Not really, it is much easier, more cost effective, for botting software to use broadcasting software for some types of farming (farming mobs for example). If their primary goal is to impact bots then targeting broadcasting software makes perfect sense. Since other means of doing the same thing are either more expensive or much more complex.
P.S. And this particular type of botting seems to have become more prevalaent in BFA and looks like it could have an even bigger impact on SL.
Why would the economy be inflated? If everyone is a multiboxer then the economy is as it should be for the players on that realm.
Ok ⊠thanks for the sweet respond .
Mabye youâre right, imagine the BGS would be crazy⊠just 2 guys controlling all of the characters or literally 1 guy
You should try playing them all at the same time 
Thatâs the argument people just keep saying but their statement was bots AND automation. It makes no sense to only go after this software only for botting because botting already carries max penalty.
Well Iâm going to ignore the p2w part of what you said since you arenât winning anything (but we can have that conversation if you want 
), but yes, thatâs exactly what I think Blizz is doing.
/10char/10char
Iâd love a multiboxer only server 
As long as only multiboxers are allowed, if I see a solo player Iâm reporting them
I think blizzardâs intention is to get rid of it and they just werenât litigious enough with their wording and now its being misread by the whole player base. As others have pointed out just going after software would do nothing to botters anyways they will just use hardware too. Thatâs if they even care. None of these changes actually affect botters they just bot and throw away the account.
Iâve said the same in another thread. I pray at night a Blue will come and say âwe meant hardware broadcasting tooâ or âhardware boxxing is fineâ
Blizz I know youâre reading this, thatâs all you have to do. Blizz Plz
Their definition of automation has always been one keypress one action per client. None of the new changes have modified that stance. In other words in the past sending a single keypress to mulitple clients was fine. Now one method of doing that, broadcasting software, has been targeted as actionable.
Using say a keyboard macro to do 3 things that are not instant cast, even on a single client, is, and always has been actionable.
Blizzard defines what they consider automation, we donât. So I can only go by what theyâve stated.
Please clarify then what automation they are talking about in their post banning the software then? What automation is the key streaming software providing besides key streaming? Edited to add in I know of a few things just want to see what you come up with.
Pfft donât even bother bro. âAutomationâ is whatever Blizz says it is at the moment.
To give you some ammo for the future they were banning a lot of people for using the auto screen resizing features. Doubt they would ban an entire piece of software for a pretty inert thing like that though.
Thereâs no point in saying stuff like this unless you can provide evidence of it. I canât just take your word for it 
Thatâs like you getting a speeding ticket when you werenât speeding and everyone else was.
Terminology is important. So far as I know there is no such thing as key streaming software, it is key broadcasting software. Key broadcasting software is software specificially designed to send a single keypress to multiple windows. There are legitimate uses for it, but it is mostly used in gaming. Google key broadcasting software and youâll see a number of examples.
The availabity, and ease of setup, for this type of software is probably responsible for the explosion of its use, particularly by bots. So it makes sense for Blizzard to target this particular software while permitting multi-boxing with more complex/expensive/less efficient methods. If the software ban doesnât work maybe theyâll consider additional restrictions. But the only current ban is on that very specific type of software key broadcasting software.
Thatâs kind of defensive over features people reported getting banned for in software that is now completely banned.
I mean, I just want proof lol. Since Iâm sure you arenât lying since youâre my forum bro and wouldnât do that to me you must have a link to provide.
I humbly request it