Out of 14 years of playing Wow I’ve encountered 1 group of 4 Multiboxing in a dungeon and even then it was Ragefire Chasm so it was a joke, and from there I’ve encountered 2 others that were legit 2 toon boxing and dealing dmg with both as DPS so there was no complaints from me about it as tank. Overall, you are correct that is rare considering the thousands of dungeons that have been run from Start to now.
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You have to in put the commands manually. even though it “ghosts” them its still a manual input. I dont agree with it… But it’s up to blizzard.
There are plenty of players that are single-boxing and basically afk’ing through dungeons and lfrs.
So unless we do something about them too, not sure I see a problem.
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I’d argue this part here is the “automation.” One input results in 2-40 outputs. Blizzard specifically broke cast sequence macro’s to prevent this, but if all the actions are the SAME that’s ok?
As for your other argument i don’t see why they can’t treat it the same way they do any other botter. When people report it a GM observes it’s actions for a short time and once they confirm it is in fact a multi BOTTER, they ban.
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“Everyone should play the game the way I want them to play it.”
- WoW complainers, since 2004
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I will occasionally run a lower level second account character through a dungeon on my main account, but the XP hit since 7.3.5 makes it counterproductive. I hardly ever log on two accounts at the same time any more. Guild invites are probably the main reason, or maybe some flight path discoveries for a new character to help them hit the ground running.
Pretty much lol. The gist of these threads= mom, and dad won’t let me have the money to run two accounts, to get a double fill on my gaming addiction, so nobody should be allowed to lol.
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Personally I think it should be against the ToS. All but 1 account is the active (foreground) running copy of the game. All others are minimized and not being directly controlled by the player.
Also WAY WAY back in the days I use to see Ele Shaman boxers in battle grounds. They would enter with 5 accounts and run around just completely wrecking solo people because they can instantly focus down one person. I have no problem with 5 people trying to coordinate the focus fire on 1 person with the same spell at the same time. Even then it wouldn’t be all 5 at the exact same time.
Or it could be four guys on /follow who are too lazy to memorize a dungeon layout.
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Make your own MMO and you can enforce your version of the rules. Till then, Blizzard says it’s fair.
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I never said I was trying to enforce my rules. I simply gave my input and opinion and I feel that this should be against the ToS. I’m allow to do this here on the forums. If you say other wise then you’re breaking the forums ToS.
Have a good day.
Everybody pays with cash.
People who pay with gold just use other people’s cash.
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Not really. I’ve multi-boxed up to 5 accounts. Normally it is just between 2 and 4 usually when leveling. I tile my windows and can see all of my characters simultaneously. Even if you choose to overlay your screens you can see your characters and switching is a simple key combination.
I don’t PvP while multi-boxing, mostly because multi-boxers are at a disadvantage against even moderately organized attacks in PvP. The occasional large world PvP multi-boxers are rare, but fun to watch 
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Continue to cry wolf and report people for things that are not against the rules when you could be reporting them for breaking rules and having action taken.
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You young whipper snappers. Back in my day there were no multiboxers. Only actual botters using scripts and macros to run constant afk circuits. Ah the good old days. Hopefully classic will bring that back too. Wouldn’t be the same without it. That and free for all ninja looting. Good times.
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Honestly, I’m inclined to agree.
You can argue that he’s paying for all of those accounts, and so long as he isn’t automating the process, then it isn’t really against ToS - yet, I don’t see how piloting one character and the others mimicking those actions isn’t automated.
It strikes me as a P2W, if you can afford it, there’s pretty much only massive benefits.
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…You’re joking right?
Anyways yea multi-boxing is fine.
Multiboxing means all characters are acting at the same time.
If two are doing nothing, that’s not multiboxing.
A friend and I often do dungeons together, each bringing a toon from another account who does nothing - because we haven’t got round to setting up multiboxing. This would account for what you were seeing.
However we never do this with strangers. If we want a fifth a friend who is happy to trio the dungeon like this comes along.
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They want money. I agree it should be against TOS because 1 keypress shouldn’t control more than one toon. There is technology out there to prevent it also. If Everquest can run truebox servers “Servers where you only have one account per computer.” then you know Blizzard could do it.
Multi-boxers don’t like shadow boxers - ie: mute corpses that do nothing.