Policy Update for Input Broadcasting Software

Rhyth-kirin-tor · November 4, 2020, 5:15am

I am completely okay with this.

Kaurmine-area-52 · November 4, 2020, 5:16am

I’m just sad about all the characters out there that will be abandoned now

Newromantics-malganis · November 4, 2020, 5:16am

this basically sums up i hate change because its inconvenient for me. i have to carry deadweight now? hello how about you play the game normally. it doesnt matter if they deemed it okay in past, everything in life evolves.

Eridana-zuljin · November 4, 2020, 5:17am

Where is info on this? Asking for a friend.

Zanielle-barthilas · November 4, 2020, 5:18am

Thank you god, about time.

Pingass-illidan · November 4, 2020, 5:18am

Finally bye botters, co lateral effect are welcome if we get rid of botters

Wildsinger-moon-guard · November 4, 2020, 5:18am

Licenses or broadcasting?

Vick-mankrik · November 4, 2020, 5:19am

If you really think this will stop botters you’re in for a rude awakening.

Blacklabel-arugal · November 4, 2020, 5:19am

Boys, boys, boys, boys… You’ve all obviously gotten too used to mirror keystroke software. If you’re telling me you can’t 2 - 4 box manually because alt tab spamming or having multiple monitors is too hard, maybe you shouldn’t be boxing in the first place, or became too comfy over the years.

(imagine blizz banning multi subs)

Kaurmine-area-52 · November 4, 2020, 5:19am

This won’t get rid of botters Nothing will, it’s impossible.

Zanielle-barthilas · November 4, 2020, 5:20am

No one has ever cared about people running multiple accounts as long as they are manually actioning each one. I don’t care if you have one character in Nazmir at the same time as mogging in Ice Crown.

I only care about people pressing one button to automate 20 actions, that’s what breaks the game.

Kaurmine-area-52 · November 4, 2020, 5:20am

Nah just hardware box

Kaurmine-area-52 · November 4, 2020, 5:21am

But that’s still here

Blacklabel-arugal · November 4, 2020, 5:22am

That is an option too for me, may eventually look at. I deal fine w just alt tab spam atm cause monitors diff sizes lmao

Kaurmine-area-52 · November 4, 2020, 5:23am

https://www.mytrendyphone.eu/images2/4-Port-VGA-USB-2-0-KVM-Switch-FullHD-22032018-1-p.jpg

Wildsinger-moon-guard · November 4, 2020, 5:23am

Sighs Time to repeat myself again

Wildsinger:

Except nothing about it was actually automated, It was always 1 input 1 output, You can’t make multiple actions magically occur at a server level, Multiboxing doesn’t bypass the GCD, A multiboxer will never be as good as an equal amount of equally skilled people.

Broadcast software was literally the equivalent of yelling out “OI DAVE GO TURN THE LIGHTS ON” in a workplace that had multiple people named DAVE, It didn’t create additional daves, It didn’t spawn in someone called steve to wipe your backside for you, There was no automated part.

All this change does is remove the Megaphone i was using to call every dave, It doesn’t actually change anything else at the end of the day, Hardware multiplexing and hypervisor multiplexing are still VERY much a thing and very much allowed

Not to mention hardware multiplexing and using hypervisors was always more efficient.

So instead of using a Megaphone to shout out to all Daves at the same time, What i’m going to do is buy each Dave a phone, Buy multiple phones, Call every Dave and put each phone on speaker and then tell Dave to turn the lights on.

This is called hardware Multiplexing and Hypervisor Multiplexing.

Henceforth-netherwind · November 4, 2020, 5:23am

Seems that you’re spending too much effort in banning Multiboxing whilst we still have bots teleporting with hacks everywhere.

Anyway, I strongly support banning multiboxing. Hopefully it will help you identify the bots and ban them faster.

Zanielle-barthilas · November 4, 2020, 5:26am

These sorts of bans are the same as security systems though, its just risk mitigation. No ban or security system will be perfect, you just have to get it to a state where it accomplishes 90% of the goal.

Will some people do what you describe? Absolutely. Will many not bother/have the resources to do that? Also absolutely. The key will be do you reduce the problem by 5%, 50% or 95%, not whether you can annihilate it 100%.

Kaurmine-area-52 · November 4, 2020, 5:27am

Multibox passphrase accepted
annihilate all humans

Eridana-zuljin · November 4, 2020, 5:29am

Reading into this Hardware multiplexing stuff. Seems like a lot of additional work just because they can’t detect actual bots. Looks like I’m going to have to make a little investment. My mount farming must go on.