You stated that everyone hates boxers then went into your discussion. That right there shows your attitude for the rest of the conversation and no matter what I say, I will never sway your opinion and you make it quite obvious in your reply. But I can reply to it just like any other post.
So you reported them just because they were herb farming and ‘using a program.’ Were they all picking at the same time? How do you KNOW they were using a program? “Muh herbs must report!” If they were picking at the same time sure you know they are using a program. But if there was 4 or 5 or however many and they herb… then herb… then herb… with obvious spaces… then they aren’t using software to mirror commands OR hardware to mirror commands. “I’ll report and let blizzard figure it out.” Well I can’t stop you from that, but if you do that to boxers what’s the difference between them reporting you for harassment when they are in the rules and you decide to whisper them, “cheater” or “reported.” Because abusing the in game report function is against the rules. If you are like, “I’m going to report you because you’re using software and you’re cheating!!! REEE!!” Which, btw, happens A LOT with people boxing then except to get reported back in return for harassment.
The rest of your statement makes sense to a point.
Chat silences are not the same as account suspensions. Who says there aren’t false silences and bans in FF14? They just aren’t as prevalent because in FF14 addons aren’t allowed at all. Nothing can interact with their game at all from my understanding. Addons are allowed in wow. The addon in question the author took down of their own volition from my understanding due to harassment among other things. You can get other addons for other party members that aren’t even multiboxing that do the same thing. Are those bannable? Is FollowMePls bannable? No.
“But it’s streamlining multiboxing!!!” You might say… technically having a computer with the processing power to even run two wows is streamlining but we obviously know that isn’t against the rules. What’s against the rules is mirroring commands via software or hardware to multiple wow windows at the same time, to automate or streamline multiboxing. If this addon style is against the rules for boxers, it should be against the rules for all players. Someone doing boosts and they want their booster to follow and not follow on command? What is the difference between someone with 2 accounts and this addon and 2 individual players and this addon? The amount of people controlling the accounts… that’s it.
And sure if you see all of em strafing at the same time go for it, but you know how FAST some people are mounting and dismounting on stuff? Like, you can have your icons at the bottom of your task bar click keybind, click keybind, click keybind, click keybind, click keybind and there are some people that can do that INCREDIBLY fast because they were already doing this since NOV.
And the thing is, that addon I mentioned you can still download it, you can still use it, and if you got a buddy that wants to use it they can do so. Got guildies that want to show off a mount and mount at the same time? How about issues with afking in raid so you got a follow me (however that addon works) set up just for some raiders that afk? It’s an addon that works off the in game API. If blizzard didn’t want these kinds of addons working they would simply break them with a simple update like they have in the past.
Ultimately though it’s Blizzard’s game and what they dictate is what they decide. Not you, not me, not anyone except them. We can discuss this til the cows come home, but the blues have already answered other threads with fantastic information.
Now that we’ve beaten the dead horse on a necroed thread again…