Oh my god, multiboxers create an incentive for people to buy the tokens for real money, which costs about 50% more than a month of game time (100% if you take 6 months at a time).
Yeah, they really don’t increase Blizzard’s income 
Increase their income sure but not the quality of the game by any means. Makes it worse for normal players
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They can’t ban him as he’s not breaking any rules. He may have one keyboard and mouse, but they feed into different PC’s. Normally you use a KVM switch to control multiple PC’s from one keyboard/mouse, normally you have to swich between PC’s to make the keyboard/mouse work, but its a trivial exercise to make one that broadcasts to all ports.
Yes it’s expensive as you need a PC for each character, but it is doable.
Also if he’s going to be banned then so am I as I have two accounts and, when I’m levelling alts, I run two clients and I put the lowbie on follow to a high level account. By definition I’m multi-boxing, but they are not going to ban me as there is no keyboard automation or 3rd party input broadcast.
I’ll repeat what others have said. They have not banned multiboxing. It the 3rd party broadcast software that they’ve banned.
People keep saying that, but still nobody could give me a reason to believe that most multiboxers are inconsiderate farmers like is so often claimed.
I still think most of them just play instances and such, not bothering anyone - except those who are offended just by their existence.
Still seeing like 20 multi boxers spamming moonfire and jumping in perfect synchronisation guess they haven’t banned them all yet.
I hate to be that person, but I’m always that person. Multiboxing is not against the rules. Multiboxing in a certain manner is now against the rules (Using Input Broadcasting).
I am hoping it has a significant impact though 
IP ban was very common in the days of Diablo 2 if I remember correctly.
And do you not think that there is a valid reason that they stopped doing it?
The UK you mean?
They have stopped? I have no idea. However, yes, 200 players may all be sharing same IP, very unfair to ban the whole house.
Well you’d need a PC running 5, 10, 20 virtual hosts (virtual Windows systems) - still one keyboard and one mouse. It would be completely undetectable.
Blizzard are going to ban anything that results in the same thing as broadcasting software. If I were a multiboxer I wouldn’t use a hardware solution unless Blizz officially and clearly states it’s allowed.
Why would they ban one thing and not the other, when they are both used for the same thing? Does not make sense and they will not allow it. Not banning that is well is surely an oversight, that’s all, and they will correct it. They can easily see if someone is controlling multiple characters in perfect sync. They don’t need any detection software, they can visually see it and so can the players that are going to report them.
It would be better for Blizzard to state what ‘is’ allowed, instead of what isn’t.
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Yeah.
Still as dumb as ever, Liberio?
They’re not used for the same thing. One was used for botting, the other isn’t. The hardware practise of multiboxing absolutely requires somebody being as a computer screen, there’s literally no other way around that.
It would be better for Blizzard to outright state their intentions instead of pussyfooting around subjects.
Botting isn’t the only reason they have banned the software. They mentioned that as ‘one’ of their reasons. Not ‘the’ reason.
Using bots has always been a bannable offense. Always.
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Sorry you are wrong here. To do this would stop anyone using two accounts at the same time, even if there is no input automation.
Just because you may only have one account it does not mean that others do. I have two, as does my wife.
Quoting my earlier response.
I said anything that results in the same thing as broadcasting software. Having 2 clients open, either on one PC or two, and controlling them seperately, one at a time, is not resulting in the same thing as broadcasting software.
Wasn’t the 20 accounts in the original post actually banned for RMT and not input software?
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Where did you read that, the only thing I’ve seen is those two articles saying they were banned for boxing.
Those will get banned as well but later. Do people really not understand this? Are you all so stupid?
The reason why that software was banned was ONLY BECAUSE OF MULTIBOXING. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A STUPID PIECE OF SOFTWARE. BLIZZARD COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT IT.
They simply chose to use this reasoning because it fits with their existing ToS of third party programs so they did not need to write “guys multiboxing is not allowed” but since the PURPOSE of this is to get rid of multiboxers ALL Of them will be banned no matter how they control their stupid characters.
Try to use your brain just once in a while. Please.
Well I guess you know better than Blizzard’s FAQ, right?