Botting is when a PC plays the player. Even tho a player is doing something it is still a program that takes that input and sends to the other characters.
A player is playing one character and a program is playing every other character.
That sounds like botting to me, with just extra steps
This is incorrect. Itâs just duplicating the commands to multiple screens at the same time.
Botting is LITERALLY âhands offâ playing.
You do realize that the game itself takes your input and sends it to your character, even when youâre uniboxing, right?
Those extra steps make it ânot bottingâ.
The program isnât playing the character. The characters canât go off and do something different than the playersâ active decision in that moment.
(In fact, multi-boxing can take a bit of extra labor by the player. If one character gets killed, they have to actively change so theyâre only moving the one player back and potentially keep track of the others in the meantime. A botting program would be making those decisions and actions instead of the player.)
On my character I push âwâ and my character goes forward, I am directly controlling my character
Botting is when a program controls a character
In order to multiboxing when I push âwâ on one character a program seeâs that command and pushes âwâ for every other character. A program is effectively controlling that character, it doesnât matter how dumb the program is (the fact it isnât able to go off and do itâs own) you cannot get around the fact a program is controlling the other characters, albeit using your inputs
I have no problem people using multiple accounts, I have no problem when people alt tab to control each account but when someone uses a program to make life easier that is a bot
And thatâs not automation, thatâs replication.
Because they dont understand it and people hate what they dont understand, also they extremely jelly their mom/dad wont buy them a 2nd account.
What youâre refusing to see is that the program doesnât decide it is time to push âwâ. You do. I could dual-box with two keyboards and push âwâ on both, controlling two characters with zero software involvement. I could create a fancy mechanical setup where pushing a key on one keyboard pushes it on twenty, and each is connected to a different computer running a different client. How many clients my keyboard input go to does not change the fact that I, the player, pushed the key to have the character(s) move forward.
A bot is pre-programmed to tell the character to move forward at a particular point in its activity - without the player pushing âwâ at all.
Sure i can.
What if i use a mechanical button, and no software?
that is not what a bot is
Dead horse, love how these topics are hot for a week or two, then die once moreâŚ
My guess is that you are having a stroke right now?
because a human is controlling the character, a bot is when character is fully controlled without human input.
whomever buys a sub is making blizzard money
One of the major differences is money. Multi-boxers pay Blizzard more for their share of entertainment and access to WoW than you or I or any standard customer does. In order to multi-box, a player must have multiple accounts with Blizzard and that means more money for them. Most botters only have the one account.
Automation is automation as far as I am concerned. The argument that a multi-boxer and a botter are âdifferentâ because the multi-boxer is actually hitting keys is a bit moot. A botter must also âhit keysâ in order to setup the path and program for their bots. Sure, afterwards they can run automatically but I do not see this as any different from the automation that duplicates the keys hit by a multi-boxer. The only difference is the âreal timeâ activation of keys versus the âpre-playâ hitting of keys a botter has to do to setup their botâs program.
Automation is automation at the end of the day. But money also speaks VOLUMES to Blizzard at the end of the day. And Blizzard are quite happy to accept more money for more access to their game. Why else would they want to condone a practice that practically eliminates the community aspect of an MMORPG?
Money talks! 
Thanks.
And that a pretty major distinction. One key stroke per one action per character is not automation.
The 2004 reenactment is looking really good, guys. I couldâve sworn I was reading a thread from vanilla.
Iâm sure, after 16 years, Blizzard will finally ban multiboxing. You keep holding on to hope!
No itâs not. There is a difference, and that difference is one is allowed, and the other is not.
Lol. Have you ever used the auto run key? That could be considered a form of automation. You want to ban everyone who has ever done that?
And replication is not automation. They are different. Just because youâre too ignorant to recognize that, doesnât make it any less true.
The similarity is multiboxers and botters use a program to play their character. A program moves their character forward, backwars, attacks, etc⌠it doesnât matter if a person triggers the command the fact is a program uses those imputs and plays every other character which is botting
Actually thatâs not botting, thatâs replication which is allowed.
You are just trying to give it another name but the action is similiar to a bot, a program is playing 2+ characters as you are playing one