Dear Blizzard: detecting or deterring Multibox players should not be that difficult. We report them for farming out all the herbs and cheating in PvP, yet they always seem to be back. There are a number of ways to handle this. For example: put a random node in Naj that ‘polls’ who picks it. Five+ druids within 3 seconds—> bingo! You have a multiboxer. It’s not that hard. Increasing respawn rate would also help drive them out through simple economics.
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Watched 2 multiboxxers this morning burn up all the herbs in Naz. Both druids!
Its stupid!!! Blizz is loosing money because they make enough gold to pay for all 5 accounts.
I agree, a large amount of multiboxer’s (not all) aren’t good for the game, and I’d personally rather the game without. Unfortunately, a Multiboxer is paying for several accounts (however many they’re running at the same time), and I honestly do not think Blizzard would act on this.
This is something that could absolutely help in recording such multiboxing events. We do know the third party software to control such actions is against Blizzard’s ToC, and with the above concept for code added to nodes, could absolutely reduce the amount of farmers.
This would need to be considered very, very carefully, as to not decrease the value of gathering professions, and to feed the bots for increased activity.
Dear Player: Multiboxing isn’t against the TOS.
Working as intended.
Have fun in Azeroth!
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They have stated many times it is no problem at all for them to detect multiboxing. They are fine with it.
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Multiboxing may not be against the TOS, but the botting software they use to do it is.
Have fun in Azeroth!
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Too bad they aren’t doing that!
Thanks for playing though!
(Edit: Just to be clear, if you think that’s what’s going on, you clearly have NO idea about multiboxing. I’ve done it, and it didn’t require any software.)
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As is typical someone who is blindly in defense of a topic fails to see the point.
People who have a life, children and a job do not have time to sit around and just play video games. Video games are hobby or “pastime” not a life’s vocation. When multiboxxers severely inhibit those who chose to live a responsible life and also have the money to pay their bills and play video games, the game will begin to lose their patrons.
Blizzard needs to accept that a large majority of their demographic have grown up (though it would seem not all of them) and have moved into a more mature phase of their life. A video game ruined by those who believe they have the right to have advantages over everyone else will quickly become a thing of the past.
See this is the exact reason as to WHY I multiboxed for a bit. My schedule got so tied up that I didn’t have time to play the game as often as I wanted to. Part of end game content for me is goldmaking after the big rush of the patch content is over. But if I have little time to actually be on my pc, and I genuinely enjoy farming, why should I be limited either? What’s wrong with people using 2, 3, 5, or 10 toons to pick an herb? I can promise you that those who multibox (and actually continue to multibox, as opposed to those that do it for a month then quit because it’s actually more difficult than it seems) are smart enough in their goldmaking that they won’t just dump stock if they know it’s going to substantially decrease the price. The massive volume increases you see in high valued items generally aren’t MB’s, they’re bot accounts.
Multiboxing in itself can be fun. Setting up multiboxing action sequences can be fun (I had a setup for a 4 man group with a healer where shift/ctrl+1-4 would continue normal damage rotations for my dps, but would target heals to specific toons). It’s not automated in the slightest bit, and you have to actually know what you’re doing in order to actually have any kind of advantage.
Tl;dr If you’re using a lack of time as an argument against multiboxing, it’s a double edged sword. Many multiboxers use it as a way to get around not having a lot of time on their hands.
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Multiboxing distorts the game economy. This wouldn’t be a big deal if the main herb for end content was only farmable in one zone (and herbalism is way over-valued to begin with). The amount of $ that Blizzard gets from these people is pretty trivial. The bigger issue is that no one working at Blizzard (after they let the game support people go) cares that the profession designs incentivize this behavior. They could change this in many ways (increase respawn rate, reduce materials requirements, provide a transmute).
Uh, zin’anthid?
Spawn rate: I mean, considering the fact that there’s over 4m zin’anthid on the AH for the entire US region, and nearly 1m anchor weed, I’d say the spawn rate is fine. There’s plenty to go around.
Reduce materials: They’re already pretty low. Especially considering we have a transmute for Anchor Weed, r3 procs, silas potion added proc rate, etc.
Transmute: Uh… Anchor Weed…?
Proof? Granted, I know the population of MB’s is pretty slim, but money is money. And there are plenty of MB’s with 10+ accounts.
I won’t deny that professions aren’t the greatest at the moment, but that has nothing to do with multiboxing. The only one that affects is herb/mining with the change to 10 clicks per node (within a set time limit before it disappears), which was something that the WHOLE community was asking for because node stealing was, in fact, a thing.
The multi-boxing that I complain about is when people are clearly using software to control toons simultaneously across multiple computers. If you haven’t seen a pack of flight form druids doing this in Naz’jatar, it is obvious. The group is moving as one and herbing simultaneously.
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But multiboxing is not ban worthy its allowed always has been, leave my 5 druids be they just picking flowers
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There is a simple solution.
I believe I will just have to start forming raids to decimate every multi boxer I can find. Oh! But wait! That would be considered “harrassment”!! Thats how you know that permitting multiboxxing is detrimental and despicable, because the balancing action is not permitted and could even be punished.
Blizzard is so far out of balance on this topic . That I have been subject to a moonfire one shot and that same multiboxxer had the “assasin” buff and could just wreck any one he wanted with little to no effort of his own.
Before you tell me to turn “War Mode” off realize that yet again the multiboxxer gets the advantage over the rest of the entire customer base by forcing those who don’t want to be wrecked to reduce the amount of resources they can gain in the game.
Actially, it wouldn’t be labeled as harassment by Blizzard. I’ve had several discussions with Blizz reps when a big multiboxer named Malseph would come into Org with 20 DK’s and start spamming raise undead. Org would be a war ground for like an hour. At some point, even as a multiboxer, I got fed up with it and sent in a ticket. Their reply was generally that while multiboxing pvp is within the scope of limits, disruption of a faction hub was not. But they also told me that it’s not against the rules to go and hunt him down with a raid group, either.
Complain about it all you want, it isn’t against the rules.
That’s not harassment. You are free to go do it right now…
My bot software is /follow. /assist /interact with mouse over
Your suggestions are good, but they all assume that Blizzard WANTS TO deter multiboxers. Why do you think that?
Blizzard has said for 15 years that they DON’T WANT TO. That’s clear.
So it’s pretty clear that your (good) suggestions are for some other game, not for Blizzard’s game.
I’m confused. Are you perhaps under the impression that multi-boxing is against the TOS? If so, please refer to https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/11704