I know that multi-boxers don’t break TOS, but maybe it should? Maybe the reason they haven’t banned multi-boxing is that it creates a lot of revenue?
If you played someone else’s account, it breaks TOS. They are preventing people from sharing an account to gain a competitive advantage in one character. What about the competitive advantage of a group of characters all targeting and attacking with one click?
It seems that Blizzard wants everyone to multi-box. Virtually every part of the game would improve if you multi-box. PVE, PVP, Recruit-a-friend rewards, gold, material farming, transmogs, mounts, guilds, achievements, and more.
It seems unfair to the average joe that doesn’t multi-box, which is most people.
Here is the thing, once those accounts are farming gold, they can buy the tokens and aren’t giving Blizzard as much money as you would think. Maybe they are just using the active accounts as a metric for actual users?
For all the actual multiboxers there is I doubt the numbers hardly register. But someone who has a bad experience with one suddenly thinks they’re everywhere.
OK look, I don’t have anything against Multi-Boxers except the fact it seems they do have an advantage, and Blizzard pushes people to MB for the Min-max community, which is a smaller portion. There is a business side of multi-boxers. That causes inflation of gold, which I do care about.
We have all dealt with MultiBoxing and the rules as laid out by Blizzard states it is perfectly fine and legal. So, until I read something that says it isn’t I’m fine with the way things are.
As per your question, I haven’t a clue how much $$$ Blizzard brings in from people Multiboxing. Hell, I’m not even sure how large the Multiboxing community is.
I’ve seen one multi boxer since bfa launch. I’m going out on a limb here and saying blizz doesn’t care just like most players. You don’t like the idea of it but the actual impact of it is meaningless.
There are very few multiboxers out there. Not even enough to register a drop in the sub bucket, so no… Blizz isn’t allowing them just because they make a ton of money off of them.
The anti-boxing people who post are just jealous, plain and simple. They see someone doing something they can’t / won’t do and it hurts their snowflake.
Multiboxing has always been and likely will always be perfectly fine by any and all rules Blizz puts up.
My personal opinion is multi-boxers break the spirit of the game and should be against TOS on that basis alone.
Does it though?
I had the impression multi-boxers paid for their accounts with gold.
That is a good point.
However, my understanding is Blizzard doesn’t want people to share accounts so they make money off two accounts instead of just one not to prevent a competitive edge.
I don’t see any evidence that Blizzard promotes multi-boxing and personally my game experience would not be improved by multi-boxing because I play characters, not an account.
Of course you wouldn’t, just like all the other lurkers who spam this topic lol.
