Boxer here.
If it wasn’t on follow, you’d have the boxer’s toons going all over the place as there always is a teeny-tiny diversion in the angle each toon of a multiboxing setup looks at.
Hence why Blizzard disabling /follow to get rid of AFK bots also affected most multiboxers. There are ways to get around that, but it’s a bit intricate.
Basically, the multiboxer setup replicates key presses, mouse clicks, and mouse interactions to each WoW client. To summarize, replication to multiple client windows is tolerated by Blizzard whereas automation is not. Also, the disabling of /follow on BGs doesn’t bother me at all as I’m of the minority that doesn’t PvP on their setup.
Oh chill. Some of my best times in Vanilla BGs were in the company of a 5 boxer Shaman. Hilarious times.
In eq people not getting groups because every decided to play their own groups meant in a few expansions it was a game far to hostile to potential new players.
You need to group to level in EQ, if everyone is at cap and you cant find a group except during primetime, people started boxing a party for themselves. This hurt the game right before wow was about to drop and we all know how that went for EQ.
There are EQ pservers that are truebox servers, to keep people from multiboxing because in a game designed that way, it does ruin it.
Luckily you dont have to party to level in wow so you can start at level 1 on a server with mostly level capped people and alts and still make it to the level cap in a good amount of time.
I get not liking having people look down on you for your play choice, but it is pay to win, most players are unable or unwilling to dump so much on accounts and a computer that can run multiple copies of the game with a decent framerate.
You pay to get more out of each hour you spend farming, it is pay to win, people didnt like it in the past, dont like it now, wont like it in the future, if you want to talk to people who agree with you, just talk to multiboxers.
Bots are automated. One example, it runs a character on a pre programed path and pick up every node it run across. Press one button and off it goes.
Key stroke cloning is different. You press one key, it presses the same key on all the boxed accounts, but you are still in control of every single one of them.
Its a huge difference.
Multiboxing is total BS and cheating. The only reason its allowed has to be because Blizzard is too hesitant to ban so many accounts at once because of the money they’d lose. It’s a kind of cheating you just have to put up with, and it is really rare, even more rare to find a multiboxer with more than just 5 accounts or so.
Being a multiboxer gives you added protection against being banned for other things too. I remember back in WoD there was this one multiboxer that would always crash events and use toys to cause additional lag and for causing zone disruption and that’s actually a legit cause for a ban, but in order to actually get him banned my entire guild would have to report him several times. If it was just one player on one account somehow doing that sort of thing it would probably only take a few reports, but because its a multiboxer, the threshold for reports is way higher.
Blizzard is like: “oh this guy is clearly causing zone disruption but he’s a multiboxer so lets look the other way this time.”
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I mean I agree. Multiboxing is terrible and shouldn’t be allowed.
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Multiboxers are kind of uncommon, and not really an issue worth coming here about, they’re known to exist and Blizzard allows it.
Mboxers are 100% fine. I’d rather see them than a flavor of the month retailer.
On this point, I will definitely agree. Using your multibox setup in order to crash the server should definitely be treated as a Denial of Service attack, because that’s exactly what it is. The only difference is that it’s being done from within, by abusing the game’s resources.
That I agree 100%, the guy and his entire bunch of accounts should get permabanned, no question about it. The number of accounts he has should NEVER hold any weight, especially considering how financially damageable any sort of DoS attack is to Blizzard. If they don’t ban people who do this, then I agree, they’re dumb.
But hey, I doubt you’ll ever encounter me; I don’t PvP with my setup, and I do my thing on my own.
If there is someone using items in mass to hinder the game where it causes server strain that is bannable and a reportable offence. Paying for multiple accounts is not. If you want to argue causing zone disruption is fine, but alot of multiboxers do not cause disruption, this is caused by other players on mass going near this person who owns multiple accounts. This is the same as say a streamer walking around and mass amounts of people going to him/her. Did the streamer cause this disruption? If the streamer said “Hey everyone come here and spam toys” that could cause server strain and the streamer is aware of this and that is reportable.
Multiboxing where others just go near him causing some issues - not bannble since he is not encouraging the behavior.
Multiboxer spamming toys/items that are causing issues to the world and encouraging players to mass around him - bannable as this is knowingly causing issues.
mutliboxing is fine… it’s you with the problem