Detecting Blizzard Bots 101

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When you face a player always check the previous player list. and start a report to get the unique identifier for a battle tag!

In one RL example; it is highly unlikely that battle.net user names (not even considering the total amount of duplicates which was the cause of the battle.net user tag unique identifier) could have ever exceeded 719 billion.

But yet users with a tag of say #719abcdefghi exist. When you also watch how fast they play, coupled with when they appear; after X loss streak that’s designed to keep you at a certain star level, but you’ve lost more than required, and suddenly these appear and it’s an automatic win mostly, to bring you back up to the star level wall you’re supposed to be at until you’ve lost XX games (all in the essence to convince you ‘if you just bought another xyz, you might do better’) , is just so obvious.

You’re not fooling anyone Bliz. Well, maybe you are, but not me.

Edit for the nay sayers; I’ve won at least 90% of my games against user with a battle tag unique identifier that is between 12-16 digits long. Do you track that and recognize the patterns when you see it? I do.

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I blame the matriarchy. /s

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I just want them to know they ain’t fooling me and educate those that they are.

Seriously…

CensoredUser#1478
CensoredUser#71921873536
CensoredUser#1123 -
CensoredUser#1334
CensoredUser#110452

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Blizzard doesn’t create the bots. Black market account sellers create the bots.

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uh is easier

if you are at apprentice youll find blizzard bots

once you are out of it no longer play vs blizzard bots…

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Blizz has already openly said a while ago that they use bots, you didn’t uncover any secrets, OP.

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No, you won’t. There are too many third party bots for the matchmaker to ever lack for an opponent to match you against.

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Took their bots out of the game after apprentice ranks.

They are no blizzard bots in ranked anymore.

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I don’t spend any time thinking about this.

For some reason it’s considered trolling to tell you that you are simply wrong.

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I like how this thread exposes the confirmation bias of some people who see cheating also when there is none and they don’t know it.

Some of them list battlenet numbers in the low 4 digits. Those are very old battle.net accounts (way more veteran than you).

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I don’t think this is true. They did say they were removing bots, but they never said they would never add them back, and we started seeing the blizzard bots again after a couple weeks. Maybe not as many as before but they are there imo.

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It was literally in the patch notes. They took out blizz bots from ranked after apprentice ranks.

  • [Hearthstone] Blizzard Bots have been removed from the Standard ranked ladder. They are now limited to Apprentice (and new/lower-ranked Battlegrounds games), where they will continue to serve their role in smoothing out matchmaking for newer players.

28.4 Patch Notes - Hearthstone (blizzard.com)

If you see bots, they are not blizzard bots anymore they are Chinese gold farmers. I am 90% certain they did this so their algo can sweep more player bots and it coincided with them having massive monthly ban waves.

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Once again. I will note that Blizzard never claimed they would not put them back again later. It is only player’s assumption that this note meant “forever”.

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Look, if you want to have irrational beliefs, I won’t stop you.

There are no blizzard bots in standard any longer.

They reported their introduction and they reported their removal. It’s very odd to think they would reintroduce them without announcing it.

Again, the bots you see are player bot farmers. They’re everywhere.

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Thanks for the URL, but that part is just wrong. They would know what bots they have employed themselves; it’s their own servers that were running them; they had the IDs of the bots and everything to filter them out.

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Yeah I suppose you’re right. I forgot there was battle.net before I played Warcraft one vanilla near release date.

Guess I should have signed up for my Bnet account when I was playing pong on my console through UHF on our families 14" B&W tube television.

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Are you being sarcastic?

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That totally depends on what they AI they are using does.

This idea that it would scan user names first is kinda silly because it would be looking for play patterns and then generate a list of names.

Further, the reporting system is much less complicated if the only bots are player bots.

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I don’t get what you mean. The Blizzard bots were just virtual clients; Blizzard was running them; they gave them clear account numbers.

It’s a matter of microseconds for their detection software to filter them out.