Not sure what kind of whonky metaphor you’re trying to make there. This is just a win for legitimate players and a loss for cheaters. I’m just expressing my happiness.
Btw thank you again Blizzard
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Dude organized botting got 14 times as profitable on retail due to chromie time
if you think organized botting will stop following a 14x increase in profits you don’t know a thing about how criminal organizations operate.
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That’s fine. I’ve been playing Classic the past few months and mining there. Boy is it hard to find nodes. And there isn’t node sharing in Classic lol
Must be on a high pop server, I intentionally went to a dead server 
na we will just have to adjust to the changes, we will still be here.
Yep I’m on Faerlina. Lots of competition but it sure does have a great community
Isn’t that the streamer realm?
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the fact that you can still multi box we just have to switch up a few things? so by next week we will still get complaints about us multi boxing, now blizz will be getting a more reports that they have to go through for no reason.
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Yeah some people call it that. I wanted to roll on one of the highest pop server to ensure long term server stability and population down the line
Yes, report me for “abusing” the system on suspected multiboxers using software. Right…
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They refunded everything for me, so contact support and you should be fine.
I have a feeling that with this change - we’ll see much quicker response time to bots that don’t even need reports. Meaning all multiboxers seen will be doing it within the terms.
I doubt they’ll “go through them”. They’ll just issue suspensions.
Blizzard (like all companies) operate on a you’re guilty until proven innocent policy. How are you going to prove you aren’t just using software that Warden isn’t detecting [yet]? Take a photo of the setup?
It’ll go like this:
- Players will see you with multiple followers and report.
- Enough reports will roll in to trip the automate banhammer.
((Because, remember, you aren’t using software, which would trip Warden.)) - You’ll wake up to an email saying your account has been suspended for use of unauthorized software.
- You’ll make an appeal.
- A GM will respond with childish-sounding language (because statistically that type of language is disarming) informing you that the appeal has been denied. And to wait out the suspension time or start a new WoW account. Just, this time, don’t break the rules.
In short, MBing is now relegated to using an alt account to enchant your main account’s alts. Or as additional storage. But you cannot safely use it as a combat-support anymore.
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I think the change is that Blizzard is moving from executable detection to another method of detection that will be able to detect any form of anything between the hardware action and the client without regard for what it is.
Though I could be giving them too much credit here. I really want to try to see this as Blizzard trying to clamp down on actual botting rather than legitimate players who are multiboxing.
Input broadcasting software is only important to manually controlled multiboxing.
A botter doesn’t care if their software broadcasts a keystroke once or inputs it 5 times at 1ms intervals. Or even just run one instance of the botting software for each account—hell maybe that’s already how it works. Point is botting doesn’t require manual inputs (at least not in a 1-to-1 ratio) so it really doesn’t care about broadcasting or 1-to-1. More generally it already was banned so it doesn’t care if it is doing one banned thing or two.
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That’s just it, it’s not going to clamp down. Instead of running a team of 5 in dungeons with one bot software instance. The botters are just going to run solo around the world. Or use macros like /follow and /targettarget.
Only this time it’ll be 5 bot software instances running on each client.
Food for thought: Prohibition didn’t stop the booze. All it did was give birth to NASCAR.
Again - if they change how they detect and that change was impossible to tell the difference between a legitimate player multiboxing or a bot software (regardless of how many are running) and they get more aggressive about it - then we’re still collateral damage instead of a targeted attack against legitimate players.
What a dumb argument. I can run five PCs with one wireless keyboard. Exact same result as the now-banned software. Should Blizzard also forbid players from using wireless keyboards?
If we’re just trying to be fair, should we also ban high-end GPUs since not everyone can afford them? Should they outlaw fiber internet since not all players will have access to it?
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Yes, so no one has to deal with someones keyboard dying in the middle of a fight 
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