Blizzard actually sent me in game email regarding me reporting a cheating multiboxer

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Of course it was a bunch of multiboxing druids flying to herb nodes and botting in Nazjatar but they need to send more confirmations like this to people to encourage people to keep reporting cheaters when they acknowledge that action had been taken.

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Multiboxing Is not cheating, they pay for the accounts

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Multi boxing is not agents there TOS
here is proof. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/24258
so reporting them does what?

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So you reported some botters? Good for you, keep up the good work bro :+1:

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He reported someone botting who also happened to be multiboxing and of course he is excluding that information to suit his own means. But if that’s what makes him feel better :man_shrugging:

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but using 3rd party programs to pick the nodes and follow your toon so you can do it all instantly is botting, and botting is against the ToS

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But it could be a normal person multiboxing witch isn’t against the TOS. with out proof that the account is botting is doing nothing but flagging an account for no reason.

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if they pick the node at the same time and all fly off instantly then its a bot, its an easy spot, takes time to tab to 10 different toons and interact

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The problem isn’t the truthfulness of what he is saying it’s the exclusion of pertinent information and a deceptive title to boot.

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no this is called muliboxing not botting. Multiboxing its allowed under bizzards TOS

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If you /follow and alt tab on each account to grab the node than there is no tos violation, but there are programs that do this process automatically and that is when the violation happens. Botting is against tos.

Good thing /follow is discontinued in SL.

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I’m not sure if you’re one of those “multiboxing is botting” people or not, but if you aren’t then I would like to inform you that it’s possible to simultaneously gather a node on x characters, mount up and fly off.

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multi boxing is the process of having multiple instances of the game open at a single time on the same computer, botting is using 3rd party software to control a character, so technically its both

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The Multiboxing isn’t what got them banned nor, from how I read it, what the TC is saying. He is saying he reported a botter, then mentioned that the botter just so happened to be a multiboxing of Druids. That he got an in game mail, which does happen, telling him that Blizzard has reviewed his report and determined that the people he reported were cheating in some way.

A Multiboxer can also be a cheater, IE with botting and such. That act of Multiboxing alone isn’t cheating, but I honestly do not read the thread as him saying “Multiboxers are cheaters” more so that I read it as “I reported a botter who was Multiboxing”

Admittedly, I can easily see how that was the conclusion anyone could jump to. It was not worded well and it can certainly be taken as an attempt to attack Multiboxers depending on the perspective. I personally do not read it that way though.

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:thinking:

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No with Multiboxing you have to click the buttons and it transferred to the others , botting is automated witch makes it against the rules

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no, thats multi-boxing. there is still a human sitting there sending the command broadcasts, the program just sends it to multiple clients at once.
botting is when, as the name implies, you have a bot or computer program executing the commands with no or minimal human interaction required.

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still sounds like cheating to me, but whether or not the GM’s think that is so is up to them and it looks like in this instance it was considered botting

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Multiboxing won’t get you banned, doing something that’ll get you banned will get you banned.

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That’s… not how that works… Multiboxing alone won’t get you banned as Blizzard has many public posts, over the years, confirming that Multiboxing is not against the rules.

Also, GM’s don’t just get to decide if they feel something is banworthy or not on a whim. They have guidelines they have to follow. Take for example the GM who banned a player for dispelling a streamer’s world buffs in WoW Classic. That ban got overturned and I guarantee you that GM got written up.

GM’s can’t just decide or make the rules on the spot, they enforce based on what is outlined. Again, considering the fact Blizzard has publicly commented on Multiboxing not being against the rules its pretty safe to say that is absolutely NOT what got the person in question actioned.

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