Using Hardware/Software Macros are against the TOS.
You are only allowed to use Blizzards “Macro” system.
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Oh no, that certainly isn’t their intention.
From what ( surmised, their intention is simply to make each human being have to play each account.
One person playing 1 character and it being mirrored across others should never have been allowed in the first place, IMO.
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You know what, I know a lot of people who would also like to see that 
To me it seems obvious
No other restrictions regarding hardware = what you could do before you can still do. But maybe you guys are right, maybe I’m biased I’d certainly welcome further clarification 
yes and blizzards macros are actually good enough to do that. you just have to be inteligent and know what to put in the box it would take alot of time to setup but would be very easy to do once you have it.
the ban on multiboxing programs wont kill multiboxing it will only kill the ones who cheat to do it
there isnt a need to run 5 pcs for 20 accounts… do it on a single rig round robin client swaping and make your main gse on scroll wheel just buy one of those mice that dont have a wheel click and spin for ages.
i did some testing doing that method i could get back to client 1 about 2sec after first gcd triggered on 64 accounts.
It is an Should be.
However Hardware boxxing wont have 20 toons using the same ability at the same time.
If your doing that, your going to get banned. If your playing 2 accounts with diffrent PCs and keyboards, your not doing that.
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Seethe more.
The rules do plenty to stop most of them.
No, Blizzards macros only allow 1 action per key press.
Blizzards Macros do not connect across multiple accounts.
In no way does blizzards macros allow that.
You can macro a spell rotation to a macro. Cast 1, cast 2, cast 3. However you still have to push the key 3 times to use all 3 spells.
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Why do you think that?
What if I’m playing 2 accounts with different PCs with the same keyboard 
you know you can fill up all 10 action bars with macros right
That does nothing…
if you didnt notice i said you had to be intelligent
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so in my 500 + days played on WoW I have encountered obvious multiboxes exactly twice first hand not counting possible gatherer boxers on the AH i might have bought from.
one experience was positive one was negative. both were on my same faction.
one boxer helped me camp a rogue who was trying to kill me. the rogue was easily defeated by his druid boxes.
one boxer brought 5 BOOSTED druids to a season four random battle ground. no corruption or cloaks. we lost pretty easily because half the team (the boxer’s characters) had no gear essences or corruption. it spoiled the battle ground.
having said that boxers in my /played time have been very rare in first hand experiences. I cannot comment on AH economy effects because I don’t track that.
I don’t really have an issue with them banning the software if they think it is an issue for the game.
I have dual boxed before between alliance and horde but not cloning keystrokes.
I have also dual boxed horde accounts farming invincible, again not using any software.
so I don’t see anything wrong with using hardware for multiboxing. If your rig can handle that kind of load good for you. I actually burnt out my last machine hardware dual boxing while playing hulu videos so if serious boxers want to risk that I don’t mind. If blizzard really feels the need to ban the popular software they are within their rights and I don’t have an issue with that either.
that’s my 2 cents. thanks for reading.
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You cant play 2 pcs with the same keyboard. Its physically impossible, PCs dont work that way…
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If you didnt notice.
What your saying is NOT possible.
I feel like the ban is more in the spirit of things than multi boxers are giving credit for. They make it very clear in the post automation had a negative impact on their game and enabling it in another fashion just enables the same problem. It feels somewhat strange people are openly talking about working around something they specifically stated they dislike. It would do wonders for the forums if they specified or talked about this more. But in the end no one really knows and time will tell.
people do it all the time, you just don’t know how.
blizzard literally stated you can multibox all you want as long as you dont use a program to do it
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They aren’t trying to ban multiboxing. They’re trying to ban botting.
The softwares they’re talking about can be used for both purposes.
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It cannot BE DONE.
You have ZERO idea what your talking about.
You do not push a button with a WOW Macro and translate that to multiple spells.
Its 1 Key press, 1 Action.
You quite obviously have NO idea what your talking about…
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You can even use virtual hardware. All you need is to set up a virtual PC with virtual USB peripherals. It’s fairly easy for the keystrokes to occur on your computer versus client side; this is virtually undetectable unless Blizzard is using some kind of a rootkit for their anti-cheat.