Yep. If you’re not playing one character at a time by alt-tabbing between clients that’s ground for a warning and eventual ban.
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A software program pushed that virtual button which is the same action the multi box software programs do to 4 out of 5 of the exes.
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The use of input broadcasting software that mirrors keystrokes to multiple WoW game clients will soon be considered an actionable offense
You can use a switch stack or have different inputs for each client and it be legal.
Cute how people think the multi-boxers are paying for their accounts with real money and not in game gold.
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Cute that people think this stops botting XD
its virtue signaling that they actually care about getting botters.
Good luck proving to blizz that you aren’t using software, and if hardware use becomes common enough to be a problem they’ll ban that too. Mirrored multiboxing is going to be reported no matter how it’s done, so it’ll be easy for Blizz to keep tabs on.
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Or that they aren’t on websites selling gold for real money either.
I believe the method and limit already has that being done without bots/multiboxing
Terrible change, I’ve been multiboxing for decades, across multiple games. I like to have the freedom to play by myself if I choose. This won’t stop automated bot software from running, perhaps it will make it harder to control boxes, but it won’t fix your bot problem. In fact, key dispatching software has very little to do with what the bots are doing.
The policy update clearly ties the software, to botting, and just further illustrates how far from solving the real problem you are.
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It’s so difficult today to get a group and multiboxing was the only way I could run instances rather than wasting hours or even days trying to get a group so get that one item that wouldn’t drop or the rep I need or it’s just fun. I’m not any good at it and I wipe all the time and dungeons take two to three times as long ,but at least I get to go when I’m ready and not when we get a full group where someone has to leave because they item they wanted, didn’t drop on the second boss. My running my alts through dungeons has never affected anyone else. There is no way anyone would want to run deadmines with me for three days trying to get the two swords to drop.
Even a hardware KVM is using 3rd party software to split one keystroke into multiple.
It’ll be interesting if they take action against running wow in a VM environment as well in the future.
It’s already against the ToS to run WoW in a cloud environment, which treads quite closely to VMs. Not the same, but in the same family.
You can’t use in-game gold in classic to pay for your game time.
This won’t stop you from doing that. You can still tab between clients and have the alt on follow. You just can’t use an application to make them all cast abilities with 1 key stroke.
And if blizzard is going to put actual GM’s on something addressing botting in all its forms would be a much better use of their time.
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How is running my alts through dungeons affect you?
Its the millions from retail that we use lol
They’re doing it because it is more detrimental to allow it than ban it.
Which means they calculated more sub losses due to multiboxing than the $$$ they lose banning multiboxers. There probably isn’t as many multi boxers as people scream about.
A hardware KVM is literally hardware…
A lot of MMO’s simply don’t allow multiboxing at all. I think it has more to do with not being able to control the economy in the game as easily and resource limits. Also i saw over on the retail responses about it having to do with convenants in SL or some such and how you gained rep with them ?