It’s the same exact thing.
You press a single button and each character performs a single action in response to that input. It doesn’t get any more direct than that.
Now stop misinterpreting things and learn how multiboxing actually works before demanding that it be banned.
Oh blah blah blah. Every time there’s an argument you can’t counter, you cry that it’s “tailored” for multiboxing.
You can use a build in Windows API to send the one key stroke to every window.
You need third party intervention even with a single account. Otherwise Windows wouldn’t know how your peripherals work.
The third party software doesn’t change the fact that each character is still under the direct and absolute control of the player. They don’t move or cast anything without the player telling them what to do at that moment.
i dunno, i dont think you could get a wow capable computer for 100 dollars, let alone find 20 of them. Even if a decent computer was 500 dollars, thats 10k for 20 of them, then you need all the cabling and all the power outlets. Theres the immense power consumption to consider as well. At least here in australia at least theres a cut off when one has to go from residential power to commercial supply, which is far more expensive. 20 computers as well as anything else a person requires to live is pushing that consideration too. Its not something the regular multiboxer is going to even consider, let alone do.
If blizz banned key broadcast software but allowed people to still box using the many computer method we’d still see an immense drop in the number of boxers due to the sheer cost required. Also consider the space, and the cooling required to keep a bunch machines running properly over a long term
edited to fix my blob of text
Blizz makes a killing off of multiboxing. Why would they care?
Well, I never said $100? Are you talking about the RX580? That’s a GPU. I said ~$2000 to 20 box
Ah, a plot twist! I don’t know the prices of tech parts in Australia or the shipping costs or anything like that.
You don’t need 20 physical computers to 20box. I said my 1200 dollar PC can 5box so at most we’re talking 4 but as you saw in the picture I have low end PC from 8 years ago. A $1200 PC now
Will let you at least 10 box.
citation needed
I love how people are always pulling this out of their butts when this is crystal clear: https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/24258
"Multiboxing, or playing multiple World of Warcraft accounts at once, is not a violation of our Terms of Use. We do not support multiboxing tools. "
He says that doesn’t count because it’s not in the ToS 
Which means it’s not a ToS violation
the interesting question is why CCP turned against broadcast software? i experimented a bit with it in eve online, had a pack of 5 cruisers all slaved to 1 client I could lock and engage targets with all ships, operate modules and command navigation for all 5 from 1 client. Then they closed it down with a tweak to the tos. Suddenly people running fleets of 40 battleships had to find another way to play them.
its just something that blizz just hasnt felt is game breaking i guess, maybe wow is “complex” enough that they figure most people wont have the capacity to run so many? Or maybe it simply is a pure financial based decision. We will never know
Apologies, I worded it poorly. Blizzard isn’t making a killing off of anything WoW related.
What I meant to say, is they need multiboxers to stay afloat.
No he says that the article you linked that says Multiboxing is allowed, doesn’t count because it’s not in the ToS and if Blizz wants it to matter then they have to include it in the ToS.
Acitvision-Blizzard has way more than just WoW for income.
If they needed to type everything you CAN do into the TOS, we might want to give them a few years
No kidding. I thought this was a discussion of what’s making them the most out of WoW specifically.
I read their post on the forums after reading this comment
They don’t say 
Input Broadcasting and Input Multiplexing refer to the multiplication of inputs, actions and events to multiple instances of the game.
Going Forward As of 15th of March 2013 we have been policing input automation based on a two-strike policy
• 1st strike for input automation is a 30 day ban
• 2nd strike for input automation is a permanent ban
Input Automation remains strictly prohibited, and is policed under our suspension and ban policy.
Based on the discussion in this area and our will to be more clear and concise with the community regarding this part of our rules, we have decided to also apply this two-strike policy to prohibited forms of Input Broadcasting and Input Multiplexing as of January 1st 2015.
i agree but its a bit late. precedent IS set.
It super easy to win against multiboxers in pvp, lol.