Youre entirely wrong. Multiboxers suffering was simply collateral damage
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Why would they feel they need to multi-box to progress and enjoy? Do they feel the same when people have multiple accounts (that don’t multi-box), or better equipment?
Flaunt their spoils? What spoils? Mats they collect? Maybe we should ban people that sit on their mounts flaunting their Raiding gear and epic mounts?
Not allowing /follow in BGs is an example where Blizzard is specifically making boxer life harder while not actually disallowing it.
If you read the Blizzard post on /follow it was done to disable the more simplistic Honor bots, not to disable multi-boxing, that was a side effect.
Blizzards stance has always been that multi-boxing is allowed but not supported. Which means they don’t take it into account during design and won’t address bugs that only affect multi-boxing.
P.S. Maybe we need to limit everyone to a single account, and limit game play to some reasonable number of hours per day, maybe 4? After all people with more time to play have a distinct advantage over people that have less time.
We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command. We chose not to communicate it beforehand in attempts to catch as many bots unaware as possible. Removing /follow in battlegrounds is one small change we can make immediately to stop a number of bots, and those that choose to transition to more overt botting methods will have a much higher chance of being caught and banned.
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Nice try though. Thanks for playing
In fact, they re-enabled /follow in Arenas specifically to CATER TO MULTIBOXERS “because bots dont tend to exist in Arena”
multiboxer farming dungeons
no, you can not compete exactly, sort of depends on the boxers intentions, but he could gear up 1 guy faster than you could gear your single toon, simply because he gets all the loot.
Multiboxer PVP? Boxer loses VS same amount of even mediocre single players.
5 box still only has one brain, one pair of eyes etc.
5 Individuals have 5 pairs of eyes and 5 brains and can out see and out think the boxer, if they co-operate and work together working as a team.
The key part is communicate, cooperate, and work together.
Boxing isnt AI botscripting, the second gets you a ban hammer when caught
Qeynos,
Thanks for finding that post.
I, myself, had believed Blizzard’s claim. So I have also been misinforming people about the “anti-bot” reason.
The tweet that was tied to your posting was on March 6.
/Follow removed from battlegrounds. farewell Infinilock! http://t.co/lDm1VvtiSt
On March 7, Blizzard (Bashiok) posted this:
Mar 7, 2013
We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command. We chose not to communicate it beforehand in attempts to catch as many bots unaware as possible. Removing /follow in battlegrounds is one small change we can make immediately to stop a number of bots, and those that choose to transition to more overt botting methods will have a much higher chance of being caught and banned.
So you’re going to dismiss Blizzards official lengthy, in-depth explanation in favor of conclusions you drew on your own from a 10 word tweet from 1 guy.
Seems legit.
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kid, you’re delusional
isboxer is like $3 a month?
You dont need ISboxer. Theres free software that works just fine
ISBoxer is free, but you need Innerspace to run it. Innerspace costs $50 per year, or $4.16 a month, plus the accounts, but many multi-boxers, and others, already have multiple accounts. I’ve had a minimum of 4 since Vanilla, 2 For me, 1 for the Wifey, and one for my grandson. Since only I and my grandson still play I sometimes multi-box 3 of the accounts for fun.
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The post was tied to a tweet and several reply tweets from other people.
The dates from the tweets and what Blizzard posted are too coincidence.
It doesn’t take me to be hit with a wet brick to take a guess on the truth.
And I am not willing to just be obstinate when I become enlightened.
You wanna try that again in English? That all sounded like it was translated by google… poorly.
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If you were playing at the time you would know that BGs were being overun by Bots (not multi-boxers) most were simple /follow bots that would join and just follow others around to keep from being AFK. There was a lot of discussion on the forums and there were times when I’d join a BG that seemed like it was 90% bots, not fun.
So I believe the official post, no reason not to. Now were Holinka and others happy that a side affect made multi-boxing in BGs more difficult, of course they were hence the tweet. But the fact remains that the proximal cause for the change was to kill the Bots and force them into more sophisticated Bots that were easier to detect.
If memory serves, not long after there were a series of ban waves for Bots and legal actions that eventually resulted in the most popular of them going out of business.
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It absolutely is automation.
Is he pressing the 4 key on five separate keyboards? Hell no he isnt, he is automating the presses of the 4 key on five different keyboards. Its not even debatable.
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Yea and macros let you lump together multiple commands to one key. Still not automation
One keypress, one action, even if that action happens on multiple characters, Blizzards definition, not mine. On the other hand, a single keypress that results in multiple actions by a single character is considered automation. Sequence macros are not automation since you need to keep pressing the key for the next action. Pressing a single key that resulted in your character attacking a target, then running over to the dead target and looting it, would be automation.
Botting on the other hand is more about automated, unattended, game play. Bots are set in motion then the botter goes off to the movies, date, or whatever and his/her characters keep on playing.
Between macros, programmable keyboards, keypads, mice etc. the distinction can become blurred.
Bottom line is the only definition that counts in the context of WoW is the one put out by Blizzard.
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You have a valid argument. At that time Brian Holinka was Senior Pvp Designer. He did not just state “Farewell”. He also stated that the “/follow” command was removed.
For him to personalize this type of tweet, something must have irritated him enough to even remember the incident. We are human. Maybe it nudged him to make a “quick” fix instead of taking a “longer” take on how to solve the bot issue.
Are you a bot? Because all your posts really sound like they were written by an AI just learning the language…
I dont even remotely know what youre trying to say
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