It’s amazing how multiboxers can both flood the market and drive prices up while representing about 1% of the player base.
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I have read about it how it works and it is the very definition of the word automation. It should be 100% against TOS.
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Each client window is performing a single action in response to a single button press initiated by a human being.
That is 100% not automation.
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I rarely ever see multiboxers. It happens maybe once a month at best, so saying it is out of control is an exaggeration. I get you wanna make gold from farming but they barely impact the market as is, so just get over it lol
yes, 1 human action results in actions in multiple clients, that is 100% automation. You’re fooling yourself if you think otherwise. Yes it is Blizzard sanctioned automation, but it still absolutely is automation.
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I wish they would do this but blizzard is greedy and only cares about money so they are never gonna say no to something that is making them money.
Like I said in the other thread:
It’s easier if the patch new in the first month then it stalls after
Maybe you should go look up the definition of automation then come back to us
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Uh no. Botting is unattended gameplay where the entire set of activities is automated via scripts that predetermine routes and actions. You start the botware and walk away.
Multiboxing is multiple clients where each client responds individually to keystrokes and mouse movements that are multicasted from a single mouse/keyboard. You sit at the computer and make every decision, every keystroke, mouse movement, and mouseclick individually.
That you so easily mistake one for the other is your problem.
If multiboxing is automation I guess I can just log onto all my accounts, use a multibox program, and then my characters will pick all night while I sleep? And this is what you say Blizzard is allowing - for money?
Somehow that sound less like multiboxing, where I have to press a key for every single action my characters make, and more like botting, which is actually automated.
If your characters will do nothing unless you press a key to activate each action they make, it’s not botting.
If your characters are set up so they can perform tasks while you are afk, you’re botting and should be banned.
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i tried to look up info on this…but if you need a program to copy key presses to 9 clients for them to fuction, that seems to border line like your not really in control .
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In Multiboxing if the player walks away all the characters cease actions. They stop and stand around like bumbs at a bus stop.
In botting if the player walks away the characters continue about their business farming, killing, running around etc. Not hard to understand and changing the defintion of words is not going to get Blizzard to ban multiboxers.
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Ok then, so if I set up 9 little 1u blades and run a hardware multicasting KVM switch so that I’m sending that one keystroke to 9 different PCs running WoW with only hardware instead of 9 instances on one PC I’m ok?
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You don’t necessarily need a program to multibox, whereas you do need a program to bot.
I’ve multiboxed 5 accounts picking herbs and ores, all on one computer with only one screen, simply by alt/tabbing. I use no program because I tried one and found it more trouble than it was worth.
As there is no “harvest that node there” command, most harvesting multiboxers, even those who use programs, have to alt/tab between accounts to tell each where to pick. This takes less than 2 seconds for me to do this with 5 accounts, and I’m not particularly dexterous, having painful, rheumatism-stiffened fingers. If you’re watching, you’re not likely to notice the time it takes a nimble, practiced multiboxer to tab between their toons.
People pushing the: “But it’s automation if a program broadcasts a command,” meme don’t realise how little any multibox program does. A purely mechanical set-up can achieve the same, and a person who uses neither that nor a program can achieve virtually the same result.
So there’s really no argument to support banning multiboxers unless you want to go to the extreme of banning multiple accounts - which, as things are, would kill Recruit-a-Friend and greatly annoy many devs.
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the Blizzard launcher even has an option allowing multiple clients to be run at once so anyone with several accounts could MB using that which shows right there Blizz not only doesn’t see an issue with it they even made it possible for players to actually do it
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Multiple pairs of boxers on one unit is inefficient. Recommendation: limit to one pair of boxers.
yeah I tried more than one boxers it chafed something fierce so back to normal briefs
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Still wrong.
Each character is being directly controlled by a human being. The multiboxing software is not generating any commands of it’s own.
No automation is occurring, sanctioned or otherwise. Do some research before you talk about anyone else fooling themselves.
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More multiboxing on the forum, than there is in this game 
This topic has been multiboxed to death. The poor 
lol
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