Multiboxers have no place in an RPG

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40 accounts x $14.99=~$599.60 a month
Even if they were all a 12 month sub at $12.99 that’d still be $519.60.

Blizzard is getting it’s money. They don’t care. :rofl::rofl::rofl:

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This issue has been discussed to death on the World of Warcraft forums. If we change our stance regarding multi-boxing, you’ll know it.
Daxxarri – Community Manager 12/5/2012

The decision to allow multiboxing has much to do with a person’s ability to be registered to multiple accounts. If we did not allow it, you would only be able to have one World of Warcraft account, ever. That would cause a number of complications that we sometimes still see today, due to a misunderstanding of our policies, but the issue would be exacerbated greatly if we were to limit things to a single license per user.
Once the determination was made the allow a person to have multiple WoW licenses registered to a single Battle.net or even multiple licenses under the same name, how many becomes entirely irrelevant.

Two, ten or thirty, or more, the rules still apply. As long as the person registered to the account is the one in direct control of those characters, it is not against our policies to do so.

Vrakthris – Support Forum Agent 6/29/2012

Tom Chilton: [Laughs] Well, we actually are perfectly content to endorse multi-boxing to some reasonable degree. If a person wants to go out and buy a second account and power-level themselves, we’re okay with that.

Sources: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/8156016099

(This one has really good formatting)

This post is from support

Is Multiboxing Okay?

Updated: 10 months ago

Article ID: 11704

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I’m worried my account will be actioned for multiboxing

Multiboxing, or playing multiple World of Warcraft accounts at once, is not a violation of our Terms of Use. We do not actively support multiboxing tools. For questions about setting up or running multiboxing you will need to refer to third-party sites such as WoW Wikki.

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I see this all the time, but I just don’t believe there are enough people doing this to even be a blip on their financial radar. Even with the sub drops, it’s just not that much money. I just truly think they don’t see anything wrong with it.

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See the post directly below yours, they want people to be able to play on multiple accounts and going after multiboxing would mess that up, so yeah, they want those extra subs. :slight_smile:

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Get off my thread.

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So have you just been posting in this thread in the hopes to advertise your twitch page?

Not a wise decision.

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I think that’s just called dreaming. :wink:

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Nuh uh! I swear there’s single player modules out there…Maybe.

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Doesn’t multi-boxing require automation? Making it similar to boting in the grand scheme of things. If addons that play the game for you aren’t allowed how is multi-box mirroring automation any different?

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That’s my stance on the issue, I’ve encountered them so rarely I can’t remember but it’d have to be less than 5 times in 13 years. If everyone was doing it maybe they’d reexamine their policy toward it, but imo it’s kind of like getting beat down by an oldschool magic deck, the guy paid to beat you and it likely wasn’t very fair, but more power to him and move on, he’s probably the only one in town with those cards so it’s not such a detriment that .1% or fewer players have them. Same with multiboxing, people will spend for those extra accounts and rigs, but by no means are they even remotely typical players.

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It’s inappropriate for a single person to be able to degrade the performance of the game so significantly. Whenever they play, they have the potential to cause issues wherever they go.

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Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker!!

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Define “automation”.

Does it require complex software provide by someone not Blizzard? Nope, definitely not.

Does such software exist and give some people a far superior advantage? Yes, definitely.

The term ‘multi-boxing’ only refers to one person playing multiple accounts at once. The “How” of that is as wide and varied as the number of people doing it. The only additional thing I have for dual-boxing not provided by Blizzard is a 2nd PC with a USB keypad on it.

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ROFL you guys are SOOOO paranoid. I dont have a twitch page. I dont stream.

See my post above on how to multibox without software.

Blizzard definition:
1 keypress can equal 1 action per character is ok (ie multiboxing)
1 press = multiple actions on one character is NOT ok (ie botting)

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(WoW forums Poster): Add in a 3rd party program. You press ONE button and all 5 screens react. How exactly is that fair/legit? It’s not. The ability to control 5 computers at once with 1 single keyboard and 1 single press of a button is automation. The ability to make your characters cast their individual spells and skills at once by pressing 1 button is automation.

Is not automation by our standards. This is why multi-boxing is just fine. Multi-boxing, currently, is not a violation of our policies. That is all.” – Malkatorix, Blizzard Poster 2013

“Think of a single key-press as a lever. You pull the lever, and something happens.

Think of multi-boxing as simply attaching 5 levers to a single handle. You’re still only pulling one lever, it just affects more than one something.

Now, think of automation as a lever attached to a set of gears and pulleys. You pull the lever, and a whole slew of bits and bobs start working, gears whirring, pulleys spinning. You might pull a lever, but it sets a process in motion that would be impossible with an ordinary pull of the lever if those gears and pulleys were not in place. Automation can apply to a single character just as much as it could with multiple characters.

The point is that the ‘something’ that occurs spools out without direct human involvement aside from the initial pull of the lever. That is automation. Even if it’s only a single extra step.

In multi-boxing, every action taken by those characters has its source in a human command. Each individual action. Thus, it is not automation.”

Malkorix, Blizzard Poster

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Many animations throughout the game are not very realistic at all. Have you seen two melee classes going at it? Might as well just scrap it all.

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I’m not sure I ever played by myself (did a lot of creation work myself), but I have played entire parties of characters with just me and a DM. When that’s all you’ve got are two people, it’s more fun than just being one guy with a bunch of NPCs.

I find three people is the likable minimum for tabletop MMOs, they get wonky for some reason when there’s only the guy running the game and one guy making all the decisions from a player standpoint. Back in the days of yore when I was 14 or so and just me and my best friend at the time were into it (we lived in “D&D-is-satan”-ville, it took us a couple years to get a proper group together), we worked with what we had.

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Multiboxing being against the ToS is not in dispute here btw.

The argument I’m making is that moving forward it should not be allowed. Nothing good comes from it. The more people speak up, the better chance there is that Blizzard will listen.

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Your EXACT complaint has been made for 15 years. They are not changing their minds now.

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