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And remember, every expansion could be the last one.

That being said, we know there are at least two more because of their business strategy. They have already promised us three this year. 

 They said that never ever will be a wow vanilla server, and they are launching wow classic. Also its well know that they are proffesionals cancelling games and projects, and firing employees, so the sad truth its that they will end just with overwatch and wow.

 Hearthstone is Blizzard's most profitable game (in terms of margin) by a country mile. Until that fact changes, its not going anywhere.

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Better for the game. The ladder should improve and get way more versatile.

 I loathe netdecking, but do you think one site going down, even if its the largest one, is going to impact that?

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You know I used to hate meta decks in casual, but then I gave it thought. If I want to experiment with something to potentially  bring to ranked I WANT to run into those try hards. It helps train the way I play or show me if my deck is decent. Don’t be negative thinking casual is solely for off meta. It only means the games don’t contribute to ladder goals.

 For me at least, its not so much "running into meta decks in Casual" its more "I absolutely hate the design philosophy and supposed 'class fantasy' of Class X, and regardless of the type of deck they play, chances are it'll piss me off". I only mentioned Casual specifically because I wouldn't agree with any type of class ban in Ranked.

This is likely just stemming from my absolute loathing of a specific class, but I've long felt that the Casual experience would be enhanced if you had the option to avoid playing specific classes while playing Casual (on say, a week cooldown.. you can remove the ban at any time, but you'd have to wait a week from banning a class before you could ban a different one).

If such an option existed, which class would you end up banning the most frequently?

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Win more. You're losing a lot so your MMR is very low and why you get a lot of bots.

 I hate seeing this reply in every bot thread. Not only does it smack of elitism and also completely misses the point, have you not considered that the bots are effective enough that they have a better-than-average MMR themselves?

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Just out of curiosity, what's the point of creating a bot account to farm gold? You cannot transfer it to other accounts anyway... 

 They sell the account itself.

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I don't know why this bothers so many people unless they're losing to them.

1. Bots are against the TOS
2. Casual is a mode where you should be free to play whatever you want
3. The existence of these bots at a certain MMR means you cannot just play whatever you want, you instead are forced to play something that beats them AND play the games to completion. 
4. These bots are effectively budget versions of aggro token decks.  considering that most people probably play casual to play greedy homebrew decks, it's pretty obvious why a lot of us don't like queueing into them in casual. 

 All of this in addition to:

-its insulting that Blizzard is seemingly ignoring this problem or at the very least remaining silent on it (to the extent of deleting threads on the official forums about it instead of responding to them)

-the problem is extremely harmful for playerbase growth. New players get rolled by them, existing players see them as a sign of a shrinking playerbase

-it discourages sales. Why buy packs when these bots prove that a basic aggro deck can win enough games to not only be cost-effective, but get a high enough MMR to annoy long time players.

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Seriously salty bad beats. Nothing to see here. The card is not rigged.

 Not rigged, just a stupid card that should never have been printed.

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Start banning the damn bot accounts infesting wild casual.

 If they stopped allowing gold accumulation in casual, this would go away. 

 no, then you're just punishing the players that don't want to deal with ladder bullshit.. which is WHY people play casual. It's not "ladder anxiety", people simply just want to have wacky fun and see interesting, off-the-wall decks, and not run into the same 6 "meta" decks over and over again.

Start banning the damn bot accounts infesting wild casual.

Rexxar was only middling power level at KFT's release. It's been the inclusion of more beasts with powerful keywords in subsequent expansions that pushed him up.

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just enjoy the free wins and the fast farming of gold, i'd love to be facing a tons of bots to get free wins and fast gold instead of all this even shammans playing wild even shamman in wild casual

 No.  Fuck this attitude.

Some of us use wild casual to field test interactions or just to have fun with "fun" meme decks, but you just end up wasting your time and being frustrated because every other match (if you're lucky.. I've had 5 bots out of 6 once) is against one of these bots.

They're all basic aggro decks, all 7-digit bnet tags of random numbers and capital letters.

 If you win your Casual games then you won’t face bots anymore since bots cannot beat actual people.

So the bottom of Wild Casual = bots everywhere playing against each other and farming gold.

 Yeah no.. if "they can't beat actual people" they wouldn't exist. You'd be surprised how easy it is to win with a basic aggro deck against most other decks.

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just enjoy the free wins and the fast farming of gold, i'd love to be facing a tons of bots to get free wins and fast gold instead of all this even shammans playing wild even shamman in wild casual

 No.  Fuck this attitude.

Some of us use wild casual to field test interactions or just to have fun with "fun" meme decks, but you just end up wasting your time and being frustrated because every other match (if you're lucky.. I've had 5 bots out of 6 once) is against one of these bots.

They're all basic aggro decks, all 7-digit bnet tags of random numbers and capital letters.

Been doing a lot of casual over the weekend and noticed I've come across quite a few bot accounts. You know the type: gibberish bnet tag of random letters and numbers.. basic deck.. gets confused if something throws the bot for a loop like Valeera the Hollow..

What I don't get is what's the point? What benefit is it to the farms behind these bots?

a bit of trivia, Subject 9's "father" is Hobart Grapplehammer