Hearthstone is focusing its anti-botting efforts and turning things up to 11 because this week they launched not only their largest banwave, but their three largest ever.
It all started on Tuesday when they launched their largest banwave, a week after Whizbang's Workshop made its debut alongside the Standard rotation. Blizzard followed this up with bans on Wednesday and today for a total of over 585k accounts banned. It's great to see they are taking the problem seriously, and we're excited to see the transparency about the account bans. Read on for statements from Blizzard.
Quote From GnomeSayin This month has been a busy month in our battle against the bots. Since our last update just three weeks ago, we’ve ratcheted up our bot detection and banned over 585,000 more bots–including over half a million bots throughout this week! We hope they’re shaking in their circuits.
Cheaters are not welcome in our Tavern. You can continue to help in the ongoing battle against these botters by using the in-game reporting feature. While you do, we’ll continue fighting on your behalf, too.
Chadd "Celestalon" Nervig released a follow-up post on Twitter clarifying these were the largest waves to date.
Quote From Celestalon Earlier this week, on Tuesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone's history. Then again, on Wednesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone's history. Then again, today, we launched the largest banwave in Hearthstone's history. In total, over half a million bots died this week. It's an ongoing fight, but we're gunna keep beating them back.
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Aww, the climb from Diamond 5 to Legend is going to be so much harder now!
(Bronze to Diamond is never hard if you have stars.)
Immediately after today's update I saw my first real opponent in Wild in about 3 days.
I find that hard to believe. Unless you're playing against nothing but Even Shamans, Shadow Priests and Pirate Rogues back to back, you will have seen a real player. Even Warriors, Reno decks of all varieties, Mine Rogues, Quest Mages, Shudderwock Shamans, Questline Warlocks, Big Shamans, these are all decks played by real people. Me go face is basically all bots are good for.
That all depends on your rank I'm sure. Probably not facing much if any of the bots I was seeing if you are sitting in Legend. I never really push for anything more than Diamond ranks because I want to play more than what the meta says I can.
I kept seeing people on other forums complain about the massive amounts of Mech Rogue bots and hadn't seen any myself. Then I suddenly I had multiple days of nothing but Mech Rogues or decks from random classes running nothing but basic cards from starter decks. The starter decks roped every. Single. Turn...
For the most part EZ wins, but annoying and boring. I guess they had won enough games against each other to climb into upper Plat, lower Diamond MMR matches where the fun loving off-meta players like me tend to live!