Three weeks after the last bot ban wave, Blizzard just announced another one. And it’s really big – in fact, it’s the largest ban wave so far. Nearly 600k bot accounts have been detected and punished.
While Hearthstone always had some bots here and there (I remember some bot-heavy periods years ago), the situation has never been this bad. Over the last year or so, the numbers have been ramping up quite quickly. Bots are the biggest problem on the Asia-Pacific server, but they’ve started flooding the NA server over the last few months and you can even meet some of them on EU lately.
The bot bans have been getting more frequent and bigger over the last few months for two reasons. First – there are more bots to ban. And second – Blizzard’s detection systems have gotten better. We can only hope that with frequent ban waves and a great detection system, the bot problem will soon be completely gone.
Read more about it here:
This month has been a busy month in our battle against the bots. Since our last update just three weeks ago, we’ve ratcheted up our bot detection and banned over 585,000 more bots–including over half a million bots throughout this week! We hope they’re shaking in their circuits.
Cheaters are not welcome in our Tavern. You can continue to help in the ongoing battle against these botters by using the in-game reporting feature. While you do, we’ll continue fighting on your behalf, too.
And here’s what Celestalon had to say about it:
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone’s history.
Then again, on Wednesday, we launched the largest (at the time) banwave in Hearthstone’s history.
Then again, today, we launched the largest banwave in Hearthstone’s history.…
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) March 28, 2024
