In Looking for Dungeon with one person multi boxing 4 accounts. 2 accounts are doing nothing. Unable to kick. I end up getting kicked because I am playing with one account. Is multi boxing allowed just because Blizzard wants money? Or is there another reason? Multiboxing should not be allowed.
I have 2 accounts, I always play 2 characters at the same time, though not actually boxing. But twice the chance at a rare mount each time I run a raid. Works for me.
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As far as I know it has nothing to do with money. The number of multi-boxers who pay for their accounts with cash instead of in-game gold is pretty small. It has more to do with this behavior not violating the core ToS. There is no real automation since I believe the controls for alt characters are simply mirroring the controls of the main. Itâs not an exploit or hack since it doesnât allow you to do anything outside the normal game rules.
But the biggest reason is probably the difficulty in tracking this type of behavior. How do you tell the difference between a multiboxer and five people playing on a LAN from the same room? The GMs donât have time to follow around every suspected person and try to infer what theyâre doing. If they started cracking down the MB community would simply alter the way their interface works to make it less obvious. Then they risk banning people by mistake. Other forms of hacks and cheats are much easier to track and prove.
That being said, I would have no problem with banning multiboxers. It doesnât personally affect me. But it just feels shady.
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This has to be one of the oldest complaints in the game. Iâm sure I recall seeing the same sort of posts back when I started in Wrath.
And the response to people asking for it to be banned is always the same - if Blizzard were going to ban it, they would have done so well before now. As frustrating as it may be for you, I cannot see it happening anytime soon.
Make note of the names of the characters. Put them on your Ignore list for any characters you feel inclined to. Hopefully doing that you will not see them in dungeons again.
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If that was the case, either it wasnât a multiboxer, or they didnât know what they were doing. That being said, how many times have you had this experience. Also, blizzard has said it wonât be many times. Multiboxing is allowed because a player has to control the characters.
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Multi-boxing has been a thing for as long as I can remember, so thereâs zero chance itâs going to be banned now. It doesnât really bother me though because itâs very rare that I encounter them, and theyâve only inconvenienced me once when I was running a quest and a multiboxer with a pet class had overrun the quest area and was killing the mobs as soon as they spawned.
WoW tokens give Blizzard MORE money than normal subs, itâs just paid for by someone else.
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Blizzard looks at each WoW account as a separate thing and not who âownsâ the account. I could have 50 account and thatâs 50 separate accounts to Blizzard not one customer.
So you played with 4 different accounts according to Blizzard. Now if those accounts are operated by one person, that doesnât matter to Blizzard. As long as they are operated by someone and not something. Then itâs fine.
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While I think you have a point, I see why blizzard would look away when people are spending 5 times as much money in the game.
I think they probably get so many false reports that it takes an exceptional amount of evidence to get them to act.
Report them for actual violations, not for being multiboxers.
They walk as clumps of 5 players completely synchronized. This is the easiest thing to detect I can think of.
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Thatâs a multiboxer. Multiboxing is not against the rules.
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if it makes them money its not against ToS, capitalism
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Look at the title of the thread.
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a minute amount of research would have found hundreds if not thousands of threads about multi-boxing over the years.
I see some people still want to beat that dead horse.
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Multiboxing where it impacts the enjoyment of the game for others seems like a textbook âLawful Evilâ type of thing, heh. Theyâre technically not âbreaking the rulesâ, even if their actions go against the spirit of the game.
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Your issue isnât with âMultiboxersâ, its with those running multiple accounts but putting one (or more) on follow thus doing nothing. There really needs to be an official name difference between actual multiboxers and those running multiple instances of the game and only actively playing oneâŠ
Leechboxers? Lazyboxers? HmmmâŠ
Anyway, the scenario you mentioned is extremely rare⊠like⊠rarer than actual Multiboxers honestly⊠I am not saying its an invalid gripe though.
Perhaps Blizzard should consider giving players with multiple instances of WoW running off the same only 1 vote for all the accounts on that single machine. Idk, really I can not think of anything to really counter that and, again I am not trying to invalidate it, I really donât think its that rampant to be an actual issue. Its bad luck on your part but really its one of those things you probably just need to move on with. With that said, perhaps someone here has a good idea on how to deal with those few players.
Saying it should flat out be against the ToS though, especially when referring to Multiboxing in such a broad sense of the term, is kind of short sighted. Though its great for attracting the anti-multiboxer crowd 
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Itâs a money thing to Blizz.
Oh Iâm sure they get TONS of false reports, I didnât actually know about multiboxing until Legion even though Iâve played since Vanilla, so for all those years I always thought they were bots and reported them as such 
Yes.
Also yes.
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