Blizz, Just Finish Off Multiboxing and Be Done With It

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Yes, you 100% can. It was done before the keycloner software, it will continue afterwards.

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none of the people “running” the AH are boxers

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If it’s not, why does it matter if it’s gone?

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Multiboxers are generally different than AH magnates. One may farm or enjoy a RP of force, but a single account with add-ons to evaluate low cost items to resell higher are the one’s tha screw up the economy. Multiboxers actually bring the economy back to earth. Most of my character aren’t gatherers, so I appreciate it when others farm for me.

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Let’s be careful here. I run two wow accounts when the game is slow so I can level alts or do stuff on my main while farming world bosses in my second account. i’m not harming anyone running two accounts at the same time.

Blanket banning running more than one account from a computer is overkill.

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You’re talking to people who are essentially short-sighted, assertive and by nature destructive.

The world has no shortage of these kinds of people.

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If people want to invest a grand on hardware to multibox effectively, let them.

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I would think this is obvious by this point, but here are some bullets for you.

  • Unfair advantage in world and instanced PvP settings. Having 10 Boomkins all hit you at the same time is NOT the same as having 10 players ‘try’ to hit you at the same time. I can often survive huge groups in Nazjatar PvP
 I instantly get deleted when encountering a multi-boxer.
  • Mass farming of herbs and ore which was only made possible with node tap amount increased. This is what started the boom of multi-boxers we see now. The increase in the tap amount was to make farming more fair for everyone
 Now multi-boxers completely tap these nodes
 despite the higher tap count.
  • This leads to severely deflated prices for the average player that relies on farming to make gold for their activities and ends up pushing gold into the hands of players that need it the least.
  • Mass farming hyper spawn points which displaces solo players from potentially farming.
  • Mass farming mounts and other rare items in zones while again displacing solo players.
  • Destroys any sense of immersion. A lot of players want to enjoy the world at there own pace and take in the game as it comes. Nothing like ‘genericboomkin1’ + ‘genericboomkin2’ + 'genericboomkin3
 etc drop down and kill everything by you.
  • Ruins leveling experience. Ever been in a leveling zone trying to do a quest when one of these players is taking every last mob?
  • Trivializes the single player aspect of the game. Much of what this game is built off is the solo experience every player embarks on. Multi-boxing circumvents this idea and instead glorifies quantity. More damage. More loot. More herbs. Etc. It seriously breaks the gaming experience for anyone around them.

I could keep going, but this should give you a general idea.

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Anything other than alt-tabbing between windows and controlling one character at a time should be banned.

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This pretty much sums up why multiboxing is a plague.

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Not unfair. Lots of people combat them easily. Especially now. Not toxic. It’s PvP.

Mass farming can be done by a group of people and also sold on the AH. Not really an argument there. Not toxic.

People can still sell quite a lot and just fine and make a ton of money. If they couldn’t, players without multiboxing who didn’t buy tokens wouldn’t have been able to afford the AH dino. Not toxic.

That’s not toxic, just unfortunate. I’ve had to go back at different times to farm.

I was always able to finish my quests even with them around, because they stand in one spot and don’t bother anyone else. Not toxic.

Opinion. And not toxic.

I have never had an issue with leveling and multiboxers being around. Opinion and also not toxic.


 it’s an MMO. That’s not toxic. Now you’re just grasping at straws.

Still haven’t gotten anything that says it’s toxic. Inconvenient? Maybe. Toxic? Absolutely not.

This is one of many reasons why people multibox. :point_up:

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Your “a group can do it so why can’t multiboxers” reasoning makes no sense. What’s next, “if a raid can do it then a multiboxer should be allowed to do it too”?

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I know this is only one of many of your points, and I post this with respect and I’m open to discussion, but to me, the only reason I need gold is to purchase consumables for those activities you mention in the quote. So, if the price of those consumables is reduced, then the need for me to play the AH to make gold is diminished. The AH is a means to an end, the end being the ability to purchase stuff for the activities you mention.

In other words, I need gold to buy items for “(my) activities,” but the cost of those items is reduced by a supposed multi-boxer’s actions. The deflated prices are actually beneficial if the only reason the player needs gold is to buy those items on the AH.

In the end, it appears you’re arguing against the means, not the end result: more easily obtained consumables.

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Multiboxers already go into raids, so
 yes.

You’re the one grasping at any reason to say “toxic,” when it’s simply, “I don’t like how someone does things compared to me.”

My point makes perfect sense. You just don’t like it.

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They don’t they value MAU numbers that is why there are systems to keep us constantly playing and Multi boxers help drive that number up because each one is equal to how many active accounts they have.

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No, your point is “I should have the same power as an entire raid because I have more accounts” and is entirely degenerate and unfair to the player base

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I agree nerf MHPs

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They won’t completely ban multi-boxing because they honestly can’t. They’d need to prevent more than one client per OS to be open at the same time, which used to be a thing in some games like Diablo 2.

Except that its super easy to work around that restriction using Virtual Machines.

Besides i doubt they made that change of policy because of “most” multi-boxers. doubt they care about people levelling by dual-boxing or even people running 5man multi-box teams.

They made that change because 20+ accounts farming multi-boxing was becoming very popular and they’re the only ones that are a real problem as a few of these can completely destroy the value of plants or ores on even the bigger servers and cause a lot of inflation as they can also exploit respawn timers to farm raw gold.

This shouldn’t be possible anymore with the current restrictions unless they somehow find a physical way to pilot 20 characters at once (which would definitively be interesting to see) as most software workarounds will most likely be targeted by Blizzard whenever they become as mainstream as key-cloners were.

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I think what they mean by it’s toxic to the economy is.

"Multiboxers are putting mass quantities into the ah keeping the costs down and preventing me from jacking the price way up "

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There’s a difference between “jacking the prices up” and simply feeling like farming is actually worth your time.

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