External macroing in and of itself is banned by the ToS.
No it isnât. Having external macros doing more than is possible by macros in game is.
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Youâre talking automation I agree with that so many wrong in it ,but some are complaining for others reasons .Multi-boxing I believe is good if done right ,yet itâs been used for all the wrong purposes ,only way truly to stop them is have a record of them doing the wrong.
This reporting by them to ban people for whatever reason should be looked into.
Still that now. 1 keypress = 1 action = 1 client. If Blizzard is gonna action you for software use to control your computer and how it operates, might as well gig you for using mouse drivers and keyboard drivers.
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It has been and was proven to be false. There is no right-click report that leads to an automated ban.
In the instance where a bunch of players put in false tickets to get someone banned, those players ended up with their accounts actioned for false reports to a GM.
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why are you telling us? if you think blizzard is enforcing their own rules incorrectly, tell THEM.
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What âgoodâ can come from allowing one person to control multiple accounts? Single handedly dominating in BGs or world PvP? Single handedly overtaking the econemy for a servers herb supply? Sitting there tab target killing mobs in high respawn areas for world drop mounts (though Iâm like 90% certain this one is bots)? Those are the only things people use multiboxing for now. Before hand, the only other addition was that people would solo dungeons by controlling 5 accounts at once.
There was literally one person controlling, I believe one of my guild mates counted 20 accounts comprising mostly of DKâs with a few resto shaman in the group as well, standing on the portal to Zuldazar from New Home, killing everyone who showed up on that shard while completely preventing us from leaving.
I donât understand what kind of âgoodâ can come from allowing one person to use external software or hardware to control multiple accounts. The only things I see from the multiboxing community is controlling economies, farming gold (still economy related), farming mounts (again, economy related), etc. There is nothing that benefits the overall community by allowing people to do this. The only people that benefit from this is Blizzard, padding their pockets by allowing certain loopholes to their banned external macroing implementation.
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Thatâs not what I said automation of a multiboxer .I was referring to in the other sentence to the complaining of multi-boxers reporting false claim on people to be ban. Had nothing to do with a person automatically getting people ban by report totally different.
So? This whole rant is that multiboxers are hurting you by making it harder for you to make gold?
When you multi-box some are not intending to do Bgâs or herb them are rising toonâs it faster that way but for what reason is beyond me. I have two accounts and sometime have a toon on fallow tell me is that botting or multi-boxing?
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Itâs more about scuffing the economy up and griefing.
thatâs the thing though, the issue has changed a lot since vanilla. the issue multi boxxers pose now is just⌠different.
- farming boe mounts, or even just rare bop mounts
- node changes that allow for 10 players to farm a single node
- being able to pay for your subscription⌠with the gold you made from the above
- world pvp events that provide worthwhile rewards for winning
- auction house changes that actually benefit mass posting. while I agree with the changes they made to the AH, it actually makes posting in mass more profitable as prices are far more stable
none of that stuff existed in vanilla.
So it is about you not being able to make gold and gouging other players. Crying âBut the economyâ is a red herring.
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Thatâs neither. Thatâs having two accounts open, doing the quest chain on one account and having to tab out to turn it in on another account.
But for others that donât know this itâs botting and boxing.
Iâm sorry, what? I donât understand.
You have no proof of this. It is entirely speculation.
How much money are we talking about here? $400-$600 a month from someone who plays up to 40 characters, maybe? Out of the millions Blizzard makes on game-time alone? The money spent by multi-boxers is statistically insignificant.
They banned over 74,000 accounts recently. Thatâs a lot of money. I would hazard a guess that itâs more accounts than are used by multi-boxers.
The excuse that money is the reason Blizzard allows multi-boxing is poorly researched. Itâs lame.
If that was how it worked (itâs not), why arenât players grouping in to raids to mass-report bots?
A bunch of conspiracy theories that the gullible believe.
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You are arguing points that have already been made en masse, and I have changed my arguments to reflect these points.
then⌠nothing would happen.
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poorly researched. itâs lame?
clearly there is a reason why blizzard allows it at the cost of the experience of other players. When a 40 man multiboxxer was sitting in Ashran for weeks ruining the experience for 1,000âs of players, do you think thatâs a good and healthy gaming experience? When the same person was using the in game resport system to mute players or have them actually banned⌠this isnât even that long ago.
They have tolerated for one thing only. money. Thatâs it. The multi boxxers they have banned are in direct conflict with that. Donât trade money for gold and guess what, you donât get banned.