Actually a program isn’t playing anything, the player is.
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as I said very clearly you are only playing one character, a program is using your inputs and playing every other character, and when a program plays a character it is botting
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Well actually no, your input is directly controlling all the characters.
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Let’s look at it another way Orf. Let’s say you are only playing one character not multiboxing. You stop pressing your keys and mouse. The character stops and does nothing, there is no action at all. Therefore you aren’t botting.
It’s the same with multiboxing. The player stops using the keyboard and mouse the characters all stop. There must be a person at the keyboard and/or mouse for any action on the characters to take place. Therefore the player isn’t botting.
But ignoring botting makes them loads of money. In fact ignoring their whole ToS makes them more money.
@OP You got some bites. Still some folks that can’t tell the difference.
It’s real simple folks. Blizz allows multi-boxers. It’s written right into the ToS. Because it makes them money.
Botting per blizz’s ToS is grounds for disciplinary actions because blizz used to care about “fair play”. Now blizz looks the other way because it costs them money to lose money while enforcing their own ToS.
So there you go. Blizz allows multi-boxers. Blizz says they don’t allow botting but…we don’t see any enforcement. Money.
Accept it or don’t but after 15 years? It’s not changing. They wouldn’t even put a cap on it when people were running around controlling 50+ toons. Lol.
Which for the record I think is bs. Anymore than 5 is just too much imo. All for multi-box but it should have a cap on it.
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Except that it does. The difference is in the details.
At this point either you are being daft on purpose for giggles, or you honestly believe in the misinformation you’re spouting and have no interest in actually listening and learning.
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Then it wouldn’t be multiboxing. It would be called having multiple accounts.
Multiboxing is using a program. No program : multiple accounts.
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It is a progam that allows you to do something that most people will find impossible by allowing you to play one character and having a program play every other character. I am not being daft, if you are not directly controlling your character but a program is playing your character then that is botting
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Zero automation: Really? One click moves multiple characters.
Zero programming: What did they do, pick the app off a tree?
Zero scripting: LOL
You guys are so damned cute when you try to show your “expertise.”
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That’s not automation, that’s replication.
Most people use some kind of custom keyboard/mouse control set up which yes using programming to work.
Nope, if there was it would be botting, it’s not.
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Yes. You are. You don’t know what multiboxing is if you think that is how it works.
I am playing all characrers. None of them have any independent actions.
Yes. That is botting. But that is not what happens when you are multiboxing.
I hit a key. My character responds to that key press. Then nothing else happens till I provide another input. One input, one output.
Replication of keystrokes is not automation in context Blizzard uses when considering botting.
You ignoring these differences is being daft.
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I understand trying to differentiate, but one can have multiple accounts and not be multi-boxing (as in playing these accounts, at the same time). They just have multiple accounts.
Character 1 - played by you. This is your active screen, you choose the target you choose the location, you choose when and how to attack
Character 2+ - mimics your actions. This is however not your active screen and the program does exactly what you are doing on your main character
It doesn’t matter how hard you try to beat around the bush it it doesn’t matter how hard you try to simplify the process, you are only able to control one character and the program plays every other character, mimicking your actions, which effectively means a program is controlling those characters
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Botting : you can go afk or go to sleep and your character will be there, leveling, grinding, farming, doing everything you can (or what you software can do)
multiboxing: Multiple instances of the game, requires you to be there playing the game.
Both destroy the game imo
Their justification is that so long as there’s a human pressing the inputs; they don’t care how many characters there is. It’s quite hypocritical to allow 1 form of cheating/exploiting and not the other… but it’s extra sub money. Multiboxers are paying between 50-100$ per month. We don’t.
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I have a screen for every character. So what you’re saying makes no sense.
But you obviously have no desire, or maybe no capacity, to understand the difference so there is no point in trying to help you see that.
Man alive these forums are full of people who have a hard time understanding simple concepts hehe. If Blizzard makes the rules, and they allow it, then by definition it is not cheating.
I really feel bad for your education system if you can’t see two separate things as being two separate things.
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You should have just stopped there because all the rest of that was drivel.
Why? Because you fail to understand what cheating is? Just because you don’t agree with something, doesn’t make it bad.
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Just because Blizzard allows something, doesn’t make it good. You’re still cheating.
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I have to believe that you are grinning at your computer when you typed that for how ridiculous it sounds. Trying to make the argument that following the rules is cheating is so absurd that at this point you can’t be anything but playing devil’s advocate, albeit quite poorly.
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