People were actually fine with multiboxing until Blizzard started a PR campaign blaming multiboxers for the end of civilization as we know it. A lot of people still are fine with it, even though they have never played that way. And others are still blaming multiboxers for stealing their zin’anthid.
I use to see groups of 5 druids all in deer form (don’t know what it’s called), and all 5 would pick herb nodes at the same time. I don’t see that anymore in the current expansion but now I see groups of 5 farming the instant spawns in DF. So, I believe they’re still doing it, they just changed tactics.
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Did I say multiboxxing? I said multibotting. Read.
Actual multiboxing community were those of us who loved the playstyle and did arena and dungeon gameplay. We didn’t mind spending thousands of dollars on our hobby.
Then the gold farmers showed up and started to leverage the software to make real money and they made a lot of AH players unhappy because they drove AH prices into the dirt.
So Blizzard does a really stupid thing going after the software and playstyle. Now we’re gone. Thousands lost. Gold farmers are still going.
Typical outcome for retail being in the wrong hands.
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According to the powers that be, there is one and only one right way to play the game. All other ways to play are degenerate gameplay that should be eradicated.
People who use the term “multibotting” actually understand the difference between multiboxing and botting, “multibotting” being a made-up term that doesn’t actually exist in the game, but it’s supposed to fill everyone with hate and make them want to falsely report all other players in the game and get them all banned, if only in error.
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It was stupid of Blizzard to remove it from the game cuz we just brought our money elseware. There are two top MMOs that allow it one of them being FF. And as I said before it is only the WoW players who also play FF that complain about boxing on those forums. WoW players seem to complain about everything though TBH. Not all of you, but the majority do. Most other forums are not like this, they actually talk about the game same way this forum used to do.
I multibox on retail and even sometime run 3 at a time but it depends on time of expac. At the beginning i prefer to run 1 account untill a few main are max level enjoy the story. then after that i start second sub. if i have enough gold i use that for a thirds but that is amby once a year il try 3 accounts
I think Everquest is where all the multiboxing is.
lmao…bots dont need to box. You only need to box if youre one player trying to control multiple characters directly
and yeah…we know how you all like to interchange ‘bot’ and box’ lmao.
im putting you on ignore for trolling 
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Mmmm, I disagree. I use the term “multibotting” to refer to multiboxers who use the input broadcast software to clone actions across all client, which is of course against ToS now.
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given how long that was allowed by the ToS and NOT called ‘botting’ by blizzard, Id say your use of it is incorrect.
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Well, it isn’t now. How I use the term now isn’t applicable to the past. I’m sorry you disagree with someone using different terms to distinguish the difference between legitimate multiboxing and multiboxing with input broadcasting.
yeah…it is. lmao. you dont get to REdefine anything you dont like…sorry.
Multiboxing was allowed for YEARS and CALLED ‘multiboxing’ by the game maker when it worked like that under the rules.
the rules changed…the definition didnt.
MultiBOXING is ONE player controlling more than one character.
BOTTING is scripted characters that dont need direct human control and certainly dont need to be boxed. lol
But its obvious why some want to change definitions…so they can attack other players in here claiming they are ‘cheaters’ lmao
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True there is no such thing as multibotting.
This is not botting at all.
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Allowing multiboxing and essentially bot farms is what has absolutely destroyed every MMO I know of. It should be highly illegal like violation of the computer fraud and abuse act levels of illegal.
That was a standard type of multiboxing script.
Each bot runs its own script. After starting his bots for the day, the account owner can get up and do something else, and they will keep fishing, or whatever their program has them do. With multiboxing, the characters stop playing the instant the owner gets up from the keyboard.
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I’m well aware of what multiboxing is. That’s how I play the game.
That’s one way to look at it. Or, “botting” is using an automated method to control characters. Input broadcasting software would fall under this.
I will continue to use the term “multibotting” when referring to those who use software to replicate actions across clients. Those types make multiboxers as a whole look bad and I have zero qualms about defining them separately.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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That’s actually the definition.
This has never been considered “automation”. It’s “keycloning”. A lot of people use hardware that permits them to create sequence macros that can’t be made in the wow macro maker, and get banned for that. That’s automation.
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Clearly you dont lol if you can even mention botting and boxing in the same sentence.
One is a player directly controlling characters.
the other is a controlled by its programming.
and you will be wrong every time you say it and pretty much destroy your credibilty on the topic.
they are multiBOXers who are violating the ToU / ToS, not bots
same
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Input broadcasting does not fall into botting.
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