Should multiboxing be allowed

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Meh. Someone has to start that bot as well. Different play style. Facts.

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You wont’ see it in raids so doesn’t bother me. Let them pay the extra sub fees to keep the shareholders pockets heavy so we can keep playing :slight_smile:

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He did not say it was botting in the quote you replied to. Did I miss something?

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I remember people doing it in old wow, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be allowed in the new release.

It doesn’t violate any rules that I am aware of.

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They can’t bar multiboxing. Or they’d also have to bar people in the same house playing behind the same router.

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As someone replied to you before, that would be botting because having to press one button to cast from three accounts requires software, which is not allowed.
Multiboxing is just running two accounts at once, but are manually controlled, no automation.

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He said “cast three spells with one click”. That is botting.

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LOL! No it isn’t.

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No, it is not. That is keycloning. Which is an even more lame step above multiboxing itself. Botting is automation without player input.

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That’s not botting if a player is the one pressing the button and each individual game client receiving that signal is casting a single spell.

While keycloning software is the common option, it could be done with a mechanical system (press a key overlay that relays that press to multiple keyboards) or a wire splitter (one keyboard connected to multiple computers, all get the signal).

What is not allowed (EDIT: wrong word) are systems that either allow the player to go AFK (literally away) and have a nonplayer continue -OR- something that allowed a single keystroke to activate multiple actions in a single client that could not normally be combine in a macro. (With the latter, there were things in BC that could be macro’d together, such as using a trinket and then casting a spell, but adding a second castable spell was not possible even if the first was instant or didn’t activate the GCD.)

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EVE Online allows multiboxing but the catch is it has to be paid accounts, not the free to play accounts. The only thing I wonder is how easy would that be to do in WoW? Controlling two characters is a lot harder than controlling spaceships.

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I actually laughed at that. Epic insult in these troubled times.

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Oh, the irony. In another thread …

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Blizzard highly encourages multiboxing because they need the money. :smile: I, for one, would NEVER consider leveling a warrior without also multiboxing a priest.

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That really depends on the Multiboxer’s skill level of multiboxing.
A lot of times. It only takes a group of half as many players as the
multiboxed group. If the group attacking the MB group knows
what they are doing. They dont need as many players to wipe out
the MB army.

Thats why one Multiboxer with 30 or 40 characters has transfered
so many times. He kept getting wiped out by a few PVPers.
(I dont remember his name, or what server he was on. But a lot of
people know who it is)

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Botting ,multiboxing , whatever you call it or however its acheived doesnt matter , ive seen it with 2 toons and 3 toons. No one player is meant to control multipule toons at once. I know its allowed my point is it shouldnt be , imo, when other players are involved , BG and open world PvP comes to mind. To OP for my taste…

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Multiboxers hardly ruin an economy. When you have 3k players+ playing even a full raid (40 players) can raid or farm dungeons. Raids are still 1 of each boss a week and dungeons will still be slower then 5 individuals running it. Multiboxing is ineffecient due to the nature of the key bindings.

In pvp it can be frustrating but if you disrupt part of a multiboxer they need to take the time to adjust and get back to normal. Imagine 1 multiboxer with 10 players in WSG. you litterally just avoid the train of characters and can get easy flag captures.

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No irony whatsoever. In one case the poster is claiming blizzard made a specific statement but refuses to cite that quote specifically. In my case it is an indisputable nature of blizzard/activision.

Apparently you’ve never witnessed a multibox mage AOE farming group and how they effect an economy.

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All it takes is 1 mage to AOE farm like 95% of world content. Again if they do dungeons or raids they are doing it less effectively then the same number of players. The benefit is 1 player gets to keep everything farmed.

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Fixed that for you.

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