Looking through the emails sent from all 5 of my battlenet accounts; I counted the number of players reported as bots to hacks@blizzard.com to be around 40. So how many have you made? 
By year’s end, I’m hoping to have around 100+
Zero, because it isn’t going to do anything.
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I rarely see bots. I’m sure many who “see” them see a mirage. E.g. the “proof” “well… they’re chinese characters on the name” is borderline racist.
regardez-moi, je suis évidemment un vrai Français et je n’utilise pas seulement Google Translate
et aucun vrai Chinois n’utiliserait jamais un nom d’utilisateur anglais
To be honest I think it’s too stupid of an argument to even truly be racist
Its a button I’m told to press to help feel better, not do better. Directing my anger towards small buttons works but I’m the first to admit using a squeezie toy or a fidgeting toy or even banging ones head against a pillow achieves the same result but faster
I will not help Blizzard.
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Then, as a non-bot potential opponent, you should stop entertaining the whales and uninstall. You can’t play the game without helping Blizzard.
I just have it installed to talk with Altair while spectating him.
I am at the point where I am indifferent to my involvement on helping or not helping Blizzard.
I guess I should clarify: I will not actively help them.
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I have never reported anyone ever. I stopped playing Hearthstone for good pretty much with PiP expansion and definitely 100% for good with Balatro release on mobile since I only played Hearthstone on Mobile now there is no reason whatsoever. I still have it installed on my laptop but idk why honestly, if I remember I will uninstall it tomorrow
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Then why does GnomeSayin make a post about Unauthorized Bot-Ban Updates if reporting doesn’t work?
Are you saying that Activision is lying about bot banning or lying about the ability to report said bots?
I am saying that banning bots does nothing to stop botting, unless that ban occurs quickly enough.
Bots have life cycle. If Blizzard bans a bot before the account is sold and its Arena run played, that’d be effective. But that’s not going to happen. Blizzard will ban the bot after the account has been sold, its Arena run played, and the account discarded. They’re not lying about banning bots per se, but it’s misleading for them to act like their tactics are effective.
If you have anything resembling a decent MMR, by the time you encounter a bot, it’s already too late.
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they are willing to make reporting a lot of work to do, so they will get fewer reports and have fewer things to do. sending e-mails for reporting? it is like asking for a fax for memberships in 2024…
If their devs are not so incapable of putting a button to report, why would I bother? they are killing this game slowly, I’ll let it die on my end.
Zero, because you can’t identify a bot. There is no interaction in game that allows you to even hypothesis that another player might be a bot. Roping and account names and methodical repetitive play and anything else you can come up with does not in any way indicate anything at all.
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I lost count, but I reported a lot of even shamans bots, and i think that was helpful,
because they decreased significantly in wild.
Bots are easily identifiable, there are even youtube videos explaining it.
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This is jawdroppingly delusional.
You can identify a bot pretty easily. You can sometimes before they play a card. They’ve evolved a little since the bot plague hit the ladders. But they still play free decks usually of the aggro variety.
some still use the old timed ones
for example i played one in wild making a play every 5 seconds (i started timing them after the their second turn )
Is that an ancient exploit (now fixed), and someone googled it, and thought they were being smart?
Bots are easily guessed. But you cannot identify a bot. The youtube video takes educated guesses (outside of the crashing based on certain cards and the bots coding). That’s all just a guess.
No wonder blizz has a hard time keeping them under control. All you idiots out there reporting based on “cause it looks like one”. They have to check all that and you waste their time when they could actually be out there effectively combating the bots.
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Best post in the forum. Sometimes the “proof” is borderline racism: “well… the name was chinese/russian!” or the “proof” is just “well the name is gibberish to me!”.
If someone knows that’s how they think: they could easily troll them: just get a “gibberish” name but otherwise play perfectly legitimately.