Sc2 didnt bring that many ppl back only for a brief moment and when d3 comes out thats when bnet will get popular there are more d2 players as it is now then sc/wc3 well idk about wc3 im not a player myself but as for bots there will always be bots with or with out warden cuz we have the  (programers) that will proceed to bypass w.e blizzard throws at us and for bnet2.0 merging thats not gonna happen maybe d3/sc2 merge but not reg starcraft  thats like saying OMG ban wave cming in 2 days for d2nt bot user's for diablo which i found out never happens its the maphack d2me that got me ban 3x's yes it took me 3 times to get ban to relaize how this warden thing works by reading ur registry/packet logs and detecting the shit but all in all i will have to say bnet is boring ive been around since 1998 and eh its getting boring every yr it goes by o;