Multiboxers have no place in an RPG

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World of Warcraft is a role playing game (you know, the “RPG” part of “MMORPG.”) A significant part of role playing is immersion. A player should be able to immerse themselves in the fantasy and lore of the game, and engage in actions and conversation with other players in a way that’s consistent with the story and theme of the game. Player actions that conflict with the RP aspect of the game should not be allowed.

Multiboxers break immersion.

There’s nothing more aesthetically disgusting than seeing multiple characters stacked up, constantly transitioning from unnaturally stuttering and glitching to being perfectly aligned on top of each other. It’s completely ridiculous. It doesn’t fit into the story or theme of the game at all, and does absolutely nothing to contribute to the health or success of the game, or conform with any of its RP aspects.

Multiboxers have an unfair advantage

A multiboxer can press a single button and kill a player or NPC, but all other players don’t have this capability. We should all be on a level playing field. The game shouldn’t allow a single player to hold the power of multiple characters.

Multiboxers cause performance issues

The people who control 40+ characters have been known to cause major stability issues, and even crashes. This hurts everyone.

Myth: Multiboxers provide Blizzard with more revenue

The few I’ve spoke with were very proud of being able to pay for all their subs with gold, so it’s not necessarily true that a multiboxer will provide any financial benefit to Blizzard.

The community hates multiboxers

From my experience, I’ve heard constant complaining about them for as long as I’ve been playing. They’re a scourge. Multiple GMs on my server won’t even allow them in their guilds. They have no place in this game.

Multiboxers don’t belong

It’s absolutely repulsive to think about logging in to Classic WoW (especially after such a long wait), trying to immerse myself in Azeroth, and watching one of these multiboxers dragging around a raid full of characters. It will completely break the fantasy aspect of the game for me. From a fairness standpoint, it will be especially bad on WPvP servers where they can walk around 1-shotting people. Not to mention, the game struggles with large-scale performance as-is, and multiboxers exasperate the problem.

Multiboxing only serves to benefit the person who’s doing it. It doesn’t help anyone or anything else in the game, in any way, shape, or form, and in fact, can ultimately have an adverse affect on the servers and the community. It’s been going on for far too long, and Classic is a great place to finally end this obnoxious, unfair, performance degrading, immersion breaking play style. Please don’t allow multiboxing in Classic. There is simply no reason to allow it, any many, many reasons to stop it.

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  • Multi-boxing was in Vanilla
  • Multi-boxing is approved by Blizzard.

Your windmill is calling.

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Hey look, a new thing people are crying about.

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You have to pay for each account. Blizzard won’t say no to someone trying to pay for 40 or more subs.

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money is a non-trivial factor for Blizzard.

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I feel the same way about alts.

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multiboxing is as old as vanilla. It’s allowed and if people are still upset about this… idk what to tell you

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So… Traditional multi-boxing was achieved by actually playing two computers at once (I did it for years in EQ).

What you are talking about is against TOS of WoW (and was against TOS of EQ as well). Any form of automation is a bannable offence. You are talking about botters.

Multiboxing is fine.

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#NoChanges - Multiboxing still happens and people still complain about it :smiley:

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Incorrect, Blizzard said people can use software/hardware keycloners, but it’s not supported and use at your own risk. Blizzard goes by their interpretation of the rules, not yours.

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first thing I think when I still see this is “they must be new around here” lol

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Okay, say Blizzard is convinced and doesn’t think multiboxing should be allowed. What is your plan to prevent it from happening?

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Please read their TOS https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/legal/fba4d00f-c7e4-4883-b8b9-1b4500a402ea/blizzard-end-user-license-agreement and think again.

Of specific interest here is #4

License Limitations. Blizzard may suspend or revoke your license to use the Platform, or parts, components and/or single features thereof, if you violate, or assist others in violating, the license limitations set forth below. You agree that you will not, in whole or in part or under any circumstances, do the following:

  1. Derivative Works: Copy or reproduce (except as provided in Section 1.B.), translate, reverse engineer, derive source code from, modify, disassemble, decompile, or create derivative works based on or related to the Platform.
  2. Cheating: Create, use, offer, promote, advertise, make available and/or distribute the following or assist therein:
  3. cheats; i.e. methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard, influencing and/or facilitating the gameplay, including exploits of any in-game bugs, and thereby granting you and/or any other user an advantage over other players not using such methods;
  4. bots; i.e. any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that allows the automated control of a Game, or any other feature of the Platform, e.g. the automated control of a character in a Game;
  5. hacks; i.e. accessing or modifying the software of the Platform in any manner not expressly authorized by Blizzard; and/or
  6. any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in connection with the Platform and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay or other functionality;
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I have, those rules apply to the player. Blizzard follows their own internal set of guidelines and they decide what is allowable or not. Thank you and try again. You can rule lawyer all you want, but Blizzard says it’s fine, not botting and you don’t get a say in it.

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Nah, this has been around since Vanilla. Far from new.

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What about player driven dual boxing? No cheats, hacks or bots. /follow, 2nd keyboard with macros, manual control. Is that acceptable to you?

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Multiboxing or controlling multiple characters has existed LONG before MMORPGs existed.

Most of the early D&D RPGs from the 80s and early 90s required the player to control a party of characters. Multiboxing is the current version of that playstyle.

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Your example is more comparable to having alts in WoW. In D&D, you don’t have 40 characters all simultaneously going around 1-shotting everything, all acting within milliseconds of each other.

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Although I agree with this and it’s a pretty cogent argument and always has been, they allowed it then and most likely will now.

You don’t run into them that often. I actually got accused of being a multiboxer when my brother and I were running dual mages at the same level in the same room from different comps (the guy obviously didn’t know what multiboxing looks like, we were clearly under two player’s control).

I haven’t run into one in so long I couldn’t even tell you what expansion that was, so I don’t think there will be ever be enough of them to cause serious issue. If for some reason everyone was doing it and it wasn’t this niche thing, I’d expect the company to step in. Are they gonna ruin some BGs at the very least, to be sure, but it’s never been enough of a consistent problem to where blizzard has actually stood against it.

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Notice I said D&D RPGs from the 80’s and 90s. Thats referring to games like Baldur’s Gate. You controlled 5 characters at once. You controlled the entire party as 1 person.

I was NOT referring to the pen and paper game.

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