How is that any different from a group of 5 players doing the exact same thing instead of one person playing 5 characters?
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because it brings blizzard more money, so it’s not an exploit and allowed
Again, what does that have to do with anything on this topic?
Your account subscription allots for a single connection to Blizzard servers at any given time. If you want to have additional simultaneous connections, you need multiple subscriptions.
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Because no group of multiple people, could choose at the exact same instant, to line up the exact same aimed shot, on the exact same target, and choose to kill him with the press of one button.
In your example, five people press multiple buttons. In mine, one person pressed one button.
And that’s the difference. That single person has more power than any other person on the field.
sigh Not this old topic which has been raised from the dead often enough to have rez sickness.
Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing? Since when does a length of time invalidate a company’s policy. That’s like saying, you last updated your End User License Agreement in 2018, I’m sure that still doesn’t work because wow, its almost 2 years and things must have changed.
Their rulings stay the same until they say they don’t. And since people keep playing on multiple accounts to this day without adverse affects, that would seem to be the case.
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Oh please, this is laughable.
This game doesn’t operate in an automated vacuum. Community managers monitor activity all the time. It was part of the way they cracked down on miner/herbalist botting in MoP, by observing behavior of toons. If you are trying to tell me a trained CM couldn’t tell the difference between Mama, Papa and Baby Bear all playing WoW from the same household, versus someone running a six-pack, you either don’t think very highly of the CMs or you aren’t thinking critically.
As for your last paragraph, that’s the whole point of most people’s problems with this: Open-world PvP, For The Alliance/For The Horde, and BGs (which might as well be open-world, just with very constrained borders) are damaged in spirit by having to go up against multiboxers. Example: I’m in a group trying to do FTA and we get to Silvermoon and there’s a guy running a 20-plus box, two rogues and 20+ balance druids. He goes in the throne room, waits for us to get close, shrouds his party, and then we enter the room, bam, here come 20-something DOTs on everyone’s head. Then he just rotated the cooldown on Shroud between his two rogues until we gave up.
Is that clever? Yeah. Is it in the spirit of fairness? Not for a game that has prided itself on how the software can still run on fairly basic computer setups. People running modest systems can’t box. Which is fine, except you need to quit touting that if you’re doing it with one eye winking at the multiboxer in the corner.
Trying to frame it in any other terms but financial is the very epitome of pi**ing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.
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Except it doesn’t have to be within the same millisecond to have the same effect. Once the burst damage exceeds the amount of life a character has in that damage taken is done in a span less than it takes to react and get a heal off, it makes no difference.
This is easily achieved by using target of target, target of focus, main assist, etc features built into the game.
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the examples you mention happens even with single players in pvp because guess what some people are just that good WITHOUT being a boxer
stop kidding people your not upset over MBing your using that as an excuse because you got owned by a player with superior skill and or gear and now your trying to blame others for it
you got steamrolled in pvp it happens to everyone so get over it
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Get real. Like I’d waste my time making posts from this stupid phone just to lie about my experiences.
Now you’re just being a douche by attacking my credibility.
What’s the matter? Are you a multi boxer?
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I personally hope, you do not have to face a moderately skilled or even remotely above average skilled player on a FotM class/spec. Cause if you are this frustrated with a the seasonal MBoxers, it’s only going to get worse for you. Especially if your main is shaman. Best of luck though.
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Sure it can be achieved using in-game tools.
But I maintain that it could not be achieved to the same effect as one person controlling multiple characters.
What are you really defending here?
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They observe bots so that they can identify the mechanisms at play so that they can break said mechanisms when they go to ban said bots.
You’re asking for GMs to spend time to observe players to determine if they’re multiboxing or not and then dealing with people who file false reports or trying to catch said players online to observe them. The amount of time and manpower to enforce such a rule just stop something that doesn’t happen all too often since multi-boxing is cost prohibitive and most players simply see it as too much work to do even if they can afford it.
And then there’s the whole issue of how much of a PR nightmare it would be to accidentally ban the wrong person because they just happened to be playing with their spouse from the same home. Just takes one mistake to cause enormous damage.
Dozens of times. Look up Preparedwow, a 80-100 man MB.
Here’s my old guild farming him.
https://vimeo.com/47428261
https://vimeo.com/52367230
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It’s honestly hilarious watching people try to defend 1 person paying to have the power of multiple people. Like, you’re wrong. Everyone knows your wrong. Just stop.
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again I say you’ve NEVER fought a real PvP druid they can and will destroy anyone they can even take on entire groups alone
but of course no amount of words will prove it to you so I present the following video
Who says I’m defending anything?
Funny is people like you who dont understand the logistical nightmare of trying to stop it. 
To be fair though he is a pain to find, he never uploads when he gets stomped and he’s know to kill his feed when streaming live when getting stomped. If others happen to get his name it makes it easier, and more entertaining to watch him try to flood comments on how godly he is on videos that show him getting farmed hard.
I’m not saying it’s a huge problem, but it shouldn’t be condoned.
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It seems to me this entire thread is an argument for and against multi boxing. I’m arguing against it, and you are attacking me for it.
Therefore I assume you are defending multi boxing. Do I have it wrong?
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