Blizzard is finally doing something about the ongoing bots problem in its popular online collectible card battling game, Hearthstone.

The company announced in a new Battle.net blog they have recently banned “several thousand” Hearthstone accounts that were allegeded bots, and the banning of these particular accounts won't be lifted “until 2015.” 

“We’re committed to creating a fun and rewarding environment for our players, and we will continue to closely monitor activities within Hearthstone and take appropriate action against cheating in any form, as outlined in our Terms of Use,” Blizzard stated in the post. “From this point on, accounts found to be cheating will be permanently closed without warning.”

Whether or not this response has anything to do with our recent feature highlighting the problem with bots in Hearthstone is certainly debatable, but, I for one think it probably helped a little bit.