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I dunno about that, the price of tokens off the AH is currently over 150k, which is about 30k higher than it was last time I bought one, and that wasnât all that long ago. Iâd very much like to see that figure drop because I need to be buying them with gold or I wonât be playing.
Nothing really new here.
My guess is people were skirting around the original intent with some hardware level key cloning.
You can still dual box just fine from what I read (i.e. 2 monitors in windowed mode + 1 keyboard 1 mouse).
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Well, if you are controlling each of the two characters individually, thatâs allowed. Itâs when any form of automation comes in that it isnât allowed. If you a press a key and more than one character does an action, thats a no. But if you press a key to go to another character and have that do somethings, thats ok. As I understand it.
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Thatâs what Iâm saying.
So basically the same policy. Just catching the one-offs who thought they were being slick by abusing the wording (i.e. âwell Iâm using hardware not software so guess Iâm goodâ).
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Thank God, Multi-boxing is by all means cheating. Although Blizzard needs to now do something to address the botting problem. 1 thing destroying server economy gone, 1 more to go.
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Ayep. Itâs interesting that Bathesda, which is a very hungry gaming company, totally bans multiboxing in Elder Scrolls Online by whatever means it is done. No dual boxing manually, no multiboxing automatically, nada. They donât mind you having more than one account, and playing those accounts separately, one at a time, but not at the same time.
Now, how well it is policed, I have no idea. But their position is that mulboxing is not âin the spirit of the gameâ as they have designed it to be played. At least their rules are unambiguous.
(Its also interesting that the blue post for this change was made in the Classic forum. Naturally it applies across the game but if people think mbox botting is bad here, its absolutely insane in Classic.)
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Thatâs interesting.
What would be the point on having multiple accounts if you could only play one at a time.
That to me sounds like they want to have their cake and eat it to.
To get around the character cap probably. You get a lot less characters in ESO than you do in WoW. Last time I looked it was about 8 total across the account.
Well, hypothetically, all hardware has a unique ID imbedded, thus a flag would be raised by having the ID running multiple machines.
I do know that it is possible, there were hardware bans going out when OW first came out so people couldnât just get a new copy of the game when they were banned for cheating. One person I heard of ended up buying 3 copies, they were banned on the first one, bought the second and couldnât play it as the hardware ban prevented the new key from working (they used a VPN so not an IP ban) and was then associated with the banned machine, bought a 3rd and put it on a different machine just to be able to play. It was the first time I had heard of that and it surprised me that it was possible.
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It will be very easy to detect! Blizzard has the keystroke information⊠they can detect that identical streams of keystokes are being sent to multiple characters in the same area at the same time. this combined with the gathering information will tell them who to focus on.
It just makes it easier for Blizzard to ban or suspend people for using any sort of method to circumvent their rules.
It wonât impact people like me though. I still box several characters at once to farm nodes. You can see it all the time in Shadowlands with Druids with other Druids riding on their backs while in travel form.
It will be much easier once flying is enabled in a few months, Iâm looking forward to that.
Iâm not against these changes though, I donât need to use the third party programs to do what I can do much quicker because Iâve done it for so long by hand.
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not sure why people are excited?
accounts which want to use the prohibited methods, will continue to do so.
these accounts arenât regular players who value their accounts.
by the time the accounts have been actioned, theyâll have already had a TON of time to rake in gold.
sure⊠when the accounts have been reported enough times to get looked into.
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Yes, but you should be better then them, not become them.
I donât like this whole âfalse flaggingâ thing either, heck, as a general rule for myself, i donât flag other people just because i dislike their opinions. I dislike peopleâs opinions but you donât see me flagging people because of that because i believe in the spirit of free speech, letting them speak their minds. Which is why iâm extremely hesitant on flagging people.
I do have to agree that person should deserve ban if they violate peopleâs right to say whatever they want (not the legal definition, the spirit of) by weaponizing a system in place without because somebody dislikes them. As much i dislike the idea of somebody losing their ability to voice things, i donât have any qualms over somebody trying to destroy other voices.
But the problem iâve with your comment is youâve said in your comment that itâs just troll brigade. Trolls are pretty much nebulous in their definitions, considering anybody can be considered as one. You did later on did say itâs somebody abusing the ban, but personally, that is going past trolling and getting into malicious territory.
That isnât to say trolling is good or anything, itâs just one actively tries to take another voice away or get their account banned, and the other is just being silly.
So just asking for someone largely ignorant of how multiboxing/botting work, will this finally put a stop to the 5000 druids farming endlessly or will this problem still exist? If it does exist is it likely to go down or is nothing really going to happen?
About time! Good riddance.
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I guess blizzard finally pressed F1
the two are not the same.
multiboxing requires human interaction.
botting doesnât.
no, it wonât stop the druids.
the problem will still exist.
(which is why i donât understand why people are so excited about this)
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