Every time I pass by Blood Gate in Zuldazar. There are boomkins auto farming endlessly. A crap ton of them. Does Blizzard care?
My guess is youre seeing multiboxing and no…its not breaking the rules.
if it were a real bot, theyd probably catch on pretty quickly
Multiboxing 24/7 stacked in one single location (all same guild) … yea
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Nope
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Dude…Ive SEEN a MBing player with at least 15 accounts going at once in Ogrimmar.
Yeah…it happens.
and no, its not against the rules.
I can tell what’s multiboxing and what’s not. I’ve played this game for way too many years. A group of boomkins stacked in one spot auto farming 24/7 and the guild’s only achievement is gold looting. Comprehende?
I looked them up on the armory. One looted 200k golds within a day… ok. x10
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as long as he pushes all the buttons himself, it’s fine.
some even share account and even tho is against the rule its pretty hard to prove
but hey if you think they are bots report them, every single one of them, and maybe ask people to go there and report them too
yeah…ok…right…so you reported the bot and blizzard didnt do a thing. Got it 
The fact that youre here ASKING About it means you didnt report it or they KNOW its a MULTIBOXER which isnt against the rules.
So which is it?
looted?
Ive made hundreds of thousands in less than a week. If thats what youre upset about, get over it.
Multiboxers. Man I hate em, but they arent breaking ToS. Blizzard doesnt care because they are paying for all of the accounts and controlling at least one of them. Technically, any account that is not directly controlled is scripted to follow and copy the “master” copy, and scripts are illegal, much like bots, but I guess blizz thinks otherwise since the fundamental behind the script is different. It still requires some level of player control.
There have been multibox druids farming herbs in the game for as long as the game has existed it seems : /
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It’s punishable by death. But we let you pick your way of execution. Death by snu snu!
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Blizzard will promptly throw the ban hammer at botters, don’t start botting if you aren’t willing to lose your account.
Did you report any of them?
If multiboxing: Not punishable. Blizzard allows this despite it requiring 3rd party software to copy keypresses across multiple instances of WoW. I still question this, as well as the justification of it “being no different than if players grouped up” in PvP situations. I don’t care about it in PvE. It doesn’t work out to the same sort of advantage as it does in PvP.
If actual botting: Definitely punishable, but there’s little point in banning them individually. Blizzard will likely wait until they can put a stop to that specific botting program, THEN do a massive ban wave. Then they’ll be back on different compromised accounts in 3 weeks when they have another working bot program.
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Looting “gold” from kills. Not profiting from trade or quest. You can look that up if you didn’t know.
yeah…ok…MULTIBOXER is killing stuff and collecting loot.
Sorry…where is the rules violation again?
MBing isnt against the rules. Tossing fits about it wont change that.
Thats not correct in all cases.
I MB all the time and NEVER use anything to copy key presses.
The only thing my addon does is /follow much easier.
Figure the price of tokens. If you plan on funding 10+ accounts on tokens you need to make a lot of gold regularly.
Personally I don’t get it. I 5 box usually and have been a multiboxer for years. Gold farming is so boring I lose interest in the game rapidly. I care far more about making new characters, trying out new comps in M+. Anyway I pay for my 5 with cash. I guess it just depends on how much of a hobby the game is to you.
Standing in place 24 hrs a day to make enough gold to stand in place 24 hours a day farming seems pointless. Yeah, it’s probably not 24/7 * 4 but more like once or twice a week. So imagine throwing your weekend away to farm gold when you could be doing PvP or M+ or old raids or pretty much anything else way more engaging.
But then again farming gold is what some people enjoy doing. /shrug
This is the real problem behind the multiboxing issue lately… multiboxing on it’s own isn’t a problem, and very few players have any issue with someone multiboxing… however when it goes into the realm of mass-multiboxing 15 to 40 accounts then things have clearly gone beyond the bounds of the ToS allowance on multiboxing. The act itself is still within the rules, but the accounts at that point are reliant on scripts to copy their inputs from one account to the rest. The use of scripts is infact a violation of the ToS, and as such multiboxers who use them should be subject to the same punishment the rest of us are should we violate the ToS.
They get away with it due to the false perception that they contribute $150+/mo in subscription fees… in reality most of those mass multibox accounts are supplementing their subscription via wow-tokens bought off the AH. They don’t pay anything for their subscription and they are able to farm mass amounts of gold in very little time. Even if they were to get banned, blizzard would actually lose nothing since the players who are actually paying for the wow tokens that these multiboxers are using for their subscription will still buy tokens.
This is the reason why these threads pop up as often as they do. It is a problem, and people want blizzard to stop turning a blind eye to it and take action. They are setting a very dangerous precedent by ignoring the issue. If they keep at it, then they may find themselves forced to drop the use of scripts as being against the ToS, as a result of legal action, thus opening the door to all sorts of automation. If they ban someone for using script, and that person files a lawsuit against them and brings up the fact that they willingly allow the use of scripts by multiboxers, the lawsuit will tip heavily in favor of the banned player. There is a lot of legal precedent for “use it or lose it” and “enforce it or lose it” standings on terms of service, if a company willfully neglects to enforce their own terms of service it ceases to hold any weight in a court of law.
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