Worker: " Hey boss…people are on the forums wetting themselves about multiboxing again even though we made it clear that its ok as long as they arent using broadcasting software. What should we do?"
Boss: "Just send out an automated email every few times they report so they think they’re making a difference. "
Worker: " Yeah but MB isnt against the rules. "
Boss: " They dont care. They’re so full of hate and rage that they’ll never listen. Just pat em on the head and tell them they’re heros. Eventually they’ll find some other bandwagon to jump on. "
uh… what?
why are you assuming that just because someone is boxing, that they’re going to be gathering?
if someone is boxing with 2 clients, and want to make the walk to… ??? SM or something… how are you going to distinguish between one person using 2 clients, or one person with a friend on follow?
crusade shmusade, I spoke to line GMs to clarify what their position was on hardware input broadcasting, nothing more or less.
Luckily Blizzard can ban anyone for any reason and doesn’t have to prove in a court of law that your input broadcasting is hardware. Bitter defenders of input broadcasting a clutching at the fact that blizzard mentions “automated gameplay” separately from “botting” in its policy statement and says that input broadcasting is going to be actionable because it supports automated gameplay.
GMs say
“isn’t this device has the same function as third-party input broadcasting software which allows a single keystroke or action to be automatically mirrored to multiple game clients? Isn’t that your purpose to play WoW simultaneously?”
Chanting that its only software and hardware input broadcasting is fine is just pure copium addiction, given that GMs have said
Sure, no problem - you’re entitled to do what you want. And I have zero problem reporting any group of players performing apparently coordinated actions for input broadcasting, particularly given that line GMs appear to share 0% of your cherished belief that hardware input broadcasting is ok.
Flagged by salty boxers more likely given that zero false information was spread. All I reported was what line GMs directly said to me, with proof. Which is
“Don’t use hardware input broadcasting if you care about your account”
Feel free to disregard, man, people yolo and do stuff all the time.
Eh good luck trying to convince line GMs that your input broadcasting is hardware based and not software based and getting them to care, given their responses. And with this clarification, many people will have even less hesitation in reporting apparent input-broadcasting multiboxers for ToS violation.
Don’t miss the remainder of the sentence in their policy statement - “and automated gameplay”. If one keystroke causes more than 1 action in the world, that’s automated gameplay.
People who make up the rules as they go based on however they happen to be feeling and then expect others to follow that idiosyncratic list of do’s and don’t’s are not thinking for themselves.
if the person on follow is using identical abilities at the same time as the person they’re following, I’ll assume they’re using input broadcasting and report them for ToS violation.
Think of how it is when an npc who is supposed to be helping you is following you. Now imagine if that’s broken and he gets stuck on every tree branch and pebble. That’s follow.
“Let’s just ignore the fact that line GMs – the ones that enforce account action – make zero distinction between hardware and software input broadcasting and advise me not to use hardware input broadcasting if I care about my account. Instead, let me cling desperately to my cherished mode of gameplay.”
I didn’t cut anything short. Line GMs clearly see no difference between hardware and software Input broadcasting and I’ll report any toons apparently using input broadcasting (i.e., synchronised ability actions in-game) and go on playing WoW.
I could see how that might happen, for certain. I wouldnt want to be the one having to deal with it if the ban hammer fell on my head.
I just dont use anything but /follow.
Flagged by salty boxers more likely given that zero false information was spread. All I reported was what line GMs directly said to me, with proof. Which is
it doesn’t matter that its third-grade wish-fulfilment 
keep it up
I mean, it’s nothing new, people say “I’m gonna report and let Blizz decide” since the dawn of the forums.