I’m not trying to insult you, but you really don’t know what you’re talking about. I can tell you don’t know what you’re talking about by your posts. I’m sorry if you find that fact offensive.
PS if you were multiboxing before I was in diapers, I’d be interested to hear about that, since I was in diapers long before multiboxing in MMOs became possible, in any game.
Your other personal assumptions about me just belie the fact that you have no facts to counter anything either I or Rankin have said on the subject. That is no doubt attributable to the fact that we unlike yourself, do know what we’re talking about.
You’re being disingenuous there. It’s 40 separate actions across 40 separate clients, but each action is still the result of one button press. There is no duplication or replication involved.
Why is that an issue? Each client window is still performing one action per button press from the keyboard.
Except you’re leaving out crucial information and you know it.
Each client window is taking a single action based on a single button press. There is nothing even remotely resembling automation, or duplication, or replication occurring.
So you press a button and it still results in each character performing one action. If you think that’s a problem, then you’ve just redefined automation so broadly that it applies to anyone who has ever played this game.
Reading this thread, I don’t understand why WoW players appeal to authority so much in things like this. Just because something is not against the rules does not mean it should not be.
We are going in circles. To pretend that using broadcasting software to control 40 accounts instantaneously with a single physical action is the same as a single user controlling a single client with a single physical action is one way to go I guess.
Anyhoo, good luck going forward.
The blue posts are beyond idiotic. Especially the one that plainly states multiboxers provide capital to Blizzard. Thanks for the transparency, Blizz.
Also good luck trying to CC multibox AoE farmers on a Rogue.
You press a button and the client performs one action.
One person, multiple accounts:
You press a button and each client performs one action.
The underlying system is the same. The client is listening for inputs from the keyboard or mouse. The number of clients is irrelevant.
Also, I just realized you never answered my question from the other day. You claimed Blizzard disallows multiboxing in their other games. What proof do you have of that?
In a normal set up, you press a button on your keyboard and only the client that is in focus can respond to that button press.
With multiboxing software, each client can listen to the keyboard, even when not in focus. So you press a button on the keyboard and each client responds to the button press.
Again, the number of clients involved is irrelevant, the underlying system is the same. So if you want to ban multiboxing, you’re going to have to come up with an argument that doesn’t also apply to people playing just one account. And so far that hasn’t happened yet.
And I’m going to bed, you people against multiboxing should take some time to do some research into how multiboxing works.
I know there are hardware options as well. Is what I started with back in the old days. But he was making the claim that the practice was no different than what an everyday user does everytime they log in, so I thought it was ok to focus on the software side of multiboxing.