The problem is blizzard decided way back in vanilla (I still remember the thread in the old forums) when multi-boxing was just starting that they were going to allow it.
Of course, back then it was like three people with no more than five accounts. Not the armies of multi-boxers we see now.
That isn’t what that means, as far as being against “multiboxing.”
Mutltiboxing isn’t really an “unfair” advantage, since with coordination you can do the same thing with friends. That is also what Blizzard has always said about it, coordinate and go after the multiboxer (who is at a disadvantage, against organized players.)
Just as the Supreme Court can interpret what the law is, Blizzard can say what their own rules do and do not cover. They are within their rights to say that multiboxing is OK, while using a program that changes textures to look like you want is NOT OK. This actually makes sense too, since people would use that program to make resourses/nodes be huge and glowly or give them advantages in other ways.
Another great day of multiboxing, I shall farm 5 extra nodes and help ensure you botters can’t rip off players with your ransom prices for profession materials.
it’s a case of Blizzard not following their own rules OR they interpret it differently than we do. I agree that multibooting is an unfair advantage but what we think is irrelevant. Blizzard gets the last word and they have stated many times that multiboxting is not against ToS. They have not done nor will they do anything about multiboxers.
At the end of the day more accounts means more money for them.
yep i can slice out little word chunks from ENTIRE SENCTENCES and make up nonsense too.
I’ll let you go learn how to read and comprehend entire sentences then you can reread my actual post to see that i typed more than 16 words in it
the actual problem is the nerfing of the report/ticket interfaces. Theres only 3 options available with a right click report and none of them relate to zone disruptive gameplay. Currently a player could be wrecking a low lvl quest hub for hours and there is no actual method to report them for it.
These mass druid packs are EMPOWERED by the reduced report power so they can and do shut down leveling choke points and as a mere player I have no resolution. Bring back the comprehensive ticket system, allow a player to petition a GM and have them weigh in on whether 20 horde druids killing EVERYTHING in a choke point is reasonable or not. Multibox, bot or otherwise
They also say they can ban your account for any reason. Plus they have the ability to change whatever is in the EULA at their leisure without your consent. Aka, they can do whatever they want and everything written in it is meaningless.
Which is why you can see them say it’s not a violation of their terms of use in one area, despite the act of multiboxing itself violating very specific sections of it in other areas. Such as providing an unfair advantage over other players, manipulating the in game economy, disrupting gameplay for other users, etc.
Blizzard is basically saying “It’s okay to break our rules, just give us extra money so our game is now pay2win for it to be okay.”
Gotta love how multibox defenders gotta dig up 12 year old posts that aren’t up to date with the modern state of the game.
Also his arguments were pretty garbage.
Who cares what you call it. That’s just sidestepping the issue. It’s a pay2win advantage.
Again who cares. Automation, manual inputs, mirroring, I don’t care what you call it. The end result is that you’re getting a x20 multiplier to your damage with the press of a single button. This same result would get you banned if you bought a hack that applied the same buff to your damage that cost the same amount of money as the multiboxing set up. The only difference is money isn’t going into Blizzard’s hands.
The difference between grouping and multiboxing is that you’re meeting new players in a MULTIPLAYER game and working together as individual units. Dividing loot amongst yourselves. Where the multiboxer is running around like Johnny Cage duplicating loot and essentially running around with a x20 multiplier to the damage of their keypresses. There’s no teamwork, there’s no socialization, just exploiting how the game works to their advantage in a way a majority of players can not replicate.
Sure it’s an alternative playstyle. So is cheating and hacking the game. Just because it’s an “alternative playstyle” doesn’t make it good or healthy for the game.
Their policies say that exploiting the game in any way to give yourself an advantage over other players is cheating. By definition their tolerance of multiboxing is hypocritical to their other rules. Duping is bannable, but it’s okay to dupe loot drops with your 20 accounts so long as you give us money. Perhaps re-defining the rules to not constantly contradict each other would make me believe this more.
Well obviously we know they can catch them. The issue is with how they refuse to act.
It’s okay guys, the guy hacking the game client to allow themselves to do 20x more damage than normal players can still be beaten with proper coordination. So I guess it’s okay right?
With proper teamwork you can eliminate the advantage of editing how resource nodes work. I mean just work together with everyone in general chat to spawn camp every resource point and prevent the dirty file editing user from getting to loot anything. CLEARLY these are realistic ways to combat people that are giving themselves unfair advantages that normal players on a single account can never acquire…
I’ve been multiboxing for six months straight now and I’ve run into one other person in all that time that was multiboxing. Granted I don’t go to Najzatar, but I never see them anywhere else… ever. I play on Area 52, Stormrage, most populated servers.
Seeing Druids farming pigs in Drustvar aren’t multiboxers, those are bots. (Yes, I realize multiboxers can farm mobs for hours on end too, but most of the Druids doing it are just that… bots)
Multiboxers aren’t as common as many people want to try and suggest.
“haunt them”. Just because YOU don’t like their decision doesn’t mean it was a bad decision.
the fact of the matter is, it’s not against the rules. blizzard could change the rules at any time and say multiboxing is now against the rules, if you do it, quit. but they haven’t done that, and they’re unlikely to do that.
you just gotta deal with it or quit. Those are your options.