No tears here, dear. <3
I guess you don’t know about Warden.
Blizzard has a sniffer program on each computer playing WoW, which can find and identify botting programs.
You’d have to be an idiot to get yourself banned for the sake of catching a few fish while you sleep.
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If it were so profitable you would still be allowed to follow while flagged and they would wholeheartedly support it in the base UI and launcher. I can guarantee that.
Remember the old fishing addon that clicked the bobber for you? That didn’t last long.
Ah, the good old days. =/
My Husband <3 corrected me. The addon just moved your mouse to the bobber so all you had to do was click on it.
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The point that I will reiterate:
Blizzards official position on what is acceptable DOES NOT MATCH what is written in the EULA you must accept when creating an account.
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Blizzard has made it clear that multi-boxing is OK through various posts by employees on their website. However, they do not “expressly authorize” any software, meaning multibox software still falls under the cheating clause in the EULA.
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Hardware methods of botting and/or multiboxing are also covered under “methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard” in #1 under the Cheating definitions.
For every post by Blizzard saying that multiboxing is okay. Keep in mind the the EULA contradicts them in plain English, which was also written by Blizzard:
C. License Limitations. Blizzard may suspend or revoke your license to use the Platform, or parts, components and/or single features thereof, if you violate, or assist others in violating, the license limitations set forth below. You agree that you will not, in whole or in part or under any circumstances, do the following:
ii. Cheating: Create, use, offer, promote, advertise, make available and/or distribute the following or assist therein:
- cheats; i.e. methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard, influencing and/or facilitating the gameplay, including exploits of any in-game bugs, and thereby granting you and/or any other user an advantage over other players not using such methods;
…- any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in connection with the Platform and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay or other functionality;
It doesn’t matter how many times you quote Blizzard saying that multiboxing is allowed, as long as their EULA is written the way it is, there is a massive contradiction.
In short, any software that facilitates gameplay, or any method that gives you an advantage is grounds for license termination.
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That does not say “methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard and authorized methods will listed item by item in the EULA” so Blizzard’s official statements on multiboxing can and should be construed to mean “expressly authorized”. So, no problem, right?
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It has been authorized and does not provide an advantage. You cleared it up for yourself.
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No. It does not. It does not have to be in print to be authorized (are all the addons everyone uses listed there as well?). That’s a Blizzard prerogative not to list those, as the list changes over time.
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Since it IS “expressly authorized”, trying to lump it into those rules is just plain old flat-earth ignorance.
It doesn’t matter how many times you misread those documents. Or take one word more literal than another, you are still wrong.
Edit: And again, I suggest asking Blizzard directly. Open a ticket. It’s quite obvious you’re not going to believe anything posted here.
Ask them is it’s allowed and why.
Ask them why Authorized third-party programs aren’t listed.
Ask them why your brain can’t read and understand legal print.
Good day, fine troll!
Multiboxing as a method is authorized, but the specific software is not. If you can do it without any software and/or code it would appear to be allowed by the EULA. Blizzard has made it a point not to officially authorize any specific multiboxing software. They simply say multiboxing itself is okay.
There are two relevant cheating definitions. Multiboxing software is covered by the last one: “code and/or software that changes and/or facilitates gameplay”
“It dOEsN’t mEaN WhAt It SaYs!!!”
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That isn’t how it reads. You are purposefully misinterpreting the language.
This is the entire section, again:
Cheating: Create, use, offer, promote, advertise, make available and/or distribute the following or assist therein:
- cheats; i.e. methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard, influencing and/or facilitating the gameplay, including exploits of any in-game bugs, and thereby granting you and/or any other user an advantage over other players not using such methods;
- bots; i.e. any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that allows the automated control of a Game, or any other feature of the Platform, e.g. the automated control of a character in a Game;
- hacks; i.e. accessing or modifying the software of the Platform in any manner not expressly authorized by Blizzard; and/or
- any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in connection with the Platform and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay or other functionality;
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- Methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard - They’ve authorized multiboxing software as 1 action per 1 keypress per client.
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- Any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard that allows the automated control of a game - the software doesn’t automate control of the game. It falls under the constraint of 1 action per 1 keypress per client.
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- accessing or modifying the software of the platform in any manner - the software doesn’t do this. At all.
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- software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that can be used in conjunction with the platform and/or any component or feature thereof which changes and/or facilitates the gameplay or functionality. - Same as applies above. 1 keypress = 1 action per client. The software does not make changes to nor does it faciliate gameplay. What facilitate here means to make easy or easier.
Note: It seems you’re trying very hard to make line 4 your case. To expand on line 4 the facilitation of gameplay would be software that makes your in game experience easier. Not outside of the game. The distinction being I buy a 21:9 monitor and now I see more of the world. Is that a bannable offense? Of course not because line 4 specifically addresses in game gameplay. Multiplexing isn’t gameplay.
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NO! YoU ArE ToO DenSE to read it correctly!?!
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Wait, how did ya figure that one out? 
You got any evidence to support that claim?
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If anything, Multiboxers help limit AH prices by putting more product into the AH than what would have been if they hadn’t been multiboxing.
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I’ve reiterated numerous times on these boards over many years I did it without any program to help until probably year two of legion. You do not need any program to facilitate running multiple accounts in the slightest sense. Hell, you don’t even need multiple computers or the latest hardware to run multiples on one machine these days. I do five on the computer my Husband (loves you) built for me a few years ago with every account on maximum settings with multiple monitors.
Stop arguing semantics and get to the bloody point. What is your problem with it?
It’s not cheating, with or without programs, because the people that make the rules says so, and have said so since well before the servers launched. A lot of us were doing it in EQ and were told there would be no support, but it would not be frowned upon, period.
There is no conspiracy regarding them allowing it due to the money they make off us because there are not enough of us and they do not support it. If we were that prevalent, and if it were that profitable, I guarantee you isboxer, and all it entails, would be part of their base UI and launcher. The game would be designed around it for Pete’s sake. They lost their most profitable boxors when they disabled follow while flagged so it’s obvious they do most certainly not care about boxor money. They knew they were going to lose money on that and still changed it.
What’s unfair about other 'toons getting to a mob or node before you? Whether it’s a boxor or not the result will be the same if you get there after the timer has expired for a node or the critter dies. Put on your big-girl britches, dry them eyes, and wait your turn, cupcake. It will spawn again. There are numerous reasons why the herbing and mining systems are screwed up and it hasn’t a damn thing to do with boxoring. You might want to start crying about CRZ here. I see more asterisks getting nodes before me than I do boxors.
Again… you can be damn well sure if the farmers, gold sellers, or whoever is boxoring had a severe impact on your precious economy as you exaggerists claim I guarantee you they would change it. Just because you get undercut on the auction house doesn’t mean it was some big bad boxor.
I’m not even going to humor the PvP arguments anymore. WoW PvP has been, and always be, a flippin joke until it’s a separate game or there are dedicated teams to both PvP and PvE. You getting one-shotted by a boxor twice a year should be the least of your concerns regarding WoW PvP.
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Why can’t we just buff zin’athid spawns or nerf the cost of pots/flasks then?
Or, as we’ve been hoping and praying since it’s damnable inception, disable CRZ? Pretty please with sugar and my little ponies on top?
i dont think this is a multiboxing issue but a issue with blizzard now knowing how crazy there subs are.
If anything, they should just revamp gathering professions to account for mad lads.
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False. They have not authorized any multiboxing software.