So I decided to run a full compliant 5 man multiboxing team as a challenge on hardcore. I am a guild found player in Frontier and I do not interact with the economy. I do not grief other players etc. I keep to myself and just enjoy playing alone in the world most of the time.
One of my accounts was banned for “hacks” despite not using any hardware or software or violating any ToS rules. I had 5 clients in window mode with an auto follow , assist and start attack wand macro. I control every click and action. I constantly was harassed by players for simply playing the game the way I enjoy it while following the terms. Yet I still get banned from player reports despite doing nothing wrong. I will likely have to fight through weeks of being told I am a robot by an AI response system only to hope that I finally reach an actual person who can review this. I have been recording the journey to prove I am not violating ToS. I am curious to see how long it could take to resolve this issue.
Ultimately if this isn’t fixed I will be closing my 6 accounts and bidding farewell to WoW forever which is sad because I love the game and have played since 2004. I don’t think a paying customer should be banned on all their work when they didn’t violate the terms just because others don’t like what they are doing even though it doesn’t affect them at all.
It really sad. I quit for awhile after the changes to multiboxing rules. I thought I would give it a go again this time following ToS and challenging myself to be able to do dungeons without the use of any software or hardware etc. I hope I can get my one account unbanned so I can continue my 5 man journey.
Nobody here will be able to tell you what got your account flagged, nor will what you say here impact your account being suspended. If you did not violate the rules, you would want to file an appeal, which you can do following the steps here.
Player reports do not result in a ban/account action. Account actions are the result of a GM or the hacks team, looking into reports to see if rules were broken.
Personally, I highly recommend staying away from multiboxing as it’s almost impossible to do without any sort of help from streamlining the gameplay (which is a violation of the rules).
In any event, your only recourse is to appeal the account action.
Then they need to come out and outright say multiboxing isnt allowed. I broke 0 rules and recorded everything i did. I played with nothing but in game macros and the built in window mode.
If they straight ban multiboxing thats fine. I wont pay money and I’ll quit. However, its still legal and I followed every rule and was still banned. I feel like I had my money stolen.
How are you changing the active window and using abilities?
Previous post beat me to it, but yeah what they said.
Because multiboxxing IS allowed. There is nothing wrong with multiboxxing, nothing against the rules, and you won’t get in trouble for doing it as long as you’re not breaking any rules while doing so, including going AFK in battlegrounds or using anything to streamline the process.
Sounds like they are just talking about having the game in Window mode versus fullscreen. That is how I play as well, so that I can access my browser as needed.
Yup and that’s why I think they were doing something to streamline switching windows and using abilities without having to first click on the window to focus it.
When i say built in window mode you can shrink the windows and arrange them how you want. It is an option in your game graphic settings. Then you create a macro button like I did which was
/follow main
/assist main
/cast fireblast
/startattack (Wands)
You can also use bartender to create massive buttons that you can click. I do this as well to initiate other abilities. Since the screens are so small. This allows you to press the buttons much easier. You have to make things very simple but its doable and i find it to be a fun challenge.
You ABSOLUTELY will get in trouble despite following the rules. Report bans are a thing and if players dislike you or what you’re doing they will report you and you will be banned… Then you will have to sit through appeals for weeks of being told you were a bot by an AI response.
How do you swap to the active window and how do you activate that macro?
Do you click once on window B to focus it, then press the macro hot key, then click once on window C, then press the macro hot key, etc?
Or do you have it setup such that you simply hover over each window and press the macro hot key without first having to click to focus each window individually before pressing the macro hot key?
Edit And do you do all this manually, without any kind of automated keyboard/mouse macros created via software, windows settings, drivers, or hardware etc?
Great news! This does not happen. Account actions are not handed out because players report you. They are handed out because after Blizzard received a report, they investigated and found a violation.
Now, Blizzard GM’s are human and mistakes can happen. False positives are possible in this category, but a false positive does not happen because Blizzard just actioned someone on reports and didn’t investigate.
That’s not the part that is actionable. It’s the hovering over an inactive window, and activating a keybind without activating the window.
As Warth said:
But also note, this is only one vector that we are aware of. It seems to be the most common amongst these threads, but there are other things that are considered streamlining.
You’re telling me no one has EVER been banned from reports?.. Lets pretend that only humans approve the reports which I would absolutely not believe but if they did and the approved one wrongly they were still banned by reports… lol
There’s been at least 3 of us here who have asked you about this and you’ve yet to clarify.
While none of us can say why you were banned, this is a common similarity between threads of this nature. Since we’re trying to help you figure out how to prevent this in the future.
I am looking but i dont see that. I use modifiers. So i have to click then hold alt or shift + wheel up and down. But i still have to click in the screen.
Only one of my accounts was banned. It was a toon named Noreport.