Still uses a chip and software in it to mirror it to ports on the back. A lot of newer KVM’s can be programmed to like high end keyboards with macros.
So anecdotally, you believe that enough people are quitting the game specifically because of multi boxers…and not bots?
I just want to make sure I understand this argument, for which has no facts to support it, to which blizzard probably has very little facts to support either, is somehow correct?
Let me just mention, that the software used has been around for a very long time, and this would have been a noticeable problem long before this policy change. Based on that logic, anecdotally I can argue that boxing has little to no impact on their players, but botting very likely does.
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Sure some KVM’s might be fancy like that but there are 100% physical KVM’s that are purely mechanical.
And there’s also the issue that as soon as that cloning is being done outside of the OS itself it becomes much much harder to detect.
I don’t see how running my alts through dungeons affect anyone. Being able to run a dungeon now instead of waiting hours to get into a dungeon where people leave if they item they didn’t want from the first or second boss didn’t drop is much better even if it takes me three times as long. I don’t think it’s fair to punish those who aren’t bothering anyone else because of botters.
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From a software development stand point it means anytime warden detects a program interacting with the client or its code they can auto ban for it and not tag multiboxers unintentionally.
This is likely the reason for the change. It will get rid of the lazy botting programs that don’t do well at hiding themselves.
But running my alts through dungeons doesn’t affect the economy.
I’ve been multiboxing 5 accounts for about 6 months and have never been able to comfortably buy game time with the gold I make. It all goes to gear and mats for my main. 
Bye, cheater 
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You can still do it without the aid of 3rd party programs by using /follow and playing the game normally and tabbing over if something happens.
Have you tried running BRD by alt tabbing while tanking, healing and dpsing on 5 different characters? It’s already very difficult with 5 different classes with the multiboxing software it’s not as if it does everything for you it’s impossible with alt tabbing.
I am a software developer (for games no less). I know what it means, I can tell you this won’t affect the bots, but it will affect boxers (obviously)
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No, bots are automated, this is NOT botting.
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So you dont even mean running through dungeons you mean dual boxing high level dungeons. Those are different things. Running through implies a hard carry.
And yes it does effect the economy because it inflates gold that and de/vendor items that wouldn’t be in it if you couldn’t find a group to do the content.
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Yup I’m in the same boat, all the gold goes straight to gear, mounts, etc. Actually most of it goes into raid nights.
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I normally break even with repairs and pots. If I do make a profit it’s not more than farming ZF on my mage or SM on my warrior. Why do you keep assuming you know exactly how difficult multiboxing a 5 man is?
You don’t know what pool parties are if you think they’re honor trading.
No one is trading anything in a pool party.
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I just want to mention which games allow this, and it has little to no impact on anything, and how about in alphabetical order…cause why not:
Age of Conan
Archeage
Dark Age of Camelot
Diablo 3
D&D Online
EverQuest
EverQuest 2
Guild Wars
Guild Wars2
Rift
Runescape
Tera
World of Tanks
Multiboxing is not the issue, but hey, if having a bunch of cancelled subscriptions somehow helps your KPIs I’d like to understand that model. It’s not like the bots will be cancelling anything.
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u cant ban hardware silly cuz they cant see it lmao… the switch is before the computer… the computer itself has no idea you are using a swithc and thus neither will warden lmao… lol the only detection is blizz gm walks in your house and see you doing it
Unfair advantage, exploiting, griefing, economic impact.
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Anecdotal, and probably nowhere near as pervasive as you think.