Policy Update for Input Broadcasting Software

Community General Discussion
835

Really? I bet most multiboxers paid with gold, which means someone else paid the real money. If this is the case, then Blizzard will not lose any money, as the person who paid real cash to buy the gold will still buy the gold from someone else. The exchange may happen at a different exchange rate but it will still happen. The person with the real cash is and always has been the scarce party in the transaction, not the person with the gold.

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837

Right? That was on my list of things to do in Shadowlands.

838

Spoiler: I hope you find gathering professions to be fun and engaging content, because you won’t be able to afford your consumes without some hours farming now that boxxers aren’t making herbs plentiful.

Seriously, all the people in this thread cheering for the economic effects here are terrible for the game in the worst way.

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839

as a person who has 2 gather alts and 7 with profetions who has been struggleing to get gold and have enough consumables of a raid, as a person who wasnt able to get the dino beacuse the lower price of items? yes

840

This is how I multibox in classic. :slight_smile:

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841

Thank you!

842

Of all the things that are sad, the total lack of reading comprehension in this thread is prob the worst.

According to Bliz’s own words:

Multiboxing, or playing multiple World of Warcraft accounts at once, is not a violation of our Terms of Use.

this is stated in the following post: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/24258

the main problem with the rest of this post and the other blue posts on this … is that it is incredibly vague (which is pretty much par for the course for multiboxing … and always has been).

From what I am reading … things like isBoxer is toast. However, I am also reading into this that use of AutoHotkey is still a grey line. People use Autohotkey to rebind keys (which is allowed by ToS) … they also use Autohotkey to keyclone (which is now against ToS).

My interpretation of this change in policy is that:

  • If you have 2+ of the same toon … and press 1 button to make them both fire the same attack … its against the ToS.
  • If you have 2+ of diff types of toons … and have simply setup a multi-layered keyboard so that modifiers (alt or shift) send diff keys to diff windows to say … tank and heal at the same time … this is within the rules.

I personally fall into the second category. I wrote my own code that allows me to control multiple characters at the same time w/ out key cloning. I fully intend to continue playing as I have, and if/when I get a PM from a GM I will happily discuss the finer points of their vague ruling with them.

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843

I’m in favor of banning boxers… and briefs.

It’s commando or nothin’ for me, baby!

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844

Christmas came early. Looooootttta salt bout to hit these forums.

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845

The amount of herbs required to craft a single crafted thing can now be reduced to a reasonable amount. The Devs can now balance this, they could not before because of multiboxing.

edit: In addition: if what you say is true (that reasonable herb prices are dependent on the existence of multiboxers) then this is prima facie evidence that multiboxers were adversely affecting the game. The game’s economy and consumable supply should NEVER be dependent on multiboxers. If this is true, then this is reason enough to ban multiboxing and correct the balance by adjusting the materials required for a consumable or increasing the drop rates of materials (or both) so that normal players can participate the crafting and the economy.

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846

time for you to set up a guide for the people that need hardware now.

847

There is still WAY too much grey area in their statement for me. Will I get banned for using AutoHotKey for broadcasting keystrokes only?

I’ve linked my script in this post:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/waves-im-that-multiboxing-hunter/272593

Can’t say I care much about the opinions of players on this; I’d need clarification from the folks that are actually in charge of the game (not players, despite what some of them think!). :smiley:

848

I do that to Rp NPC while roleplaying, hope that is not ilegal

849

A lot of you are missing the point of this. Your reactions to this are “I do this to be efficient, I’m not hurting anyone!” …but you are!

When people are trying to quest & they can’t kill 10 of X mobs because a botter is 1-shotting everything in the area, that’s not cool at all. Your ‘efficiency’ is at the expense of all the other players in the game.

If you want to do this sort of thing without software & literally babysit multiple accounts at once, then it should be an inconvenience to you, since you’re creating inconvenience for everyone else in the game.

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850

BUH BYE MULTIBOXERS AND BUH BYE WHITE KNIGHTERS CAUSE “iTs NoT iN tHe ToS”

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851

But the ore and herbs you do gather will be worth much more. It all evens out if you actually play the game.

852

I can think of a number of players I’d like to see in boxers or briefs. I’m sorry though - none of them are undead.

Not judging.

<3

853

I wouldn’t get too excited. Unless they ban multiboxing completely, there will always be a way around it. It saddens me because I enjoy it. Ohwell.

854

Thank you, it’s about time this happened. There are multiple reasons to be against multiboxing and people have complained against it for years. I’ve only seen it get worse in Retail over the years and it was even worse in Classic WoW.

Thank you Blizzard for listening.

855

Fabulous news!

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