How do you feel about using your main to provide gold and items to your alt?
Multiboxxing is kinda scummy, using your main to provide to alts isnt.
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The people who accuse others of “cheating” in this game are just poor losers who feel inferior and can’t be bothered doing extra work, so they demonize those that do.
It’s a jealousy thing more than anything, they need to knock you down so they can feel adequate again.
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It hasn’t been cheating for 15 years, why would it start now?
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The thing is, in a lot of MUDs back in the day (the precursor to MMOs), this was considered a form of multiplay or cheating. It was often a bannable act to provide ANY support to an ALT character - this included clearning zones so your character could move through easily, grouping with an alt, or giving ANYTHING from your main account to your alt.
I’d suggest that most multiboxing complainers are A-OK with some of these actions and perform them themselves in WOW. The clear message to me is that what is allowed and what is cheating gets to be decided by whomever owns and runs the game – not by the players.
As an oldschool MUD player, I found being able to give gold to my alts rather jarring at first. It felt “scummy” and artificial. Eventually I came to terms with it being a different set of rules and a different set of playing values.
My alternative, if I didn’t like it, was to find another game whose rules I was more comfortable with.
Of course, today, I don’t give any of it a second thought. My MUDs feel like 1000 years ago and their ways quaint and archaic.
It feels as though people draw the “scummy” line around the line where they personally gain the most benefit. But here’s the thing: Blizzard draws that line, not you.
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Is it cheating to have a better computer than someone in a first-person-shooter? It does give you a distinct advantage if he’s playing at 15 frames-per-second and you’re playing at 144.
Paying more money for better hardware has always been a thing in PC gaming…and i see multiboxing to be cut-from-the-same-cloth.
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Raids, and parties would be considered cheating over a single player on a single account also now wouldn’t it…
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I don’t see multiboxxing as cheating. But I do admittedly see an issue with it along with botting (or worse having them combined) in how they affect server queues. The bots need to be permabanned, but its honestly a difficult task to take on especially with how complicated scripting has become these days. As to mutliboxxers, I would advocate for them to not be so active prior nor during peak hours on a server.
Jeez, I really wonder why people dislike the idea of paying to trivialize content.
What could possibly be wrong with that?
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Do you honestly think these are even remotely the same?
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Cheat: act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage, especially in a game or examination.
I mean by definition it’s cheating, and to argue otherwise is just silly.
Oh he has 5 mages 1 shotting you? Just pay for 6 accounts and now YOU have the advantage!
Lol.
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But it’s not dishonest or unfair. They are doing what’s within the rules of the game.
Exploiting a bug to dupe Foror’s Compendiums is dishonest and unfair.
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Just because a rule is in place doesn’t mean it’s in perfect balanced fairness. If Activision made warlock DoTs tick 99999 in a patch update, is it fair? Fairness is mostly subjective, and thinking it’s “fair” to have 1 keypress do that keypress on 2+ accounts is just, again, silly.
I’m not saying there’s no skill to multiboxing, but I’d say 95+% of it comes from setting up the macros and 3rd party programs to use all of your /follow bot army.
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Again - the arbiters of what is fair in a game is the game company who owns the game.
It’s not like Blizzard has flip flopped over this in the last 15 years. It’s been a clear rule – just as you’re allowed to provide goods and gold to your alts, you’re also allowed to multibox.
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Some rules are not created in the interest of fairness. Do you really think multiboxing would be allowed if there wasn’t a monetary gain for Blizzard/Activision? Where would the line be drawn in that case? I have a supercomputer running 100 level 60 mages, is that too much?
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I’m a 5 boxer. I think multiboxing is kind of cheating in a way.
It’s not automation, but what it does provide is a non-human method of perfect in-game timing.
They say that program-assisted key commands being sent to multiple windows is not against the TOS, but it should be.
Keycloning is basically a program-assisted game play enhancer. The human attribute that it enhances is combat timing. It allows you to land 5 perfectly timed spells on a target in the same instance.
So in a way, multiboxers are using “performance enhancers” while regular players are all natural.
With that said, I don’t care that multiboxing is scummy, as long as I get what I want while staying within the ruleset of the game.
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One character, one keyboard. Anything else is cheating. Using third party software to mimic keystrokes is cheating.
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I didn’t spend 60 bucks a month extra to provide that.
Now, at this point there’s no reason even discussing it. Blizz never was interested in trying to stop multiboxers, and even if they were I honestly, genuinely believe they are not competent enough to ever figure out a way to properly identify and get rid of them.
They’d be spending time/money to reduce the number of subs they have even if they could- if they weren’t going to do that years ago when they still wanted to make quality games, they certainly won’t now.
But it is cheating, and it’s pretty hard to argue it isn’t.
You are paying 5x (or more) as much as other players, in order to have, as one player, a huge advantage over other players.
If I were to bring five queens to a chess game, would you consider that cheating? If I were to create five clones and challenge you to a 5v1 match of just about any game in the world, most people would consider that cheating.
That people don’t consider this cheating is basically an anomaly.
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There - I just argued against it easily.
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It’s not cheating but multiboxers pay extra money to blizzard to gain a pretty unfair advantage.
I don’t care if people do it for pve reasons but if you multibox to run around in pvp instagibbing people you’re a bit of a dork hey.
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