What in Lord's name is this? (Battle.Net)

[Vicboy]

Numbers. I've seen them for quite a while.

They're obviously bots but what exactly?

 

[The_wand_mirror]

I dunno... Battle.net is a cult ......

 

[PurplePoot]

It's usually GHost++ (especially since one of the games states G+) but there are some others as well. Basically, they're hosting bots that handle hosting and such for you, provided you can have a copy of warcraft running (ie the computer turned on, with a good network connection, the right portforwarding, and presumably your own cdkey assuming you want to be online at the same time). They're mostly for one person in a clan who has a bunch of CDKeys and wants to allow non-hosts in the clan to host games, and they also provide some features like opening locked slots (like computer players) and such that people like to abuse. Finally, they have banlist, autokick dlers, spambots, start on full (this and the spambot is evidently what is being used to autohost games as in your image) and some other stuff built in.

For the most part, they're "oh look at me I can measure your DL time, I'm so cool" bots.

 

[Karouk]

Ohh I love that game... If I think what I think it is... I usually play the WWIII map and its fun as hell (Antartica, Green Land or Africa ftw!!!)