If Blizzard’s reason for targeting input broadcasting is because botters use it along with automation software, why not just target botters for using automation software? Targeting input broadcasting seems to be misguided. It would be like banning all addons because botters use addons. Yes, it could be true that botters use addons, but so do legitamate players who refuse to break the ToS. Punishing them hurts, especially after years of investing time in these accounts and characters. That was all ripped away for a reason that seems overly broad.
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can we ban macros too, and also raider io please! and also dont forget the evil TSM addon that bots use to post on the AH
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They are working fast to only reported the druid botters yesterday
https ://ibb.co/7QgxxBY
Close the gap with the https got that in the mail just now from Bliz
Alway good to see those messages. I have reported players that I suspected of botting while using multiboxing. A few months ago I reported a team that was in the same hyper spawn area for days at a time, morning afternoon, and evening. But it was the automation that made the gameplay harmful, not the multiboxing.
Botters know they will get banned. They bot for a period of time, and when the account gets banned, they get new accounts and go bot on there. They know they will get caught eventually, they just don’t care because to them it is still worth it. This change to input broadcasting won’t matter to them…they were already using bot software that was against the ToS. They will just carry on as they always did.
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The same reasons you’re reaching to come up with excuses as to why you need a multibox platform to play a game that I have literally played with every single class? And have the achievements to prove it?
You don’t even have to be good at the game to solo the quests now. The only thing I’ve come across where I absolutely need any help is World Bosses and the Legion Invasions (because those seem to have not gotten the nerf comparitive to level squish like the rest, and the former aren’t really meant to be solo-able, despite people having no issues doing so).
They have made this game ridiculously easy to get the content done. It’s called an MMO for a reason. It’s not meant to be played solo; by that same expanse, if you are that against playing with other people that you are finding excuses to complain when they aren’t letting you essentially multi-box to avoid playing with other people…I suppose it’s a good thing you’re leaving. In which case - why are you still replying?
I’m not trying to be mean. I’m simply trying to understand why someone who is saying they’re leaving, oh noes, Blizz broke my gameplay, is continuing to argue a point there is no arguing logically against. If this was Classic? Sure. I could see the need to have a multibox. Classic was brutal and there was no ‘click one button to find help’ groups. Retail currently? Yeah, no.
Edited to add: They’re literally not killing your ability to multibox. They’re killing the third-party utilization. There are countless help sites online to show you how to manually multibox this game. You’re whining that they took the EZ mode out of it?
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I killed N’zoth Mythic on the smaller brasilian (us located) server with my guild Valhala playing with high ping and literally 50 (conservative number) wipes by disconnect only , perks of not having a brasilian located server.
Also im multiboxer, so is the guy the cleared 15+ with his 5 accounts at the same time, not sure if your post holds.
What I got from this thread …
A: Lots of people don’t seem to know how to spelled “biased.”
B: Lots of people think Blizz banned “multi-boxing,” when in reality Blizz simply made it more difficult to do.
I don’t care that Blizz did this. I wouldn’t have cared if Blizz hadn’t done this. The issue has never affected me, one way or the other.
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After thinking about it for a bit, I think Blizzard’s hope is that it will cut down on a large number of bots, even if it can’t stop the hardcore cheaters. Before the policy change you could use ISBoxer (a legitimate program) combined with some $20 macro mouse/keyboard off Amazon to create a fully functioning bot that (thanks to broadcasting) easily scaled to any number of accounts. This could be done by anyone (also because hardware has become so cheap and so powerful that running multiple accounts on one machine is trivial). 0 Coding/scripting knowledge required, 0 testing needed, and because you’re just sitting in one place, distinguishing between a half afk player mindlessly farming with Netflix open and a bot becomes a lot harder.
With the policy change there are still going to be hardcore and real-money cheaters who can write their own scripts, find creative ways to disguise broadcasts and illicit behavior, and ultimately who can afford to simply be banned because they’ll just make a new batch of accounts. However, anyone who just put on a one button repeat macro that looped through a bunch of sunfires and starfalls and broadcast it to 10 boxes will now be pretty obvious to both Blizzard and players who want to contribute reports that help clean up the game.
Basically it drastically cuts down on the number of players who can abuse multiboxing and still be within ToS (and the slice that are now outside of ToS can have action taken against them with greater certainty of guilt).
Sorry, meant implicitly that I don’t know a multiboxer who cleared mythic nyalotha with an exclusively multiboxed party (i.e. a single player clearing it by controlling all 20 raid members). The point being that buying tokens, selling them for gold, and using that gold to buy a completely legitimate raid boost will essentially be converting real money directly into player power in a much stronger ratio than converting real money into additional accounts which farm and then use that gold to buy things off the AH. And that multiboxing doesn’t enable the multiboxer to get stronger than a single-box player because of P2W.
If anything you will actually have weaker gear and go slower if you try to play exclusively through multiboxing. I could bang out 5x +15 keys one at a time without a whole lot of effort, but setting up and slogging through a single multiboxed 15 isn’t going to be much fun in terms of time-to-gear-rewards(but probably still more fun than trying to time the +14, with a multibox party, that gets you the 15 key in the first place…). The fun in doing that stuff has nothing to do with gaining player power, it’s all about figuring out the challenge of how to control 5 characters in an environment designed to test individual reactions to events (e.g. mechanics that go on a single player, force one guy to move out, require both tank and healer reaction at the same time.)
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Going to pour one out for my multiboxing homies…or maybe not. 
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I don’t know how the uninstall process works for those but ISBoxer creates an addon as well, did that get uninstalled too? Don’t know if that matters or not 
Yea I manually deleted it tuesday 
still sitting here sipping tea enjoying the multiboxers whine
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I multibox leveling and doing world quests. I never farm anything and I always have war mode off.
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Well clearly its cheating and you got what you deserved!!!
/s
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sits next to Hedley and sips tea
It’s nice being a sociopath isn’t it
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I’ll tell you what, champ. Your tricksy hobbit ways will have zero impact on normies’ willingness to report you. Over and over. By multiple toons, multiple shards. Have fun trying to ruleslawyer your account ban appeal when the logs clearly show that 1 action is duplicated within 5ms (by your own account) across n toons.
I’m not a max level farmer, I help others with questing if im nearby. I’ve even ran 2 other players through DMs using my 24 pally, and 2 lvl 21 mages. Its was fun, and challenging. My mage group, has a miner, herbalist and skinner. As well as Enchant Tailor and alchemy. My honest intention was to use them to eventually farm dungeons for gear and mats for my other alts. What I do doesnt break anything, im not flooding the economy, im not resource stealing, and generally if i see others questing in the the area im in, I’ll park myself for a bit so they can finish. But what do you do with ehe RNG just sucks and the droprate is awful? I killed crocs for what seemed like hours for freaking young crocilisc skins the other day on classic. The change sucks and takes another reason to play away. I enjoy grouping, but classic grouping is practically dead, everyone wants to be ran through for 2-7 g. I do good to have a gold between the 5 mages!
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Seriously?!? I’ve been using those for over a year now and paid for another year smdh. I do nothing that breaks or hurts anyone, I help others even if im multiboxing. THis whole dang week has just sucked, right down to having to work 6 days this week, instead of what i had planned with my daughter
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A lot to unpack here.
All communities have toxic people, case and point^. We can only hope that the entire community is not defined by those select people.
I can say, in no uncertain terms, that Multiboxing is not cheating. Only recently was using input broadcast software considered cheating.
You don’t get to define these things and I’m happy about that, considering how much hate you seem to harbor.
I can think of a few things that I would consider lower. Purist hate filled close minded keyboard warrior comes to mind.
They don’t do this for any form of “cheating”, why would they even consider it for something that’s not cheating?
Cute, but you still don’t get to decide these things. In fact your opinion is so deluded and based outside reality that it can only really be considered some really sad attempt at comedy.
The laughing you hear is not at your joke of a post. I can promise you that.
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You mean like cash for gold (aka tokens). Gold that can be used to buy almost anything in the game including ranks, achievements, and gear.
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