Multiboxers were a big issue when it came to bots. The average multiboxer that only used it to level alts quickly, or to possibly help farm their own mats got caught in the crossfire. One bad apple spoils the bunch.
I went from seeing a group of 10+ druid boxes hitting nodes up and flat out being unable to get them because the druid box drained them before I could get to them, or watching a group of druids lock down an area making it impossible for someone to quest there, to seeing none of that happen.
Itâs quite possible this might be true, but the bots multiboxxing absolutely flooded the auction house with mats and tanked the market within the first week of BfA. Player multiboxing might not have been an issue, but bots doing it certainly was and so Blizzard just blanket banned the software rather than âWell in this caseâŚâ which was the best thing to do.
Ruins world PvP. Groups of 5-10 boomkins kill players instantly.
Ruins the economy. Players are able to farm at 10x the rate of a single player with a single toon. All that gold then gets funneled back to ONE player.
They fully tap nodes that were intended to give players a chance at farming. The MB then exploited that and the nodes were still tappedâŚ
It drastically increases the chance for reward. If youâre trying to farm a mount in the world, your chances go up for each additional toon youâre controlling. Not only does this make it hard for solo players to farm the same item, but it reduces the overall value of the item as well. The world boe mounts at the start of BFA were worth next to nothing in the first week. What should have been a rare item was flooded because of MBâers farming hyperspawn points.
It allows players to exploit old content that was intended for raids. Some old raids canât be soloâed any longer and the multiboxers do it easily.
They ruin instanced pvp all the time. Groups of 5 are common, but I have seen as many as 20+ in Ashran.
Yea. There were always groups of them in VolâDun on the hyperspawn points. Always. The mounts went from being 150-250k to under 20k in the first week or so. They completely flooded the market. Same with the BOEâs.
You couldnât even compete with them. Everything just died instantly so if you tried to make a 4x4, you were out of luck. On a number of occasions, we had groups already going and they would just come and take it over. Pretty sure they were just trolling⌠regardless, we would usually break up pretty quick.
Each character does the same amount as any other character, the player does it x number of times (x being the amount of boxed accounts) which takes x times the amount of effort.
multiboxing became bannable if caught with broadcasting software and then instantly bots increased , looks to me multiboxers just swaped to full botting now since they cant do it on their main accounts , i have tried on several threads to increase the initiative , make a rewarding system for reporting the cheaters , get some transmog , mounts or toys i dunno something to get people to hunt them , kill them and report them but so far no reply from blizzard.
To me multiboxers just swapped to full botting thats why you dont see them that often , and yet again i have seeing several multiboxers lately but as soon as i start following them to report they all turn into cat form and prowl .
ROFL the entire point of a bot is toons that can run without player interaction. If they know youâre following them and they turn into a cat, that means someone is controlling them meaning theyâre MB and not bots.
p.s. An actual MB has no reason to hide from you. MB is still allowed. They probably wanted to get away from the creeper following them around, spewing nonsense at them.
So, if you know this why didnât you do this while you being ganked from time to time in Nazjatar by that multi-boxing team of 10 or whatever it was? Youâve actually complained that it slowed you down when the option was always there for that time period to simply turn off War Mode.
The option was also always there to find a PvP solution to a PvP problem. I find it hard to believe that a Horde player on Tich has no one that could come around to help out to take out this hated multi-boxer.
You also could have used the LFG tool to jump realms just like people do today for farming things like Blanchy, hence helping to separate yourself from this problem and staying in War Mode.
Thing is - solutions to your problem existed, you choose not to participate in any of them and instead cry about how it was hard on you while blaming multi-boxing for this perceived injustice.
You also seem to think this is an either-or problem - either youâre for the evil multi-boxers or against them when a lot of players, myself included probably run a lot more towards ambivalent. Do I care if it exists? Nope. Do I think when you can run an entire BG by yourself itâs pushing it? Yep. Do I think it needed to be banned? Nope, maybe just reigned in a bit.
At the end of the day, I havenât seen it solve a lot. WTS spam is still all over the place and active, people buying gold from third parties is still very active, farm places are still up and running by botters. All of this stuff wonât go away until both Blizzard finds a way to combat botting better and players stop buying these services.
Banning the broadcasting software thatâs been in play for years at this point was an over-simplified solution to a far deeper problem in-game that needs to be combated from multiple different angles.
They are saying they donât like pvp. If you donât want to PvP⌠you can completely avoid them. I wanted to do the PvP events in Nazjatar. Beyond that I was there farming achievements, I also enjoyed the PvP there when it wasnât being exploited by the multiboxers.
We do make groups, but that is besides the point. They were already out there farming. Itâs not like I have 10+ players at my beck and call waiting to dispense judgement on the mean multiboxers! lol. Be realistic. Sometimes you can, but most of the time itâs just you dying and moving on until they leave.
Yes. I did that often to find rares.
Nope. None of what you said there is true.
They earned and deserve the blame. Just because I have solutions to avoid them sometimes, doesnât mean I can avoid them all the time.
Its good to know you donât care. Please donât force your opinion on me and minimize my concern just because you donât care.
No.
Banning the software was a healthy step in the right direction to make this game a single player, single toon experience. Want to fight in a group? Make one with real people.
If youâre losing sleep over an allowed playstyleâŚthatâs a YOU issue.
No. Individual players do that.
Iâm sorry, where did you ever get the idea that this game was solely meant for a âsingle player, single toon experienceâ? Multiboxing has been allowed for almost as long as the game has been out.
I think itâs adorable weâre all pretending farming was the only reason multiboxers were removed.
I remember is WoD multiboxers making the game unplayable.
I love WPvP, but a sudden one man raid drop on you or lag out Warspear.
oh and the exploiting of the reporting system, letâs not forget that.
I think this is one of the main reasons broadcast software was banned (the other being bots, of course.) Breaking follow didnât work so they broke the software too.
Thereâs no such thing. Doesnât matter if one person reports or a hundred. A GM looks at the report and determines if that person deserves punishment.
multiboxers were always hated and will be hated as long as it exists , botting and MB are just 2 sides of the same coin . im glad blizzard made it illegal to go around hitting 10 nodes at a time.
