Funny story, because I pretty much did exactly this, it just wasn’t 20 hours a day. It was 2 hours a day.
I was farming Demonic Runes in Azshara in Vanilla. I gained two levels in my mid-50s farming demons. I was running around in circles killing them as they spawned. In fact, of all things, I was competing against another bot (and this was a true bot) farming the same mobs (for Felcloth I assume, the runes are BOP).
Detailed looks at my pathing would have showed a bunch of variance that bots (especially then) tend to not do, but there I was, trapped in a loop for I’m thinking about a week, and it was pretty much all I did that week.
So the people I’m running M+ pugs with are bots?
if they are moving like a player not bot its the multy boxing bots i am talking about
If you can’t tell the difference between a bot and a multiboxer you shouldn’t be playing the game at all or deciding who to report at all.
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absolute nonsense dude.
sometimes I dont even NOTICE someone has whispered me till a long time later and Im logging off.
no one is required to answer your unsolicited whispers, believe it or not, and that is NO indication of being a bot or not.
asinine.
please do explain for us all why BOTS would NEED to multibox, lmao.
We box so ONE player can control more than one character.
Bots dont need a controlling player, duh. So no need to box literally at all.
If you’re looking and acting like a bot… I’d report you then… Sure you want that kind of scrutiny on your account? If you’re taken out as a casualty my statement would be… well you have to crack some eggs to make an omelet.
i guess you have not seen a druid multy box bots in bfa going in a circle and farming leather and moon firing
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Don’t worry, I report back multiple times. 
Also, I don’t care I have been reported countless times over the years. Nothing has ever happened!
Auto follow is botting! I know you have done it!
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yeah,…i have…and Im one of them, lmao.
I get it, guy…you dont know squat about how this works. BOTS dont NEED to box. if its boxing, its not a bot.
That is why Blizzard eliminated the ‘allowed use’ of key replication software. Because some botting programs were using that to try and cover their tracks. and yes those druids that he explained were botting. I got many, many groups of them and thank yous from Blizzard on every one.
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Permaban both, just to be sure.
Anyone remember when the multibox stans were defending the key duplication apps extremely hard? Comical.
Don’t know about Final fantasy, but you are allowed to multibox in wow. You just can’t use the broadcasting software to multibox in wow anymore.
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And in FF you ARE allowed to use broadcasting. That is the difference. WoW used to have that rule. back when they had 15x as many subs. They just keep making back to back decisions that keep destroying the game. Cata Classic is coming out and Cata launch is the reason why so many people went to play Classic private servers in the first place.
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I multibox.
It’s literally have 5 screens open and manually go between em and press a button.
It can be difficult but fun. I mainly RP and quest when I do it.
Broadcasting is a no no (aka software) and like another poster pointed out, there’s a very clear difference.
I can still manually tab between my screens all day or use hover to activate a window (windows 10 feature).
Everything after MoP was bad.
Legion gets a pass because it was decent, but I wouldn’t consider it good.
If I had to pick one, it would be WoD.
If true, then I am definitely rolling another goblin, and worgen hunters lol. That expansion was a hunter’s paradise 
With all the rare challenge tamable beasts haha.
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There is no definitive way to differentiate between a botter and a multiboxer (mber). Only a GM can do that.
People can intuit which is which with varying degrees of accuracy based on multiple factors such as what the suspected botter/mber is doing at the time, their behaviour to disruptive gameplay, patterns etc, and the experience of the player observing the suspect.
For example, I’m reasonably confident I can determine the difference if I spot them out in the wild. Being a guide helps in this regard as a mber camped at the AH will just be a bunch of toons stacked on top of each other in a major city. Whereas a botter is a bunch of toons stacked on top of each deliberately hiding in remote AH spots like in the vale in pandaria and all their toons have murloc icons on top. This usually indicates it’s a botter using temp burner accounts.
Sorta yes, if they’re all in different spots moving in different directions simultaneously you can assume it’s not multiboxing. Then there’s the difference of automation for some stuff while multiboxing vs full botting which you can tell if they all cast the same stuff at the same time and move in sync even without follow commands. Doesn’t hurt to try to bug the person, or just throw a report if you think either is happening since cheat reports are not automated and manually investigated!