I think that’s fair. I still don’t understand, even if it is an exploit (which I’m not convinced but that’s fine), what exact the problem MBing actually is.
There’s no issue with multiboxing on its own. I’m a multiboxer(5x).
The problem pointed in this thread are “AFK Farm” which are being abused. Even the name is AFK farm and players are imitating bots because their focus are on a movie/netflix while they smash their keyboard and with Loot-a-rang(nerfed in SL, now require 70 cataclysm engineering) and GnomeSequencer addon to have a full dps rotation on 1 button macro.
It’s giving Multiboxer a bad reputation.
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as long as blizzard profits off them they will never do anything serious against multiboxers
I mean at least that’s an answer I can get my head around, and I get what you mean. I understand that it there is this bad reputation. I just don’t understand why there is this bad reputation.
Devaluing profession items is ruining the economy, these bots don’t sit on their keyboard if they’re here from morning to night a few days a week raking in millions of gold on the same spot. This is clearly an advantage over someone who isn’t doing it.
And this is not subjective. What are we to throw away gathering professions because oh the so nice cheaters have cornered the market.
Is there really though? lol If there is its a very small, like veeeerrrryyy small difference.
But it is subjective as far as I can tell. AH prices are crazy. Multibox farmers help drive down those prices tend to be what I hear. That’s a good thing for everyone except the people wanting to sell at higher prices.
Yea, it kind of stinks for certain demographics of players, but it’s hardly ruining economies.
One requires constant player input and the other does not.
That is a huge distinction.
Apples to oranges.
That literally doesn’t make any sense. You asked what the distinction was and they gave you the (correct) answer. Can you clarify what you mean?
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I think its a defeatist mentality, botters shouldn’t have any advantage in anything and be removed from the game on sight. If that drives up prices, people will be willing to pick up these gathering professions as demand increases. So the prices won’t become insane just higher. People with gathering and crafting will be happier for it.
Except, and this is just my opinion so I could be really off base.
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The prices are bad. Like that argument falls apart right at the first step. AH prices are always high, even with these botters.
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Gathering is like raiding. People are only going to do it because they want to. Not to fix this issue. What is more likely to happen is you’ll just have a lot of overly priced items not selling to anyone but other profession players/gold farmers
Also, just for semantic purposes. My argument is only concerning boxxers. Botting should be banned.
Stop making posts about multiboxers it’s not bannable and they are all paid accounts. Getting sick of children like you crying about this every damn day.
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I may be wrong and I am sure that someone will correct me but as I understand you will be put into an open world by yourself so you won’t see another player unless you join groups so you shouldn’t have to worry about coming across others let alone multi-boxers
Each different druid can have a different sequence macro. And if none are using an assist macro, then they are all targeting random mobs. That’s not evidence of anything.
I do recall a story of a player who saw a large number of moonkin bots farming something and thought it would be fun to mess with them. He attacked the group and they one-shot him. Turned out they weren’t bots. He started a thread about how unfair it was that he died after making a bad choice of PvP target and they should ban multiboxers. I LOL’d.
I remember that thread
I reported a batch of druids levelling at the raptors area in Zuldazar about 2 months ago. They were never seen again.
The biggest giveaways that they are bots was that 
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I trained an elite mob to them. I saw they targeted the elite briefly to throw a dot and tabbed away…The elite proceeded to kill all of them. None of them attempted to move away, heal themselves or even try to focus target the elite. They just kept spamming their starfalls at random enemies until they all died. I waited and they did not release.
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They did nothing when I stole their mobs and trained to them as they helped me finish off those mobs. I logged the opp faction and whispered them but none of them replied.
I got a mail from Blizzard saying “action has been taken”, and the druids were never seen again. Maybe they move spot, maybe blizzard did nothing, but the fact remains that the botters were never seen again.
It did not matter that they were multiboxed toons as well. (Same name with running numbers). Multiboxing is not against ToS. Botting is.
Thus, I believe reporting helps.
And is it ok if its a non boxing player who isnt a bot? It would be ok then?
farming ore and herbs is a ridiculously ineffective way to make gold, lol.
If the AH prices were gouging levels, everyone who doesnt box would then take herbalism and mining to make it rich too and you’d then be fighting non boxing players on the AH LMBO.
I farmed Ghost iron ore for hours a day on one character when it was 40g per ore. So did a bunch of other players.
at 4g per, it aint worth the time.
You really think NON boxing players are going to turn down easy gold and let you alone make a killing LMBO ???
this ‘problem’ has nothing to do with boxers.
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Report them… and report them… and report them… I run across these occasionally… and yeah the do suck when you’re trying to get a world quest done and they’re AOE’ing all the mobs in an area. But I’ve gotten more than a few thank you notes from Blizz and those specific character stop logging in not long after.
But I do agree that Blizzard needs to look at these throw away accounts and perma ban those ones. The people botting on them don’t care about those accounts… I just wish they had a way to track it to the main account and perma ban that one that the bots are feeding.