It’s not, you can setup your CPU to emulate more than one window and allow for more than one keyboard and mouse to be used on the same physical PC (Or they may just have 6 computers hiding.). It is the exact way that the Shadow Cloud gaming and any other equivalent service works, one PC split up 4 times with 4 GPU’s to allow 4 people on one machine.
I press a button on my keyboard. The third party driver interprets that command automatically sends it to my WoW client.
It’s not automation when the software has absolutely no control over the characters.
A very tiny amount of money. Activision-Blizzard makes billions of dollars a year. They absolutely could afford to ban multiboxing tomorrow.
I rely on third party software just to play the game with a single account. So what? There’s no grey area involved other than what some players have invented.
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If the player does not press an input, nothing happens.
That is the opposite of automation.
If a multiboxer goes AFK all the characters stop moving and acting.
Automation is launch a program or tool to do multiple actions without user inputs.
The fishing bot comes to mind, casts and catches over and over without a player controlling it. You can literally launch the bot and go to work or watch a movie or whatever and the bot just keeps playing.
Until the anti-boxers stop conflating bots with multiboxers these threads are just spam and ultimately useless.
Anyone who thinks it’s so easy to run 5-10 accounts, feel free to make some starter account and multibox 1-20 with a fresh team of characters. It will literally cost you nothing but time and you’ll be able to see the difference for yourself.
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Because in their loose definition cloning =/= automation, despite the fact one keypress becomes any number.
Because bots cause more negatives than Multiboxxers do.
Im not blaming Blizzard for making money. Im a free market guy, so their business their rules.
Im mainly against the general concept of what is considered automation versus what is not
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Theoretically the gamer still needs to input the function on each window. A bot program automates everything for you. Which is why we are all arguing about ISBoxer and what it is exactly.
Fact is this, and I urge anyone to prove me wrong as it will allow me to multibox easier, Windows cannot input the same keyboard or mouse function to more than one window.
That’s because it is not the same.
If I have something sending inputs to 5 windows but I stop pressing inputs everything stops.
Automation keeps going without a human doing the inputs.
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Is not an accurate description of what is happening anyway. The single key press is used in all application windows.
Blizzard has made their stance on things like ISBoxer known for ages, as long as you are not fully automating it, and YOU yourself still need to be at the keyboard pressing a button to copy keystrokes for all your other accounts, its perfectly fine.
You’re beating a dead horse that has been dead since at least Cataclysm, they won’t be banning for it.
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I think I might be onto something actually.
ControlSend seems to do just that. Have to do a bit more research to see if it’s a function inside of Windows or a Third party thingy
Third party for sure.
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Multibox bad, hearts to the bottom right
Key cloning is not a violation. It is not automation.
Automation is when you turn on your computer, set up your character with a program, and it continues to play while you are at work.
Multiboxing is when you get up from the computer, your characters stop playing.
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If you want to talk automation, go do some research on the history of Honorbuddy, which was finally shut down after many years of writing bot programs that played battlegrounds and instances unattended. That’s botting.
And fishing bots. Who would have thought that raiders would risk a 6 month ban for using a fishing bot? But some did and were caught.
OK, I have a question.
What would happen if the human being who owned those multiple characters wasn’t present in front of the keyboarrd to press the key? What if they got up and left the room? Would all the characters keeping doing their thing without the person hitting that one key, or would they stop and wait for the person to hit the key again?
If the answer is that they’d stop, then it isn’t automation. Blizzard’s view of automation is that the player activates a bot softwear that has a character or characters acting independently of any outside control. Even if the player only presses one key at a time they are still there and still engaged with their character(s) and the game.
So no, it isn’t automation - and I’m really not sure how many more times this has to be explained.
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The fishing bot is a very simple one. It casts, detects the bouncing bobber somehow, and clicks the hook to retrieve the fish. Fishing is pretty boring. I’ve done duo fishing, which is much more engaging.
No party necessary, just 1 character on each of 2 accounts. Characters stand close to each other. Cast manually. When a bobber bounces, grab the fish and re-cast if the other hasn’t bobbed yet.
Sometimes you miss a fish or two.
I don’t multibox and i still say no, there still has to be someone sitting there playing the actual game. Yes sometimes they get on my nerves but that is very very rare that i even see one anyway.
I’d have been surprised if there wasn’t nowadays a fishing bot, although I remember reading early on (perhaps way in in Wrath or Cata) that it wasn’t easy to do as fishing bobbers don’t land in the same spot, they can form in different places in front of the character. Unlike a herb node which sits in place and doesn’t move when your character moves.
Ban all multiboxers, scrum of the World of Warcraft
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Doing nothing for an hour+ sounds like the exact kind of activity a raider would hate lol. Now, if you fought the fish and looted its meat? Probably wouldn’t be many botting that.