So it begs the question why allow it but not allow it to be done with minimal efficiencies. I mean the whole conversation about broadcasting has to do mostly with gathering professions, personal nodes alleviates that, and the occasional arcane blast that wipes a raid. Make sanctuary zones around the front of instances. Or turn off pvp. You can say the changes were good but I just fixed 99% of the complaints for multiboxing. All that most of us want to be able to do is run our 5man instances by ourselves or with other community members. Have enough resources to be self sufficient. All while helping others in our faction.
There is no reason to keep posting the same response⌠If you want to provide context on why you think it is griefing or cheating by all means go ahead. Iâm sure we would join in on a discussion with you on that one. However keep in mind we are all pretty level headed here, nobody is screeching. It seems you came in here with a bit of a chip on your shoulder.
Multiboxing is dead and it should stay dead.
Yes I know you can still phsyically have multiple clients open, but itâs figuratively dead, without being able to streamline anything, and thatâs what it should be.
I donât view multiboxing as anything different to botting when you have programs running your 2nd+ characters.
But it actually isnât. It is still very much alive.
Itâs not the same as it was before, the multi-boxing of the past is dead, and it should stay dead.
Iâm personally an advocate for 1 character per 1 player active at a time, I personally donât think they went far enough.
You pose a very simple view point to a very complex gaming style.
And why do you think that is better?
He did use separate paragraphs. Wall of texts are generally huge run-on paragraphs.
Itâs not complex at all.
You just run multiple characters at once and use it to your advantage.
Itâs not complex, and itâs not deep, itâs just tossing more money at the game to make it easier for you.
Nor do I remotely feel like debating multi-boxing as a whole, just putting my two cents in. Itâs borderline botting in my opinion, and I think blizzard should have completely nuked multiboxing completely.
He went back and editted the OP, after being told no one was going to read his nonsense due to how it was formatted. It was a massive block of text with no readability originally.
no one will miss a multiboxer. gl and dont let the door hit you on the behind
Wall of texts are not necessarily nonsense, they just hurt the eyes/brain to read.
In the same sense that nobody is really missed. That is what happens in an MMO. Iâm sure the same could be said about me as an individual player just as it could be said about a multiboxer. For the record I do play both styles. I just enjoy the challenge of conquering dungeons on my own. And I fail to see how that impacts anyone else.
They arenât going to get rid of bots. That was never the intent. The input broadcasting software and hardware are not used by bots, which run on their own programs.
Bots are highly profitable for Blizzard. Not only do they buy an enormous number of accounts, but bot farms drive down mat prices to the point where players canât earn enough farming mats anymore to pay tbeir in-game expenses without buying tokens. So bot farms drive token purchases.
As far as multiboxing goes, itâs an unapproved alternative playstyle. There is one and only one way to play the game right. They will continue to remove options until all choice is removed from the game. Everybody left will be playing exactly the same.
They will tell you to jump, and you will ask, âHow high?â
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I was with you until you said unapproved alternative playstyle. I would have left it as an alternative play style.
Multiboxing should be an instant ban.
Its easy to say that. But a one line statement doesnât hold much weight w/o any reasons to back it up. If it is cheating then how? If it give you an advantage how? Just because someone chooses to play a game different than you within the confines of the TOS doesnât mean they should get an instant ban.
Itâs a force multiplier for time spent. You can only get so skilled at the game, there comes a point where time spent becomes the metric for measuring success. Gathering, which you pointed out, is a zero sum game. If a boxer picks 20x as much in the same time, that actually takes away from those that pick one at a time.
If itâs really a playstyle thing and not a time-multiplier, then there are ways they could work around it. Like only have it in instances that only drop soulbound loot or have MB-enabled regions where itâs the norm, but the Econ damage is contained.
There probably is a way to have it allowed in such a way that it doesnât effect the rest of the game, but at that point, do you think there would be enough interest in it? I feel like the main draw is the advantage it gives over traditional play styles. But I could be wrong. There are certainly enough topics declaring otherwise.
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Any unapproved alternative playstyle can be next.
Just read the link. A phrase Ion has used numerous times is âdegenerative gameplayâ. An accepted playstyle can become focus of removal within a few short weeks.
I multibox. I have never used input broadcasting software. I often get whispered by players who blizzard has misled to believe that using multiple accounts is now a bannable offense, who harass me in whispers until I block them. Itâs the stasi syndrome. While Iâm doing world quests.
Should playing solo also be an instant ban, because people who are not in groups at all times are playing the game wrong and should be banned? Or should gameplay be restricted to guild groups only, and if you go out into the world without a guild group, youâre out of there.
Wanting people who you know are not breaking rules to be banned is an issue with intolerant gamers, who think that everyone who doesnât play exactly like they do (or claim to) should be removed from the game entirely on purchase, no refund.
I identify prevaricating language when I see it.
Solo play is fine, but multiboxers ruin economies.