The Arena mode. EU server. I go Arena mode and I meet chinese opponents with godlike decks. In most games (90-95%) I always lose to them. Just how and why? BAN their IPs.
Please, do something.
The game is in a poor state in every mode, don’t worry.
If there were ten bad guys in a crowd of 50 innocent people, would you say to the cops “just shoot them?”
The reason why bans take a bit of time is because Blizzard needs to verify that they’re actually bots first.
These aren’t bots, they are what people are calling barcode players. They may be technically going against the ToS (not sure) but it’s pretty hard to enact bans because they are humans playing on legit accounts that just happen to have fully drafted great arena decks.
I don’t play arena but I do know this is a legit problem. There is a really informative thread on reddit that details what is happening and why.
Edit: I saw the duplicate post from the OP in the other forum and bad player behavior doesn’t justify being a racist jerk.
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Could someone explain what a barcode player is?
This is the best article I’ve found explaining it:
BARCODE ACCOUNTS, EXPLAINED: HOW CHEATERS AND BOTTERS RUIN CLASSIC AND ARENA
So barcode accounts are bot accounts.
They can bot to farm gold, but the ultimate goal is to get enough gold to draft a perfect arena deck. By the time they ban any specific bot, it’s already served its purpose as the arena deck was sold and the account retired.
To quote the article
The problem in this case, however, is that those accounts are expendable. Yes, doing regular rounds of bans will surely reduce the issue, but not completely eliminate it. If someone can create a new account, farm enough gold to get an insane Arena draft with bots, and sell it in the span of a few days, even weekly ban waves wouldn’t be enough.
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So in conclusion my first post this thread was 100% correct
Except the OP wasn’t asking how to address the issue, and bans won’t do anything to fix them. So yes, it takes time to ban, but that does nothing to address the underlying issue. Your post was 100% accurate but also 100% irrelevant.
The only reason why bans won’t do anything to fix them is because Blizzard can’t ban fast enough, and the reason that they can’t ban fast enough is because they need to make sure that the accounts are actually bots
By the time you’ve recognized it’s a bot and enough people have seen it and reported it, it’s already served its purpose.
Bans to these accounts don’t really stop the problem.
This is why I will never play Arena. If you’re playing Arena, you’re unknowingly supporting the issue. They need non-botters to play the game so the streamer has someone to destroy.
Looking from a recent world event, I think the answer’s quite clear. Off topic, of course.
I wonder if the catch-up packs is what now made this a profitable thing.