Do you understand what direct means?
Whenever I farm herbs and ores, I click alt+ESC to cycle through each character and manually click on each one not because I’m worried about doing something wrong, but because of personal preference. Most people that do multibox won’t do it like I do because it’s not as efficient.
There are no unfair advantages because anyone that plays World of Warcraft is allowed to do the exact same thing as it is not against the rules, therefore cannot be considered cheating or unfair.
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That depends on how literal you want to be with “unfair advantage”, because you could say that grouping up gives an “unfair advantage” over solo players. Guess that means anyone who’s ever been in a party or raid before is a cheater.
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Yes. You apparently are the one having issues with the word.
If you’re multiboxing, your characters are never doing anything that you did not, at that exact moment, explicitly tell them to do. They are never being controlled by software.
It is direct control.
If I am playing WoW normally, when I press a button and my character performs an action, that is direct control because my button press is directly telling the game what to do.
If I am boxing and I press a button in one client to control one character, and a program sees that I pressed that button and then causes the other clients to act as if I pressed that button, then that is indirect control.
We can know that this is true because boxers don’t copy all button presses to all clients. Movement for example is not copied, as the ‘clones’ are following the ‘main character’.
Maybe in toe-to-toe pvp but then if you go against x amount of characters 
the result will be the same.
Why?
Still guessing
10 characters vs 10 characters
Neither do multiboxers and they have to wait in more of them
That player is still waiting in x amount of Q’s, he’s going through it more than solo players.
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That’s how it works with multiboxing as well.
This is a complete misunderstanding of how multiboxing works. Because if you want to be this pedantic about things, then guess what? Two can play that game.
If you are playing a single account, then the keyboard driver is what sees your input and causes the client to act on that input. Therefore nobody is in direct control of anything.
Did the command come directly as a result of me pressing a button?
asmongold say multi box is good and it LITERALY him job 2 do wow , is the reason y i support it whole heart
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I know something else that goes round and round but I can’t link it on the forums and it makes me sad 
They are directly controlling the characters. One key press = one action, your feelings can’t redefine this fact.
And as usual, I’m on the like GCD 
oh oh this is easy. the key dupe software is free (well ISBoxer was free when i used it for eve online), buying 20+ decent computers costs tens of thousands of dollars.
So if we filter out the hyper rich who may spend tens of thousands of dollars to set up mega box farms for world of warcraft, that leaves all the hyper majority who will use the free option and only spend a bit more on the subscriptions alone.
ISBoxer is free, InnerSpace which ISBoxer runs on isn’t free 
My PC was $1200 in 2012
Also has a RX580 which I got last year during Black Friday for $150 I think (which is coming soon if you want to build a new PC 
) and a 500gb SSD and I 5 box. If you want to 20box you could probably do so for ~2k.
Yes, that’s what theories are. Educated guesses.
If all 10 characters were lvl 100, and the other 10 level 20, then it wouldn’t be unfair, would it? Therefore the total number of characters isn’t the only thing that goes into making a bg fair or not.
And they choose to do so. Other players aren’t choosing for one single player to take up the spots of seven total players though. Just because multi-boxers inconvenience themselves doesn’t make it ok that they are inconveniencing others.
This is the closest thing to direct control that exists within video games. Input -> action. Therefore, within video games, that is direct control. That’s how video games function. Indirect control is input -> separate program reads input -> separate program tells program to perform action -> action.
Doesn’t really matter which hairs you split here, multi-boxing is not direct control like regular play is. Not even close.
There’s no double standard. You press one button, you get one action per account. They press one button, they get one action per account.
Again, already responded to this bogus argument earlier. This is an argument tailored to multi-boxing and is invalid. It would be like if Blizzard added a vendor to the game that sold the new biggest inventory bags, but they only placed them in the center of Stormwind’s trade district. They could then respond with “There’s no double standard. You talk to the vendor, you can purchase the bag. They talk to the vendor, they can purchase the bag”. But this clearly misunderstands why it is unfair in the first place, or why it is a double standard.
It is a double standard because they have tailored the justification with the intent of writing off valid arguments. Valid arguments such as “Why is it one button, one action per account, and not just one button, one action?” similar to “Why is it in the center of the trade district rather than somewhere both factions can easily access it?”.
They have failed to respond to the question of “Why should one button equal more than one actions?” or “Why should one player be able to pay money to cause their button presses to equal more actions?”. They ignored the important questions. The questions that should be answered.
But one key press doesn’t equal one action. One key presses equals multiple actions depending on how many accounts they are playing. Why should regular players only be allowed to have one key press equal one action, but boxers have one key press equal seven, eight or nine actions?
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Ok, my guess is it’s fine.
If they were Queueing into a BG? I’d assume that the rules for the BG would be “one of the teams is going to be low level” you knew the rules before you joined so still fair 
And you choose to play a game where multiboxing is allowed so you understand you’ll have to wait in dem Q’s
this is all like a bunch of technicalities. I cannot speak for linux or mac but for anyone on a windows PC the best way to define the point people are making is to do as follows -
(this requires 2 monitors)
Have wow open in 1 monitor. Activate an ability in wow then move the mouse arrow off of wow over to the second monitor and click on the desktop. Now hitting an ability hotkey does nothing because the wow client is no longer the active window. If you have 20 wow clients open and hit a hotkey and it triggers in every client then there was a 3rd party intervention because windows only sends the command to the active window/application by default. This is why when i finish for the night i hit alt f4 several times to close down the different applications and finally the computer itself. I cannot just hit alt f4 once and have every single thing shut down.
so no, its not a simple matter of “hit a hotkey and all the things happen in every client because it just does”, because it just doesnt, not on a windows pc at least, they just are not programmed like that
Sorry, you are confused again. One key press = one action it doesn’t matter how many accounts are in question.
Everyone is equal here it will always be one key press per one action. Lastly, every player has access to multiple accounts if they so desire.
There is nothing educated about the guess in this case.