Policy Update for Input Broadcasting Software

Community General Discussion
876

multiboxing =/= cheating jesus christ.

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877

Multiboxing is not the problem. They even still to this day say that Multiboxing is perfectly fine.

They are just taking away the ability to multibox because botters have been known to use the same tools to help their bots hide botting actions.

They are taking away legitimate players ability to use legit tools because people who do not follow the rules use those tools to hide their efforts.

They somehow think that hurting legit players will convince actual botting cheaters to stop cheating.

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878

You’ll still have someone with 10 client’s open with druids on follow. They’ll just have to swap through 10 clients to get the herb. Difficult but not impossible. This fixes nothing. #OneNodeOneLoot :stuck_out_tongue:

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879

Nah, it’s fine. I’d be lying if I said this was the only factor making me think twice about going hard in SL the way I did between Wrath and Legion. My frog’s been simmering for a while.

I’d had a progression path mapped out that would’ve kept my main and alts raid-capable (if perhaps not equally-ready) week one, to be maximally useful to my guild without needing to rely too much on others. Now I have that time to uh, paint the walls, or cook or something idk :). It’s all good. We had our fun.

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880

And the people who are using actual bots will continue to do both because the first act was already against the rules so breaking 2 rules doesnt hurt them

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881

They could have waited until I got my Dragon Soul mounts. Just sayin


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882

see you in hell! oh wait you wont

883

Go farm them like the rest of the legitimate players. One raid lockout at a time.

884

Don’t think Multiboxing needed to be made an actionable offense, but I didn’t do it so it doesn’t really effect me.

But will individuals with purchased the expansion with the intent to Multibox be able to refund their alt accounts, since the reasoning for the purchase is now made actionable?

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885

It’s not an actionable offense. It’s still permitted, and the new guidelines say so clearly.

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886

Multiboxing, or playing multiple World of Warcraft accounts at once, is not a violation of our Terms of Use. Please note, however, that use of input broadcasting software may result in account penalties. this was updated a hour ago on the CS page

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887

on the plus side, it may motivate more people to gather more since the AH’s won’t always flooded with materials? gonna suck for the first few weeks though and mythic raiders. Mostly those who have tons of money who will buy any and all mats. As a person that doesn’t really care to craft but loves gathering, this could be nice. Same with a lot more of the casuals.

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888

I genuinely can’t wait to see the complaint threads about too few materials dropping or things being too expensive.

I give it about 1 or 2 weeks after raid drops if not before.

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889

Bingo. This forum is going to be FLOODED with people whining that they can’t afford pots/flasks and how their raid team is benching them because they’re poor and it’s somebody else’s fault. I wonder who the next target will be. PvP twinks maybe??

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890

thank you! finally

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891

Input broadcasting no longer allowed. Easy work around for that.

  1. Detect keypress in a WoW client.
  2. Set focus to next WoW client
  3. Manually press the key again.

Repeat steps 1-3 for each client and set focus to primary client once done. This simply requires key spamming but the hard part of alt-tabbing can be done programmatically without breaking the new rule.

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892

“Multiboxing, or playing multiple World of Warcraft accounts at once, is not a violation of our Terms of Use. Please note, however, that use of input broadcasting software may result in account penalties.”
I love the vagueness.

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893

how a human can control a could of 20 druids gathering herbs 24/7 in nazjatar without a software or sleep?

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894

I see. So you can multibox without input broadcasting software?

That’s good then. The link did more specifically mention it was to combat botters who also used these programs.

I know many Multiboxers who are very innocent. Mainly use it to RP or help farm raid mounts.

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895

They can’t, nor should they. That’s area disruption and automated play: two things the rules already forbid.

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