Is this... legal?

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I’ve got a guy on my friends list who’s a big multiboxer, which in itself I know is fine. However, lately what he’s been doing, it putting 10 characters in 10 different versions of the same dungeon (skyreach) so that by the time he’s locked out for his 10 runs, he’s actually run the dungeon a total of 100 times. Then he switches to 10 new toons on another server, and does it again…

Now I know that ISBoxer is allowed in WoW, and as far as I can tell this still follows the 1 action per keypress rule… this just seems… wrong. 80,000 gold every hour, at the cost of $75/month subscription. As far as I can tell you can’t look up people’s gold anymore, but he’s been doing this for at least a week… he’s doing it when I get on, he’s still doing it when I log off… He’s got to be making close to a million gold a day.

I thought at one point he might have been botting because I literally don’t see him offline anymore, but every time I say anything to him he replies within a minute or two.

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Someone get the FBI on the phone, this game is out of control.

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Honestly, I’d rather just get a job. At least that contributes to society.

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Get a job cutting grass and make more than this goober.

Also, running the same dungeon continuously for a week?

Nah :-1:

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I mean what could be against the rules about it? (not illegal/legal lol)

He is just running his character through an instance.

It follows the same line as multiboxing in itself, just playing multiple characters at once. Which is fine. If I wanted to run a single character through the instance over and over and over that is allowed so this would still be fine.

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Yeah, you won’t get arrested for multi boxing in a video game.

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No and you’re under arrest

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I get the underlying question, but pretty sure that if he’s paying x amount per month to the company, they’re not going to red tape him/her

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He’s probably paying for his subscriptions via gold for game time tokens, and when you have that many accounts, such measures are necessary to fund it. I say good on him, that takes commitment, even if it is pointless.

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Bypassing the instance lock is against the rules. but I dont think he is?

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You can only buy so many tokens in 12 month period. Least it was that way when tokens came out, not sure there is still a limit.

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If hes violating the TOS, if hes exploiting the game mechanics, then yeah, hes’ likely going to end up banned.
but the same applies to anyone, MBer or not.
If what he’s doing isnt a violation or exploiting anything, you’ll just have to let him be your rich friend who can buy you pretty baubles.

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He’s bought all those accounts, which gives Blizzard more money, which leads to Blizzard eventually paying their taxes, and corporations (usually) pay more taxes.

Those taxes go to funding construction for roads and other social services. THEREFORE, he has contributed to society.

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:+1: :laughing:
I like you

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BIG emphasis on usually here.

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yeah sorry bud, but that can’t happen.

dungeon lockouts are account wide, not character specific.

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Sky reach is about 4K in raw gold every 10 runs.

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Doesn’t work that way anymore. I know from experience.

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Legal is a bad word here, but what he’s doing is not against the TOS.

Unless he is botting, but since he replies quickly he might just have no life right now (COVID-19 does that.)

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A maximum of 36 Tokens every 24 months may be purchased for gold via the Auction House, to be used for game time.

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