Quote Originally Posted by Wacomman View Post
They weren't THAT present as some people wanted to make it look but the game is supposed to be about playing other players, not some AI. If botting wasn't taken care of there would be more and more as the time went on and that would really ruin the whole thing.
In all likelihood, the bots played better than quarter of the players.

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Quote Originally Posted by BenBos View Post
Even if a bot only wins one game in 5, these bots make huge amount of Gold in the game, while the player is just sleeping or go to work.

I never use these things, but if you would let a bot play for a few weeks/months 24/7, it would accumulate gold enough to acquire any cards.

Now finally Blizzard has the tools in place to trace them and they made it VERY clear: anyone still botting as of now will be perma banned.
Well, obviously, pay to win game is a pay to win game and the only reason Blizzard is angry is that the botters managed to avoid paying.
But the bots do nothing to harm other players.