I play mostly casual, but play fairly well, so I play a lot of good players because of my MMR. Out of the last five games I played, three of my opponents we running a legend card back. That, in itself, isn't too unusual. Like I said, i usually get matched up with experienced players. But the unusual thing is that, in all three of the games against the people running legend card backs, each a different player, my opponent didn't play a card. Sure, this happens occasionally, but three out of five games?
I was wondering if this could be due to bots. When the new reward system came into effect, the first thing that I wondered was whether we would see bots playing games for XP. Since you get XP for time played, a bot wouldn't really have to do anything besides just start a game, without even really having to play any cards, and then just start another game when the game is over. With the New system, this would be a way of getting 150 levels of XP without doing anything at all.
I don't know if bots are an issue, or if they will become an issue, or how good Blizzard is at detecting them and imposing bans, but it makes me wonder. I've never had so many people, even outside of those few games, just rope without playing a card. I'm wondering about bots because I just can't see where someone would manually do this type of thing, since the time you would be wasting would be the same amount of time spent if you were actually playing, since XP rewards are based on time played rather than outcomes.
Apart from that, it's a little bit frustrating. Like i said, you get the same XP per the amount of time spent playing the game, so I'd rather just be playing, instead of watching the rope turn after turn, especially since the win gives me nothing in particular.
