Multiboxing is playing several game characters at the same time. You run several WoW clients on the same computer and duplicate keyboard and mouse to all these clients.
Why people do it?
For fun and profit.
What is fun?
You become a team lead - it’s nice to feel like a boss.
You can do hard things alone - kill elites, finish group quests, run instances.
You can level quickly and joyfully (especially in Classic WoW where mobs are hard).
You can revenge your PvP foes.
What is profit?
You can gather resources x2, x5, or even x8 at the same time.
I’ve just started fiddling with multiboxing (2 accounts). I use the ISboxer software.
I guess only a very small percentage of those players who multiboxes have set up the software so it’s actually usable in pvp situations. The learning curve is quite steep and more complex than I ever imagined.
But I really hoped Blizzard would have introduced personal nodes for herbing and mining in SL.
I can’t understand why people cry about multiboxing. If someone has the money to pay for multiple accounts, then why not? Blizzard gets fat stax (irl) and the players themselves fat stax in-game. Just because someone can’t/doesn’t want to pay for it doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t be able to.
The argument that they’re worse than bots literally has no solid basis for it either, how on Earth is actively partaking in playing the game worse than letting software do it for you? It’s the bots that have ruined the economy, not the small percentage of multiboxers…
I just smell so much salt. Imagine being that jealous over anything in the real world, how do you people cope honestly?
They farm mobs, often times existing in world quest zones, making it difficult to finish your dailies because of them.
As you said, herb and mining farm. The ores and herbs they farm disappears faster. Leaving nothing for others.
Mats inflation in the market, resulting in other people’s farming losing value.
Gold inflation in the game, reducing the value of gold and basically doing what inflation does with real money in real world.
So you could say, the FUN and FARM a random person does, is actually going to cost everybody else. And when one multiboxer becomes 10, 100, 1000… Eventually the whole community suffers because of them.
You still have to do the stuff on the main char, don’t you? I agree that using such software that does everything for you on the other accounts shouldn’t be allowed, if that’s how it works, but just logging in on multiple accounts isn’t punishable in any way imo.
As long as you manually have to switch to a client and give your input, it’s fine. As soon as there’s software replicating input, it’s botting because you’re not manually sending the input to 10 clients, the software does this for you.
Multiboxing is antisocial. It should be banned. But since it ensures Blizzard tons of subs from one person, they’ll tolerate it. Just like boosting spam and such.
Everything that generates profit for Blizzard is okay.
