This wording is misleading. Let’s look at the quote in question.
“For Diablo III, multiboxing walks the strange line of being something we technically allow, but don’t officially support.”
Not that it is “explicitly allowed”. It walks a strange line according to Blizzards own words. Technically allowed not explicitly, and not supported.
The next quote states:
“In other words, you can have multiple accounts, and you can be online with all of them at one time. We don’t support multiboxing in Diablo III, however, and some software used to facilitate multiboxing may violate our policies, so do so at your own risk.”
They don’t support multiboxing or automation software and to do so at your own risk. Meaning you could be banned as it may violate their policies.
I see this from both sides. I don’t think Decipher was insisting that Blizzard supports multiboxing because they’ve never stated this anywhere. However, they have also never said they explicitly allow it either. Technically allowed is not explicitly allowed. Explicitly allowed means they are perfectly OK with it and will not do anything about it. Technically allowed means they’re more neutral and cannot (at the time) do anything practical about it.
Not in the way you’re trying to insinuate. I think you’re misconstruing “technically” with “explicitly”. It’s the same difference as legal vs decriminalized.
The way I read that is that they (at the time it was written) made it clear that they do not support multiboxing. This means they do not implement features for it or design to facilitate for it. In addition, they’re stating that software used to facilitate it could possibly get you banned. I wouldn’t interpret that as multiboxing itself will get you banned.
Multiboxing is allowed and can not be banned if no software is used in D3. This has been stated in at least two Blue posts (and by different Blues: Vaneras and Grimiku).
If that Blue quote was not clear enough, the Blue explicitly stated later:
This is the definition of multiboxing which is one person having multiple accounts where all can be online at the same time.
Automation software is banned in D3.
In a different Blue post from someone else at Blizzard, they independently said multiboxing is allowed.
See:
It reads:
"there are quite a few different approaches to multiboxing out there and only some of them goes against our Terms of Use.
It is an issue if and when multiboxing automates gameplay, but as long as the player who is multiboxing is the legitimate account holder on all the involved accounts, and as long as all the characters being played are 100% under the player’s control without any kind of automation involved, then we are okay with it…"
The underline is mine.
Blizzard has posted on separate occasions that multiboxing is allowed in D3. Multiboxing is also allowed in WoW according to multiple Blizzard posts.
We have multiple distinct posts both in D3 and separately in WoW saying that multiboxing is allowed. Automation is not.
They did remove these posts from their official websites. There is no official statement from Blizzard that exists on a Blizzard website that says multiboxing is ok in Diablo today.
So it is on you to provide official links, as I have done in the 4th post, not old forum posts that have since been deleted and only exist on old fan forum websites.
Will you admit that Blizzard no longer have an official statement that say it’s ok to multibox in Diablo today on a Blizzard website that hasn’t been deleted by Blizzard?
Again, the posts are very old and stated during a time when the game was not the same game it is now. Current views may differ but we need clarification. In the world of document control, documents should be reviewed at least every 2 years for validity and relevancy.
There’s 2 types of multiboxing. And we need to get this straight.
Type 1:
You have 3 characters. Rob, Bob and Pop
You press K once, Rob, Bob and Pop, all casts the ability associated with K.
This is one keypress, multiple actions.
This is automation and is against EULA.
Type 2:
You have 3 characters. Rob, Bob and Pop
You press K once, Rob casts the ability associated with K.
You then press “switch active window” keybind
You press K once, Bob casts the ability associated with K.
You then press “switch active window” keybind
You press K once, Pop casts the ability associated with K.
This is one keypress, one action.
This is the allowed format of multiboxing.