just because you declare something a fact, doesn’t actually make it a fact.
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I see someone is still pushing the botter’s social engineering campaign.
The reality is that Blizzard actually does care. They do roll out bans to multiboxers, they just do it in ways you wouldn’t normally expect. They can’t ban a person for having multiple accounts, BUT they can bad for “abusing the market” or “botting.”
Most multiboxers are actually just people in 3rd world countries who have made selling gold their job. Even if they only make $200 net gain in a month, they still make more money that way than getting a “proper” job in said country (just for perspective, a doctor in Cuba earns $20 / month).
So, not defending multiboxers, but clarifying the reasons why it came to be.
As long as there’s a market of 1st world middle class players that don’t like to farm, there will be multiboxers that will essentially sell said farming.
This is a systemic issue, Blizzard can’t get rid of it easily just like how they can’t change the world’s economy,
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Um, you got a source for that? I need to tell my friends they are now from a third world country. Two of them live in Texas.
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To touch on this a little further, the only real tangible benefit I can see at the moment…
This is a bigger gold sink than the Longboi ever could be.
All these wasted, scrubbed, instantly spun up accounts being actioned, and removed, have maybe taken more gold out of the economy than anything else, even the whole Gallywix shenanigans.
If all these accounts, be they bots, be they multiboxers, be they whatever… if Blizzard has deemed them actionable, and has removed them, and each of them has dumped lets say… 2million gold on them, for the upkeep of said accounts then maybe that’s the long game.
Very true, and well said, all we can do as players is to keep reporting them, while you and I and Joey B may all differ on opinions, Blizzards opinion on these matters is the only real one that matters in the end.
And I am all but certain they have a plan, because as you also said…
Even if we cannot see it, or adamantly refuse to admit it.
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I do. As an AH tycoon, I actually used to have ties with several multiboxers, and I’d buy resources directly from them, so I could resell profession products later in the AH.
Many of them were eventually banned, one way or another.
I’m not defending them, but it was also hard to not feel bad for them when they’d explain they had essentially lost their livelihood after a ban. Even if not all their accounts were hit, they’d take a significant enough hit to drive some of them out of business.
Okay… care to share it? Most of the multi-boxers I know and sometimes run with are home grown country fed Americans and a few are from Europe. Better let Prepared know he’s been relegated to third world status.
I wouldn’t care about multboxing normally, but now that Blizzard is nerfing raw gold from raids in SL, seems like you either gotta multibox or put up with low profits.
You’re not competing with multiboxers unless you multibox yourself.
It’s just so clearly not the way the game is meant to be played, needs external inputs, creates advantages to those who exploit it and also breaks immersion for everyone else, i just don’t get how Blizzard allows this.
You technically don’t need external inputs.
They make it easier, but not required.
Hooking up a single keyboard to two different PCs via splitter is no different technically than a program doing it on one machine.
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And the tech behind that is old, I was using KVM switches back in the early 90s.
are they ‘poor’ Americans?
For most middle class people, it doesn’t make sense to multibox. It’s a 12-16 h job, of boring, repetitive tasks, that only ends up earning $1-5 an hour.
You’d be better off as an uber driver.
Yep. That was the “original” multi-boxing back in the day. Though people traditionally did it with virtual machines.
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i mean, then as long as they are doing that i’m fine :). As long as it’s one account per physical computer I’m ok with it tbh.
The thing is: they are technologically the same exact process.
The only way to tell the difference between one person using two machines and a program is to actually see the files on their computer.
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If you honestly believe that, then we all have bigger problems than the thousands of bots in the BfA zones.
This means you’ve already lost all hope and are willing to do exactly what they do to “compete”.
I personally stopped using the AH years ago, I’ll buy flasks and food and mats from guildies.
I leave /2, trade chat subscribed even though currently it’s a horrible mess of carry spam.
I simply stopped giving multiboxers my custom, and it’s not affected my game at all.
The only thing they do that affects me is destroying leveling zones.
Every single time I level an alt, or quest for lore… I find them.
And every single time that makes me think less of WoW, but that’s not WoW’s fault, that’s our fault, either for doing it, or for turning a blind eye because the mindset is “Blizzard doesn’t care, and won’t do anything so I should do it too!”.
This week alone I’ve got a load of blues from the Islands because… current content isn’t an appeal, I’ve no interest in corruptions doing my damage for me without pressing my own buttons, I do not care for the essences trivializing the entire talent tree and doing 50+ % of all my damage, and Mythic plus is a horrible system of monotony that I cannot force myself through any longer.
Those transmogs alone will earn me a pretty penny that a Multiboxer cannot compete with, as they won’t run the islands.
You can farm your own mats, you can farm your own items.
You do not need to multibox nor do you need to support multiboxers.
Some may choose too out of laziness or convenience… but that’s a choice, not a must.
I mean I couldn’t multibox even if I wanted too. My computer would explode if I tried to run multiple instances of WoW.
I had a render farm set for 3d Studio, like 12 Pentium boxes, all controlled by one keyboard and mouse. Networking all that was a pain in the rear though. I even had a rig setup the same way when I used to use Lightwave
You could also argue that trying to fight five players at once is kinda an “unfair advantage”.
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Do you make it a habit to take on large groups of characters all at once solo? The outcome is always the same.
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