Multiboxing software is still 1:1 for each button press resulting in one action. The software doesn’t do anything on it’s own.
That’s a massive difference from actual botting software, which you’d know if you’d do any research at all into how multiboxing works.
Looks like USB number pads
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/719o321gJWL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
Someone needs to re-read the EULA because it doesn’t say that.
The main argument I think is that it’s 1 keypress for any number of cloned keypresses. So it’s a form of automation. It requires a player there, but it’s not all the player.
Technically Windows is a third party program and therefore all functions of windows is allowed, which does not include sending a mouse or keyboard press to more than one window at a time.
Technically it is not the same since the players themselves are not actually inputting the command into the game, they are letting another program do that for them.
If this was a function of Windows, Linux or MAC OS than sure, but it’s not.
And like I have said before also, Blizzard no longer confirms nor denies what programs are or are not allowed to be used in game or it opens up to abuse and allows people to than learn what Blizzard deem a bannable offence and work around it.
It is all the player. The software doesn’t just whip up commands of it’s own.
You press a single button and each character performs a single action based on the button that was pressed. They don’t do a single thing beyond that.
If they change their stance on ISBoxer being ok they would ban it.
Everyone would be banned if that’s what it meant. >.>
It’s a program for multi-boxxing, so let’s say I hit ‘4’ on my main window, my multi-box army will all do whatever command is associated with ‘4’ on their clients as well.
Windows can do this.
I’m not saying the player isn’t involved, I plainly laid out what the issue is - that it’s not the player pressing the same key five times (or more) on five different instances - it’s one press which is cloned. It’s a grey area, and many don’t like that it’s legal because it requires software to function.
It’s doesn’t though.
take a look at this
https://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/eve_multiboxing_1.jpg
I doubt there is any third party software involved.
The player is 100% involved in everything each character does. The characters don’t perform a single action without direct player intervention at every single step along the way.
Of course keyclonning software is automation. You press 1 key and dont have to worry about any other key press because the software automatically does it for you.
No you cant go afk and make a sandwich…so what? Automation doesnt stop being automation simply because of how long it lasts.
There is no difference between keycloning and automation. Its the exact same thing. Its just when the defenders of multiboxxers come in, they try to convince everybody that automation can only exist when an action is done away from your computer, which is obviously nonsense.
Blizzard allows it because it makes them money. Not because there is an actual difference between key cloning and automation. Nothing more nothing less.
Like for real, go ask this in any forum other than Blizzards forums, and talk about something other than WoW, and I guarantee you the average person would consider actions which you dont personally do, which are then performed by software, to be considered automation. Its only here that people bend over backwards to try and split hairs
For the first time ever I am going to ask someone to prove that. I have researched this for a long time and never found an inbuilt Windows function that does this. And every time I Google it I get the same results of “Here is an automated program”.
It doesn’t matter that the actions on each client are different so long as it’s one action per client per keystroke.
If someone does that, there’s nothing Blizzard can do - but that’s absolutely not the norm.
Cool. The player also relies on third party software to clone their keypresses. That’s why it’s not botting - but it’s still a grey area that a lot of players don’t appreciate, and I personally don’t find it to be gameplay that has a positive or a neutral effect on the game. In Ion’s own words, it’s “degenerate gameplay”.
Not sure why you’re trying to suggest that I’m saying it’s the same as botting.
Let’s assume that you’re 100% correct and that Acti / Blizz is only allowing it because it makes them money.
Then why are they banning the bots and not the multi-boxxers?
If there is bad implication? with making money then why are those attacking Acti / Blizz for wanting to make money on these multi-boxing threads not creating threads about the price gouging and boosting. IF making money is a bad thing.
Because botters contribute to the gold trade and break the established rules (which can be amended), and profit off of the game - which Blizzard doesn’t like.
Lots of people want boosting to be banned, but there’s little Blizzard can do if the real money is exchanged and discussed outside the game - and gold trading in game isn’t bannable.
Acti / Blizz doesn’t like automated game play. Yet they have no issue with multi-boxxing?
I’m confused now
It is a standard windows api call.