2P players are basically more skillful official bots in that sense, we are paying by giving our time to make servers populated. Ideally for Blizzard, F2P players would spend some money at some point, but most of us will never do it and they know it. If they wanted only paying players, they would not make a free to play game. Idk if the game would be better or worse, but definitely much less popular.
Can't argue with that, fun is the main reason why any game exists. Or should exist, there is a sad trend of more and more games become total crap because the developers started to pursue other goals like push their agenda or make player emotional, I don't know or care, there are enough cozy and fun games for me.
Anyway, I think getting a high rank is fun for most of the people, so they don't have to choose. I don't even care too muсh about my rank, I just want to win some games and get my dose of dopamine. Bot, noob, experienced player, doesn't matter (well, playing against top pros is more exciting, not gonna lie, but high rank is basically required for that so I take that aside). My task is try to win (without too much effort, hopefully) and I don't care about what my opponent is doing. Even if I cared about the challenge, it's impossible to not face it naturally at some point.
The imaginary situation when the player is playing only against bots is also a fair point, but let's be real, if player's MMR is that low, maybe the player needs some training and beat those bots instead of complaining about the game being not challenging enough? I mean, if someone will claim that he is facing bots 100 times in a row, that would probably mean he is extremely bad and can't beat them, lies or delusional and calls real people bots.
The only situation where bots are problematic for me is that weird Chinese thing when they are made to went through arena drafts until they find a nuts deck (so their owner/buyer can destroy everybody) or if they will become better than humans at some point (huge problem in chess). As long as bots are losing, I think it's not a big deal.
English is not my native language, so, with a high probability, mistakes were made.
If the game costed money to play I would be one of those who would leave - the game aint fun enough anymore that I would pay a monthly fee to play. In a sense it costs money each expansion if you want all the card at launch, but im happy only playing priest and deathknight right now so Ill just craft cards I need for those 2 classes and put my gold into arena and do some battlegrounds.
The only reason I enjoy bots are for easy wins towards the weekly quest cause Ranked aint where I have fun. Arena and battleground is the fun modes for me.