I heard the got sick of Mrai and his confusing videos
OR and hear me out.
As stated in the announcement post, itâs a targeted strike at botters who were abusing the program. Multiboxers just happen to be a casualty in that war against botting.
Itâs highly unlikely Blizzard is actively trying to get rid of multiboxers, if they were it would not clearly state in the support article that it was still allowed.
Due to multiboxers being a minority player base the financial loss was probably seen as acceptable to allow them to more actively ban and detect botting operations.
Anyone saying different is deluded or severely misinformed.
Which is why they changed it. They did not change their stance on multi-boxing, they changed their stance on software that was being used by bots.
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Yes, and Iâm happy they are taking a stance against those operations. It was needed.
Iâm not happy about losing such a convenient option for multiboxing because of scum. Every complaint Iâve seen about multiboxing, Iâve never done. I actively helped others, I only farmed in off peak times (I work a desk job at night lots of free time), and even then left an area if it started getting âcrowdedâ. I just enjoyed leveling, making gold to pay my subs, and trying to solo group content.
Itâs life though and all I can do is defend my playstyle and hope blizzard gives me a better option than hardware.
Multiboxing hasnât been banned, so they can still do this. Itâs nonsense.
Broadcasting software is the only thing that has been, and thatâs only going to matter for PvP and high-end instanced content, neither of which are needed to keep up with your covenant.
This is a good idea, maybe even limit it to 5 accounts per software license
This is just a continuation of Blizzards shift in philosophy to have full control over absolutely every aspect of the game.
From removing the XP bonus from Heirlooms (we are only allowed to level up inside a very specific timeframe now) to nerfing the value of items that drop in raids (we are only allowed to generate so much gold per week now) to changing loot drops and removing TF (we are only allowed to fully gear up just before the next tier is released).
All of this is obscured by a smoke screen of âplayer choiceâ. There used to be a time in WoW where you could do things you wanted the way that you wanted.
If you wanted a high-level friend to drag you through dungeons for XP, you could. If you wanted to level up by grinding monsters, you could. If you wanted to solo old raids to make raw gold, you could.
In the past I always chuckled to myself how consistently Blizzard underestimated the ingenuity of its players. People were always coming up with ways to accomplish goals that were unintended by the developers, but it was a fun and wacky time and nobody really cared.
This still happens but on a much smaller scale. Glimmer of Light for example. Also Rextroy. But by and large, Blizzard has shifted their guiding hand to a firm choke hold and weâre unable to deviate at ALL from a spreadsheeted, computer-simulated gaming experience.
The latest simulations must have shown that multiboxers are outside the acceptable 2% deviation and must be removed from the game.
Well thatâs unnecessarily rude.
I never said anywhere that I thought blizz was banning multiboxing. I think youâre overly defensive.
I think they got tired of working so hard on professions for multibox abusers to be the only ones having fun with them and getting value out of them. Its literally a huge gameplay removal when only one section of the community is benefitting from a section of the game and the others do not feel like its worth their time unless they also mutlibox with drone armies.
Its been said before. Blizzard hate making things for months long that players end up not playing. Especially when players feel compelled to spend alot of money to finally have fun.
Probably tired of regular players not being able to realistically farm crafting materials since a druid flys by and insta despawns the node with his 10 druids. It devalued the market, players get demoralized and quit.
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This, boxers became disruptive to a larger portion of the player base.
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I feel like all the nazjatar and mechagon multiboxers really hurt the game. Before the world of Kul Tiras and Zandalar was large enough where it was not so noticeable. However it quickly became undeniable after 8.2
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Sorry, wasnât meant to be rude. Itâs just cold reasoning.
Itâs not often I infer the incorrect information from the construction of someoneâs post and how they word it.
If you werenât implying blizzard wanted to limit multiboxing, my bad.
Not sure a bot or gold farmer is out to âhave funâ. However if these two things vanished, I highly doubt multiboxers would even ping on peopleâs radar.
Again, this is mostly bots not multiboxers.
Bots and Gold Farmers, go be mad at them.
Nazjatar yes, Mechagon not so much. Still botters and gold farmers.
Source? You make these claims yet iâve seen plenty of multiboxers destroying herb nodes and 4x2 farming, and itâs very clearly not bots, just some sweaty dude with a 2 monks and 6 druids. The isle of thunder could be bots sure, but thereâs also multiboxers doing the same thing. So maybe you should source this before acting like multiboxers did nothing but walk around and give out gold in Northshire Abbey.
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Not to mention the man hours Blizzard has probably been spending dealing with people reporting multi-boxers because they look like they are bots.
If you think about it in that regard multi boxers caused their own destruction.
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Claims? Do you understand how much attention you have to pay when you are farming with more than one character? Itâs a surprising amount. Phasing, getting stuck on a random rock, clicking the nodes, taking off, not losing follow and I can go on. The fact of the matter is you donât get to watch a movie while you farm as a multiboxer. Crap is boring, you donât do it for 3-4 hours more like an hour before you are cross eyed. Those druids you see farming nodes all day are bots or gold farmers being paid to do it. Not some âsweaty dudeâ average player.
2x4 farming is a legit tactic for farming. Regardless if a multiboxer is doing it or a group of people formed from LFG those farms will be farmed.
No, bots and gold farmers caused multiboxers âdestructionâ.
The funny thing is thereâs now a dude with 10 wow accounts wondering what now xD
Hyperspawns werenât a thing in the beginning.
No wow token.
No ez gold making via multiboxing that would funnel into said wow token.
And with all the changes theyâve made now, I just think they genuinely just wanted to do something for the better health of the game which I think it will be.
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