What is a “barcode account”? I’ve never heard of this before.
A barcode account is a bot account that was used to farm gold, which is then purchased by players who buy and retire Arena drafts until they find an insanely strong deck, which they then use to stomp other players.
Click on the above quote to read the common naming conventions used by many barcoders, which may includes names like MightyElf.
Are you accusing me of being a bot?
No, but I am pointing out that some opponents may think you are playing on a botted account, because of your name, since so many bot accounts use names suggested by the game, because it’s even easier to do than typing random characters.
Btw, you can tell if you are currently playing against a human player by opening up your friends list (you might need to add one friend to unlock this) by clicking on the human-like icon on the top left (for mobile players) of the screen to reveal under “recent” the name of a human opponent. If you are currently playing against a Blizzard bot, its name will not show up under recent. Look at the following screenshots to see what I mean. Woublek and BlueYeti are human accounts, so their names show up on the top of the “Friends List” as a “Recent” opponent while you are currently playing a match against them, but the name of official Blizzard bots do not. SilentStorm, SuperMage and MagicGnome are official in-game bots:
https://imgur.com/a/JGerSuP
Got it, you’re a conspiracy theorist who fails to understand how battlenet naming works.
Oh ya? What conspiracy theory am I spinning?
