Ragnarok:
Quick question, does Blizzard populate the low ranks with bots due to low player activity at those rankings?
I ask because virtually all of my matches in Standard up until Gold 10 were against clear bots using the same cards/decks, with terribly optimized playstyles.
A tip for new players for telling official in-game bots (at low rank) apart from players who may or may not be botting is to bring up your friends list (the icon on the top left of the screen). If your opponent’s name does not show up under “recent” then you are playing a legitimate in-game bot and not an actual human player.
Compare between the different screenshots below taken against an in-game bot with ones taken with a human player’s account.
https://imgur.com/a/Vc5tmag
In-game bots tend to have names like GhostDog.
This ^.
I have a thread going where I am discussing the amount barcoders (players who buy bot accounts sold with an Arena super-draft) in Arena right now. Barcoders outnumber normal players in Arena these days.
For Magic the Gathering, my name once appeared on one of the first Top 100 lists in the world for Limited. I thought those skills would translate into me becoming an infinite Arena player, but that has yet to happen, but I still manage to play a lot of Arena.
Having recently made some posts about Arena in other threads, which were taken down, I thought I would rather respond to the following quote in a separate thread rather than in one about how Arena or HS is a Scam.
Basically, the abunda…
10 recent Arena opponents:
https://imgur.com/a/x5o1AbK