Why is Multiboxing allowed in game?

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Gimmah-feathermoon

I am just looking for an honest justification for the practice is all.

No you arent. And you know it. The obvious ‘justification’ is that the game maker said so…and thats all any of us need to know.
you arguing with parker brothers about the rent being too high on Park Place?

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Notascam-netherwind

@Zandrae-wyrmrest-accord

Blizzard has said software that transmits keypresses to multiple accounts is fine so long as it’s one keypress per action per account

Imagine living in a world where pressing one button, and casting 8 abilities is still one press, one action.

Imagine another world where we go play some other video game if the rules of the video game we’re playing upsets us so much.

[Shadowfist-agamaggan (Shadowfist)]

Don’t get upset with me, because you have no friends.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Jingyia-shadow-council

I’m actually impressed when I see people MBing 3+ characters. I would go insane trying to run that many.

yeah…I just dual boxed. I used Jamba for /follow for a bit till i realized i could just macro it.
Running a character on each of the two monitors…just mousing back and forth between the two screens. incredibly easy to do it. Just didnt like doing it much.

Maybe at 8 accounts some other addon needs to be used, but I dual boxed just fine without it, so anyone here CAN do it if they wanted to.
Theyd obviously prefer to CHOOSE not to do it then make these trolling spam threads crying about the fact that a few other players CHOOSE to do it.
The topic needs to be prohibited at this point.
totally non productive and WE get suspended for less.

[Bojanglz-whisperwind (Bojanglz)]

@Gimmah-feathermoon

I’ve seen people running upwards of 20+ toons at the same time using multibox and all they do is farm for items and gold. It is game breaking in a sense that it detracts from the aspect of being immersed in the game. Additionally, it gives players an unfair advantage over the Auction House and chance world drops. So I have to ask why does blizzard allow this practice? I am sure someone has asked before, but considering they have to use a paid 3rd party application to run multibox, and that application syncs certain actions for them it is a giant loop hole. One can certainly say it is not a bot, but the fact that actions are being synced for them or automated is bot-like. And without these programs the practice would be almost impossible. So why does Blizzard allow it to continue?

I agree it shouldn’t be allowed but if people really want to keep spending that much money to buy the game and each new expansion for all of those accounts just for a video game then hey, more power to them. But still, I am not a fan of it and in the “Multiboxing should be in the ToS as not allowed” group.

[Vaeana-area-52 (Vaeana)]

It’s allowed specifically to force people to come on the forums and cry about it. The devs love seeing it.

[Edgyjojomeme-nathrezim]

@Gimmah-feathermoon

20+

that’s 20+ subs

[Kennaruk-area-52]

Banning multiboxing isn’t gonna stop this though. Farming bots have existed since before multi boxing was a big thing.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak

I used Jamba for /follow

Jamba was replaced with EMA https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/ema The original author of Jamba quit, Ebony took over working on Jamba then made her own addon using some Jamba code (with Jamba’s blessing of course).

@Bojanglz-whisperwind

if people really want to keep spending that much money to buy the game and each new expansion for all of those accounts just for a video game

It is a hobby a person has chosen to do. No different than the guy who sits around doing amateur radio or people who stare at stars all night or watch birds.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Kaurmine-area-52

Jamba was replaced with EMA https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/ema The original author of Jamba quit, Ebony took over working on Jamba then made her own addon using some Jamba code (with Jamba’s blessing of course).

cool.
I dont box anymore…but the sheer number of these boxing hate threads is making me want to give it another try, lol.

[Galfreth-earthen-ring]

Something folks have been doing since 04, and now it’s all of a sudden taboo lol. Druids need nerf. They shouldn’t be allowed to gather while in bird form Thanks for the free multiboxing advertising op.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Galfreth-earthen-ring

Druids need nerf.

and you KNOW thats next on the list IF they can get boxing banned, lol.
“druids arent fair…they outfarm me”
oh yeah?
ROLL A DRUID THEN
They can choose to box like anyone else.
Just like anyone here can roll a druid for farming.
I have like eight of them, lol

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Galfreth-earthen-ring

Something folks have been doing since 04, and now it’s all of a sudden taboo lol.

Someone made a classic QQ thread yesterday, took me back

Sick and tired of rogues and PvP corruptions

I’m so sick of rogues in pvp right now. I can feel the bile rising in my throat. They lock down my character in every fight and I am unable to even fight back. I cant stand being CC not able to fight back. I hope the class gets nerfed into the ground for Shadowlands. It never fails. In every MMO there is always that cheeseball class with stealth and lockdowns to win. Yes I am mad. Yes I died in PvP. PvP is a joke right now with balance and corruptions. Blizzard devs should be ashamed of them…

[Galfreth-earthen-ring]

Yeah there was a person that used to run a 3 toon team back in TBC years, and would gank people trying to quest in the Tarren Mill, Southshore quest areas. We would just shout in chat, and some level 70’s would show up, and just annihilate that dudes team, and corpse, graveyard camp his characters, until he, or she would just rage log

[Life-bleeding-hollow]

@Gimmah-feathermoon

why does blizzard allow this practice

[Notascam-netherwind]

Pre BFA, multiboxing was a hobby that didn’t give you a significant advantage.

Post personal loot, post multi pick resource nodes, it’s functionally no different than if Blizzard was selling a “premium subscription” that cost more, but gave you a loot modifier.

If they removed the economic incentive to multibox, I’d immediately stop caring. But they are objectively destroying the in-game economy by driving material prices below raw gold GpH levels for non multibox players.

The above is why there are so many hate threads. Coincidentally it’s why you have the same people screeching at people for bringing attention to it. They don’t want to lose their unfair advantage.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Notascam-netherwind

Coincidentally it’s why you have the same people screeching at people for bringing attention to it. They don’t want to lose their unfair advantage.

Yeah because it’s the players that will notice some economic effect and not the game master who has more data than anyone.

Also I get no economic advantage from multiboxing because I don’t gather or multibox farm so trying to take multiboxing away from me is unfair.

[Notascam-netherwind]

@Kaurmine-area-52

Also I get no economic advantage from multiboxing because I don’t gather or multibox farm so trying to take multiboxing away from me is unfair.

And if that is true, you’d agree with me that personal loot outside instances should be disabled, and resource nodes should either be reverted to the old one pick system, or be made phased to each player.

[Himet-proudmoore]

@Jingyia-shadow-council

Ok, but it might be a possible benefit to the community as well. If they are able to farm more and are putting more stuff on the AH. That means there is more stuff for people to buy and if they are selling their stuff cheaper than other people.

That just increases the buying power for peoplepeople. Especially if you have people that love to charge insane prices for mundane things. People are allowed to charge whatever they want and I see nothing wrong with people charging less than the competition.

This is the main reason I’ll never have a problem with it. I don’t use the AH to make money most of the time so multi-boxers only help me in the long run.

@Notascam-netherwind

If they removed the economic incentive to multibox, I’d immediately stop caring. But they are objectively destroying the in-game economy by driving material prices below raw gold GpH levels for non multibox players.

But the non-multi-boxers are still making money for the efforts.

[Kaurmine-area-52]

@Notascam-netherwind

And if that is true, you’d agree with me that personal loot outside instances should be disabled

you’d have to disable multitag as well, disabling personal loot would just make multibox farmers farm outside of a party.

@Notascam-netherwind

or be made phased to each player.

If this system was put into place then I would multibox gather There would be a significant advantage at that point because right now there’s a 10 cap, got 20 characters? Too bad, 10 cap node. So personal nodes means I run 40 characters I have 40 characters worth of nodes available to me

You’d probably want to stick with the old system, but then you’ll have to fight regular players because they’ll be upset about that as well.