Hearthpwn

still rocking a cool 100% bot:human rate at D4 after a week of the wave.

simply put a ban wave is good practice but the cost of recreating bots is like nothing so any banwave (whether its 1 account or a billion) is a drop in the bucket.

Quote from NegativeNancy >>

spoken like someone who has never had to suffer the humiliation of being downvoted before

 ... I sincerely hope you're being facetious :|

Quote from Addisono >>

can someone explain to me why anyone would bot in Hearthstone? where is it profitable? what is the motivation? I don't get it

Not exactly sure how this is rocket science to some folks...

Bots play and generate XP and coin.

Bot farm sells account with built-in XP, portraits, coin, etc. to people too lazy to put in the time to do that themselves.

lol thanks for the downvote btw. I mean I thought about this as possible, but 85,000 of them? are 100,000's of accounts being sold? I also kinda figured that this late into hearthstone's life that not many ppl would still be doing that. But thanks for being particularly uncool about it lol

I didn't downvote you, son... but you probably need to stop worrying about your "Someone Loves Me" score on a random gaming website's message board... there's probably a few more important things in your life to focus on...

spoken like someone who has never had to suffer the humiliation of being downvoted before

can someone explain to me why anyone would bot in Hearthstone? where is it profitable? what is the motivation? I don't get it

"This week, we actioned nearly 85,000 accounts for botting"

Wow, what a gigantic number. I'm so impressed. Now can I get a number of players to compare it to for some context?

85k in one wave is just yikes.
Like good for them for finally doing something, but it didn't need to get this bad.

Yes, it did. 

Ban waves are shown to be much more effective than individual bans against botting companies. If you start banning as soon as you detect a new bot you just let the bot makers know they need to change it.

If you detect a botting software, but don't ban right away, instead wait and do it in waves, they will have invested months of resources (electricity and PC usage) into bots that then get banned wasting that investment, and the ones they already sold get refunded by the buyers, giving them a massive instantaneous financial hit and often bankrupting the business.

Don't complain about things you don't understand.

Ban waves are one thing.
Minimizing the damage, so players don't only play vs bots till they get to diamond, is another.

no please don't ban those even shaman bots, how can i play even warrior without them

Quote from edisonmcq >>

I'm not gonna cap, I thought having bots in games were regulated by blizzard because matchmaking might take too long and they wanted to stick you in a game. Didn't know it was THAT over populated.

 You missed the wording in that Blue Post - "Unauthorized" bot ban... the Blizzard Bots are the authorized ones :P

Quote from TawashiWatashi >>

No matter how many bot programs are banned, it will be meaningless if humans imitate bot programs.

The decks they use are copied from social networking sites, they all mulligan the same because of trackers, and their playing is identical.

I think the problem is that players are abandoning deck building on their own.

 The way a human moves his mouse, fidgets, interacts with the cards cannot be reproduced by a machine.

I'm not gonna cap, I thought having bots in games were regulated by blizzard because matchmaking might take too long and they wanted to stick you in a game. Didn't know it was THAT over populated.

I'm tired of hearing that kind of self-justification. You are just lazy.