From a neutral point of view, we can have a lot less of these threads if
We can all just accept the fact that Multiboxing is here to stay.
Not all Multiboxers exploit, yet some do. Multiboxing is a means, it is not an end. Cheaters exploit, they just use multiboxing as a means to do so. Just like you use a knife to prepare food while some use knives to hurt people. Saying all Multiboxers cheat is like calling all knife users murderers. Some multibox to rp, some multibox for an epic druid mount, and some use them for an unfair advantage only obtainable out of the game etc.
Accept the fact that Multiboxing for resources and quest items affect gameplay for non- multiboxers. Quit asking for evidence when they are staring at you in the face. Look at how many angry people are making threads to vent their frustration.
Stop acting like hypocrites and accept that fact. So what if you have been acting selfishly? Just accept the fact that you are a selfish person, let the people vent, and get on with your multiboxing ways. No one is judging you.
Stop arguing over definitions. Just accept the game as what it is and move on. Everyone wants to vent, so vent and go. If you read someone venting, just let them be.
The only people doing that are the ones that claim multiboxing is cheating. They are hoping if they stomp their feet enough by spamming threads they can get their way almost like young children.
When I farm ores and herbs, I press alt+ESC and manually click on my mouse for each character. Not every one uses broadcasting to farm… I don’t. In any case, it doesn’t matter, it’s a playstyle I’m not ashamed of doing and will stand my ground defending my playstyle at every turn.
There aren’t nearly enough multiboxers to have any noticeable impact on the number of total active accounts.
Not to mention, Blizzard doesn’t break down their MAUs by game anymore. Otherwise we’d be able to still tell how many WoW subscribers there are. So you’re looking at tens of millions of players across all of their games. Multiboxers are a drop in the bucket.
This is certainly against the rules. Actually I found a nice little collection of blue posts recently on Icy-Veins from 2018 (though the blue posts themselves are older it’s just a nice collection )
“Allow me to set your argument to rest. This:
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.
The moment that single keypress initiates a string of actions not normally possible via our base macro system for an individual character, then that is a different matter. It is also a separate offense.
Multi-boxing, currently, is not a violation of our policies.
That is all.”
So anyone pressing one button and getting “numerous actions” is breaking the EULA, multiboxing or not. Luckily that’s not what happens with multiboxing, you press one button and your characters perform one action.
The people doing this sort of thing on a large enough scale to impact the economy are botters. Multiboxers still need to sleep and would eventually get bored doing the same thing for weeks on end. Meanwhile a bot doesn’t care about any of that, so they can farm 24/7 with no breaks and earn a ridiculous amount of gold because Blizzard takes so long to do anything about them.
Walmart/Amazon vs. Mom-and-pop stores and local restaurants.
Forced to buy token - For Single-account players a single player, multi-boxing undermines the economy making gold per hours effort extremely difficult if not impractical to make gold. Increasing the likelihood you’d buy gold tokens… Blizzard Wins.
Wants to buy token - For those people that just want to end-game and then go play something else, multi-boxers helps them get the cheapest prices… prices cheaper than an individual could justify. Buy gold tokens, get most materials for the price… Blizzard Wins on subs and tokens.
Pays more subs - For those people that want to multi-box… Blizzard gets multiple subs… Blizzard Wins on subs.
Loser Player - The only person that suffers is the one trying earn the gold in-game and compete… and who cares about them… they just eat CPU time from Blizzard and provide them only a single sub… useless player.
Be warned, if you start reporting because they are multiboxing and you hate multiboxers, you can be banned/suspended for abuse of the in game report feature. There are threads on reddit about people this has happened to.
Most likely because your reporting hasnt triggered an auto ban. I usually report people on all my accounts if they harass me or try to report me on multiple accounts.
lol well it does, even if its something built into windows itself, if you have 2 clients running you can only even have 1 as the main active client, its like any ANY windows application i mean you can have 50 things open but if you hit alt f4 it only closes 1, that being the “top” one the actual active one. There is absolutely no way around it, if you have a bunch of things open and hit a key, that key only applies to the currently active thing with everything else effectively background. UNLESS you have software that mirrors the keypress into those other windows. And suddenly you are using software to make things happen, you are not alt tabbing between each client.
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no one does it like that. It NEEDS software no matter how generic. Of course anyone who actually savvy and wants to get the best out of multiboxing uses something proper like that ISBoxer or whatever is similar. I tinkered with ISBoxer a bit in eve online before CCP decided to outlaw broadcast software.
if you shut down my quest area you better believe i’ll report you for zone disruption. I dont care if you have more dollars than skill that means nothing because i dont need to pay more to “succeed”. So it seems that you are the one who is a bad player. PS your kind are useless in bg’s too I will never forget the multiboxer i ran into in a bg long ago, we’d kill the main then farm the pathetic blob of inactive drones it was an easy win and a great honor farm for my entire team!
im quite convinced that the swarms of horde druids in stormsong valley are just multiboxers, but they sure do shut down that zone for extended periods of time, many many hours each day, they often have several packs in the shipyard area where the storyline funnels through making that zone impossible to finish, but I have found if i hover over them and report them they do slowly trickle out of the phase, they do return again eventually so i dont know… i dont believe they are bots but they are a nuisance obstructing gameplay over an extended period of time with no pvp solution as they cannot even be baited into aggression
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